Ego Orb In Space! [Updated Feb. 12] « Fan Games and Programs « Forum

I present to you, ladies and gents, a beta of my next ~~little~~ game.

EGO ORB IN SPACE

http://www.dcmsoftware.net/images/screens/EOIS/Screen4.png

Gameplay
Title Screen
Intro Cutscene
Old Screenshot

Demo Video 1

CONTROLS:
Z Key ... Fire
X Key ... Fire Bottle Rocket
Arrow Keys ... Move
F1 ... Help
F2 ... Take screenshot
F4 .. Fullscreen
Q ... Exit to title screen
P ... Pause the game
Escape ... Quit or close help

CHECKLIST:
Movement [x]
Scoring and Health [x]
Title and Gameover Screens [x]
Enemies [ ]
Power-ups [x]
Sound & Music [x]
Cutscenes? [ ]
Decrease File Size [x]
Online Highscores [x]
(View)

NEW IN THIS VERSION:
3 new power ups!
Spread shot
Growing rocks/bullets/whatever they are
And one that increases the number of bullets you can shoot
An improved Super-Ego timer
You can pause by pressing P
Power-ups award 1 point
A new sprite for the Diamond enemy by CSwavely
A lovely "The Dave Presents..." splash screen
The key-mapping has been improved
Various bug fixes
No new levels this update, sorry.

DOWNLOAD:
Click Here [ZIP - 5.92 MB]
Read the Readme before playing!

Comments and suggestions are much appreciated!

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I’d rather die than go to heaven

You sir, deserve an award.

The Griddles Project (look at me mah, i can maek moozik).

I love horses!

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Flamin-P

My High score. Laughing

Very nice and very smooth. My only complaint there's got to be a better penalty for colliding with a UFO than just losing a point. Then again it's still in beta so you might have something already planned.

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Cheeseits wrote on Thu, 29 November 2007 19:37

You sir, deserve an award.

Thank you sir.

thickfreakness wrote on Thu, 29 November 2007 19:57

Flamin-P wrote on Thu, 29 November 2007 20:52

Very nice and very smooth. My only complaint there's got to be a better penalty for colliding with a UFO than just losing a point. Then again it's still in beta so you might have something already planned.

Oh yes. This is just a beta, so I still need to add health and more enemies, etc. Since I now have the weekend to work on this, expect another demo shortly.

If anyone has any suggestions, let me hear them!

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Stonecycle

Does that ego orb... have Duster's face?

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PoeTrader

I have no idea how the coding of games such as this works, and maybe you're already planning to fix this, but I can make the Ego Orb go waaaaaay off screen (above or below). Since you're asking for suggestions, I suggest you don't let him go off screen! :D

Space Waifu

That, or you could go for the whole "wraparound" asteroids type deal. Razz

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Flamin-P

Katon wrote on Sat, 01 December 2007 10:28

That, or you could go for the whole "wraparound" asteroids type deal. Razz

Is that where you you reach the edge and then you appear on the opposite side?

Set a course.

Yes.

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But that would defy physics! And space is all about physics, right? Japanish Smile

Flamin-P

PoeTrader wrote on Sat, 01 December 2007 17:10

But that would defy physics! And space is all about physics, right? Japanish Smile

In a universe where you can be attacked by ants, taxis, and musical records you really think physics apply? Question

PoeTrader

Of course, why wouldn't they?

(I guess you've never seen "Sliders". Parallel universes are awesome!)

Edit: also, my comment was more of a joke if anything ;D The-Dave can do whatever he wants with his game.

Stonecycle wrote on Sat, 01 December 2007 05:29

Does that ego orb... have Duster's face?

Woah. I never noticed the resemblance.

PoeTrader wrote on Sat, 01 December 2007 05:37

I have no idea how the coding of games such as this works, and maybe you're already planning to fix this, but I can make the Ego Orb go waaaaaay off screen (above or below). Since you're asking for suggestions, I suggest you don't let him go off screen! Very Happy

I've fixed this in the new beta. Smile

Speaking of which, check out the updated version!

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I love horses!

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I LOVE THIS GAME

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

PoeTrader

Typo in the readme:

Quote:

Custom background music:
Replace the music/bacground.ogg file with another .ogg
file named background.ogg. The new file will be played
during the game.

I like his expression when he gets hit! I also think I might enjoy it more if I could go forwards and backwards too.

Flamin-P

Don't mess with my high score.

The power ups are awesome! I recommend that you make the health ups a tad less common and the life ups much rarer. As you can see by this screenshot I didn't lose very many lives... (I think I only lost 1 life altogether.)

