Cosmic Invaders -- WIP demo

Cosmic Invaders -- WIP demo

Francois Lamini

Member #7,791

September 2006

It crashes on my computer even when I change the color depth.

Francois

ReyBrujo

Moderator

January 2001

Reached level 13, 3 missiles in each side, lasers everywhere, plus two spark towers in the middle. I also tried another tactic: since it is not a pure Galaxian/Galaga (where the movement was fixed), the secret is to destroy the invaders on the sides to make the movement of the wave longer. I put one missile at the very end, then four lasers, and then pure missiles, replacing the missiles and some of the lasers with sparks, but didn't really work. The sparks don't destroy with one hit, which is a pity.

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ngiacomelli

Member #5,114

October 2004

Good fun. I managed to reach Level 11. I don't really have anything to comment on. Just the usual: Spark Tower needs a greater range and a faster firing interval.

The game locked up on me, once. While destroying a turret.

SkaxCo

Member #8,323

February 2007

OK, so the reason it wouldn't run was I was on a ten year old laptop. Now I'm not, it runs great (and its really fun, if a little slow paced) but I can't find the link to the version with the spark towers.

GullRaDriel

Member #3,861

September 2003

I loose at level 12.

I WANNA PLAY MORE !

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Kikaru

Member #7,616

August 2006

Give us better spark towers! Please!

Paul Pridham

Member #250

April 2000

I get the same crash as the others.

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Paul whoknows

Member #5,081

September 2004

Quote:

Give us better spark towers! Please!

Yes!, and a way to reduce the CPU usage! Please!

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Skax459

Member #8,290

February 2007

Where are you finding the download with the spark towers?

HardTranceFan

Member #7,317

June 2006

Check the original post?

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Onewing

Member #6,152

August 2005

Quote:

Check the original post?

The original post doesn't seem to have the Spark towers.

Hey, X-G, just checked out the game, kudos. I have all these ideas I want to suggest, but that wouldn't be appropriate for a WIP now would it? I do expect the interface to be a little better in the end.

Anyway, it's a good mix and fun.

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HardTranceFan

Member #7,317

June 2006

Sorry, it's one of X-G's later posts.

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Rampage

Member #3,035

December 2002

The last version freezes randomly on my machine.

-R

HardTranceFan

Member #7,317

June 2006

The last debug version runs on my machine (but no sparkies available).

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kentl

Member #2,905

November 2002

Both versions work. The weapons still need to be balanced, but that's something you're working on already.

LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

I'm hoping the lack of any responce form X-G is because he's working on the game.

X-G

Member #856

December 2000

Yep. I'm holding back on a new version because I want upgrades to work first. And I can't figure out why it still crashes for some of you.

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Paul Pridham

Member #250

April 2000

X-G, my crash report was actually false. I'd reported on the version linked at the top of the thread, not the one hidden in the middle. Maybe just edit the top thread for new releases?

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GullRaDriel

Member #3,861

September 2003

Perhaps some help for debugging.
Happens sometimes.

1gdb: Target exception EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0x0040eefc
2 
3Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
40x0040eefc in SpritePlayer::getWidth (this=0x1a86934) at sprite.cpp:136
5136     sprite.cpp: No such file or directory.
6        in sprite.cpp
7Current language:  auto; currently c++
8(gdb) bt
9#0  0x0040eefc in SpritePlayer::getWidth (this=0x1a86934) at sprite.cpp:136
10#1  0x00421b38 in Invader::centerX (this=0x1a7b750) at invader.h:41
11#2  0x0040d5df in MissileProjectile::advance (this=0x1a887a0, elapsed=0)
12    at projectile.cpp:77
13#3  0x0040869b in Game::advanceGame (this=0x198ff78,
14    elapsed=0.020002821587695507) at game.cpp:223
15#4  0x0040a2c9 in Game::go (this=0x198ff78) at game.cpp:406
16#5  0x0040c3fa in _mangled_main (argc=1, argv=0x3e40d8) at main.cpp:23
17#6  0x67a4da89 in UxTheme!GetThemeEnumValue ()
18   from C:\Documents and Settings\Gull\Bureau\alleg42.dll
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32    Cmd=0xbaadf00d <Address 0xbaadf00d out of bounds>, nShow=-1163005939)
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357Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

Thank you, that is helpful.

Onewing

Member #6,152

August 2005

Finally beat wave 11 (with 3000+ money).

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GullRaDriel

Member #3,861

September 2003

For the gameplay:
I am sure that the lightning tower are too expensive, blah,blah (as already told by other)

My technique is the following (and bring me to level 11 with no problem):
One missile tower each side of the screen (you can put them with a middle part out of the screen)

Full laser between them. Each one as near as possible of the other.

I had tried full-missile, but it is not as powerfull than laser (because even if less powerfull, laser are way much faster)

EDIT: As I had played it a lot, I have a submission for you ! What about adding a scoring system based on the time it takes to destroy each wave ? Game after Game I realized that I was able to kill them faster and faster because I was knowing where and what to put. I am pretty sure you can know the maximum time a wave can take to reach the ground, and using some simple math can bring a simple but nice scoring system.

Last: what about giving us the ability of putting towers on a second line under the first ?

That's all for now ;-p

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LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

Quote:

Last: what about giving us the ability of putting towers on a second line under the first ?

Or perhaps making an upgrade for each tower that allows a secondary weapon type as well.

GullRaDriel

Member #3,861

September 2003

Yeah, that is in the feeling. The thing is to be able to fire two weapon from the same geographic place .

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Paul Pridham

Member #250

April 2000

I think having the weapons snap-to-grid (1/8 of weapon width or something) would be a good thing as well, so that the placement isn't so finicky.

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