Battleships Forever Info | 0.90d released 14 Apr

Game_boy · Post by **Game_boy** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:42 pm

What I have a problem with is the change stats button being degraded from that green box to an out-of-place standard menu.

Post by **th15** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:38 pm

Well you know how you hacked the pref room to take a screenshot, play with persistence and whatnot to go to another room to change the values? That's playing hell with the resource IDs and is one of the factors that destroys blueprint compatibility across versions. It's not the only reason, but I'm testing hundreds of things as I add them just to check for compatibility and changing things in the pref room was one of the things that sets it off. In any case we were running out of room to display things nicely that way with the new ai options and whatever else may be added.

Game_boy · Post by **Game_boy** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:40 pm

OK, I agree with that.

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:31 am

I might agree if I was a programmer and knew what that meant :p

Game_boy · Post by **Game_boy** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:12 am

He means I screwed up his* saving system by doing funny things with the code to make the pop-up green box have a frozen background. Therfore the reason that's the reason he got rid of the green box, not "usability".

*He's using the built-in GM save system which saves a complete copy of the entire program's state in an unreadable format, not just the ships. This was done to stop people executing their own code within the game, I assume.

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:59 am

Whats wrong with people using their own code?

pwhk · Post by **pwhk** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:23 am

Boba Fetuccini wrote:Whats wrong with people using their own code?

It might kill the Game Maker File

Captain Trek · Post by **Captain Trek** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:33 pm

My peeve isn't with the menus, it's with how hard it is now to line sections up properly and also with the new shift key and mirroring bugs...

Oh and I still think the new texturing on the ships and info panel sucks...

Post by **th15** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:38 pm

New Version Release
Get it here: http://www.wyrdysm.com/games.php

I have words to say about this release: Custom Weapons. I have let loose the weapons of Mass Destruction. The Shipmaker will now allow you to enter some custom values for weapons, allowing you to augment their firing rate, clip size, reload time, range, turnspeed and accuracy! I don't need to say any more do I?

Here's a picture of a ship firing Gatling Weasels:

You can also assign specific HP values to sections now to give you more control of what kind of ship you want to create! On top of that, you can now assign the depth values of sections, this means that you can control which section appears on top!

For the game itself, I've fixed a bunch of bugs. The biggest change you'll notice in this version is the addition of some portraits for the messaging in the career. This really brings home the scanline style of the game.

Enjoy making out all the wanked out ships you ever dreamed about

TrashMan · Post by **TrashMan** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:34 pm

Oh JOY!!!1

YEA...CUSTOM WEAPNZ!!!! Now you shall see the TURE mening of PHEAR

KV2 · Post by **KV2** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:11 am

DId you add the Funchion to spwan allied ships manz?

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:26 am

haha, george bush was close to right. really he had just heard rumors of TH15's game :p

I liek the depth changeability

the markers need to turn off a little bit after placement though.

pwhk · Post by **pwhk** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:49 am

one word:

COOL!

Captain Trek · Post by **Captain Trek** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:13 pm

I'll say! Buggy, but cool!

Ah, how long I have waited for gattling beamers.... :twisted:

Post by **th15** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:04 am

How do you guys like the portraits in the career?