Other than that the game is wonderful. Cool

What are you going to add in the future? Other enemies, bosses, more power ups? Either way you did a wonderful job on this so far. Thumbs Up

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PoeTrader wrote on Sun, 02 December 2007 00:21

Typo in the readme:

Quote:

Custom background music:
Replace the music/bacground.ogg file with another .ogg
file named background.ogg. The new file will be played
during the game.

I like his expression when he gets hit! I also think I might enjoy it more if I could go forwards and backwards too.

Typo fixed! Thanks for pointing that out.
I've been experimenting with forwards and backwards movement and I think I've finally got it where I want it, it'll probably be in the next release.

Flamin-P wrote on Sun, 02 December 2007 03:23

Don't mess with my high score.

The power ups are awesome! I recommend that you make the health ups a tad less common and the life ups much rarer. As you can see by this screenshot I didn't lose very many lives... (I think I only lost 1 life altogether.)

Other than that the game is wonderful. Cool

What are you going to add in the future? Other enemies, bosses, more power ups? Either way you did a wonderful job on this so far. Thumbs Up

That is quite the highscore.

I've tweaked the randomness of the power-ups and made it rarer for enemies to drop health-ups. I've also decreased the amount of health you have from 10 to 5 and added a bar for the Saturn's health.
I'm planning on adding more enemies, some levels, and some bosses too. Maybe even some sort of story as to why there is an Ego Orb in space in the first place. I'll probably add more power-ups along the way as well, like bombs or shields.

Thanks for all the great replies guys!

Would anyone be interested in online-highscores?

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The Dave wrote on Sun, 02 December 2007 10:56

Would anyone be interested in online-highscores?

That would be insane. I am totally for an online scoreboard.

The Griddles Project (look at me mah, i can maek moozik).

Kupo_KK
is not a moogle!

Lol I messed with Flamin-P's high score. Smile

Attachments:

ego orb in space score.png

WHAT TIME IS IT? :D :D :D

Flamin-P

Kupo_KK wrote on Sun, 02 December 2007 13:59

Lol I messed with Flamin-P's high score. Smile

Twili

How about online play for four people?
1 person controls the ego orb, another the Mr. Saturn, then the same for two more characters?

Or is that too far fetched and/or requires too much effort.

“I am fully charged” is the mating call of the crit-rocket.

Blue_Monkey

I couldn't resist

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This game is great. You could add more assists (foppies, tendas, etc.), and other power-ups like rapid-fire or a shield. I like the idea of adding bosses.

Attachments:

egoorb.PNG

A monkey that is blue isn’t a freak of nature. It’s part of a secret cult.

Twili wrote on Mon, 03 December 2007 01:59

How about online play for four people?
1 person controls the ego orb, another the Mr. Saturn, then the same for two more characters?

Or is that too far fetched and/or requires too much effort.

As awesome as that would be, it would take more effort than I'd want to put in for this. (You know, getting a server, writing the server-side program, etc.) Also, my original plan was only single player, so yeah.

I'll try to get a demo of the online highscores in the next demo of the game, but I'll need to do some research first.

And Blue_Monkey, that score made my day. I also like the idea of foppies and tendas, I'll see if I can work them in.

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Stonecycle

Good game!
YOu used Game Maker, didin'tcha?
I Laughing

at the HUGE EB sprite of Ego
I like the Saturn helper.

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Superfamicomaniac

I can't get this game to work. Sad

Is there anything special that has to be done to make this work with Vista?

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iota

I've been tinkering with the wiimote and computer connectivity, and ran into a script that dealt with rolling the wiimote acting as arrow keys.
And let me tell you, this game is amazing with it. Don't mistake me, it's amazing otherwise, but I think the underline explains the difference.

Twili

The Dave wrote on Tue, 04 December 2007 08:02

As awesome as that would be, it would take more effort than I'd want to put in for this. (You know, getting a server, writing the server-side program, etc.) Also, my original plan was only single player, so yeah.

I expected that (not that I'm doubting your abilities in any way).

Say, what about a network play option? Like over a LAN server. Very Happy

“I am fully charged” is the mating call of the crit-rocket.

DalaamPrince

Why wasn't this a mini-game in EarthBound?

I love this! Can not wait to see the final product.

***** out of *****

Okay, super response time...

Stonecycle wrote on Mon, 03 December 2007 18:04

Good game!
YOu used Game Maker, didin'tcha?
I Laughing

at the HUGE EB sprite of Ego
I like the Saturn helper.

Yes, indeed I did! And thanks!

KingDarian wrote on Mon, 03 December 2007 22:40

I can't get this game to work. Sad

Is there anything special that has to be done to make this work with Vista?

