Back again!

Back from a cruise, will continue to work on the remake when my energy has returned. Being drunk on a boat really drains your energy, doesn't it? :)

Ippa got a lot of work done with the online highscore board. Sweet! I'm currently ranked as #3, while Ippa has the #1 position with about 3 times as much points. I think he cheats! ;)

And another thing...

Must make game harder. Maybe I'm getting too used to it and therefore easily gets high scores, but it could need a tweak here and there. The robots must shoot a lot more often, for example...

I Blog Much These Days

Highscores is in! And a nify score name entry screen with a wheel of rotating letters. Looks sweet!

And Ippa, who helped me a lot with this remake, is also creating a website so we can send the score up there for people to see and try to beat! It will be great! :)

It's very very late now. Wife will wake up soon and go to work. (well, in a few hours but anyway)
Time to go to sleep. Got a lot of chores to do tomorrow, and then go to work.

On saturday we will go on a cruise. That will be great as well!

A List of High Scores!

Ippa did an update of his framework Chingu today, and in it was a highscore list class. Happy times! Tonight after work I will start hacking on a Highscore screen for the remake, unless he have done that one too. :)
The game have gone through a facelift as well. And a lot of bugs have been found and killed. I also tweaked this and that multiple times. It's a bit easier to get a high score now, but you'll also die pretty soon afterwards. ;)
Here's a new screenshot of it. It looks way better in the game.

I Hate Bugs

First real bug has surfaced. Sometimes the input stops responding a little. But just a little. I can move like before, I can shoot like before, but just not in that direction. :P
I had the problem at one time that I could only shoot to the left. And not like up, left or down, left. just left.

The really odd thing about this bug is that it disappears when some other, unrelated, part of the code is changed. For example, the laser shots was just simple lines in the beginning. I later replaced them with an animated image, and suddenly I could not shoot to the right... I then changed something else somewhere, and suddenly I could shoot right again.

Not sure why this bugs jumps in and out like that. I think it has something to do with us pushing poor old Ruby a bit too hard. That, or it's some Ruby 1.8.7 on snow leopard issue, since ruby 1.9.1 on windows seems unaffected by it.

Oh, well. Haven't seen it for a while. I hope it's dead now. Some nice optimizations have been made recently. :)

YouTube butchered video

Here's a video of the remake. The screen capture was of a poor quality to begin with, but youtube apparently decided at it needed a bit more blurry look. :P

And the audio sucks, since the screen capture program could only record sound using the built in microphone, so you will hear me press the keys as well...

Youtube

The Power of Tunes

We added a bunch of music to the game (well two tunes, to be exact). Surprisingly enough, it made the game a lot more interesting. I sometimes finds myself doing something with the game running so I could listen to the title menu music. I could just play the .ogg file, or browse to the Jamendo page and listen to it there... But that's not the same. :)



A lot of tweaks to the gameplay have been done as well, and I added a credit screen. And I replaced some graphics. It's even less stuff to do now! My next big project for the game is to implement the settings menu, but I figure that will take a couple of hours at most. (And then a couple of more hours to fix the bugs, naturally)

Enjoy the sneak preview, but keep in mind that the final game might look a lot different. I'm not quite happy with everything yet. (and I need to redesign the player graphics.)