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Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 23, 2006, 10:09:00 am

Screen Shots:


About:
A platform shooting game for Windows featuring a number of items and weapons, numerous enemies, difficult bosses, and more.
This game features some amounts of blood and gore and may not be appropriate for some audiences. Now features saving and loading.

Here is the latest version,0.7b:download:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/fd441a/
mirror: http://www.rocketsoft.gm-school.uni.cc/uploads/CB_0[1

OLD VERSIONS
0.6bhttp://www.rocketsoft.gm-school.uni.cc/uploads/combat%20ball%200.6b.zip
0.6a: http://www.filefactory.com/file/e6dbcd/.

Controls and Other Info
Arrow Keys alow movemnt and aiming
Jump with the A key
Fire primary with the S key
Fire secondary with the Space bar
Push things with the D key (batteries)
Enter to open the pause menu
Esc to quit
F1 to view the help documentation

Change Log
better sound and music
imporved effects using image alpha
removed most of readme, am working to rebuild it
new hud (again), know shows how long until a weapon will reload
new loading bar, much nicer than old one
numerous enemy changes

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 23, 2006, 12:31:00 pm

OMG fun game you have here, I ended up playing 6 times >.< keep up the good work on those game! Only one report: in the readme it says A is to jump, and S to shoot. However in the game its S to jump and A to shoot you may want to fix that ;)

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 23, 2006, 05:23:00 pm

Oops...I suppose it won't matter by the next update as the controls will be changed.  Here was what i was thinking, use 'z' 'x' and 'c' instead of 'a' 's' and 'd', make it so if you hold shift your weapon will continue to aim in the same direction, and press space bar to launch a secondary weapon (like a rocket or grenade or something...slow but with lots of splash damage.)

I sped up the gun's bullets and added more effects so far but have a few to replace still as the effects engine in game maker is a cpu hog and would be hard to translate into other programing laungages.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 24, 2006, 02:39:00 am

oooh that sound cool, will there be music too?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 24, 2006, 03:25:00 am

Music is low priority, but probably, same with sound.  More than anything, it is hard finding music I think would go well with it that is in a nice loop and isn't to large of a file.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 24, 2006, 03:37:00 am

yeah true :(, btw I noticed the game is kinda gore intensive so far %) nice effect tho

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 24, 2006, 10:41:00 am

I plan to make a 'no-gore' version to, but as a big fan of blood...I have no plans of decreases in that area.  I do however have a mini-game almost done...my own version of fall down in it for the next release.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 25, 2006, 09:34:00 am

ooh will it look like the version in the arcade ?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 25, 2006, 01:14:00 pm

It will be a little diffrent with a ceiling of spikes and extra lives and such.  Its coming well.

Title: combat ball
Post by: Dragon__lance on August 25, 2006, 01:21:00 pm

cool stuff necro, i hope too see some more calc programming though :D

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 25, 2006, 02:05:00 pm

I have a lot of projects right now, and the new way i am buggeting my time, I should be able to turn out a lot of good stuff in the near future.  I hope to be able to get something out every week, and that includes some calc stuff soon hopefuly.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 25, 2006, 03:09:00 pm

w00t I hope necro puzzle game revive for calcs! and fun avatar lol :D

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 26, 2006, 05:04:00 am

it is almost done, I just never made levels...that why i was making a comp version as it is easier to make and test levels for it.  'Ball' the mini-game will have v0.5 released next week.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 26, 2006, 12:50:00 pm

w00t I cant wait ^^

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on August 31, 2006, 03:29:00 am

well, a new release is planned for tommorow (hopefuly) with some sound, rockets, a mini game, and whatever else I can get finished.  Also, a minigame called ball will be included.  It is like falldown, but with multiple lives and stuff.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2006, 03:32:00 am

oooh great! I cant wait to try it, even though I didnt got further than level 2 yet :D

Title: combat ball
Post by: Scavenger on August 31, 2006, 02:15:00 pm

If you need help with anything, I'll be glad to help. I've done quite a few things in Game Maker.  :)

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 02, 2006, 06:40:00 pm

A new Update has been made, check the first post...MUSIC AND SOUND BY NECRO! not very good sound or music...but music and sound none the less

Also...mini game uploaded!

