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This is my first game, a very odd, surreal game. It has unique (read: shitty) graphics. Hand drawn, but then scanned into my computer, made into a normal 16 colour bitmap in Paint, then resized to make it smaller, then copied into another 16 colour bitmap with Cave Story's colour palette. Enemies include a gentleman's head, a face that looks kind of like Alec, a head saying "ERROR" on its forehead, a ninja bunny head, a jellyfish with a goatee, and a weird alien skull face. The plane is a cross between a small aircraft with an open cockpit, a bat/pterodactyl, and a mermaid. Its driver is half bald with a very long face and is scared of heights. The bullets are actually just the word ZAP written out.

Screenshots:

This is the original drawing I scanned in (the product of having nothing to do in drama class and doodling on my script):
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc163/a_random_dude/aircraftoferrororiginalsmall.jpg)

To prove that this is actually a decent entry, I have the required HUD!
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc163/a_random_dude/hud.jpg)

I now have the sound effect for shooting (http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/3938_d5dyj/zap%201.mp3) and the theme song (http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/3937_by1nz/aircraft%20of%20error.mp3), which I made in 10 minutes using an acoustic guitar and Garage Band (on my Mac). It loops quite well. You can hear it looped 3 times here (http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/3936_40gpq/aircraft%20of%20error%20looped.mp3).

 :droop: :epileptic: :crazy: :'(  :tearsofjoy:

Mentally scarred, but still in love with it.

drawn by hand?  :biglaff: i like it

Now that I have art and music it's time to actually learn Game Maker...  :-[

Dohohoho silly human. Learn quickly you must, if you want a chance.

And the graphics are AWESOME.

this shouldn't be too hard if you've at least tried to learn some other type of programming (i.e. basic).  have you?

...no.

g'luck  :gentleman: (thaz how you make a game)

Okay, I don't think I'm going to have time to learn very much about Game Maker in time for the end of the compo, so this will probably turn from a shmup into an artsy (read: shitty) goalless exploration game a la Fly Guy (http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/) except far worse. You'll still be able to shoot, but it won't do anything other than reward you with a handwritten ZAP for a bullet and the sound of me saying "ZAP!".

Hearing you say 'Zap!' will be worth the pain!

Or you can just listen to it here (http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/3938_d5dyj/zap%201.mp3). It's more of a yell than anything.

Hehe that sounded like an alien.

Yelling into my computer's built in microphone plus intentionally horrible compression= ALIENS! The compression I used for that was the worst it would let me do (32 kbps, 20 kb filesize).

alien compression  :laughter:

Heh heh lack of quality is the best quality.

Since I couldn't figure out an easy way to make the game quit when you reach the end, I decided to make it so that in the last room a robot gentleman tells you to press escape to quit the game. I used the in-browser demo of Natural Readers text-to-speech software (http://naturalreaders.com) to make it, although since it is maximum two hundred characters, I did it in three installments and edited them together. Again, I used extremely low compression.

Gentleman of the Aircraft (http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/4247_yac14/gentleman%20of%20the%20aircraft.mp3) (Slightly spoilerish)

Okay, it's finished. It's rather... surreal. Not exactly a normal game. Updated first post.

Download Aircraft of Error (http://pvxnja.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pkuvoeQSzAJw9Rr2J-dkV8i1C1ThpK34PvoXJpOjYRP33uS2CKmGWbpwhoQwwAsy4fJAIKEw7FJi9LLzEg4wr4Q/aircraft%20of%20error.exe)

Here are some screenshots:
To prove that this is actually a decent entry, I have the required HUD!
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc163/a_random_dude/hud.jpg)

And this is just a black crumpled paper level:
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc163/a_random_dude/black.jpg)

HEADACHE EMERGES :epileptic:

:wtf:

I think I found a bug (Although I really can't be sure..). The 'zap' sound doesn't appear to be working, and shooting just seems to cause the music to start again from the beginning. Also, firing during the ending speech causes it to stop completely. I think your problem may be that Game Maker can only play one MP3 at any given time, so you'll have to convert several of the sounds into .wav files.

I dunno though, maybe that's just intended behaviour..

I'm too scared to download it...

Maybe I will feel braver tomorrow.

