Hey. I'm bored and I wanted to do something to remind myself I don't suck at ActionScript, because the last few games I've released have been utter crap. A lot of the games I make are bug filled, now that I look back. But besides that.

A week ago I had the great idea of randomnly generating a tile based city. For large games, it would make it so I didn't have to take time to create each town and every town by hand. For small games, I could create something replayable by giving the player a different experience everytime they play. It wont be the best looking thing, but for mainly black and white games it would work out well. And when I say city, that also includes the interior of buildings. This will work well with a few ideas I have, a lot of boss rush games come to mind, and possibly a racing game, or an assassination game. The sky is the limit. And it will MOST DEFINITELY be in my PO3 game, but I'm not telling what that game is yet.

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Wtf layout?
I started off the project by googling procedural city's, to see if anyone had done it yet, and so I could steal ideas from them. Luckily, someone had done it and documented every step of the process in 3D. http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysided tale/?p=3185

So the main thing to do first would be to procedurally generate buildings. Buildings in a 2d sidescroller are mainly rectangles, with different levels. So basically rectangle shaped rooms stacked on top of each other are going to be the base for all the buildings. Taking a hint from the Shamus Young, I'm going to create different building styles, but each style will have to be created on their own. Right now I'm working with the main, basic office building. And basic it is indeed.

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/260509 /72695_City.php

I worked on this for about 6 hours so far. It may seem basic, but I ran into a wall with a huge bug I just resolved a couple minutes ago. This code as of now generates a random building, with random height and random width. It's a basic rectangle that vaguely represents a building so far. The holes in each level are where the stairs or a ladder would go, for the player to travel from floor to floor.

It's really basic right now but when I post my progress next week, it'll be much sexier, lol. I've got a lot of ideas for this, so don't dismiss it :P

5 years ago I was a huge Nintendo fan. So I made an account on a forum called the Sprite crew, and I meant to name myself Shiek_Sprite. I couldn't type that well so my name came out being Skeik_Sprite, and so I decided to keep the name.

Fast forward 5 years. The Sprite Crew is dead, and having a name that relates to a Nintendo character is a mark of immaturity (at least to me). Even though my name has a life of it's own and is no longer related to a video game, and never was really in the first place, people ALWAYS misread my name as Shiek, and it's annoying. I don't want to change my name but because K looks so much like a freakin H I think it might be best if I do, lol.

But the thing is that all the games I've made so far and work I've done has the name Skeik attached to it. So should I request to change my user name or just settle?

I WANT YOUR OPINIONS.

AGH

Yeah, Gradium is done and has been done for the longest time. I'm looking for a sponsor as of now. All the graphics you've seen in the past versions I've posted have been beefed up by http://frozenfire.newgrounds.com/

So yeah.

I really dont feel like saying anything so here is my crap

12/21/08

12/14/08

Okay, completely disregard the talking and the faces. They're placeholders until I get my voice actors to do their lines. I know the faces are ugly and they don't fit, but the first faces were even uglier and fit even less.

I don't feel like typing out everything I've done this week because there's just so much. I've been working on this baby in every second of my free time, cause the money this game generates would be great to have around Christmas. I want to have it done, in complete beta stage by the end of next week.

How do you guys like the menu and the little bird logo thing? Since this game is somewhat of a remake of my old game, Gradium:Enemies Inbound, I took the logo and the menu music from that game and worked it up. I even tried to replicate the menu font Proxer used.

There are health pick ups, if you don't find any tell me though. I'm going to move the bosses health bar to the bottom of the screen and his death is going to be more spectacular later on.

Not much else to say.

12/6/2008, Flamethrower
12/6/2008, Slicer

The two ships in action, with a bit more particle effects. I've changed the way the flame appears because it was too processor heavy before. The sounds are balanced, pretty good in my own opinion. I've added a few aesthetic things, and a few things I need to change visually.

The blade ship was a design my friend game up with. The ships blades spin quickly but it has no primary weapon, so this ship is more about dodging bullets rather then destroying ships. The challenge comes in when you have to get close to boss enemies to destroy them.

I think the concept of having each ship bring different gameplay to the table is going good. I will probably add a ship that acts like this ship in this game, but just have it control with arrows. That would bring me to a total of 5 ship designs, along with 1 unlockable.

Another thing I want to touch on is level design. I don't want the levels to feel too crowded or too easy, you know. So I want to know how much challenge everyone gets out of the game right now.

I'm taking the logo for my old Gradium game, and revamping it for this game. When you load up the swf, the logo will sit there for a while, and it now overlay the health bar.

