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[wademcgillis]

I finally got around to putting the C++ version up!

Second boss, more frames, cooler graphical effects and more areas to explore!

Download (Win32)

(Linux and Mac OS X coming soon. I haven't tested the updater on those operating systems yet.)

[jotapeh]

Guess I'll wait for the Mac version. Any particular reason you switched from Flash?

[wademcgillis]

Guess I'll wait for the Mac version. Any particular reason you switched from Flash?

Performance? Notice how the far background scrolls and there is a semi-background tile layer beneath the normal terrain. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that in flash.

There's going to be a fourth layer once I add foreground translucent lava and poisonous air.

Also, I figured porting it to C++ would allow me to easily port it to some of the mobile operating systems.

[jotapeh]

Guess I'll wait for the Mac version. Any particular reason you switched from Flash?

Performance? Notice how the far background scrolls and there is a semi-background tile layer beneath the normal terrain. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that in flash.

There's going to be a fourth layer once I add foreground translucent lava and poisonous air.

Also, I figured porting it to C++ would allow me to easily port it to some of the mobile operating systems.

Can't check it out - as I said, I'll need the Mac version when you get around to it - but cool.

I don't know if you're necessarily truly pushing Flash's limits though. Everything you've mentioned including the translucent layers can be done without too much strain. For an example, I made a game during Assemblee which has these effects, though the game itself is not super fun:

http://mushroomer.wegetsignal.ca/

But without seeing what's going on maybe I'm just underestimating the awesomeness that is the C++ version of Clementine

[wademcgillis]

Guess I'll wait for the Mac version. Any particular reason you switched from Flash?

Performance? Notice how the far background scrolls and there is a semi-background tile layer beneath the normal terrain. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that in flash.

There's going to be a fourth layer once I add foreground translucent lava and poisonous air.

Also, I figured porting it to C++ would allow me to easily port it to some of the mobile operating systems.

Can't check it out - as I said, I'll need the Mac version when you get around to it - but cool.

I don't know if you're necessarily truly pushing Flash's limits though. Everything you've mentioned including the translucent layers can be done without too much strain. For an example, I made a game during Assemblee which has these effects, though the game itself is not super fun:

http://mushroomer.wegetsignal.ca/

But without seeing what's going on maybe I'm just underestimating the awesomeness that is the C++ version of Clementine

Not much has changed. Performance isn't that much of an issue. I'm mainly doing it because non-flash games are considered more professional, and for the ease of porting to iOS/putting on the mac app store/shaders.

But fine. I'll port some of the new features backwards to flash, and see how it goes.

[jotapeh]

Dude I'm not saying you have to do it either way - honestly I don't mind - I'd just like to be able to play

[wademcgillis]

Dude I'm not saying you have to do it either way - honestly I don't mind - I'd just like to be able to play

If I ported back to flash then I would be able to just build once and not worry about auto-updating or anything like that.

[wademcgillis]

I'd just like to be able to play

Play away... if it works.

Note: This is only the game. I didn't do anything with the updater yet because I wanted the actual game to work first.

[wademcgillis]

Sorry. This would have been out sooner, but life gets in the way. Hurricanes, a job, Minecraft


Download (Win32)
Download (OS X)

OS X version confirmed to work on 10.6 and 10.7. 10.5 I have no idea.

(Linux coming soon. I haven't tested the updater on it yet.)