Would This Work?

Frazzle

I've just had a pretty good game idea.
Recently I've been playing the flash game 'Amorphous+' on kongregate.
The game is pretty simple but REALLY fun.

I was thinking about creating a game similar to this because I think it would work well as an app.
Do you think it would be possible and how would I implement the ipod touch's touch screen into it?

(sorry about the poll, I messed up.)

scitunes

you will need to look at the "chainsaw demo" in the shared projects to get the knife actor to constrain to the player properly.

Then you will need to decide how to control the player. You could have an actor that covers the screen that has a rule:

when touch is pressed change game.Touched to true
Otherwise change to false

then in the player have a rule
when game.touched is true
accelerate towards touch1X and touch1Y

you'll need to use vectortoangle so you can constrain the player's rotation to self.linearmotionX, self.linearmotionY so that it also faces the way it is going

Probably need a swing button to tell the knife to swing (rotate main actor)

and I'm sure there is more I haven't thought of. I would start by finding that chainsaw demo project.

Frazzle

I think touching the game area would cover the action a bit too much but I might just use it anyway.
I've started using art text to try and create the blobs but I'm too new to the program to get anywhere any time soon.
Either way, for the background I'm thinking real-life pics of planks of wood or metal!

FranzKeller

Trying it now... (Isn't that Cloud Strife's sword? ;-)

Wow, I was thinking of something like this also... (and may still! ;-) RPG themed action
Seems like a fun flash game here

You could definitely do this without TOO much trouble in GS, probably add MORE depth!

I'd say use an onscreen "analog" joystick dpad on the bottom corner to guide your guy?
(as in the iPhone game Isotope and many others.)
and a swing button? How bout some spells also...

use Sin and cos to swing that sword, angle wise
(is there a better way, GS pros?)

You should be more descriptive in your post titles, BTW? ;-) So we know what we're reading

Frazzle

Sorry about the short description.
By 'analog joystick Dpad' do you mean a joystick or Dpad arrows?
(I haven't yet got the safari plugin so I can't checkout games for a while.)

I COULD use a gun instead of a knife. Perhaps a Bolt-Action rifle to make it similar to the sword?