Do you guys believe the health bar would work top left or bottom left?

11/28/2008
I think it's smarter to add the new stuff to the top so people don't have to scroll down.

This new update shows one of the few Ships I've been working on, along with almost all the enemies so far. I need to work on my level design, and getting the ships that come out to be well placed and shiz, but that can come after all the game mechanics are worked out.

The new ship is a Flamethrower, and it's very powerful up close. The further away you are the less damage it does, and when bullets eventually start flying every where, you won't be able to get into the enemies faces like you can in the demo as of now. As you get further away it does less damage too. How do you guys like this ship? Next week, I'll show you the other one I'm working on at this moment in time.

I really want to spice up the enemy designs, and have a constant stream of new enemies coming. There's a lot of shit you can do with enemies in a space shooter, and I'm going to try to get as many enemies in there as I can, as unique as I can.

So yeah

11/21/2008

This is what I've got so far. I have the basic movement engine done, and a lot of stuff going on that you can't see. I'm not very good at drawing, but I think I'm making the whole thing work. 3 enemy ship designs are done, and the enemy ships are going to be made of the colors Blue and Grey while you're ship is Red and Grey. In the end I want to have about 4-6 ships for the player to choose from, and each choice should really change how you play the game.

Like right now, you're using the ship that has the most average gameplay. Dodge bullets, shoot, etc. In the end this ship will be one of the only ships that can level up based on how many enemies you kill. That's how this ship is going to work.

Another ship, called the duck, will have no leveling up, but will have some seriously epic weaponry. But the ship will be huge and clunky. To combat the clunkiness, the ship will have a rechargeable shield. The ship will absorb all bullets, but if another ship hits you you'll take damage.

Also, all ships will possibly have places where you can equip items into them, items that increase speed, damage, shooting speed and such, but I'm not exactly TOO sure about that.

My friend and I came up with quite a bit of ideas for the game, but I don't want to talk about everything. I would really to have this game out before the 5th of December, so that's the deadline I'm shooting for. This is also going to be my first game in AS3.

Plenty to say this week. Got a lot of stuff done and crap. At some points it seems a lot more rewarding to do a game yourself. Just because I control all the elements, and the fact that if I find something wrong with the game I can touch it up without consulting someone I'm working with :P I still like working with artists though. Hopefully I get at least one meaningful response this time.

12/14/08

Okay, completely disregard the talking and the faces. They're placeholders until I get my voice actors to do their lines. I know the faces are ugly and they don't fit, but the first faces were even uglier and fit even less.

I don't feel like typing out everything I've done this week because there's just so much. I've been working on this baby in every second of my free time, cause the money this game generates would be great to have around Christmas. I want to have it done, in complete beta stage by the end of next week.

How do you guys like the menu and the little bird logo thing? Since this game is somewhat of a remake of my old game, Gradium:Enemies Inbound, I took the logo and the menu music from that game and worked it up. I even tried to replicate the menu font Proxer used.

There are health pick ups, if you don't find any tell me though. I'm going to move the bosses health bar to the bottom of the screen and his death is going to be more spectacular later on.

Not much else to say.

12/6/2008, Flamethrower
12/6/2008, Slicer

The two ships in action, with a bit more particle effects. I've changed the way the flame appears because it was too processor heavy before. The sounds are balanced, pretty good in my own opinion. I've added a few aesthetic things, and a few things I need to change visually.

The blade ship was a design my friend game up with. The ships blades spin quickly but it has no primary weapon, so this ship is more about dodging bullets rather then destroying ships. The challenge comes in when you have to get close to boss enemies to destroy them.

I think the concept of having each ship bring different gameplay to the table is going good. I will probably add a ship that acts like this ship in this game, but just have it control with arrows. That would bring me to a total of 5 ship designs, along with 1 unlockable.

Another thing I want to touch on is level design. I don't want the levels to feel too crowded or too easy, you know. So I want to know how much challenge everyone gets out of the game right now.

I'm taking the logo for my old Gradium game, and revamping it for this game. When you load up the swf, the logo will sit there for a while, and it now overlay the health bar.

Do you guys believe the health bar would work top left or bottom left?

11/28/2008
I think it's smarter to add the new stuff to the top so people don't have to scroll down.

This new update shows one of the few Ships I've been working on, along with almost all the enemies so far. I need to work on my level design, and getting the ships that come out to be well placed and shiz, but that can come after all the game mechanics are worked out.