Title: combat ball
Post by: kalan_vod on September 02, 2006, 08:08:00 pm

Sweet! I can't wait to try it out!

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 03, 2006, 02:35:00 am

cool I'll try it

EDIT: wow fun so far, level 3 is hard tho XD

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 03, 2006, 02:43:00 am

there are about 12 levels as it stands...last one is plenty fun.  I am curious how people liked or dislkied the music...

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 03, 2006, 02:55:00 am

well i liked the sound effects at least, i would love some kind of megaman style music tho XD , as for 12 levels I hope i ever reach level 12 O_O

Title: combat ball
Post by: bfr on September 03, 2006, 05:12:00 am

This is awesome!  Time to get headphones and an adapter....

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 03, 2006, 06:41:00 am

Adapter?  Any ways, I will be putting out a update of necro's puzzle soon aswell.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 03, 2006, 07:06:00 am

cool!

Title: combat ball
Post by: Halifax on September 03, 2006, 07:55:00 am

Wow that game is great I love the blood sadly I only got to level three lol I suck what language did you program int in??

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 03, 2006, 08:23:00 am

Game Maker ...I will recode it in a decent laungage when I get it further progressed.  It and other credits are in the readme.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 03, 2006, 09:14:00 am

still cool tho  apparently with game maker you can do lot of awesome stuff, someone did metroid game remake with it

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 03, 2006, 03:23:00 pm

It is easy to use, but it is a very bloated and high level laungauge.  IOW, it isn't going to be usable even on very modern computer for anything better than quake 1.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 03, 2006, 03:45:00 pm

i c, well at least it do the job for smaller games

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 04, 2006, 05:13:00 pm

Well, here what is in the works on this game.  I am remaking all the enemies with some better AI and such, and will add in a sytem in which when they hit you they deal a finite amount of damage and have to wait a short period before they can deal more damage (kinda like invunerability, but only to the enemy that hit you) so as to make it easier to balance how much damage things do.  Also, I am going to replace the current powerup system with a actual weapon selection and like wise for the secondary weapons (which by the sounds of it, no one has gotten to play with yet.)  Further, armor type items will be available as you progress, and there will likely be an item forging system to allow you to have a lot of rpg like depth.  One thing I am not planning though, is exp or money drops as it causes people to play areas of the game repitively to try to exp harvest.  Also, perhaps you will get to see the pilot of the ball in future updates in a story line.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 05, 2006, 09:20:00 am

sound promising, when do you think there will be a new update? This will prbly be a bit easier


off-topic; I just saw your custom member title O_O

*xlibman

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 05, 2006, 03:28:00 pm

the inventory should be fully done and I plan to have at least a dozen equipable items.  One of the biggest focuses is on getting some better visuals in as this is getting no attention else where, likely for that reason.  No new sound or music is planned, but who knows.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 06, 2006, 01:32:00 am

:( this game is cool I hope the other ppl will play it at least, some ppl are really strict when it come to PC games, they just want 3D graphics and all :P

personally i still like 2D games as well

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 07, 2006, 04:19:00 pm

well, i think they more disliked it because, from the screenshots, it doesn't look like much.  Anyways, I have created an actual scripting system for the weapons so each is actualy just a set of variables and a peice of code will shoot the weapons diffrently due to these diffrent values (like a value for wether the weapon is an automatic (can hold down the trigger) or not (press for each shot), how fast and under what conditions the guns will reload (because I am not using amo for the weapons) and so on.  Also, you can both find weapons and build them with various parts if you have a blue-print for it, which you get from various data canisters throughout the game (each of which has some overlapping blue prints, but each also contains at least one unique component meaning all will be needed for absolute completion) and so on (oh, getting a weapon will give you a blue print for it, but not nescisarily all of its parts).

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 08, 2006, 02:12:00 am

nope still stuck in level 3, i always die when trying to kill all enemies above the cover, assuming i need to kill them to get to next level

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 08, 2006, 05:30:00 am

yes...stay at the very far right and wait for all the discs and wisps (bouncing things) to come after you, then shoot at the up and down 'shooters', then shoot the arachnas, then jump onto the platforms to go to the upper left and with cover shoot the last shooter.  Always use cover when you have it as there is no time limit and you have very little armor/health.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 08, 2006, 12:43:00 pm

my problem is that I have problems shooting in diagonal,I always end up moving and fallling all the time

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 13, 2006, 05:21:00 pm

damned...I am hitting some bumps on this including graphics complications, Trying to make an external inventory system and item list is a real b**** to program with how unfamilar I am with some of the program launge, however, by the time I figure it out all the way I might be able program external levels for necro's puzzle.  I wish I could have met my deadlines but it looks like the next version won't be out for at least a few weeks.

