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Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: LincolnB on July 26, 2011, 12:33:25 pm

Title: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: LincolnB on July 26, 2011, 12:33:25 pm
What explosions look really good in Axe Parser? Do you have a favorite explosion in a game that you've played where the explosion looked really cool? Do you prefer particle explosions, sprite explosions, or shock wave explosions?
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: ztrumpet on July 26, 2011, 12:34:20 pm
I think my favorite is the one made by leafiness for Graviter.

(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/deathanim.gif)

Another, more recent, screenie:
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5942.0;attach=6751;image)
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: Munchor on July 26, 2011, 12:35:50 pm
Oh that one is indeeed cool Z ;) However, it's the only I can think of :S
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: Adriweb on July 26, 2011, 12:37:08 pm
Particle explosions looks best (that's what I think at least...) :)
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: Ashbad on July 26, 2011, 12:37:23 pm
I think you missed a type evident in both me and builderboy's original entries, which is like shockwave explosions but slightly different (this one is an example from my game):

(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/UnchartedTI 008.gif)
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: ztrumpet on July 26, 2011, 12:39:07 pm
Ashbad, whatever happened to that project?  Did it die explode?
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: Ashbad on July 26, 2011, 12:40:36 pm
Ashbad, whatever happened to that project?  Did it die explode?

I got bored of physics based games so I decided not to breed yet another one to the world.  And, I was too busy to finish, by the time I had to crack down if I was gonna win, I was working 50 hour weeks for my job in most cases, got sick twice, and got my calc stolen for a week once.
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: Darl181 on July 26, 2011, 12:51:57 pm
Screenies of second two types.
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4550.0;attach=3453;image)
(Cube Runner)

(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8474.0;attach=8569;image)
There's actually two types of explosions in DS...it's pretty far into the screenie but it crops up eventually
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8474.0;attach=8448;image)
Basically a particle explosion but with a sprite instead of a pixel, and the bits stick to the walls and such
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: LincolnB on July 26, 2011, 12:53:14 pm
Thanks. I don't remember Cube Runner looking quite like that...is it a TAS or just an old version?
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: Darl181 on July 26, 2011, 12:54:54 pm
That's an old version.  First screenie I found that had the explosion :P

Also iirc Blur (a contest entry last year) had a sprite explosion, except it didn't just fill in random data but it had a series of sprites.

EDIT: http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4479.0;attach=3334;image
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: ztrumpet on July 26, 2011, 01:04:31 pm
Another one of my favorites is from SirCmpwn's Chopper game:

(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3576.0;attach=1871;image)
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: thepenguin77 on July 26, 2011, 01:09:37 pm
If we're going to start talking about explosions, then we can't leave out the game that has probably 100 times more explosions than any other game.

Geometry Wars!! (Don't worry, I hacked it to start off this hard)
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: ztrumpet on July 26, 2011, 01:11:44 pm
Oh yeah, there *are* explosions in that game.  I can't tell most of the time, 'cause I'm just trying to stay alive. ;)

My high score is 12893. :D  Awesome game.
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: SirCmpwn on July 26, 2011, 05:53:40 pm
Another one of my favorites is from SirCmpwn's Chopper game:
:w00t:

I like that game and Obstacle Snake because they both drop you straight into the game from the menu, which I think is pretty cool :)
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: annoyingcalc on July 26, 2011, 08:42:15 pm
If we're going to start talking about explosions, then we can't leave out the game that has probably 100 times more explosions than any other game.

Geometry Wars!! (Don't worry, I hacked it to start off this hard)
PM me the hacked version
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: squidgetx on July 26, 2011, 08:49:51 pm
Hey, cuberunner/space dash explosion routine does more than random data explosions ;) It uses sprites in the mono layer and random data in the gray layer ;)

I like particle explosions best but sprite explosions are easier in most cases :P
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: leafy on July 26, 2011, 09:13:16 pm
I kinda upgraded the particle explosion in Graviter for Tag - in Tag there's more particles and they interact with the environment more fluidly. I must say I'm partial to particle explosions (of course) but seeing the kind of explosions builder and darl pulled off really had me going wow.
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: turiqwalrus on July 27, 2011, 12:09:58 am
oh, my...
this is a rather one-sided vote :P/me waits for someone to vote for a different option just to prove him wrong
anyway, Graviter has truly great explosions :D
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: mrmprog on July 27, 2011, 12:17:39 am
I like watching the particles from Tag fly around. Somehow, it makes dying not as bad.
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: LincolnB on July 27, 2011, 06:46:46 pm
PM me the hacked version

It's only worth it if you also start with like 10,000+ points XD
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: fb39ca4 on July 27, 2011, 08:36:58 pm
Real explosions are the best >:D
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: Juju on July 27, 2011, 08:58:35 pm
Real explosions are the best >:D
Yeah, they are the only ones that goes BOOM!
The TI-83+ versions lack the BOOM!.
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: ralphdspam on July 28, 2011, 12:22:03 am
I like sprite explosions, but most of them are implosions.  :P
Title: Re: Explosions that Look Good
Post by: fb39ca4 on July 28, 2011, 10:27:46 am
I only like sprite explosions when they are made well - high framerate and fluid motion.