The new ship is a Flamethrower, and it's very powerful up close. The further away you are the less damage it does, and when bullets eventually start flying every where, you won't be able to get into the enemies faces like you can in the demo as of now. As you get further away it does less damage too. How do you guys like this ship? Next week, I'll show you the other one I'm working on at this moment in time.

I really want to spice up the enemy designs, and have a constant stream of new enemies coming. There's a lot of shit you can do with enemies in a space shooter, and I'm going to try to get as many enemies in there as I can, as unique as I can.

So yeah

11/21/2008

This is what I've got so far. I have the basic movement engine done, and a lot of stuff going on that you can't see. I'm not very good at drawing, but I think I'm making the whole thing work. 3 enemy ship designs are done, and the enemy ships are going to be made of the colors Blue and Grey while you're ship is Red and Grey. In the end I want to have about 4-6 ships for the player to choose from, and each choice should really change how you play the game.

Like right now, you're using the ship that has the most average gameplay. Dodge bullets, shoot, etc. In the end this ship will be one of the only ships that can level up based on how many enemies you kill. That's how this ship is going to work.

Another ship, called the duck, will have no leveling up, but will have some seriously epic weaponry. But the ship will be huge and clunky. To combat the clunkiness, the ship will have a rechargeable shield. The ship will absorb all bullets, but if another ship hits you you'll take damage.

Also, all ships will possibly have places where you can equip items into them, items that increase speed, damage, shooting speed and such, but I'm not exactly TOO sure about that.

My friend and I came up with quite a bit of ideas for the game, but I don't want to talk about everything. I would really to have this game out before the 5th of December, so that's the deadline I'm shooting for. This is also going to be my first game in AS3.

Not much to say this week.

12/6/2008, Flamethrower
12/6/2008, Slicer

The two ships in action, with a bit more particle effects. I've changed the way the flame appears because it was too processor heavy before. The sounds are balanced, pretty good in my own opinion. I've added a few aesthetic things, and a few things I need to change visually.

The blade ship was a design my friend game up with. The ships blades spin quickly but it has no primary weapon, so this ship is more about dodging bullets rather then destroying ships. The challenge comes in when you have to get close to boss enemies to destroy them.

I think the concept of having each ship bring different gameplay to the table is going good. I will probably add a ship that acts like this ship in this game, but just have it control with arrows. That would bring me to a total of 5 ship designs, along with 1 unlockable.

Another thing I want to touch on is level design. I don't want the levels to feel too crowded or too easy, you know. So I want to know how much challenge everyone gets out of the game right now.

I'm taking the logo for my old Gradium game, and revamping it for this game. When you load up the swf, the logo will sit there for a while, and it now overlay the health bar.

Do you guys believe the health bar would work top left or bottom left?

11/28/2008
I think it's smarter to add the new stuff to the top so people don't have to scroll down.

This new update shows one of the few Ships I've been working on, along with almost all the enemies so far. I need to work on my level design, and getting the ships that come out to be well placed and shiz, but that can come after all the game mechanics are worked out.

The new ship is a Flamethrower, and it's very powerful up close. The further away you are the less damage it does, and when bullets eventually start flying every where, you won't be able to get into the enemies faces like you can in the demo as of now. As you get further away it does less damage too. How do you guys like this ship? Next week, I'll show you the other one I'm working on at this moment in time.

I really want to spice up the enemy designs, and have a constant stream of new enemies coming. There's a lot of shit you can do with enemies in a space shooter, and I'm going to try to get as many enemies in there as I can, as unique as I can.

So yeah

11/21/2008

This is what I've got so far. I have the basic movement engine done, and a lot of stuff going on that you can't see. I'm not very good at drawing, but I think I'm making the whole thing work. 3 enemy ship designs are done, and the enemy ships are going to be made of the colors Blue and Grey while you're ship is Red and Grey. In the end I want to have about 4-6 ships for the player to choose from, and each choice should really change how you play the game.

Like right now, you're using the ship that has the most average gameplay. Dodge bullets, shoot, etc. In the end this ship will be one of the only ships that can level up based on how many enemies you kill. That's how this ship is going to work.

Another ship, called the duck, will have no leveling up, but will have some seriously epic weaponry. But the ship will be huge and clunky. To combat the clunkiness, the ship will have a rechargeable shield. The ship will absorb all bullets, but if another ship hits you you'll take damage.

Also, all ships will possibly have places where you can equip items into them, items that increase speed, damage, shooting speed and such, but I'm not exactly TOO sure about that.