On the plus side, there will be a LOT of improvements over the previous version.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 14, 2006, 01:16:00 am

hmm external levels? Do I hear lv editor here? that would be cool! I hope you can fix the other stuff soon  

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 14, 2006, 01:18:00 pm

Not for combat ball as it is a story/mission based game, but necro's puzzle, yes!  I can think of external level loading easy, I am still trying to think of a good way to write levels besides by hand to a file though...

I didn't bother releasing an update because I want a level editor (even if the engine is a bit incomplete) for people to play with.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 15, 2006, 12:27:00 pm

w00t I cant wait, I'm sure it will be easier to make levels for PC version as you could even make it point/click with the mouse

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 18, 2006, 06:03:00 pm

ok, I have finaly got the inventory system mostly working meaning this update is getting close.  I still need to get parts of it done yet, but...eh, tis difficult to try and work with code like this to the level of controll I want.  The next release will also have a new secondary weapon, the grenade, besides the rocket launcher nobody seems good enough to get to as well as new primary weapons.  Ph, now I have all kinds of sprite like effects and such that give the game a nice graphical boost...and I will have some of the basic textures in the next update.  I may decide to forgo the blue-prints and combination system as it seems like it might add unnescicary hassle and complexity...at the very least it will be removed from the next version.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 19, 2006, 01:28:00 am

cool, will you make it kinda red/gore intensive? the graphics i mean

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 19, 2006, 03:55:00 am

sound nice, for gore i meant more the walls and bg  

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on September 20, 2006, 12:24:00 pm

next release will be very soon, finishing up a few last graphics and building new levels that people will find easier.  BGs, effects, gore, menu, and hud visual bling will be much nicer looking I hope.

:psychedelic: ^ 240

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 21, 2006, 01:56:00 am

w00t cant wait! Oh and its a bad imitation of FMR signature from last july all the smileys <_< >_> -_-  

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 27, 2006, 01:27:00 am

how is it proggressing?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 01, 2006, 10:28:00 am

well, I plan to get the next version out this week!  I can't believe how much I've added but I still won't get a chance to play with some of the new stuff I am putting in it till the next version yet.  If you are curious, here is a screen of a level I quickly editted

that background moves, I made a new better/longer song for it (sorry kev, still not megaman-esque) as I work on the old song and another one, have 13 items and weapons you can try out, obviously I have new bg and tiles (poorly implemented in that picture) and effects, menu that isn't fully done yet, some other stuff...yay.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 01, 2006, 01:28:00 pm

did u made the bottom floor O_O its awesome! especially with the bg, will u change the black walls as well? I think it would make the game look even more detailled ;)

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 01, 2006, 01:52:00 pm

yes, I made the floors and the reason there are still some black walls was my laziness...I just added a shotgun as well.  I have a paper due thursday and a few labs this week, otherwise I could probably addmore goodies.  I have a whole list of enemies to change...I plan to replace them with an actual scripting system some time soon (like the item and weapon system) to speed development

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 01, 2006, 01:53:00 pm

:love:

Title: combat ball
Post by: Dragon__lance on October 02, 2006, 02:04:00 pm

This looks amazing necro! The tiles are sweet! Keep it up! :thumbup: ...and a shotgun?  :gun:

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2006, 03:18:00 pm

nice to see you back dragon__lance i noticed you were gone for quite a while

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 03, 2006, 05:39:00 pm

well, in this screenie (which has some distortion) you can see the new hud and some new stuff (batteries and a socket for instance) as well as another one of the new bgs and more tiles.  These new enviroment chunks of crap won't be in the next release (they are still buggy) but the pushable battries can fall into slots, where they can triger other things to happen...a number of other items that can fall also now exist but can not be pused around and are also buggy  -_- .  A number of new tiles, some more effects yet (flames, blood dripping from impaled creatures, etc)  

