UFO - A space shooter [with music]

[Sodium]

UFO another space shooter, I'm not sure about the name.

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UPDATE:
music and sounds
some options
power-ups
less difficult
Boss and a end
AI still dumb
that's all

so, what do you think? what I need to change?

[raidho36]

This is pretty good, actually. I find it's hard to play though.

[chezrom]

Very nice game. But too hard at begining.

The problem is, I think, you have play it during all the development so you don't notice that the game starts very hard and don't let the player enter in.
The difficulty must be more progressive, else you can have the "too hard, I skip" syndrome from the new players.

[Sodium]

Very nice game. But too hard at begining.

Easier now, I think. Enemies rate of fire reduced .

And I forgot to say that there is a Boss now, so the game can be finished.

[pacman]

Nice game! I would change crosshair color because it's blending with spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
It really feels like a proper game.
Maybe try to make the ship more responsive (maybe reduce the hitbox size) and then you could put more enemies. Bullet hell \m/

[riidom]

fun to play!
a few suggestions:
- autopause on loosing focus (I sometimes clicked out of window accidentally)
- make the gun a bit thicker and/or longer
- the shield indicator (the one around the ship) could be a tad brighter

[Sodium]

Nice game! I would change crosshair color because it's blending with spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

Thanks! Fixed, I noticed that after testing the game with a different monitor.

a few suggestions:
- autopause on loosing focus - Done
- gun a bit thicker and/or longer - Done
- shield indicator brighter - Done

Thanks for your suggestions. The shield and crosshair looked good in my laptop screen, the same for background blue fog thing.
I'm going to update the file.

[mikeisinlove]

Very nice, something polished right out the gate is always good, I made an asteroid shooting game myself a while ago so I don't want to inadvertently regurgitate all the stuff I did to you, I want to see what kind of stuff you come up with.

I'm wondering if the asteroids are drawn dynamically? As in are the each just a set of points for an outline? I haven't checked the code but if that's the case what would be neat is some dynamic cracking visuals where you draw lines inward from the edge depending on the amount of damage, making it easier to visually ascertain the progress.

But yeah good job, I never got around to finishing mine (http://www.innermike.com/flash/Defendoids.html) properly due to an error I could not be bothered to go back and fix (don't shoot the "help" asteroid on the main menu) haha my code was super messy back then.

[riidom]

I didn't even know there was a crosshair at all! That helps a lot.

[Sodium]

I'm wondering if the asteroids are drawn dynamically? As in are the each just a set of points for an outline? I haven't checked the code but if that's the case what would be neat is some dynamic cracking visuals where you draw lines inward from the edge depending on the amount of damage, making it easier to visually ascertain the progress.

yes, they are just polygons made of random 2d points. Dynamic cracking? it would be great. that could be done, maybe adding/removing points where bullets collide, but it needs a better collision detection instead of my simple distance check.

But yeah good job, I never got around to finishing mine (http://www.innermike.com/flash/Defendoids.html) properly due to an error I could not be bothered to go back and fix (don't shoot the "help" asteroid on the main menu) haha my code was super messy back then.

Thanks, I played your game, all of them, they look professional and I like the upgrade stuff. Shooting the "help" asteroid was the first thing I did.
I had a lot of fun with Pixel Launch, release it on android.
Did you have a Deviantart account? awesome artwork.

here's the asteroid gen function. --I found the original AS3 code on the internet.

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function Aster:make(n, r, e) -- (faces, radius, gaps)
	n = math.max(3, n);
	local t = {};
	local angle = 0; local angleDiff = 2 * math.pi / n;
	for i = 1,n do
	  angle = angle + angleDiff;
	  table.insert(t,r * math.cos(angle)); --x
	  table.insert(t,r * math.sin(angle)); --y
	  if math.random() < 0.45 then
		local a = angle + angleDiff / 4;
		local tmpR = r + math.random(-e,e);
		table.insert(t,tmpR * math.cos(a));
		table.insert(t,tmpR * math.sin(a));
	  end
	end
	return t;
end