Sorry for lack of response, I had stopped making games for a while due to various reasons.
But recently, I got a new laptop and am firing up my development passion again to learn c# and unity, to make my own helicopter action game featuring MD-500 defender and AH-1 cobra.
I know that it will be a very long and painful journey and I'll need to spend several months or years making crappy unity games first to learn many things, but I'm willing to take that pain to eventually make my dream helicopter game.
So yeah, I'll do my best to make a fun game featuring little flying eggs, because the world doesn't give any love to my two favorite helicopters. (AH-1S cobra and any MD-500 / MD-530 defender series)
This is my first TIC-80 project and a port of Eugene Jarvis' legendary game Stargate, that I previously made in pico8.
There were many cut features in pico8 version due to hardware limitation, but thanks to TIC-80's superior hardware I could implement all the features of the original game.
I'm impressed by TIC-80's performance and planning to make more games for it !
I'm currently learning lua and making helicopter mods for ravenfield, making many unique and realistic features. I think it would be a good place to get familar with unity and lua.
i think second examplel would be better so users can make a profile of multiple controllers easily. I use an arcade stick for strafing,l rudder pedals for moving forward/backward and anything else for flight stick.
many controllers offer third party software to configure deadzone, but it would be better to configure the deadzone in the game.
how about giving some health after beating the level, like 10% and more if the player managed to beat the level within certain amount of time? It would reward the player for playing the game more aggressively.
I agree with your answers but 3. there is a reason why almost every endless high score chasing games have extra life feature since pinball machines, it makes the game more fun as it encourages the player to make the game last longer. the descent creator's new 6DOF shooter Overload also has endless survival mode and it continously gives health points for killing enemies, but it's never easy to survive more than 10 minutes.
Okay. if you don't add secondary weapon, an upgrade or shop system after the levels would be good for deeper gameplay.
Here's some feedback after playing further:
1. you have to introduce new enemies faster. level 1~3 contains only 1 kinds of enemy which is quite boring. If I were you, I'd add new enemies after every waves and start to increase the difficulty once all enemies are introduced.
2. Exploding enemies are quite boring to fight. I have to shoot it once and wait until it explodes. Instead of sitting duck a creeper-type enemy that chases me and then self-destruct would be more interesting. of course killing it shouldn't cause damaging exlosions.
3. I can barely find the heath in the levels, it's very frustrating in later levels. you should give a small amount of guaranted health bonus in all levels.
4. Enemies should be smarter as the game progress, like anticipating the player's location based on its movement speed and distance when firing bullets, and actively avoiding the player's bullets. 6DOF games need smart enemies to fully utilize 6DOF controls.
5. wouldn't it make more sence if turrets are mounted on walls instead of floating and not moving at all ?
Thanks. How about adding secondary missile weapons like descent series ? That would add some more depth to the gameplay, with several different missile types.
It would be great if this game supports 2 joysticks. I play 6DOF shooter with throttle and flight joystick, because throttle's stick is intutive for strafing.
Sometimes an opened area (like 3x3 or larger empty space) with swarm of enemies would make the game more dynamic.
I wanted to like this one but there are some flaws...
I don't like that I have to restart the whole wave when died, and I can't stack nukes(smartbombs). also The player has so many health. Decreasing the amount of health and don't reseting the wave when died would make this game more fun and challenging.
As a die hard fan of defender, this game was a blast althrough It was quite short. I hope there's a scanner so I can locate the enemies outside the screen.
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That's exactly how fuel regen works in air patrol mode. The fuel regen gets slower as you lose bases, and you can't get any more fuels when all bases are lost. (basically gameover unless you have almost destroyed all enemies)
But It seems I should increase the fuel regen speed.
to lift, you have to press X and slowly approach to the cargo. If you slowly decrease the altitude and immediately go up after the cargo linked you can life it safely.
Parachuting is dead simple, just press E and press S when you are falling (parachete can't be opened if you are going up, so press S several times until it opens.) use it. you don't need a complicated command.
Glad you like it! The missing pilot appears from sky with parachute after completing certain days. (2 on very easy, 3 on easy, 4 on normal, 5 on hard) he is not displayed on radar and you must find him yourself, if you find and take him to base you can earn an extra pilot.
Enemies shooting you after losing control is definitely frustrating, I agree. I'll make a small patch so infantries won't attack you if you lost little bird.
Fun game, but you should decrease max falling speed and gravity value. the falling speed is too fast that platforming is quite uncomfortable and throwing objects are also too fast.