Title: combat ball
Post by: spengo on October 03, 2006, 06:50:00 pm

lol I should play this XD

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 04, 2006, 01:43:00 am

wow looking more and more better, this will be a great game to play necro! Does it still run pretty fast btw?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 04, 2006, 02:16:00 am

yes...it does but it does have it also  occasionaly has moments of weird screen lag...probably because of how a hand full of things that are not optimaly coded that I need to fix up

Title: combat ball
Post by: spengo on October 04, 2006, 08:51:00 am

Hey this is pretty neat! I think it would be cooler if you made the ball roll though. :o You could do it like, an animated gif sprite of rolling-ness where the animation speed depends on teh ball speed and stuff. Give it fancy physics too like, acceleration for the ball and bouncing and stuff. :)

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 04, 2006, 10:53:00 am

hmm quit e a good idea,

btw necro i think you should use bg 2, it look even better than the other one

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 06, 2006, 06:24:00 pm

well, I have added yet more bg tiles (and probably will continue doing so until the final version ;) ) as well as gotten 3 new levels fully done (with all the features used in them).  I am still working on a number of things (like fixing the collisions on certain things, adding swinging crap, etc., some new enemies, more weapons, blah blah blah)...but those will all be next version if I didn't mention that already.  I am thinking about instead of trying to feature all of the weapons on diffrent levels, lust throwing in a code after you beat the game to try out them all and be able to play the game again on a harder mode.  Thoughts before I get the demo uploaded?

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 07, 2006, 02:21:00 am

wow great! I cant wait to see demo or screenshots! How many levels do you have so far?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 08, 2006, 09:52:00 am

well, I am not using any of the old levels so about 4 levels (which actualy are long enough that they scroll and all) and I will add bosses back in too.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 08, 2006, 09:53:00 am

wow thats even more promising I love wandering around big maps, especially platformers

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 08, 2006, 01:33:00 pm

well, I threw in a rudementory save...just want to add a another level or so and fix up the bosses some more.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 08, 2006, 03:26:00 pm

cool saving hsould be good, i hate to have to restart from scratch everytime I have to go x.x

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 17, 2006, 01:17:00 am

new version posted in first post

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 17, 2006, 03:23:00 am

w00000t! finally I'm dlling now!


EDIT: I saw you made a fall down game it was cool, you should make the walls scroll up tho like the blocks to make it feel more like the ball was falling. nice game tho, now I'll try the other one and add both in the archives!

EDIT 2: I love combat ball so far! I got to level 2 but hopefully i should be able to get further soon. How do you save the game btw? I noticed in the first post save/load was implemented

I added the games to the archives btw :)

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 17, 2006, 05:08:00 am

You have to get a save point (they are green and t shaped devices) and when you jump on it it will prompt you.  Thereis one on level 3 and one after boss 1 that I can recal (the game has only 6levels I think)

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 17, 2006, 05:14:00 am

aaah thanks for the info :)

Title: combat ball
Post by: bfr on October 17, 2006, 11:13:00 am

This is looking great! *bfr

Title: combat ball
Post by: Netham45 on October 18, 2006, 11:12:00 am

Netham45 Likey Good Job! Though, your manual is not correct...

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 18, 2006, 12:43:00 pm

the readme?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 19, 2006, 03:01:00 am

what/how so?

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 19, 2006, 04:02:00 am

no clue what he meant, maybe some stuff are not explained x.x, like saving feature, or not easy to see

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 24, 2006, 11:10:00 am

well, i have added a better host if any of you guys didn't download because of problems with the last one.  I would love to here some feedback both in likes in dislikes concerning the game.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 25, 2006, 09:09:00 am

hmm well the game has been hosted directly on omnimaga.unitedti.org for a while (see archives) ._.

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on October 27, 2006, 02:42:00 pm

well, a new adition to the game is the status ailment infection which will cause health loss and decresed armor until it disapates as well as causing the screen to "mess up" and be harder to see.  @netham below, whcih ones?  be more specific.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 27, 2006, 02:46:00 pm

i hope its not in level 2 O_O

Title: combat ball
Post by: Netham45 on October 27, 2006, 03:04:00 pm

QuoteBegin-necro+19 Oct, 2006, 8:01-->

QUOTE (necro @ 19 Oct, 2006, 8:01)

what/how so?

