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The newest FB game presented by yours truly has *now* been released, and it is entitled Dragon Dancer, an official entry of Shmup-dev’s ’“Dragon Shmup” competition!!

So far, the game consists only of a demo of the first area, but I plan on adding a LOT more, I promise!! In the meantime though, get it now beginning at http://dhost.hopto.org/aapproj/, and catch you there!!!

Very impressive.

Man, that is crazy! So many things flying around... Good job!

Any possibility for a Linux port? Wine won't run it...

I'll try it on a windows computer later. But it looks awesome!

To Torahteen:

Quote:Any possibility for a Linux port?

Unfortunately, no. Because for one thing, I do not work with Linux at all (I have NO experience with that whatsoever). Just Windows. I am so sorry about that.

However, I am currently working on more of the game, plus getting the fixes with how the bullets are fired by the enemies. For instance, check out these before-and-after shots:


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And how about the part where the starting enemies got a bit *too* busy with the enemy bullets:

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So as you can see, I have toned down the enemy fire this week and made the shots more slower and thereby giving you even more time to dodge them!! :^_^:

You know now, since this is only an early compo demo of Dragon Dancer that I uploaded most recently, there are a lot of stuff that need to be done, like:

• • making the collisions between the bullets and the small flashing hitbox
  • creating the new and even better “Character Select” screen
  • making the overall amount of bullets less “busy” in the starting levels (exactly what I am doing! ! )
  • making the overall game as challenging, yet as both fair and well-balanced as ever!!

....and that is what I am REALLY aiming to do for at least the next version of Dragon Dancer that I am gonna do, while making it in the style of the pure manic bullet intensity of the Cave arcade shmups such as Mushihimesama (2004) and even the recent Espgaluda II (2005). Not easy, but can be mastered successfully if done right, understand me? \(^-^)/

Also, if all goes well on this latest new project of mine, this game will have at least 7 areas, each with many different varieties of enemies to shoot at, and menacing bosses that are waiting to cut your journey short in a heartbeat!

As well, I have made the small miniscule hitbox on the dragon a lot more easier to see also this week. Here is what I mean: to begin with, I already made the hitbox like this:



...and when you press and hold a button to slow your dragon down, your hitbox lights up, like this:



...and it does not affect the size of your hitbox in any way. It just stays small and miniscule, no matter what!! Perfect for helping you avoid the MANY bullets storms successfully!!!

With this project, and the continuing development of Wetspot 10th Anniversary Remix (man, I had better get on that as well!!), let me just say that I am warming up and sharpening up my FB game programming skills for my *other* anticipated game, Frantic Journey. So, a lot is DEFINITELY at stake for me this year, and expect a game programming powerhouse in FB from yours truly, everybody, understand? tar: !!

See you later, and Torahteen, thank you so much for your question. :king:




- Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of “Aura Flow” ::: Continuing Developer of “Frantic Journey”
Current Developer of “Dragon Dancer” and “Star Angelic Slugger” ::: Webmaster of the “AAP Official Projects Squad”
Original Creator of the “The New FreeBASIC 8-Bit Palette Machine” and “AFlib2 - Aura Flow Library 2”

If you're using multi-platform libraries, you might be able to get someone to compile a Linux version for you.

That's the joy of open source, in case you are not afraid to share your sources.

To na_th_an and Dr_Davenstein:

Speaking of which, here is what happened: from earlier this week, I have already reached a decision on my own over at the FreeBASIC Official Forums where my topic about this game is located (see right here), and I chose out of my own free will to make Dragon Dancer into an open-source project, in that it would open up some great opportunity for this game to be successfully ported into other OSes like Linux and others. At first I did not even like the idea at all, but after I found out of the possibilities there, I am giving that open-source thing a try, you know? tar:

Catch you both again, and thank you two so much for the idea. =b




- Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of “Aura Flow” ::: Continuing Developer of “Frantic Journey”
Current Developer of “Dragon Dancer” and “Star Angelic Slugger” ::: Webmaster of the “AAP Official Projects Squad”
Original Creator of the “The New FreeBASIC 8-Bit Palette Machine” and “AFlib2 - Aura Flow Library 2”

I'm sure this will make some Linux guys very happy.

Spiffy demo!