BitRoamer Update-VIII
I’m excited about this update. It’s the first time BitRoamer feels like a game. Move fast enough to grab the health before it times out while avoiding the hordes.
Changelog
- Enemy melee-ers (aka “hordees”) now move at a constant rate
- Item drops have a lifetime of 5 seconds before they disappear.
- Enemies spawn in waves now, a new wave isn’t spawned until all the previous wave’s enemies are dead
Todo:
- Add “ammo” pickup
- change the players ammo to a finite resource
- Add player melee
- new input key
- animation
- no ammo for this (obviously)
- Enemy melee should do more damage than a shooter
- Change fire rate of player so that it is constant, with a bit more wait between each bullet, and add a reload after every 8th bullet, with a current “Clip” count label or icon.
- Reload indicator kind of looks like cell phone reception bars or MGS bars
- Add pathfinding so that enemies can move around each other.
BitRoamer Update-IV
BitRoamer Updates:
- Add healthbars to user and enemies
- Add visual effect to mobspawners. This will become more dynamic as development continues
BitRoamer: Upcoming Features
Let’s list some of the things I have planned to implement in BitRoamer very soon. I generally try to plan based on “what can I get done tonight” It keeps development moving faster, and prevents me from getting overwhelmed or burnt out. I have a large backlog of other stuff to add, but I am prioritizing the stuff that makes this a game first. That means, penalties for bad actions and rewards for good actions.
- Enemies drop items that represent cash or credits
- 3 credits will let you place a “fence post”
- 2 fence posts make a wall (do you see where I am going with this)
- 2 credits will get you a widespread weapon: shotgun
- killing a mobspawner drops a special item that allows you to plob a mobAttractor.
- MobAttractor will act as a beacon that… attracts mobs and takes the heat off of you.
- If the player gets out of the range of the beacons attraction, the mob will start coming at you again
- Add some sort of penalty for the player taking a hit (reduction in health) and when the player dies put up the “Game over/Restart?” screen
- Add new healthbar
- 1 credit allows you to buy a healing item
Let me know what you think about the credit/buying system or anything else by signing up and leaving a comment on this webzone.
BitRoamer Update-II
New things added to BitRoamer:
Update 02:
- Enemy and player now have burst fire and reload mechanics.
- lowered enemy HP
- optimized renderer to fix framerate issue
- change play area to widescreen
- Removed old Top bar. will replace later
BitRoamer Update
I add some more features to BitRoamer:
Update 01:
- Enemy now faces target.
- Player marker follows mouse.
- Better centering of image data so that it corresponds to hitboxes
AS3 Physics Liquid and bitmap effects
This is also a cool thing I found in the past couple days that is related to my BitRoamer work. It’s related because they both render to bitmaps and use distortion effects, which I had just recently learned for the trail effects in BitRoamer. The technique demonstrated explains how 2D games have done such good water effects, like World Of Goo
http://www.patrickmatte.com/stuff/physicsLiquid/
AS3 Freeroam
This is an old project I worked on that is a 2D action shooter. Click the link to check it out