 The controls are incorrect.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 09, 2006, 03:22:00 am

how is it progressing?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on November 19, 2006, 05:17:00 pm

slowly right now as i have more pressing time restraints on other projects.  When I finish them, I think I may change the direction I am going with some of this as I might be making it over complex and all.  Complex+Action=?

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 20, 2006, 02:16:00 am

uhm i hope it doesn't mean it will be much harder o.o I still vote for easier mode. By complex do you mean more puzzles and riddles? That would be cool. Anyway I hope to see new version soon and good luck in your other projects. I assume it's school stuff, right?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on November 20, 2006, 05:26:00 am

no, contest type stuff.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 20, 2006, 06:21:00 am

aah i see :)

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on December 26, 2006, 06:49:00 am

Well, combat ball is progressing in case you guys did not know.  Currently, a number of new features exist and I am tweaking a few more.  Besides new effects like lava, new enemies, and status ailments, I have added intros screens for necro studios (which I will be reviving shortly) and omnimaga, as well as a number of game demos built into it for my other games, and JOY PAD SUPPORT!!!!!!  I am adding this feature mainly as I now have a joy pad, and the joy pad support is as follows.

The game can use one analog stick to aim, the other to move, and all actions (jump, act, primary fire, secondary fire) will be reflected both in the face buttons (assuming 4 exist) and shoulders (again, assuming 4).  The dpad will be identical to the keyboard in its usage (combo of movement and aiming).  I hope to fully tweak this soon, also, I will try to make it customizable but I make no guarantees in that regard.  So, in other words, this is just another option I am adding to the game.

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on December 28, 2006, 12:56:00 am

some more new features are exploding and toxic barrels, crates, and a few others things.  I hope to fix some of the last major bugs soon.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 31, 2006, 09:09:00 am

wow nice to see progress on this! Will the new version be abaliable soon? I can't wait to try it :D

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 06, 2007, 04:37:00 pm

well, I now have hspeed internet and the next up date will be soon.  i have cut the joystic support to fix a major and catostrophic error until I can fully isolate and fix it...the rest of the game has been consistently stable.  Some new things I am adding last minute are demos, some HUD and menu changes, I hope to add a "monsterpedia" that will update as you play, and death animations for enemies.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2007, 03:42:00 am

anyone know where did necro went? I didnt saw him posting for at least a week o.o

anyway if he see this will the next demo feature selectable difficulty level?

Title: combat ball
Post by: Floodkiller on January 14, 2007, 07:09:00 am

Well, I saw him alot on MaxCoderz during the past week talking about religious debates (and when that got closed, argued his point on a forum policy thread on whether or not religious debates were allowed :D)

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2007, 09:08:00 am

lol yeah i noticed too, i hope he ddidnt decided to quit omnimaga as well, like http://omnimaga.org/index.php?showtopic=906 :(

as for religious debate i think necro knows well that they can be controversed, because he never post any here, since he know we do not allow discussion that can lead to flaming. Idk why he post about them on MC forums tho, maybe because some people love to debate. Anyway i hope he come back here soon

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 14, 2007, 09:29:00 am

ok, I am planning to have a new release next week.  A bunch of new features, goodies, new hud, etc. will all be included.  Sorry for the lack of posts but I am having a few browser problems (mostly from an anoying bit of adware thats a real b---- to isolate)

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2007, 09:43:00 am

aaha isee now x.x, try to avoid using IE6 as much as possible x.x

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 14, 2007, 09:45:00 am

Its been screwwing with netscape to...I pretty much have stopped it from getting any worse but can't realy get rid of it completely.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2007, 09:48:00 am

did you tried spybot search and destroy? this got a similar problem fixed for me. Ad-aware SE personal helps a lot too as well as avast antivirus

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 20, 2007, 12:43:00 pm

well, I just found out about a way to add alpha to sprites, and the first thing i managed with it was adding much better looking smoke effects, still wish I had more time on them...I won't be able to do much more with it before the realease though, and i still have to fix some collision errors, a bug I just discovered which casues the green rotators to spill thousands of mini rotator enemies and slow down/crash the game, need to get the new pause menu fully up, build set of easy and a set of hard levels.  After that, I think this will be the last update till I can get a demo out for rain drops.

