Anonymous 2010/04/12(Mon)22:49 No. 325 ID: 717301
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I'm just posting my enemy sprites in here so I'll have a place to point people to for examples.

Anonymous 2010/04/12(Mon)22:56 No. 327 ID: 717301
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drops from the top of the screen and flies forward; no projectile.

Anonymous 2010/04/12(Mon)22:57 No. 328 ID: 717301
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Cannon should track Flare and the projectile should airburst.

Anonymous 2010/04/12(Mon)22:59 No. 329 ID: 717301
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cruise missile, tries to track Flare but only moves right.

Anonymous 2010/04/12(Mon)23:01 No. 330 ID: 717301
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Fire tracking rockets, probably will be sitting on flatbed truck.

Anonymous 2010/04/12(Mon)23:39 No. 331 ID: 717301
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Here's an example of what I need for level designs. This is A; it doesn't have anything but ground, though.

Anonymous 2010/04/13(Tue)09:00 No. 332 ID: 717301
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second fireball graphic

Anonymous 2010/04/13(Tue)12:12 No. 333 ID: 717301
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How does this look for the level 1 ice shot?

Anonymous 2010/04/13(Tue)12:14 No. 334 ID: 717301
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first fireball graphic, should come out in a spread and decrease in frequency the longer you hold the button down, so it has a "charge" effect to it.

Anonymous 2010/04/13(Tue)13:00 No. 335 ID: 717301
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spread shot

Anonymous 2010/04/13(Tue)13:30 No. 336 ID: 717301
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Hopefully these will look good (disgusting) in a screen covering stream

Anonymous 2010/04/13(Tue)16:24 No. 337 ID: 717301
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Cheezvomit pattern

So, is the cheese vomit going to be like a limited use bomb type thing?

>>338
From what I can tell, each time you use the cheese vomit, you lose a size of fatitude. So yes, it works like a bomb.

>>346
exactly

I could still use level design ideas.

Latest version

http://h.imagehost.org/download/0776/Flareys

http://h.imagehost.org/download/0242/Flareys

start menu and kind of level select screen. Level A complete. http://h.imagehost.org/download/0697/flaretype

>>784
Ice is way overpowered.

Anonymous 2010/07/25(Sun)13:36 No. 788 ID: 99ffa5
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I come here to complain!
Bullets blend way too easily to background. They are also small as fuck. They should much more easier to see. Remember to add some sort of indication when you are hit ( flash Flare-sprite, sound-effect. )

Scores should never reset when you die. NEVER. Also, never substract from score. I hate checkpoints myself, but it's up to you.

Pixel-perfect hit-detection is bad. Use hitboxes. Add hitboxes on bullets too.

And generally life-bars are bad. Play Guwange. In Guwange CAVE did it right.

Otherwise, it is pretty bleasing to the eye. You might want to tweak enemy-formations too.

>>787
any suggestions?

>Bullets blend way too easily to background. They are also small as fuck. They should much more easier to see. Remember to add some sort of indication when you are hit ( flash Flare-sprite, sound-effect. )

I'll go ahead and increase the size, even though I don't have a problem seeing the small ones at 1920x1080, I tend to sit close to the computer when playing the vidya. Several people are having trouble with the small bullets. A hit indicator does need to be added, sometimes I mean to do things and forget.


>Scores should never reset when you die. NEVER. Also, never substract from score. I hate checkpoints myself, but it's up to you.

Oops, I need to fix that don't I? I thought it would be too hard without checkpoints myself.

>Pixel-perfect hit-detection is bad. Use hitboxes. Add hitboxes on bullets too.
I'm gonna mess with this some but Flare's hitbox is going to be most of her fat ass. Game Maker allows for circular hitboxes so that's what I'll be using for the most part.

>And generally life-bars are bad. Play Guwange. In Guwange CAVE did it right.
I've played it but I don't remember how the life bar worked.

http://h.imagehost.org/download/0473/flaretype

Changed all small projectiles to larger ones

Added a difficulty setting that removes the health bar

manually edited all of Flare's hitboxes

changed the zeppelins to drop random items instead of set ones (something I was using for playtesting and forgot to fix earlier)

tweaked the spread shot to have better range and more projectiles on screen so it doesn't suck.

removed the level select, I'm going to replace it with a different room.
There's probably something else I'm forgetting to do or list here.

