3D Space Shooter 'SOL' uploaded :)

quantumsheep

Hey all,

Just thought I'd upload a demo of 'Sol' - a space shooter

It's only a minute long. I.e. the level you play is timed to only last one minute.

It's very rough round the edges. There's a lot of placeholder e.g. your laser fire, the instructions, the tie fighters, no level progression, no story.

It's essentially a 'proof of concept' which I'm quite happy with.

Improvements to be made include better/longer levels, better enemies, better lasers, better player feedback (when you get hit).

I've no idea how I'm going to do that though as the demo weighs in at 6MB :O

Anyway, hope you enjoy. Post your high scores here!

QS

ktfright

O........M......G!!! how'd you make the background move?

nulo

hey there mr sheep. you should take a look at this one:
http://www.gamesalad.com/game/play/2707
he managed to make the shaking cockpit while shooting.

quantumsheep

Hey there Nulo, thanks for that.

I've played most of the games on this site, and I did notice that particular one for the screen shake!

As to ktfright - what background do you mean?

Do you mean the stars that rotate? That was easy!

I made an actor and told it that for 30 seconds it should randomly rotate every 2 and 8 seconds.

I made sure the image for the actor, once placed in the scene, was much bigger than the screen size. This way you don't see 'corners' when the image rotates.

I then put in a 'whoosh' sound every time it rotated so that it sounded like thrusters going off

After 30 seconds it stops rotating, as the planet shows up and it didn't make sense to have the starfield rotate but the planet not.

Hope that answers your question!