Nice! Reminds me of Alien Breed on the Amiga. Ah those were the days...
Could you tell us perhaps a bit more about the creation process of this game? After all this is hackers news and not an indie games forum ;)
My latest flash game, Robokill 2
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#32Why do American dollars, of all things, drop when some enemies die? I understand the game mechanic, but seeing cash appear on Mars when I shoot an alien is a little jarring.
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#33Why do American dollars, of all things, drop when some enemies die? I understand the game mechanic, but seeing cash appear on Mars when I shoot an alien is a little jarring.
Coming up with a recognizable, small icon for cash is actually kind of hard.
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#34Why can I fall off the floor in the first place? What purpose does it serve besides annoying the player?
Agreed. I was happily playing through until, in the course of a particularly involved battle, I paid too much attention to my enemies and stepped a little too far up and had to go back two rooms. This was frustrating enough that I decided to move on and stop playing.
Hmm, I might have a look at disabling it.
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#35The last version of this, Robokill, got a great response here so I thought I'd post the sequel as well. We've redone pretty much everything, resulting in what I think is a much stronger product. Love to know what everyone thinks! Last thread was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218322 Shot 1: http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/static/robokill2/shot1.jpg Shot 2: http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/static/robokill2/sho…
The first version was awesome. I'm looking forward to playing this one. How many people work with you, do you make these yourself? Also, I would love to know how many people buy the game, though I understand if you wouldn't want to disclose. Not that I would be able to duplicate this level of polish anyways.
We had a team of four working on Robokill. Can't disclose sales stats, sorry! But it is better selling the game versus using ads.
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#36The last version of this, Robokill, got a great response here so I thought I'd post the sequel as well. We've redone pretty much everything, resulting in what I think is a much stronger product. Love to know what everyone thinks! Last thread was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218322 Shot 1: http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/static/robokill2/shot1.jpg Shot 2: http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/static/robokill2/sho…
:) Back when we (or I, anyways) called it news.yc.
Yeah it's been a while :)
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#37Very nice. Great effort! If you don't mind me asking I'm curious about the business side of this. I don't expect you to put any real numbers out here but can you make a living of this or is it something you do in your spare time? I would be great if you could elaborate on this a bit. Thanks!
You can make a living at it. It's not easy though, at all, since so many people are willing to do it for free.
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#38This. Is. Awesome. Great job! Are you going to sell better weapons or something for real money? Future content?
Probably not - even though it may be more lucrative in terms of CPM, it's kind of cheap.
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#39Rooms should not disappear from the map. It is OK to hide unknown rooms, but once it has appeared on the map it should be visible forever (perhaps grayed). Mark rooms where you have died with a little sign in the map. So you can avoid them for some time.
Both are good ideas, thanks!
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#40I think a little bit of parallax could help with the falling off the edges (making the edges more obvious), and give a nice added feeling of depth.
Unfortunately being software rendered we had to pull too many performance tricks to make parallax even remotely possible. In hardware we'd probably have used many layers.