LÖVE

This is my 2nd post. But, I've been hanging around your forums for about a month or two as I learn more about the love2d game engine.

First off, I want to say that I think LÖVE is awesome. I am an experienced Java developer so I tried various Java game engines but was always dissatisfied with scrolling performance and lack of features. But then I found LÖVE, I instantly fell in love with the physics engine, the simplicity (no IDE required, etc) and ease of use. The Box2d physics engine gave me the opportunity to implement a remake of an old game called Snipes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipes). This might date me, but I have fond memories of playing Snipes in my college computer lab back in 1987.

Snipes Reloaded is my first game using the LÖVE game engine. Here is some info.
Web Site: http://chippedgames.blogspot.com/p/snipes-reloaded.html
Windows Executable: https://sites.google.com/site/chippedga ... ed_0.4.zip
Love File: https://sites.google.com/site/chippedga ... s_0.4.love
Features Implemented:

• Fully functioning game physics using box2d
• Random maze generation is complete
• Score system and HUD is complete
• Basic main menu complete
• Explosions use particle emitter

Planned Features for Future Releases:

• Convert over to the latest version of Love2d (0.7.0)
• Levels need to increase in difficulty (snipe bullets faster and more snipes)
• High score system
• Need to turn bouncing bullet feature into a power-up. Power-ups will be icons found in the maze
• Need to add the destroy wall power-up
• Sound
• Implement classes of snipes (some with helmets that require more hits to kill)

Screenshot:

chip wrote:

• Convert over to the latest version of Love2d (0.7.0)

I did it for you.
main.lua:161 It is now playable, but font alignment is still off.

Cool game. How do I aim though? So far I've been able to aim by bouncing it off a wall and then bouncing it off myself.

EDIT: Saw "How to play" and noticed wasd. And I saw this on your blog before you posted it here somehow. lol

Wow. That was easy. I'll make sure to make the next version compatible with 0.7.0. Its on the top of my list.

I just release Snipes Reloaded v0.4 which now includes the following changes:

• Converted over to the latest version of Love2d (0.7.0) - done
• Levels now increase in difficulty (more snipes and faster spawn rate) - done
• High score system - done

http://chippedgames.blogspot.com/p/snipes-reloaded.html - the main game page
http://chippedgames.blogspot.com/ - blog with release info

My 16 yr old son and I played it last night and I had a hard time pulling him off my laptop. He kept wanting to beet my high score. That just goes to show you that a high score system really increases the addictiveness of a game (especially when you are trying to beet dad )

Hm

http://gamejolt.com/data/games/3544/files/snipes_0.4.love wrote:You don't have permission to access /data/games/3544/files/snipes_0.4.love on this server.

EDIT: I fail.

Game's nice. On the second level, I couldn't win, because the number of enemies I had left to kill was "-1", I kid you not. Also, typo in the pause menu.

Yeah, I am no longer using gamejolt.com for hosting my game files. Their system has been acting up lately. I moved over to a google site instead. If you refresh the page out on http://chippedgames.blogspot.com/p/snipes-reloaded.html, it should now show links to the following:

• https://sites.google.com/site/chippedga ... ed_0.4.zip
• https://sites.google.com/site/chippedga ... s_0.4.love

I enhanced my snipe count code to end the level when snipe count is <=0. Not sure if that well fix everything. I have yet to be able to reproduce that problem. Thanks for finding the typo in the pause menu.

This was pretty cool
Very polished feeling. I liked the highscores functionality.
I noticed the bullets don't add the velocity of the player when they are created. This looks a bit strange, especially when firing diagonally. However it does make it possible to do interesting shots around corners etc.

You know that you can host games up to 10 MB on these forums, right?

Feel free to hotlink as well.

Edit:

I found a bug. I think it's a bug.

1) Stand next to a wall.
2) Fire bullets into wall, fast.
3) Move.

BULLETS EVERYWHERE

It really is addictive

That's good to know about hosting. I'll keep that in mind. I kind of like how the bullets bounce. Its part of the fun of the game. I like to run against a wall at full speed firing away, piling up bullets right in front of me and then get out of the way, just before they hit. Then all heck breaks loose. Box2d physics is awesome.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'm glad people like they game.