Help with a shooter game I'm working on?

TheBigWo0p

Hey, I am very new to GS. I'm working on my first game(just to learn the ropes of GS). Its a top down shoot-em up style game. I have a little background in C++ programing but no experience in game development.

I'm having trouble getting the rotation to follow the mouse accurately. I'm pretty sure this is due to the scrolling scene. I have not, however, been able to find a fix for this problem(Yes, I have followed the wiki. I seem to be missing something).

I have uploaded it so you can see my problem first hand(and because I wanted to try out the upload process.

http://gamesalad.com/game/play/41192

Please note that this is not the graphics or speeds and stuff I will be using in the finished game. Right now I just am using anything for testing purposes.

(I'm also having trouble getting the score actor to stick in the same place on the screen but I'm sure thats an easy fix. I just need to search around little more.)

Thanks for any help and/or feedback!

Cheers,
-W. V.

Ps, if there is a finished game of this type anywhere here on GameSalad, I would love a link so I can see how others did it.

quantumsheep

This will probably help a lot, judging from what I've seen of your game:

http://gamesalad.com/game/play/22929

Hope that helps!

QS

TheBigWo0p

@quantumsheep Thanks, but I'm going for the whole screen being the joystick without having to hold down any buttons. I'll download that and see what I can get from it.

@tshirtbooth Oh, wow! Yes, I am sorry about that. I'm working on very little sleep so I totally didn't think about that. My mistake. Can I delete one of them or something?

rebump

I didn't investigate this issue too much but at first glance, it sounds like you need to read this:

http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_drag_and_drop_movement#modifications_for_non-default_scene_size

TheBigWo0p

Ok, I guess I'll just have a non-scrolling shooter then. You've been very helpful, thank you.

Now on to the next step, enemies! What do you guys think would be a good type of enemy?

Thanks,
-W. V.

rebump

Don't give up on the scrolling just yet. Look at that link I provided in my reply above.

TheBigWo0p

@rebump Yes, I have already tried almost everything I could have(spent like 5 hours) from that wiki. I think tshirtbooth may be right, its not possible. Thanks anyways!