Anonymous 2010/07/26(Mon)00:40 No. 791 ID: c1c607
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>>790
I understand the ice-shot is supposed to keep going even after it hit something, right?
Well, currently it hits a single target a whole lot of times--presumably every frame until it leaves their hitbox. It should only hit a single target once, on hitbox entry.

Anonymous 2010/07/26(Mon)01:50 No. 792 ID: 99ffa5
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It is much better now. Anyway, the weapons reset after stages. Is it a bug?

Checkpoints can make your life very difficult. For example, dying in Gradius can fuck you up and ruin your run.

In Gradius 3:

1. Get max powerups.
2. Fight boss.
3. Die.
4. Spawn before boss without any powerups.
5. Get raped by boss because of insufficient power.

You need to add damage-indictation and invulnerablity-frame ( invulnerablity after getting hit ).

OK I messed with a bunch of crap, the ice and fire weapons, gave Flare a death animation, a hit animation, and tweaked some other stuff.

If this plays well I'll start on the next level.

http://h.imagehost.org/download/0585/flaretype

http://h.imagehost.org/download/0640/Flareys

just a test room for the desert level, I've also tweaked the weapons a bit more and Flarey moves a bit faster.

Hey. Life happened so the thing about the thing with the mushrooms things will not be ready today.
I'll get to it later this week, hopefully.

>>807
That's cool, just get with me whenever you can. I'm gonna be gone this weekend maybe but I should be back Sunday or Monday

http://h.imagehost.org/download/0420/flaretype

few more desert enemies

Anonymous 2010/08/08(Sun)17:53 No. 830 ID: a83ce3
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Flare~

latest version, desert level is mostly complete.
http://h.imagehost.org/download/0950/FlaReType

c/ping from elsewhere:

1) Flare's shots don't even cover half the screen, while enemy shots never disappear. Bad decision in a side-scrolling shooter where enemies take more than one hit to kill.

2) Shots are very hard to see, especially against the bright backgrounds with the bright enemies. They're just tiny red/orange dots. They need to be larger and more noticeable; right now they're nearly impossible to dodge because you can barely see them in the midst of action.

3) It needs to be more clear when enemies are hit. Yeah, there's a sound for it, but I feel like there needs to be a visual cue that you've hit your target. A puff of smoke or sprite damage or just SOMETHING.

4) Most enemies taking more than one hit to kill on the first level? Really? Dang. Strikes me as setting the difficulty curve really high.

5) The life-bar isn't very noticeable. I could barely track my damage because it just wasn't in a natural spot for my eyes to track to. It needs to be bigger and I think moved to a different corner of the screen; up-left isn't a direction you'll be looking very often.

-----

I see the shots have already been mentioned; apparently the fix wasn't fixed enough because it is still a problem. I also agree with there needing to be some kind of indicator when Flare is hit. The lack of that killed me several times.

updated some minor things: hopefully the bullets are more visible now

http://j.imagehost.org/download/0828/FlaReType
>1)
I increased the damage on pretty much everything in the earlier levels, most things should be one hit kills in lower levels
>2)
I changed the sprite some

>3)
There is a smoke puff?
> 4)
I am bad about this, see first point

>5)
Where would a better place be?

Anonymous 2010/09/08(Wed)09:29 No. 929 ID: e7fc4c
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Hm, I didn't notice a smoke puff. I'll give it another try and see if maybe I'm just dumb.

re: 5, I realize it's not so much the up-left placement of the life bar as it is more blending in with the background. Perhaps you could try delegating the whole top strip of the screen to status information: life bar, score, weapon power, fat level, etc. A big black bar up there is a clue to the player that "HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT" and it's easier to keep an eye on that info. See image for an example of what I mean.

Alright. The new enemy shots stand out much better, it was a lot easier to keep track of them and dodge instinctively.

New enemy difficulty for stage one is also much better, but the fact that Flare's shots only go about two body-lengths in front of her before disappearing still makes things unnecessarily difficult, because it requires you to position yourself right in front of enemies to kill them, and for the ones that die in 2 hits instead of 1 you're kind of screwed, either on being able to kill them or to avoid them running into you and killing you. Are you setting it up like that by design so that the weapon boosts are more useful? (I noticed ice went all the way across the screen.) If so, you need to make the weapons upgrades easier to get. Either that or give her at least half a screen worth of distance on her shots.