My friend and I came up with quite a bit of ideas for the game, but I don't want to talk about everything. I would really to have this game out before the 5th of December, so that's the deadline I'm shooting for. This is also going to be my first game in AS3.

So yeah, I came out with Adventure Al with my partner Decade today, and I must say I am ashamed, lol. The AS in that game is atrocious, and I could've done a lot better, but I guess I didn't really have enough time or enough passion to do it. For the past few games I've done, BFF2, BFF1, and adventure al, there have always been some huge scripting errors, and I'm getting sick of myself because of it. I'm no longer going to release my stuff half finished, and I'm going to put the polish into my games needed for them to come out right. If someone gives me a suggestion on how to make a game better, I'm not going to pass it up because it's too difficult to do, or simply because I can get by not finishing it.

So yeah, expect some great things from me in the next few months >:(. here goes the update.

11/28/2008
I think it's smarter to add the new stuff to the top so people don't have to scroll down.

This new update shows one of the few Ships I've been working on, along with almost all the enemies so far. I need to work on my level design, and getting the ships that come out to be well placed and shiz, but that can come after all the game mechanics are worked out.

The new ship is a Flamethrower, and it's very powerful up close. The further away you are the less damage it does, and when bullets eventually start flying every where, you won't be able to get into the enemies faces like you can in the demo as of now. As you get further away it does less damage too. How do you guys like this ship? Next week, I'll show you the other one I'm working on at this moment in time.

I really want to spice up the enemy designs, and have a constant stream of new enemies coming. There's a lot of shit you can do with enemies in a space shooter, and I'm going to try to get as many enemies in there as I can, as unique as I can.

So yeah

11/21/2008

This is what I've got so far. I have the basic movement engine done, and a lot of stuff going on that you can't see. I'm not very good at drawing, but I think I'm making the whole thing work. 3 enemy ship designs are done, and the enemy ships are going to be made of the colors Blue and Grey while you're ship is Red and Grey. In the end I want to have about 4-6 ships for the player to choose from, and each choice should really change how you play the game.

Like right now, you're using the ship that has the most average gameplay. Dodge bullets, shoot, etc. In the end this ship will be one of the only ships that can level up based on how many enemies you kill. That's how this ship is going to work.

Another ship, called the duck, will have no leveling up, but will have some seriously epic weaponry. But the ship will be huge and clunky. To combat the clunkiness, the ship will have a rechargeable shield. The ship will absorb all bullets, but if another ship hits you you'll take damage.

Also, all ships will possibly have places where you can equip items into them, items that increase speed, damage, shooting speed and such, but I'm not exactly TOO sure about that.

My friend and I came up with quite a bit of ideas for the game, but I don't want to talk about everything. I would really to have this game out before the 5th of December, so that's the deadline I'm shooting for. This is also going to be my first game in AS3.

Let me go ahead and steal i-smel's idea. I'm gonna write a dev blog, lol. I'm making a side scroller, it's going to be a total revamp of the old game I made, Gradium. In this game I'm doing all artwork and coding by myself, and so far it's going good. I usually get coded out when just going code by myself, and when the artist isn't there I have to make do with place marking stuff. But doing it all by myself is kind of exhilarating, because I have full control over everything.

Use the Arrow Keys, and Z to shoot (sorry for those with those Euro keyboards, there WILL be easy button change in the game, I'm programming it that way)

11/21/2008

This is what I've got so far. I have the basic movement engine done, and a lot of stuff going on that you can't see. I'm not very good at drawing, but I think I'm making the whole thing work. 3 enemy ship designs are done, and the enemy ships are going to be made of the colors Blue and Grey while you're ship is Red and Grey. In the end I want to have about 4-6 ships for the player to choose from, and each choice should really change how you play the game.

Like right now, you're using the ship that has the most average gameplay. Dodge bullets, shoot, etc. In the end this ship will be one of the only ships that can level up based on how many enemies you kill. That's how this ship is going to work.

Another ship, called the duck, will have no leveling up, but will have some seriously epic weaponry. But the ship will be huge and clunky. To combat the clunkiness, the ship will have a rechargeable shield. The ship will absorb all bullets, but if another ship hits you you'll take damage.

Also, all ships will possibly have places where you can equip items into them, items that increase speed, damage, shooting speed and such, but I'm not exactly TOO sure about that.

My friend and I came up with quite a bit of ideas for the game, but I don't want to talk about everything. I would really to have this game out before the 5th of December, so that's the deadline I'm shooting for. This is also going to be my first game in AS3.

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