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[Lukasmah]

Oh, okay. Thanks for clarifying.

If there are no means of doing so, how about this:

Treat existing weapons that are renamed to something as other weapons when converting to .json. Would that be hard to make? Would it work?

[M123]

I played a good chunk of v1.0.0.11 earlier - had a go with each ship type, explored most of the systems.

Didn't encounter any errors or noticeable glitches (aside from one ship parenting issue I posted about in the Prototype Enemy Ship Designs thread) - impressive.

Gameplay works well, was quite fun until my ship became extremely overpowered
The progression system is interesting. Are the extra weapon types obtained through alien pods implemented already? (asking because I haven't found any so far - plenty of pods, but none that grant new weapons) EDIT: That'd be right, just found one in one of the last few systems.

Performance is fine - stable 30fps 99% of the time. Would a higher target framerate be possible?
Graphics have a few nice improvements over BSF. The widescreen resolution makes fullscreen gameplay a bit better (on widescreen displays, at least). Would it be possible for the game to run at different resolutions?

Sound effects are pretty good - those explosions

[Lukasmah]

I played a good chunk of v1.0.0.11 earlier - had a go with each ship type, explored most of the systems.

Didn't encounter any errors or noticeable glitches (aside from one ship parenting issue I posted about in the Prototype Enemy Ship Designs thread) - impressive.

Gameplay works well, was quite fun until my ship became extremely overpowered
The progression system is interesting. Are the extra weapon types obtained through alien pods implemented already? (asking because I haven't found any so far - plenty of pods, but none that grant new weapons) EDIT: That'd be right, just found one in one of the last few systems.

Performance is fine - stable 30fps 99% of the time. Would a higher target framerate be possible?
Graphics have a few nice improvements over BSF. The widescreen resolution makes fullscreen gameplay a bit better (on widescreen displays, at least). Would it be possible for the game to run at different resolutions?

Sound effects are pretty good - those explosions

That is rather interesting. I got several glitches right away, some crashing the game and preventing me from playing the newer versions.

I also get informed of some missing dll during startup.

[th15]

Lukasmah: You need to install the DirectX runtime that you can find here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download ... aspx?id=35

Ristyo: I'll get around to adding a config ini file of some kind.

There is a translation table of old weapons to new weapons. The flaregun becomes the Heavy Blaster, for example. But I want to hold off on making new ships until we have sprites since we'd have to redo all the ships anyway.

[Lukasmah]

Wow, visible improvement since the last version I played.


There isn't a whole lot of variety yet and you can't do much aside from fighting, but I guess there is a lot mroe to come.

[CryoSleep]

... Okay, are you dense? This new game has some weapons which don't exist in BSF, like Sniper Pulse Guns and other such weapons. You can use BSF's shipmaker to make enemy ships for this game. He is wondering how he can put those weapons, which don't exist in shipmaker but DO EXIST IN THIS NEW GAME, onto the ships he is trying to make.

HOW IS THIS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND!?

Hey man forgive me, I have trouble understanding sometimes.

Also, I still haven't fixed my problem with this game, I tried turning it into windowed but it crashes and in the main menu too. It's the same with Alt+Tab but only crashes when i switch back.

[Tankwarhammer]

I would recommend that after you explore the entire map,the game gives you the option to restart and generate a whole new map.
replaying old maps and hoping that enemies appear is quite boring.

[Arcalane]

Can we please get rid of this dumbshit focus/screen stealing behaviour when tabbed out? I'm guessing this is some derpy DX/D3D/whatever behaviour here. Get a proper damn window already.

To elaborate; I started the warpout sequence and then tabbed out; when the game transitioned back to the galaxy map, it immediately seized the foreground and would not go away. Alt-Tab didn't help. Ctrl-Shift-Esc didn't help, because task manager was buried behind the display. Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't really help because there was nothing I could do from that screen that could actually help me get rid of the damn thing. Eventually I told the machine to restart from the Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen and managed to abort the restart process when it delayed due to an unsaved and untitled text document.

[th15]

Thats probably just fallout of me using the popup messages. all of those messages should go away soon, they were just a convenient stop gap.

[Tankwarhammer]

Thats probably just fallout of me using the popup messages. all of those messages should go away soon, they were just a convenient stop gap.

I hope so,those popup messages can be quite annoying at times.

[th15]

New version

Basic planetary exploration and crew system added.

v1.0.0.13
- New charging & firing sounds for Spinal Beamer from Cycerin
- Improved efficiency of beam drawing
- Added config.ini file. It only saves fullscreen settings for now.
- Player moves faster when there are no enemies on the level (this may have been added last version)
- New pulse sounds from Cycerin
- Planetary exploration system
- Lowered jump time

Edit: There was a problem in one of the data files. I've fixed it and released v1.0.0.13a
Edit2: Really fixed it now, put up v1.0.0.13b

[Ristyo]

Player moves faster when there are no enemies......
I thought it was my pc lagging, it was already there last release.

[Tankwarhammer]

I like the new update the sound effects are quite nice.

[366storm]

What are you using to make the game? Gamemaker? Or is this programmed from scratch?

[Lukasmah]

He said he used GM.