Unseen Games, Aegion Fighter

[Shikamaru]

For those of you who were around a few weeks ago and heard me talking about my final, project, or "evil fraking program that won't compile", this is the end result of those few weeks and why I spent little time on NC. This is a game I developed for my OpenGL class as a final. It is not graphically enthralling like Final Fantasy 13 or hard to put down like Tony Stark and a vodka bottle but you get the drift.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL


Yes it is not graphically "wow" but it is a functioning game that works on about 75% of computers i've given a copy too. For some reason on random peoples computers it will not load giving an error though this was out of four comps and my firend's comp was really old so i don't know.


But this is a very simple plane/spaceship shooter where you scroll left to right destroying objects, in this case "crystals", as they drop down at you. To kick this up a notch I took an idea from a Xbox Live Arcade game I like called Ikaruga.

In my game you have two different weapons, or "Lasers", and you have to use the same color to destroy the same color crystal. White crystals are only destroyed by white lasers, green crystals with the green lasers. To increase the difficulty you can not fire both lasers at the same time and you have to swap fire buttons rapidly to shoot. This prevents you from holding down two buttons and spraying the entire screen with ease. Also not to make a game you can literally play forever I turned Aegion into a "how long can you last" game. As you destroy crystals they will start to spawn faster and move faster, I know the cut off where the speed increases I'll let you find out on your own. *evil laugh*


Anyways for those that have some spare time and would like to check out my second game, here you are. Save this to your desktop and extract it there. Once you've done that run the program Final_AHH.exe and your playing.


If you come across any possible glitches or errors please post them here so I can address them in my code. As I go through school I'm compiling a portfolio of games I've created to show my skills and any added troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated.




Instructions:

"How long can you hold the line and destroy the crystals."
As you destroy crystals they gain speed as they drop.
At every 1000 points you gain a life.
If you are hit by a crystal you die, lose a life, and have to respawn.(This is very bad as I have not figure out how to stop the crystals from subracting from your life as you wait to respawn, do not get hit.)
If a crystal gets past you, you lose a life.
When you reach 0 lifes, the game is over and the game exits.

Keys:
A or "left arrow" key moves ship to left.
D or "right arrow" key moves ship to right.
C fires white lasers.
B fires green lasers.

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[Kaz]

It doesn't work for me. There's an error lol.

[Shikamaru]

Please tell me what the error is...

[Kaz]

It says it doesn't find "_except_handler4_common" in the dyinamic library "msvcrt.dll".

[Shikamaru]

Did some testing on friends computers all different operating systems and it seems that Windows XP does not like the dll's required to run this game.

If you have Windows XP you will not be able to run my game.

If you have the following I have tested on a few and know for a fact it should run:

• Windows Vista (all versions)
  
• Windows 7 (all versions)
  

[Gaara]

Now it makes sense that I can't run it >_>

[particle0]

>.< Can't play it. Need to update compatibility with XP! *evil finger point* I <3 OpenGL. I saw a guy in my VisBas class make a game like this(waaaay back in Highschool). It was interesting at the very least. But it worked on XP >.> If you get my drift.

[theallknowing]

l2 windows 7 nubs!

[Shikamaru]

NEW VERSION!!!


In my boredom and many complaints I reopened my Aegion fighter game and got to coding and roughly 30 minutes later I have fixed the biggest issue I had with the game. Seems the handful of you that picked up my game were also unhappy with this little issue so... I FIXED IT!! ;D

You no longer lose lives while you are respawning if a crystal reaches the bottom of the screen.


Though you will need to immediately start shooting once you respawn since the "pause" on life subtraction is qued to the ship's respawn. Once your on the screen you start losing lives again.



**UPDATED**(5/10/2010)

Instructions:
"How long can you hold the line and destroy the crystals."
As you destroy crystals they gain speed as they drop.
At every 1000 points you gain a life.
If you are hit by a crystal you die, lose a life, and have to respawn.
If a crystal gets past you while you are alive, you lose a life.
When you reach 0 lifes, the game is over and the game exits.

Keys:
A or "left arrow" key moves ship to left.
D or "right arrow" key moves ship to right.
C fires white lasers.
B fires green lasers.

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[Gaara]

Wait...so can it play on XP now or is that still a problem?

[Shikamaru]

The XP issue is the matter of conflicting .dll's not my program. Where a majority of the time things that run on XP won't run on Vista or 7, well this case is reversed.

[Gaara]

Ok... *sigh*

[narwhals]

Ewwww only 47000 points I suck...

[Shikamaru]

Ok guys working on a newer version with some known issues and possibly a "3D" aspect by adding in more to the game as it is now. This will require some time to add in a second layer of gems and slowing the current set.

What that will create is a game where you have fly down(move away from the screen) with your fighter to the lower layer to shoot crystals then flight back up(toward the screen) to shoot green and while crystals. This will add a depth to the game to really push your skills.

You will still need to destroy the white crystals with the white lasers, green crystals with the green lasers and so on but you will not be able to shoot the green and white crystals while your on the lower level and the red and blue crystals while you are on the top layer. You will have to be quick and precise to swap back and forth to shoot the corresponding gems.


I have a newer version of Aegion with some modifications, the biggest being a max set speed for the crystals to keep them from becoming so insanely fast. I will be posting it later prior the massive update i just discussed.

But till then I'll leave you with a little toy to play with and sate any curiosity you may have about the binary code that makes up your computer. The following program converts characters you see on the screen into binary data so your computer understands it. Just a dinky program to play with.

An example of this is:

"a" in binary is 01100001, and decimal its 97

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