I see what you mean about the smoke puffs on enemies, but it only happens when they die. There's no indication of them getting hit and not dying except the noise. Making the sprite flash is probably a simpler way to indicate enemy hits; a lot of shooters use that.

Is the ice beam supposed to keep going after it hits something? Seems unbalanced to me but if that's your intention, there isn't really a problem with it. Just that it makes it easy to spam the fire button and get by that way.

I like that cheese restores health. That's a nice touch.

>>930
>smoke puffs
It should do whenever you hit something, I'll double check.

>ice
yes, that's by design.

which enemies specifically don't do the smoke thing?

all new sounds ripped from various classic shooters, and 2/3 of a branching level (f) done.

http://h.imagehost.org/download/0353/FlaReType

Skie 2010/09/13(Mon)17:15 No. 945 ID: 49d6d7
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Couple of things
<--- This part is pretty much impossible on radiant, especially if you die there and have to use the crappy level 1 fire weapon. Tried about 40 times and got once to the second midboss thingy, but there were about 30 homing bullets after me at that point. The first half of the level was okay fun though.

The blimp hatches in level 1 are immune to fire weapons of level 3 or higher. But they are very easy to destroy with the level 2 fire weapon.

Those homing green things have a very fucking annoying sound.

The first homing-shooting mob when you reload after midboss near the screenshot, is impossible to kill. Flies off screen too fast. Should not have any of those.

>>945
Also, if you kill the midboss with cheez (which is way overpowered), the transition to the next half never happens.

Anonymous 2010/09/13(Mon)18:09 No. 947 ID: 788856
File FlaReType.rar - (5.09MB )

added a border to the bullets

Anonymous 2010/09/14(Tue)19:25 No. 948 ID: 788856
File FlaReType_236.rar - (5.35MB , FlaReType.rar )

New build, now the path branches if you're on beautiful or higher difficulty and have over 2k points at the end of level 1. The levels completed are now A, C, and F. There's a secret in the first part of F

Anonymous 2010/09/14(Tue)20:41 No. 949 ID: 788856
File FlaReType_964.rar - (5.35MB , FlaReType.rar )

Forgot to change you not keeping your weapon type on Radiant, also fixed the bay door not destroying on Radiant.

Anonymous 2010/09/17(Fri)13:03 No. 958 ID: 788856
File FlaReType_722.rar - (5.32MB , FlaReType.rar )

few minor bug fixes and HUD change.

Slinkoboy 2010/09/19(Sun)07:13 No. 961 ID: 6547ec
Audio Flare_2.mp3 - (2.07MB , Flare 2.mp3 )

I think this song's about as finish as it's getting. Named flare2 because the bassline to the first one was bad.

I might name the next one flare1 just to be confusing. I did not have a specific level in mind when I made this one. Next one might toy with the Slayer instrument if Typo doesn't swat at me for trying.

There seems to be a bug with the desert midboss (the sandboat with lizardpeople on them)

If you cheese them with the barf attack before the boat's finished coming on the screen, the game won't advance.

The desert level feels too difficult for being the second level. I stopped playing at this point because it was taking too long and I wasn't having fun anymore.

I'd recommend lowering the enemy count a bit, because there's way too much going on-- ESPECIALLY with the grenade guys making a billion undodgable bullets.

It's a minor thing, but it's something that bugs me and it's common in a lot of indie games:

Pressing ESC closes the game immediately, without warning.

It's easy to forget about it and press it when you want to pause the game or switch windows, losing all your progress.

Even more when the actual pause button is F1, but to unpause you can't press F1 again, but ESC. So that's really prone to accidents too.

An "Are you sure you want to quit?" window would be nice.

>>962
The desert isn't actually going to be the second level. I'm making them out of order.

>>963
I want to do this, along with configurable keys, but I have no idea how.

Anonymous 2010/10/02(Sat)17:09 No. 997 ID: 788856
File FlaReType_621.rar - (5.52MB , FlaReType.rar )

OK, the biggest changes here are just me cleaning up a bunch of enemies and stuff but I also changed a bunch of sounds, projectile-specific hit effects on the enemies, and a pause menu.

