The Gamer's Quarter

[dessgeega]

incidentally, does anyone have a usb saturn pad? i'd like to know how the buttons are mapped. that is, which letter button is BUTTON 1, which is BUTTON 2, etc.
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[dessgeega]

updates!

based on suggestions from ApM after playing shaft A, i diminished the radius of rhonda's torchlight. i think it makes the game stronger - i find myself keeping towards the bottom of the screen when i do this, instead of hanging near the top, which is what i want the player to be doing. i also made the wall bats more sensitive.



also, why not, here's a partial screen grab from the SEKRIT PROJECT. recognize anyone?


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[dark steve]

[dark steve]

Can Gamemaker handle tate?

[Shapermc]

[dark steve]

Yes I can.

[SuperWes]

[OtakupunkX]

[dessgeega]

so i did most of the graphics for the next two stages (whichever stage the player chooses to visit as stage 2) in rhonda. the walls are going to be a slightly different color - a more reddish hue - to signify that we've gone deeper. later stages will have more significant shifts in hue and/or texture. i drew the arrows and goblins, though they might warrent some redrawing when i see them in motion.

i still need to draw the rock monsters and their chuckin' boulders. i think i am going to have them hide as breakable blocks until you get close, like in plunder-mine. any block could potentially be a vicious boulder-chuckin' monster, and you won't know it until you see their red, red eyes.

i also made three stages in the SEKRIT PROJECT, which we might as well go ahead and call by its working title, ladybug. i want to draw some more wall graphics for it, as i think the stages need more color. the enemies provide a lot, but most of them are dead by the end of the stage.

and i need to begin seriously planning the update to jaywalker.
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[simplicio]

[dessgeega]

[Wolverine]

These demos look promising. I really enjoyed the Invader game which is why I'm here really. Am a GM user myself and like checking out the quality games made with it.

[OtakupunkX]

I downloaded both Invader and Jaywalker yesterday. Makes me want to start working with GM again.

[dessgeega]

so i've finally started drawing some sprites for the updated game of pedestrian revenge.



besides sammie, marjorie is totally my favorite character that i've designed.

aside from looking much prettier, the update will bring these changes to the original game: cars that don't swerve will mix with the other cars from the beginning, and there will be no safe place to stand in the intersection.

and hopefully music and better sound effects, if i can get a volunteer to produce them.

there's also a new stage in ladybug.
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[Scratchmonkey]

[dessgeega]

[Scratchmonkey]

[dessgeega]

yikes. that makes a lot more sense than the way my ps2 saturn pad is mapped, but it means the joystick layout in ladybug is just not going to work with that controller. so i guess i'll make another control option!

thanks for the infos!
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[dessgeega]

(this is one of those streets where the north-south-running sidewalks have been swallowed up in grey void.)

so, servicable but plain. i'm not sure if i want to stick with simple but recognizable or try to add lots of details i'll never be happy with. well, we'll see.
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[kirkjerk]

This morning between snooze alarms (after only around 3 1/2 hours sleep) I had an idea for xxroads that is brilliant, dumb, infeasible, or some mix and balance of the 3.

Here it is: I think a small # of the levels, maybe one in five, should be partially underwater. Have a waterline about 2/3 of the way up. Creatures and bullets move at 1/2 speed underwater, except for a small # of creatures that ONLY can be underwater that move with grace down there, fish (some critters that seem naturally amphibious, like the snakes of the original and manybe a green "merman" type might have their movement unchanged.)

There are two strong visual compoments to this: the less important one would be a little Mega Man 2-like visual 'splish' when a creature rises above or falls below the waterline. The other is gratuitous shimmering particle effect bubbles that rise up peridically from creatures underwater, just for show.

I think water would be an interesting twist for a game that is mostly following the iconic "overhead but side-perspective" view of Crossroads. I don't know if Gamemaker could tint everything below the line a bit blueish as well, it's not that important to my idea....

Anyway, obviously a kind of odd duck of an idea, fell free to incorporate or disregard it.

[Mr. Apol]

[kirkjerk]

As a followup, maybe the bubbles would just emerge when and where shots were fired, or maybe streaming from the soaring bullets as they make their merry way..

[Mr. Apol]

[dessgeega]

[kirkjerk]

Well, fair enough.

Maybe instead of a pool of water (which kind of messes w/ the perspective, since it would seem to have to be sunk into a floor or something) it could be a great big wobbly mass of jello, with some of the same properties I described earlier, but with extra wobbliness on the edges.

[dessgeega]

you're a mad scientist.
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[Wolverine]

[kirkjerk]

I actually don't know very much about Gamemaker at all, other then being a little bummed that it's not multiplatform and seems to only support 2 controllers.... it seems quite nifty overall

[Wolverine]

[Lackey]

Hm, this actually makes me tempted to get a pad.

[Wolverine]

[dessgeega]

[dessgeega]

now, the lines in the middle should actually be yellow double lines and the others should be white dotted lines, right? that's what andy says. someone who drives help me out.
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[dessgeega]

right?
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[dessgeega]

drawin' cars!



move at different speeds, with the red cars being the slowest and the grey/black being the fastest. cars which have spoilers will not swerve around the player.

hummers will show up rarely as bonuses. they're extra big, so they can cause big crashes, but they won't swerve, so the player has to crash something into them.
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[Mister Toups]

[sawtooth]

[dessgeega]

movement has been implemented, and all the cars except the hummer. the routine that spawns them hasn't been written yet, and marjorie's facial expressions still have to be implemented.
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[dessgeega]

jaywalker is nearly done.
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[dessgeega]

jaywalker's done, unless i find any unexpected bugs. i'm writing up the readme right now.

expect it out sometime today!
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[dessgeega]

jaywalker's out.

i'm going to annotate the source and release it publicly, probably.
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[simplicio]

Does anyone else have the problem of Marjorie constantly trying to head southeast?

[dessgeega]

[Wolverine]

That Jaywalkers quite an addictive lil game. Didn't realise it had joypad controls too. Music sorta bugs me.. not the tunes itself (though not fond of sung vocals in simple games), just the bloaty format really but doesn't matter too much.

[dessgeega]

[simplicio]

yeah, I've got a wired xbox360 controller plugged in. is there a process?

[dessgeega]

[simplicio]

Well, unplugging the controller fixes the problem, and calibrating makes it a tiny bit better, but it's still a problem for me. Is there a way of turning down the sensitivity? (This is running off the analog stick, not the d-pad).

Also, I've had several problems with sound appearing to be from the next Oval album.

[sawtooth]

[dessgeega]