Ohhh, yeah... I used GM6 which isn't compatible with Vista, I know there's Vista converter thing for it though. I'll get on that right away! Sorry 'bout that!

iota wrote on Mon, 03 December 2007 23:39

I've been tinkering with the wiimote and computer connectivity, and ran into a script that dealt with rolling the wiimote acting as arrow keys.
And let me tell you, this game is amazing with it. Don't mistake me, it's amazing otherwise, but I think the underline explains the difference.

Oho! I need a bluetooth card so I can do this!

Twili wrote on Tue, 04 December 2007 03:27

I expected that (not that I'm doubting your abilities in any way).

Say, what about a network play option? Like over a LAN server. Very Happy

It's a possibility. I'll see when I finish the main part of the game. Wink

DalaamPrince wrote on Tue, 04 December 2007 11:36

Why wasn't this a mini-game in EarthBound?

I love this! Can not wait to see the final product.

***** out of *****

Thanks for that wondrous score of five stars!

I'm really glad everyone likes this game! It makes me all the more motivated to work on it! Thanks guys!

Update: I've added a new download for Vista users, this new version should work in Vista. Please let me know if any problems arise.

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Space Waifu

The second I come in to whine about it not working for Vista, and you deliver. Oh how amazing you are! Very Happy

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Superfamicomaniac

Awesome! It works! Thanks!

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Katon wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 21:07

The second I come in to whine about it not working for Vista, and you deliver. Oh how amazing you are! Very Happy

I try my best.

KingDarian wrote on Wed, 05 December 2007 23:31

Awesome! It works! Thanks!

You're quite welcome.

I've uploaded a new version, it includes:

A new title screen
A new enemy
A shield power-up
The health has been lowered
The power-up probability has been changed
Some minor graphical changes have been made
Added a healthbar for the Saturn
Vista support has been added

If anyone has anything along the lines of sprites, music or sound effects they want to send my way, please do!

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Blue_Monkey

Your shield power-up works well except that health power-ups do nothing while the shield is active. I suggest changing it so that health power-ups cease to appear while the shield is active (like bows stop appearing while you have Mr. Saturn).

Another suggestion I have is to award more points for a diamond enemy since they are more difficult to defeat.

By the way, I don't know if this is intentional, but the 8's look like A's

Overall, I like the direction this game is going. The graphics look just like an ego orb would look in space. The music goes well with the theme, especially when you grow. However, the pause when the song restarts is awkward, can you add a loop so the intro doesn't play every time?

A monkey that is blue isn’t a freak of nature. It’s part of a secret cult.

Blue_Monkey, the health-ups just add too your base health, and not to the shield's. But I suppose they aren't that useful while you have the shield.

That's a good idea about the diamonds, I'll do that.

Yeah, that font doesn't do very well at smaller sizes, I may change it in the future.

On my computer, there isn't a pause in the music, so that's kinda odd. I suppose I should just cut the music off in the file instead of setting loop points. I'll see what I can do about that. The music doesn't fade out does it?

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Blue_Monkey

That's weird, I played it again and the music doesn't have pauses anymore. Maybe my mind was playing tricks on me.

A monkey that is blue isn’t a freak of nature. It’s part of a secret cult.

Hey guys! Sorry for no updates for a while, I took a holiday break.

Anyway, in the new version we have online highscores! (Que epic music.)
You can look at them here: http://www.dcmsoftware.net/OH/EOISview.php
You can submit them when you get a gameover or when you quit by pressing Q in-game.

I've also added a small intro cutscene and title screen music.

Coming next version:
Two modes! Story and arcade! Story will have levels and the like while arcade will be like what the game is now. I'll also add in some different control options too.

Vista users, let me know if everything works alright.

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PoeTrader

Sweet! I'm glad this is still happening. Okay, time to plaaay!

I’d rather die than go to heaven

First place for now, this really is an amazing game. You sir really deserve an award, i mean it.

The Griddles Project (look at me mah, i can maek moozik).

Cheeseits wrote on Sat, 05 January 2008 20:51

First place for now, this really is an amazing game. You sir really deserve an award, i mean it.

Thank you, thank you very much.

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YOU CALLIN ME CRAZY!? oh wai..

Very entertaining.

A++

Thanks!

I've uploaded a demo video! Hoorah!
Check it out!
It may be better for people who haven't played the game before though.
In a few days or so, I'll upload a video of the first boss. (There are other things I want to do before I release another demo.)

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If you wanna find me I'll be out in the sandbox.

This is best game ever. :D

I love the little Mr. Saturn power-up! X3

CherrieGal wrote on Tue, 15 January 2008 17:38

This is best game ever. Very Happy

I love the little Mr. Saturn power-up! X3

Thanks a lot!

I've uploaded a new demo! Hooray! This one has a level and a boss! (Among other things) And a bigger file size! Oh no! Don't worry guys, I'll trim up the music files sooner or later, that'll bring the file size down.

Download Link (5.98 MB)

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