 :o
 8)

You have to hold down space for it to finish playing zap. It's also partially intended. Maybe I'll fix it. About the bit at the end... why would you shoot at a gentleman who just wants to tell you how to quit the game?

He was looking at us funny?

They would do it because they can.

I played it...WTF was I supposed to do there?? heh

Version 1.1 is done now. Here it is (http://pvxnja.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pGCR8irHYs4gGS5nRRL6oZs1xfKlDVt8vVG7Xo4VgAPN0m8P2CNBm5C0o3XhoLcocf2rUCG5aMgriMLqOEGZZlA/aircraft%20of%20error.exe). It has a few bug fixes:

-The final gentleman now restarts his speech from the beginning after you shoot him to punish you for your unkindness.

-The music object is now invisible rather than being a scrawled "M" in the middle of the screen

-You don't have to hold space to hear "zap"

First post is updated. Here is the gmk file (http://pvxnja.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pGCR8irHYs4hcnS2eqw7Li-Xd7KoFIHKmym_srm31KmrTu-rSWyMrmAoe0pVy6LcSIL8Gw5XCAPV64QCWnorgdQ/aircraft.gmk?download). Can someone with Game Maker Pro make an executable of it so it doesn't have the annoying Game Maker logo at the start? I found that I couldn't make it so that it can play "zap" at the same time as the music, it is apparently only in Pro, so I couldn't fix that.

I'm starting on my next entry now, A Thimble Full of Elephants (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4911.0).

give me a minute.

Okay, thanks.

okay, i remade the executable in game maker pro 7 and put it on mediafire.com.

direct link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8a68a106a36b79e6d2db6fb9a8902bda
embed code: <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zidgy2djzly">http://www.mediafire.com/?zidgy2djzly</a>

woops, missed that :laughter:
lemme fiddle?

Sure. It's in .wav format, so it shouldn't be too much trouble. After you finish I'll test it, if I like it I'll reupload.

EDIT: On an unrelated note, thanks for linking to your mediafire. I couldn't find a working download for Hot Ninja Moon Moon before.  :gentleman:

this version the theme won't restart when zapping, only when changing rooms.  you can make it so it's actual background music you know.

direct link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8a68a106a36b79e6d2db6fb9a8902bda
embed code: <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mtfmtyjodo5">http://www.mediafire.com/?mtfmtyjodo5</a>

por favor, if you've downloaded that, do not redistribute.  i forgot to make that private :wtf:

I just downloaded the one from 2008 that said v1.1, not the test one from 2009. I think the one I downloaded was just this (http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2008/08/freeware_game_pick_hot_ninja_m.html) (the download link there wasn't working).

EDIT: Oh, also upload the .gmk for my game when you're done please.

Can you upload the .gmk for that version please?

np.

direct link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8a68a106a36b79e6d2db6fb9a8902bda

[edit] ima go sleep :tired:

Thanks.

Here is v1.2 thanks to professor dead. First post updated.

Download Aircraft of Error v1.2 (http://pvxnja.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pmiKv5xQ2bKohso_9462Ez0kAEK9to1oiLY8vvdW4wnkobUltbD3f_r0_TDak6TCbk_oVei_g-T6Usieu2fnaTg/aircraft%20of%20error.exe)

Here is the .gmk file for v1.2 (http://pvxnja.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pmiKv5xQ2bKqb_gjka5G7nv10pUCFKYbaNRiQ47aa0mhnUMvJXpnaJGYYhhgHHGq8FuZuDdIDcP21g9rG9No7kQ/aircraft.gmk?download).

Bug fixes:

-Loading screen no longer has Game Maker logo

-The "zap" sound effect goes over top of background music, rather than stopping it

This is scary. This is likely the worst game in this compo, yet this topic has the most views of any topic for a game in the cockpit compo.

Probably because A) it's hilarious, and B) it's done.

I suppose so. By the way, were you able to understand what the robot gentleman at the end was saying?

Yeah I guess people get attracted to train wrecks easily. heh heh Sorry I had to.

I decided to upload a new version with a readme and an actual folder for the GMK because I'm moving all my files to Will Host For Food.

Here it is, and I've also updated the first post:
http://willhostforfood.com/users/F/Fuzzbunny/aircraft.zip (http://willhostforfood.com/users/F/Fuzzbunny/aircraft.zip)