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[Arowx]

Test it here and let me know what you think?

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Arowx/energy-island-conquest-beta2

[Dugan]

That locked up my browser (chrome)

[Arowx]

That locked up my browser (chrome)

Have you got the latest version of Chrome, and what specification is your PC?

I have just tried it and it works but the Flash Plugin in Chrome Crashes not sure why?

If you continue after the crash and reload the page it seems to work OK?

I've raised the issue with Unity does this occur with any other Unity games?

[starsrift]

Played fine in Opera. System is some i7 thing.

Some of the enemies fired at me through terrain, the dirty bastards.

[CowBoyDan]

Played fine in Opera. System is some i7 thing.

Some of the enemies fired at me through terrain, the dirty bastards.

Arowx,

Probably needs some raycast testing for los.  Its pretty easy to do in unity, just need to use layers and layermask to make sure you dont raycast objects you aren't supposed to (like the object you are casting from heh).  Probably just include terrain at this point.  I think the unity angry bots demo uses raycast for this on the little bots that wake up and follow you.

[Arowx]

PC Version of Energy Island Conquest - Beta

Download, Unzip, Install and Play.

Let me know how it runs on your system.

*Known issue with Menu Scaling, please use default resolution.

[Arowx]

Mac Version of Energy Island Conquest - Beta

Please give it a whirl and let me know how it runs for you?

[Arowx]

New version with Cruise Missiles, Missiles, Rockets and Blasters.

Play it online on Kongregate.

or Download the zipped version for your PC.

Have fun and let me know what needs improving.

[epcc]

It ran at 40 something frames per second, sometimes dropped to 20.

Here's some ideas:
The wasp controls are imo too unresponsive, it doesn't feel like i'm driving(?) a fighter.
At first I wasn't even sure if I'm pressing the right buttons. This game would awesome with Crimson Skies style flight mechanics. Just reducing that constant drifting would help too.

Cockpit view or better camera work would help a lot. What I like flying games are these moments where the horizon is upside down or you are speeding towards the earth, spinning, and trying to regain controls. A camera fixed at a point behind the fighter makes it hard to get visual feedback on acceleration, so it amplifes my first complaint. At least make the camera tracking smooth.

And you really should add crash damage, it looks really weird when flying through water.
Oh, and getting killed is really confusing, I'm still not sure if my wasp really blew up. An explosion and the camera hovering over a smoking crash site or something would clarify this.

Different kinds of bullets might need more distinguishing features; right now it's unclear why should I switch away from rockets as these kill everything the fastest.
They look too similar too. Consider adding smoke trails, accelration or a bit curved path to rockets to make them stand out.

Speeding towards the island with lasers everywhere looked really neat.

[Arowx]

Thanks epcc for some great feedback, I'll see what I can do.

Minor update added Radar to Hud.

New PC Build in Zip File