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[Melly]

I think I'm going to quit.

Free Bubblegum Rossie!

Are you MAD? You have a game that's fun to play and practically done! Seriously, just slap some finishing touches on it and release it, it's pretty good so far already.

Mind explaining the reasoning behind the decision, at least?

In other news, like many other people are saying, I'm making steady progress but I'm not really sure I'll be able to finish this to the standards I wish for it to live up to by the deadline. Hopefully we'll have an extension.

[oranda]

http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/demo.zip

"Playable" build tonight! Nothing fancy, you just throw rocks at each other indefinitely. I mostly just want to check for hardware incompatibilities, specifically on Intel chips. Anybody willing to give it a spin on an Atom based netbook?

[JaJitsu]

I'm so close yet so far at being done..

[deathtotheweird]

Pretty awesome, not a netbook but your game ran fine here (q6600).

[lowpoly]

ok, playable version is go: http://26k.org/dev/play/jupiter_v010.zip

there's still a lot of missing/temp art in there and no sound yet, but this should give a good idea of how the game will look and play. Eventually, there will be other enemies besides meteors and hopefully a change or 2 in location (time willing).

Really interested to see how this runs on people's computers, windowed 3D is shaky at best from what I've seen so far...

Have at it

[JMickle]

Battlerager is working on Timewarp's music, but hey, if any musician there is crazy enough to give it a stab I wouldn't be against it. The more music the better.

sorry battlerager

Timewarp Tickers Original http://www.box.net/shared/f4sybtf476 (with sfx :/)
Timewarp Tickers JMickle http://www.box.net/shared/gr9rv2nb4f

[Melly]

Haha, that's pretty good. Battlerager will just have to make his BETTER.

And lowpoly, runs like a dream here (though this is a beefy machine). I really like the look of it and the gameplay works fairly well. Pretty difficult to keep all building from being destroyed sometimes.

[Andrew Brophy]

I am too busy this week. Ahh, I'll have to quit (aka free Star Evil). 

[L]

Jupiter Scope suggestions:
* Exploit the difference in significance between meteors heading toward houses and those heading away from them. Make the RNG send out loads upon loads of unaimed meteors (meteors that won't hit any still-alive houses) that serve to disguise the few aimed meteors (meteors that will hit houses.)
* Make the meteors a bit faster, but compensate by making the Star-Zap's shots a bit wider.
* Since the Missile Command similarities are obvious, maybe add a "blast radius" that can neutralise a bunch of nearby rocks at once for large bonuses? (Possibly assign that chain explosion to a 'charge shot' that is unleashed by holding C...)

[Nicend]

http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/demo.zip

"Playable" build tonight! Nothing fancy, you just throw rocks at each other indefinitely. I mostly just want to check for hardware incompatibilities, specifically on Intel chips. Anybody willing to give it a spin on an Atom based netbook?

Ran perfectly fine, and very smooth, on my netbook (Atom based, ASUS 1000HE). It averaged 75 FPS running on powersave mode with a web browser still open so it has good performance. It also was only using about 15% of my CPU when I wasn't hammering on the keys (It rose  to 50% when I held the key for long enough) so it seems to be running perfectly well on my system.

[Arne]

I spent the night actually writing some code, and I made a very simple playable thing, without graphics though.

I've been writing it in BlitzMax, which has some OOP stuff which is neat. It was very easy to add 2P coop because of how I handled classes, instances and lists. The 2nd player is controlled with Numpad8456 and Numpad+. Esc to quit, R to reset game. >50% and >75% accuracy gives big score bonuses.

This build is more of a thing to show the engine. The game I'm planning to make will have a Megaman weapon collection element to it. I don't think it will be very bullet spammy. Instead, firing bullets will have a cost, and x/c will fire different (captured) weapons. I think laying down careful combination fire will be more fun than just holding the button and strafing back and forth.

The green background 'matrix' is bucket contents drawn so I can see if anything is wrong, but I haven't gotten a crash yet so no out of bounds stuff going on that I know of. Physics is under 1ms for me.

The tiny gray stuff is debris - little panels which will fly off the ships. They're affected by explosion shock waves which gives a nice effect sometimes. Hopefully they won't clutter stuff up and cause crap deaths. The player has health anyways, and the enemies generally won't fire tons of bullets. This test version is quite random and unstructured though, because everything spawns... randomly.

[The Monster King]

hahah sorry bro, maybe next time!

rdein you're probably the one with the least reason to quit seeing as you're more or less ALREADY DONE

[FrankieSmileShow]

Gaah whats up with all the quits
you quitters....

after im done with mine ill finish all of your games for you and then SPANK YOU WITH EM
Ill film it put it on the 'tubes and grab all the moolah from youtube ads ill be a rich man

[pgil]

ok, playable version is go: http://26k.org/dev/play/jupiter_v010.zip

there's still a lot of missing/temp art in there and no sound yet, but this should give a good idea of how the game will look and play. Eventually, there will be other enemies besides meteors and hopefully a change or 2 in location (time willing).

Really interested to see how this runs on people's computers, windowed 3D is shaky at best from what I've seen so far...

Have at it

Works great on my computer. Btw, here's some music for you: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3125554/jupiter%20scope.mp3. Is this the style you're looking for?

Also Ein don't be a quitter.

[mr. podunkian]

i more or less finished my game. now i've just got go back and polish the ending, make sure the levels aren't too hard (and by too hard i mean too too hard, as the whole game is kind of just hard in general), and then add in the extras. not too bad at all for less than 2 weeks worth of work.

[easynam]

Does this have to done by Wednesday or the end of the week or something, because if so I can't do it there's a big art exam right now which would slow things down anyway but now the power adaptor for the laptop I make games on has exploded and I won't have a new one for another week. (can't use the laptop at all)

[C418]

Also what the fuck rdein. Seriously, you are finished and want to quit. CHICKEN.

[L]

I am too busy this week. Ahh, I'll have to quit (aka free Star Evil).  

This particular irked me quite a lot because I was looking forward to the Star Evil remake. In fact, I decided then and there to use the powers of high-speed game making to quickly assemble a replacement!!


http://l.j-factor.com/gamemaker/StarEvil001.exe

Controls:
X - fire, skip text
C - skip text, lower the good/evil meter

You have infinite lives, but you lose some progress at death. Nothing happens after you beat the boss. I'll put together 2 more levels in a little bit.

...

Meanwhile, in Meong:

These puzzling haikus appear at the start of several rounds, and introduce new game mechanics. Fortunately, your player-character will re-explain it in plain words after they appear.

[Melly]

Gaah whats up with all the quits
you quitters....

after im done with mine ill finish all of your games for you and then SPANK YOU WITH EM
Ill film it put it on the 'tubes and grab all the moolah from youtube ads ill be a rich man

You can totally help me finish mine like you said you would.

And ein, are you going to give us at least some satisfaction as to why you quit? I sure as hell hope it's not because you don't think your game is good enough or some other similar bullshit. I know it's your choice in the end but at least say something.

[oranda]

http://www.awesomenessinabox.com/files/dedant/demo.zip

"Playable" build tonight! Nothing fancy, you just throw rocks at each other indefinitely. I mostly just want to check for hardware incompatibilities, specifically on Intel chips. Anybody willing to give it a spin on an Atom based netbook?

Ran perfectly fine, and very smooth, on my netbook (Atom based, ASUS 1000HE). It averaged 75 FPS running on powersave mode with a web browser still open so it has good performance. It also was only using about 15% of my CPU when I wasn't hammering on the keys (It rose  to 50% when I held the key for long enough) so it seems to be running perfectly well on my system.

Awesome, thanks! Way better than I was hoping for!