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Terry · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: Self Destruct

Hey! Haven't posted here in a while, so I thought I'd make up for it by sharing something I created this week - it's not an RPG, but it *is* a "project", and didn't know what other forum to put it in :P

Self Destruct is a bullet hell shooter with procedurally generated enemy patterns. It's meant to be quite hard and frantic - the only goal in the game is to survive for 250 waves. We've entered it into TIGSource's Procedural Generation Competition.

Here's a few screenshots:

It's not the sorta thing I usually do, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - especially since the bulk of it was made in one day :P

Download it here!

The game has a built in highscore table which you can see by pressing left and right on the menu screen, or you can see it online here:
http://distractionware.com/games/highscores/selfdestruct.php

The online highscore table in game was a first for me - I might write a tutorial on how it's done if anyone around here's interested :D
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Verious · Mage Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 409 Location: Online

The game is a lot of fun and the graphics look great, but it runs way too fast on my computer... even running inside Virtual PC.

BadMrBox · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:51 am Post subject:

Nice, Terry :). It both looks and sounds awesome but it really do run very fast. It was all game over for me at 34 waves :(.
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Terry · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

Haha, well, it's meant to be quite fast :P And hard. Though Verious, your problem could be that I used the windows high performance timer instead of the usual Allegro one, which might have caused timing issues :(
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Verious · Mage Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 409 Location: Online

I got a bit further in the game since my post. I guess the speed just took me by surprise because most shooters ramp up the intensity over a couple waves of enemies instead of throwing you into the deep end of the pool right away. :)

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

Wow, I'm terrible at this game! Couldn't do anything past wave 14.

Two-hundred
And fifty waves,
To go.

Game,
Over.

Two-hundred
And fifty waves,
To go.

Game,
Over.

Etc etc. :P

I've never been very good at twitchy action games like this, though. It seems really polished and would probably be a lot of fun if I played bullet hell shooters with any regularity, hehe.

I guess that answers your question about the high score list (sorry I didn't get that message in time)-- 'Tobin' is most assuredly not me. :)

~Josiah

Jinroh · Scholar Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 173 Location: U.S.A.

Looks like a cool shmup I'll will have to dl it. Nice Terry.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

Awesome game Terry! Quite impressive looking!
Haven't had a chance to try playing it just yet actually. :\
I will the next time I boot my vista computer...as of now 'm on a linux machine with not enough ram to run a virtual machine.
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Terry · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

Thanks for checking out out, everyone :) Sorry if it's not your sorta thing! And hope you like it, DevX!

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

Yeah, I think it was just the speed of it that tripped me up. Probably just didn't play it long enough to really get the hang of it... I'll give it another go later on. :)

~Josiah

BadMrBox · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject:

Likewise here. I'm determined to beat at least 50 waves ^^.
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Hajo · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:40 am Post subject:

Seeing this I once again feel so uncreative ... random/procedurally created content always fascinated me, but I never thought of leaving the RPG genre with this idea.

Big thumbs up for this project, Terry!

Terry · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject:

Thanks :)
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Hajo · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

Only 4 months and I found time to actually test. And it's ... like ... super, hyper, funfuntastic :)

Now to get on the highscore list. That'll be a challenge, I guess. I really wish I had some hours at my hands now, to try that.

Congrats for the game Terry! It's great fun, me likes :)

Edit: pushed my record to 100 waves, but only 367.000 and some points. How do people get 2.4 million points and more ... I guess the latter waves are worth a whole lot more. Now to get there :P

Edit 2: 138 waves now, 740.500 points. Once one gets the hang of it, it seems easier ... until the heavy lines of red bullets appear. Gack, need a new strategy for those. Cool game Terry, definitely. Big thumbs up!

Terry · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:47 am Post subject:

Cheers, I'm glad you liked it!