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MorseKode

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« on: June 28, 2003, 02:09:00 PM »
Hi,

I'm the author of Blasteroids-X, and I was wondering if anyone's given it a go yet.

I'd like to hear any feedback (provided it's at least partially constuctive  blink.gif ) and while Blasteroids is probably final, I'll definitely take comments on board for my next project.

Specifically, what did people think about the controls, 2-player mode, and physics in-game?

Cheers,
MorseKode.
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blueskies

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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2003, 09:13:00 PM »
it kicks ass.  I love asteroids and this is a great clone.  maybe add different backgounds (or maybe i just haven't played it enough. (/edit/ lol ok just got past level two and see new background))  great job!

This post has been edited by blueskies: Jun 29 2003, 04:14 AM
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baturkin17

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« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2003, 06:05:00 AM »
great game, althoguh the ship moves a little to fast, its so hard to control.

but other than that, awesome job!!
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Jse

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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2003, 06:12:00 AM »
yeah tis kewl but the music gets annoynig quite quick
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MorseKode

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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2003, 08:07:00 AM »
Ah, thanks.  It's stuff like this that makes it all worthwhile!

Yes, the ship can be quite hard to control at first.  You usually only need a small nudge of the analogs to move out of the way of an incoming asteroid, or alien bullet.

Sorry you don't like the music...  unsure.gif  you can always turn it off.
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2003, 08:57:00 AM »
I love it...the music is great too...but if you don't like it just put your own song in the folder and rename it to the name of the normal one!
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« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2003, 11:56:00 AM »
QUOTE (MorseKode @ Jun 28 2003, 11:09 PM)
Hi,

I'm the author of Blasteroids-X, and I was wondering if anyone's given it a go yet.

I'd like to hear any feedback (provided it's at least partially constuctive  :blink: ) and while Blasteroids is probably final, I'll definitely take comments on board for my next project.

Specifically, what did people think about the controls, 2-player mode, and physics in-game?

Cheers,
MorseKode.


I'm the coded of MineXweeper & Connect4, someone once wrote to me and said
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nice idea shame about the GFX. .


Try and get yourself a GFX guy(or girl) it makes a big difference and more fun :-)

But I do have a couple quesions..
Sound: what are you doing with sound, I see no wav files?
GFX: also no BMP's what's these xfg files?

But having said that, great :-)

jippie

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uziq

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« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2003, 12:47:00 PM »
very nice.  the only thing I don't like is the red font for the title screen.  It's too hard to read.  otherwise, it plays real good.  I only played for a few minutes.  things started getting hectic on level 4!
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MorseKode

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« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2003, 03:19:00 PM »
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Try and get yourself a GFX guy(or girl) it makes a big difference and more fun :-)


Haha, yes I'm certainly not much of an artist.  But sometimes you just need to knock up graphics extra-quick to test things out.

If anyone out there is a photoshop/3d max wizard, I'd love to hear from you!

As for the custom xfg and xfs files - I don't want anyone to hack my game, but I willl tell you there's no fancy encrpytion involved.   wink.gif
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t_rex

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« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2003, 07:32:00 PM »
The text is a little hard to read(lucky that is no fancy encryption on the xfg's wink.gif ), apart from that it's a good game smile.gif

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« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2003, 04:08:00 AM »
This game is one of the best homebrews I've seen.
A few things could make it better.

1 The forward and backward movement is hard to control, and the ship doesn't slow down by itself, so it's hard to stop moving.
2 Shields or hyper-space would be nice, as the UFO is too accurate.
3 Remember the last name entered for hi-scores.
4 The default.xbe isn't retail patched.

The movement of the rocks are good, and the ship fires good also. You used the rumble some, but not when the ship blows up.

I like this game for the most part, thanks MorseKode, it shows some good game making talent.
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Bender_Unit_1

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« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2003, 11:07:00 PM »
I find this to be a great game. I have been having a lot of fun with it the past couple days! Those UFO are killin me though wink.gif

-Bender
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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2003, 10:15:00 PM »
QUOTE (uziq @ Jun 29 2003, 10:41 PM)
very nice.  the only thing I don't like is the red font for the title screen.  It's too hard to read.

I must agree, the menu font totally sucks balls, its really hard to read. But other than that the game is shit hot, i love it!

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bigcol

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« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2003, 06:50:00 AM »
Didnt run on my v1 xbox, maybe because im running it in PAL-60. I couldnt be bothered changing to NTSC mode because im that lazy :P So i cant comment on your game.
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MorseKode

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« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2003, 11:54:00 AM »
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Didnt run on my v1 xbox, maybe because im running it in PAL-60


That's weird, we tested it in NTSC, PAL-50 and PAL-60 and it ran in all three video modes.

One thing we didn't do was run xbepatch on it, which means it may be incompatible with your modchip/bios.  Try running xbepatch yourself on default.xbe, it may fix the problem.
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