Blaster Ship! my first iphone shmup coming along

Alien8

Check out the alpha video. Ideas and feedback welcomed.

andrewm2211

The parralax that you have going on is awesome.

But the sound for when you fire started to drive me nuts 10 seconds into the video.

Alien8

Whoa. Good point andrewm2211. I didn't think of that. I'm so used to it...like parents with loud kids i guess. Any suggestions? Maybe change the sound, bring down the volume, no sound at all?

Mcreator83

looks cool but i to found the shooting sound a bit annoying. try something shorter or maybe when you add music to the game it will feel different

Steverd

Looks very good so far.
Can you add more/different enemy ships?

Steve

quantumsheep

It seems that there's no 'grace' period of invulnerability on the player ship (I.e. You still get shot if hit again pretty much after being hit the first time).

I'd add a rule on the player ship that says
'if hit, change a Boolean attribute called "hit" true
'if boolean attribute "hit" is true, make the ship flash for 2 seconds'
After 2 seconds make the ship stop flashing. (change "hit" to false)

You may have to change the rules that register a bullet hitting the player ship to:
If bullet hits player ship
AND
Boolean attribute "hit" is false

Then remove a life

Or something like that

QS

Alien8

Ah.. that's great advice, Quantumsheep. I didn't even think of that. Thanks for all the great insights. Keep em coming folks.

Alien8

Steverd, more alien ships on the way. Thanks.

ktfright

This is a nice looking shmup! My only suggestion would be to maybe have the enemy characters come in a bit "smoother" than just spawn into the level screen. Maybe try spawning them slightly before they hit the level screen.

Definitely loving everything so far!

kapser

Indeed looking good, i love the parralax.

But the sound is a bit annoying, putting shot volume down isn't a bad idea. There is a program called SFRX that easily generate retro sounding effects I suggest you try it