Title: combat ball
Post by: bfr on January 20, 2007, 01:20:00 pm

Good progress.  

*bfr

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 20, 2007, 06:33:00 pm

well, here is a sample of the smoke effects

plan to make the alingment better of course, possibly add drifting from wind (that'd be interesting) and need to up the resolution alot (currently, its 32X32, probably want 64 and might want 128 or something along those lines)

Title: combat ball
Post by: Halifax on January 20, 2007, 06:45:00 pm

wow thats pretty sweeet

Title: combat ball
Post by: trevmeister66 on January 20, 2007, 06:48:00 pm

hell yeah that is  :thumbup:

if you don't mind me asking, what platform is it for? ( i haven't read earlier posts  :( )

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 20, 2007, 07:20:00 pm

its for windows but proably won't run on a windows 98 or older machine due to the lack of 3d acceleration game maker requires.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 21, 2007, 05:03:00 am

wow awesome! Does it still run smooth?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 21, 2007, 06:14:00 am

as much as it did before on my laptop, most people probably have better machines than this.

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on January 22, 2007, 07:23:00 pm

well, I am making a slight release delay (again) as I add improved effects, and also because I am having a lot of difficulties on upload speed with my new wireless router (why did my dad need to mess with it?).  So, in the mean time, here is a screeny that has bad resolution.


shows off new explosion effect to the left (much nicer than the old one, still needs editing though the flaws are very hard to see at its speed) and there is improvement in the rising smoke effect (I use a lighter smoke color for lighter back grounds).  Going to fix up the lava steam while I wait, sorry for the technechal difficulties.

Title: combat ball
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 23, 2007, 08:14:00 am

nice, i see you made different backgrounds? this one is darker

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on April 22, 2007, 05:39:00 pm

behold...I am still progressing but slowly because of college and looking for a job, but here is preivew of some of the light effects I have added, can only see a few of them from the demo and lots of those I have made won't even be in the demo...but I hope you like the teaser

Title: combat ball
Post by: Speler on April 23, 2007, 10:16:00 am

Nice job, the game looks insane.

Title: combat ball
Post by: Delnar_Ersike on April 23, 2007, 11:18:00 am

 O_O

This is getting better and better...

Title: combat ball
Post by: bfr on April 23, 2007, 11:46:00 am

That looks awesome!  :thumbup:

When do you expect to have this finished (I'm really looking foward to this)?

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on April 23, 2007, 06:44:00 pm

I have no idea when it will be "finished"...as far as version 0.8a, it was supposed to be out a while ago but school has been slowing me down and making the largest chunk of the game, the levels, take a very long time (not that having freinds and learning a lot isn't worth it).  Hopefully within the next few weeks it will be out with all the bells and whistles I wanted to add.

When the new version comes out, I will change my avatar color (green to red) as a heads up.

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on May 10, 2007, 07:16:00 am

Well, still trying to finish 0.8a but I have been slowed down by, among other things, school and trying to find a job.  I plan to rebuild the game engine after .8a because there are a number of irritating problems from some of the old code that is very hard to fix and is in general not allowing the game to develop very fast.  One of the biggest problems was I did not plan well enogh for a number of features and so forth...

I am realy sorry about all the delays, I rarely get to work on it right now but I hope that things will get better.

Title: combat ball
Post by: dinhotheone on May 10, 2007, 01:21:00 pm

naa dun worry about delays and stuff like that. this is one of the few projects that have constant updates these days so delays and stuff dont really bother me nun. besides, errors and the like that arent truly under your conroll arent really your fault.

Title: combat ball
Post by: bfr on May 10, 2007, 01:53:00 pm

Hopefully you'll have more time in summer vacation.

Title: combat ball
Post by: Halifax on May 10, 2007, 02:18:00 pm

This game looks sick. I love the dark and disturbing lighting effects and colors. That's amazing.

Title: combat ball
Post by: necro on May 10, 2007, 02:25:00 pm

Um, I always have to take classes or Id lose my medical  coverage...so no sumer vacation.  Hopefuly I will be able to get a good chunck of classes done autum quarter.

Title: combat ball
Post by: PoisonedV on September 04, 2007, 12:43:00 pm

if you plan to do online, check out winsock or gmsock and gmsql for leaderboards