Donnerfaust starts to remind a real game. There is now 10 levels, 6 different fighter planes, 5 different bomber planes. Upgrade system is now implemented to the game and player can upgrade the AA-gun between the levels. Now I have been able to play the game and test how the game play feels. I quickly noticed that since I first tested the game on PC with mouse control, the game was much easier than in phone/tablet with touch controls. The problem with the touch controls is that your finger blocks your view each time you shoot something. I now have to start balancing the game for touch screen devices, since currently the game spawns enemies too fast.
Another problem I noticed was that the random generator for spawning enemies does not work very well. Sometimes it can spawn the screen full of bomber planes which can take multiple shots before they get destroyed. This can cause a situation where it is nearly impossible for the player to destroy the planes in time. I have to implement a system that makes sure that there is not too many bombers in screen at once.
I also wan't to give a player change to catch a little bit of breath every once in a while. Now the game starts spawning enemies faster and faster towards the end and it leads to a situation where player is only shooting bottom of the screen, since there is so many enemies coming all the time that player does not have time to react anymore.
sunnuntai 22. toukokuuta 2016
torstai 12. toukokuuta 2016
Donnerfaust is NOT dead...
I have been quite busy during the winter and this little hobby of mine got less attention. But however the game project is not dead. I actually started to work with the game again few weeks ago. I have now updated the graphics and all the things mentioned on previous post are implemented to the game.
There are now more different planes and the planes does not fly only straight line down. They follow randomly generated path, that makes them turn every once in awhile. However this scripts need still a little improvement. The planes also appear in various formations.
I made one major change and made the player's AA-gun to be automatic. So instead a single shots the player can fire three rounds from magazine in automatic mode. This gives me the possibility to increase the game speed and make the game more intense. I also abandoned the idea of different AA-guns, but instead I plan to make the player's AA-gun upgradable. By meaning that player can update the fire rate, damage, magazine size, bullet velocity, etc. I just did not like the single shot AA-gun, since it kinda made the game speed little slow and that made the game feel little boring. The enemy airplanes can also take more shots than before. This gives more pressure to player.
My next steps are to add more levels and enemies. I have already drawn quite a few sprites for enemies. I also try to figure out how to add the upgrade system to the game and then implement the first version of it to the next game iteration.
Bellow is the video where you can see the current state of the game. You can actually see in the beginning of the video that I originally intended to call this game Donnerwand.
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| New plane sprites |
I made one major change and made the player's AA-gun to be automatic. So instead a single shots the player can fire three rounds from magazine in automatic mode. This gives me the possibility to increase the game speed and make the game more intense. I also abandoned the idea of different AA-guns, but instead I plan to make the player's AA-gun upgradable. By meaning that player can update the fire rate, damage, magazine size, bullet velocity, etc. I just did not like the single shot AA-gun, since it kinda made the game speed little slow and that made the game feel little boring. The enemy airplanes can also take more shots than before. This gives more pressure to player.
My next steps are to add more levels and enemies. I have already drawn quite a few sprites for enemies. I also try to figure out how to add the upgrade system to the game and then implement the first version of it to the next game iteration.
Bellow is the video where you can see the current state of the game. You can actually see in the beginning of the video that I originally intended to call this game Donnerwand.
Current state of the game
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