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InterNETs is a bullet hell shmup, with levels and enemies which are generated from the source of websites. Well, thats the concept anyway. How well I can make that into a playable entertaining game, who knows.  :) But I'm doing my fricken best.
The game is being made with MMF 2, as I'm really no programmer :-[ I know that program pretty well though, so don't you worry.

>: HELP NEEDED!
Awright, so, the game will have around 8 playable characters or so. And I thought it would be cool, and fitting with the theme, if all the characters was different users from TIGForums. Haha.

So, if you want to be included in the game, all you have to do is draw a player sprite for your character. It may be whatever you want it to be, well... almost ;) .
I doubt anyone would be interested, but if you are, just post in this thread saying that you want to be in, along with your amazingly well-drawn sprite. Haha, just kidding, dont worry about that, artistic talent doesnt matter at all.

Player sprite must be max 48x48 in size. And can be in any style at all. The game is a top-down perspective vertically scrolling shmup, so keep that in mind.

• I also have no music for this game right now. I would make some myself, but I'd rather not that players got a headache or worse when they play this game. xD
  If anyone could make 2 tunes or something for this game, that would be so amazing.  :) Send me a message if interested. I'm not really picky about the style or anything, chiptunes would fit really well though. ^^ And the only thing I could offer in return is being listed in the credits in the game. Sorry. >__>

>: CURRENT PROGRESS
- level generator 75% completed
- enemy generator 80% completed
- enemy and bullet movement engine 90% completed

(http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8030/nets2pu3.png) (http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/2501/nets3di8.png)
The enemy is randomly generated, so is the background colour, and the bullet patterns too. The text in the background are pieces from the source-code, though the font may be hard to read. P:

Thanks for showing interest in this silly project.

I really like the idea of a game based on the internet.

Though, if I had to point out something, wouldn't it take awhile to create a HTML parser? I'd really like to see how this turns out though

Thankyou  :)

The engine works perfectly, so far atleast!

Now I just gotta build some actual gameplay out of it! Haha.

Thats good then, now I just wanna see how 4chan plays out in this (expects AIDS and Cancer)

Manbabies.com FTW.

interested much. I am.

That sounds awesome. If I were doing this game, I would go for some way to have the website's content show up in the game, even while making sure there were interesting levels being generated.

(And make sure random content from the web won't crash you!)

I like the idea of sneaking in certain premade levels that occur when you get a certain seed. For example in this game, 4chan could produce a level with 10,000 enemies surrounding your base, simulating the actual experience of visiting 4chan.

Premade levels is a great idea! Thankyou, I'll be stealing that  ;D
I will definately add some crazy things when you use certain websites.
Hmm, I wonder what TIGsource will be like... maybe a manbaby boss  :D

Also updated first post. Yar.

And I know the graphics sucks right now. But theres still weeks til the deadline of the compo. Will improve them later.  :P

I don't know; the graphics look pretty cool to me :)

Aww thanks.  :)

But it looks 100 times better in-game, with all the crazy bullet-patterns and such. Really quite hypnotic, haha.

oh my god, I'm reserving a spot here. I am now working on my player sprite.

looks hot yo

can you make it load images from the sites as enemies  :)

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3674/myfighterdp4.png) (http://imageshack.us)

A paper plane that says "Hideous" in a 3x2 font :P

Here's my semi-crap sprite:
(http://lorne.lastchancemedia.com/Images/two/NightChicky.png)
Not sure I'm ever gonna get the word nightcock out of my head now. :D
Nightcock nightcock shuttle-cock.

I'd be willing to write two tracks for you, but if you're making a SHMUP based on the intertubes, then you should probably get music from seeqpod, using their API.  Or at least, if you did, that would be awesome.

http://www.seeqpod.com/api.php (http://www.seeqpod.com/api.php)

It's really easy to use, and I can shoot you my javascript for it, if you want.

I think it would be very cool if number of enemies or just features generally was linked to the popularity of the site. So a site that nobody ever visits would appear desolate and empty in the game.

Possible? Who knows.

Just put together a quickie Cthulhu flying sprite, feel free to use it or not. I am a programmer, not an artist, so pixel art is fun for me but not my forte :D

(http://cthulhu32.kraln.com/Random/flyingCthulhu.gif)

Here's a guest sprite from Jonny Smeby, who y'all should know. He told me to say that I'm posting it here because I have stocks in clownfish.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/sergiocornaga/flerppy_shooter.gif)

It's Flerppy! (http://files.filefront.com/Teh+Forum+Game/;6712039;/fileinfo.html) He fits the theme pretty well.

(http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/8468/domokunsy5.png)

Domo-kun!
I tried to do shading and stuff like a real pixel artist, but that didn't really work, so instead I just made him electrified.