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[JoeManaco]

I'm proud that today I released the shoot'em'up / wreck'em'up game for iOS: Helicopter Mega Splash. It's free with a few ads here and there (not too much I swear  ).

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OMG IT'S FREEEEEEEE!!!!

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Swing your helicopter’s wrecking ball and smash attacking opponents.

This action game won’t leave a dry eye in the house - you’ll fight against hordes of oncoming enemies. Collect power-up items to transform your helicopter into an all-destroying fighting machine. A new challenge awaits you each day at midnight.

• Swing the wrecking ball by touch
• Fight and destroy hordes of enemies
• Collect power-up items and use super weapons
• New level awaits you each day
• Feel the adrenaline-pumping, rocked out soundtrack
• Get your game on and show the world what you're made of (only iOS 9)

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WHOOT? YOU'RE STILL READING THIS BROING POST?

ORIGINAL POST:

I just stumpled upon some assets my friend Emmanuel had made over 10 years ago for a game project we've never released. I used them to test a few new features of my engine. As it was fun playing around with it I started to create a shoot'em'up game with them.  

I don't know if I will ever finish it it - but for now it's a lot of fun implementing new features and playing around with it.



My simple Wave Editor:

[crbonilha]

Quite interesting Wave Generator.
I can't help but ask how you did that

[weashell]

I like that curve component. It can be very powerful if you can combine/sync it with another system. Music for example.

[JoeManaco]

@crbonilha

Thanks. It's very simple algorithm based on bezier curves. This is my javascript (I'm using cocos2d-js) code for my path/waveform class:

https://gist.github.com/JochenHeizmann/1033ee84c1998a906737

@weashell: Very cool idea to move the enemies along the path based on the rythm of ths music. I definitly wil play around with your idea. What I already tried is that I can switch formations smoothly in real time. For example: They are moving in to a traditional space invaders-like formation, then when the player collects an item or something they instantly change the formation to an letter or icon-like-picture made out of enemies, which looks quite cool.

Edit: Wow, Overfall looks awesome!!

[lithander]

+1 for the wave editor! =) Can you edit the waves at runtime ingame?

[oasix]

You wave editor is just awesome, it could be great to have multiple curves for each enemy type !

[JoeManaco]

Thanks.

The wave editor just defines waves and saves them into a slot.

I script each level with javascript. Those scripts generates enemies, applies various AIs to a FSM of those enemies, and those AIs can also use any of the paths I definied. The scripts are very simple, and I can update them in the client on the fly. But I'm not quite sure if I require it, but I'm also thinking of putting some effort in a Level-Editor (but it's hard to design something simple that has the flexibility of scripting everything).

So I can switch waves off an enemy on the fly and I also manipulate them on the fly. For example I assign a path to 10 enemies, and than move the last point of the path so all enemies build a cool formation at the end of the wave

[JoeManaco]

Laser!!!! Zip! Zappp! Zip!

[JoeManaco]

Spreadshot

[JoeManaco]

Here is the brand new sideshot. And Asteroids!! 

[JoeManaco]

Flamethrower.. Wheeew...

[JoeManaco]

Just added new fire shot:  

[tterlinden]

This is looking fairly rad so far Keep up the good work!

[JoeManaco]

Thanks ;-)

Added one more weapon: Electricity Beam!

[Patomkin]

Added one more weapon: Electricity Beam!

That's hypnotizing!
Maybe a little randomized movement?

[JoeManaco]

Hehe

Mega Bomb (Drag'n'Drop it on enemies)!

[JoeManaco]

Mines!

[Patomkin]

Wait, you do it with a mouse? But how you control your ship then? Don't tell me it's wsad!

[JoeManaco]

No, you have to stop moving the ship around when you use the special weapons

For now it works quite well with the mouse or with touch on my ipad.

[JoeManaco]

Ladies and Gentleman,

The wrecking ball