Testing camstudio

Just to wrap todays late-night yesterdays work.. (which was a lot of progress!), I thought I’d share a little glimpse of how the game is played. I had the tech dialog from a working state (with o’ so simple graphics) to a finalized look, and also added a very simple working title screen. One part I had trouble with was my Tweener class port to haXe. It seems that I need to fix a lot of it as it always seems to hang whenever a new tween is called while it’s already tweening something else!

Oh well.. it’s in my tada list.. among other things.

And of course this is my first attempt to use CamStudio, which is an opensource screen casting app, just like FRAPS.. but free.. :p.

So as you can see in the video, most of it is playable already. You can see the little enemies that pop up on level/stage init, and currently moving randomly. There is also the, still in green, spawner which needs a lot of firepower to destroy it with the standard weapon. Then there’s the tech dialog which opens on key press. The techpoints on the top right adds on a every certain amount of score. You can then use them to upgrade your arsenal, or enhance your ship’s speed or handling.

Currently on this testplay, the settings are already pretty high. Plus, the weapons aren’t properly designed yet. For example, as you can see, the first upgrade I did is way too powerful. That includes the second weapon slot, which I deliberately set it to one of the heavy hitters (the one at the very bottom row in the tech tree), just to test things and to give a little sneaky-peaky of it .

Things will definitely have a lower ‘advancing curve’ later. I’ll make sure the level transitions are fluid, but for now I still have other features to finish! :p

PS. The game display is set to 500 x 500, but youtube needs it to be in a 3:4 ratio hence it looks rather ’short’. Fullscreen mode is much better I think. Next time I’ll add dark spaces on the right and left of the video before uploading to youtube.