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Title: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: FourthFloorGames on October 31, 2013, 08:53:00 PM
Orbis is a game I've been working on for a few weeks.  It is a hectic, face-paced topdown shooter with some RPG elements--you kill enemies to build up experience, and when you have enough experience, you can place down a turret or a powerup you can use later to give yourself a shield.  

The link is here : http://fourthfloorgames.itch.io/orbis
(http://i.imgur.com/ig4y4ti.png)
If you REALLY like the game, there's an option to donate a little bit of money at the bottom, but the game is wholly available to play for free.


Thanks for your time!
-Taylor Anderson

(http://i.imgur.com/494VszM.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/af7mja5.png)


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: Kuma TooDX on November 01, 2013, 06:02:48 PM
Enjoyed for a few minutes; 2 suggestions.

Perhaps a quick flash of instructions, rather than having to scroll down to see how to play.

For the amount of room you have to move, the hitbox seems a trifle big.

I enjoyed it though, thank you for sharing!


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: FourthFloorGames on November 02, 2013, 01:16:35 PM
I'm releasing a big content update soon, so I'll include instructions there!

Also, which hitbox do you mean? I really tried to get the player hitbox to be as small as possible, I think right now its two pixels by two pixels...


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: M.C.THUGZ on November 03, 2013, 09:23:32 AM
no screenshots tldr


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: Udderdude on November 03, 2013, 09:28:52 AM
Starts lagging/dropping frames by stage 2, I'm pretty sure Flash can handle a bunch of low quality primitives better than this .. (yes I put it on low quality mode and it still lagged).


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: FourthFloorGames on November 03, 2013, 09:39:30 AM
i have a new build that reduces lag significantly, but i'm adding more content and stuff so i'll post it soon.


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: M.C.THUGZ on November 03, 2013, 10:37:51 AM
dose screenshots convery absolutely nothing to me xecept that this gam is indie as fuckl, its got colors and shapes and everything

post a video ive already looked at other threads with color and shape screenshots today

why should i be interested in dis at all


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: FourthFloorGames on November 03, 2013, 11:41:02 AM
we have a trailer coming soon, the game looks much better in action!


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: M.C.THUGZ on November 03, 2013, 12:05:19 PM
aight i bet 20 bux


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: FourthFloorGames on November 03, 2013, 04:21:38 PM
That new update is out! Two more enemies, two more waves, less framerate drops, controls now show up at the start of the game.


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: Udderdude on November 03, 2013, 04:24:54 PM
Was still lagging .. and being able to shoot your own turrets was kind of bleh.


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: FourthFloorGames on November 03, 2013, 06:17:19 PM
healing your turrets by shooting them just helps you alleviate the damage they take over time.  im continuing to get the lag down, its being harder than expected...


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: Udderdude on November 04, 2013, 07:07:27 AM
Oh, is that what that does?  I just assumed it hurt them .. but it's not like you have a lot of time to be shooting at them. 

I'm not sure why you're having such an issue with the lag, a game like this using Flash's default rendering method shouldn't have much of a problem at all.


Title: Re: Introducing ORBIS, a musical, minimalist topdown shooter
Post by: FourthFloorGames on November 04, 2013, 08:53:00 AM
To be honest its not showing up for me or for my friends who are testing it, so I'm having a difficult time pinpointing its cause without much evidence.

EDIT--I've found one contributing cause and fixed it. That may be the only cause, but we'll see!