Anonymous 2010/10/19(Tue)16:14 No. 1072 ID: 788856
File FlaReType_627.rar - (6.58MB , FlaReType.rar )

Level B done, probably with all kinds of bugs.

I'm currently working on D. I need Slankoboah to do me some more music. Or anybody for that matter. I can't make music.

Slinkoboy 2011/01/16(Sun)11:04 No. 1405 ID: 6547ec
Audio Flare_1.mp3 - (2.60MB , Flare 1.mp3 )

A couple of notes were changed. I think the song's had about as much reworking as it's getting.

Anonymous 2011/02/13(Sun)17:59 No. 1512 ID: 3e060a
File FlaReType_606.rar - (7.01MB , FlaReType.rar )

i'm going to start using version numbers now or something. This version has A, B (needs to be reworked a bit, C, F, and the first quarter of D

Anonymous 2011/02/13(Sun)18:13 No. 1513 ID: 3e060a
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and here's the level design document. The light green ones are the only levels that are not designed but have a set theme in mind. The others are ones that I came up with but if somebody has a cool idea for something different they're open to be changed.

Anonymous 2011/02/18(Fri)09:21 No. 1531 ID: cc1ccd
File FlaReType_842.rar - (7.29MB , FlaReType.rar )

new build, first half of d is finished. Post problems in here.

A couple of playthrough videos on Radiant.
Levels AF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLY5tZAPU5c
Levels ABC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXUazlo3eZs

Died after C's boss died, his grenade got me after he died so I regard that as a bug.

A couple of other bugs:
In level A, for some reason the plane flight sound repeats in the first half.
In level C, the mid-boss' shotgun sound repeats throughout the first half.
In level C, second half, you can't shoot at the pumpkins on the ground with ice cream even though you can in the first half.

I feel like the difficulty is okay, not too difficult, I didn't even practice these much. I didn't even know which spot I was supposed to shoot at in C's boss.

>>1531
No comments on D yet because I can't get that far with Radiant and not using cheez.
The random bits flying off from mushrooms in Mashroom and the grenades in Desert broke my back.

Anonymous 2011/02/19(Sat)22:05 No. 1542 ID: d35926
File FlaReType_563.rar - (7.29MB , FlaReType.rar )

Flare Type version 0.0.4
Boss C is now always able to be damaged, simplified the scripting for it to not be a clusterfuck.

Flare Type version 0.0.3

fixed repeating sounds in A and C.
Changed mushroom parts in B to destroy on contact with walls.
Fixed B boss's claws moving during death animation
Changed all cactus in C to be hittable with ice and removed last one before boss.
Test mode taken off of first half of D

>>1542
Er, this version starts right at the third boss.

Anonymous 2011/02/21(Mon)07:52 No. 1550 ID: d35926
File FlaReType_181.rar - (7.30MB , FlaReType.rar )

oops, this one has the rooms in the right order

Now the mid-boss in Desert doesn't shoot at all and the final boss is too easy. Give it twice or thrice the life he has now, because he falls before he gets almost any shots out.
And the pumpkins right before the desert boss are still unshootable with ice.
So are the fish in the Mashroom but I guess they were designed to be like that
The new level D has way too much stuff packed in the beginning, I feel like. It's almost impossible to shoot all the enemies and weapon upgrade crates AND collect the cheez at the same time. I do like the difficulty of it, though, it almost forces to use cheez.
I was almost at maxfat and died in like 15 seconds on level D with fully upgraded soda, was kinda surprising.
The mid-boss in D stopped shooting after one eyelazor shot, but it was kinda cool. Had plenty of life too.
Oh and in desert level, near the last boss, I remember that there was three towers at some point one after another, but there was only two this time and one grenade thrower I think spawned mid-air.

>>1551
These issues should all be addressed in this version

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21315217/FlaReType.rar

version update, same dropbox link.

version 0.0.7
Increased range on soda, and slightly increased damage.
Fixed D stopping after midboss.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21315217/FlaReType.rar

0.0.7 summa summarum:
Pop now good.
D mid-boss stop shoot after eyebeam.
D boss can't be reach with flame.
Desert power up cactus bug die instantly when hit but when respawn only lost one fat and wepon.
D second half fuck hard but forces radiant player use cheez for first time.
Cheez lasts too long, shorten it by third or make it weaker.

Anonymous 2011/03/09(Wed)21:44 No. 1590 ID: 4d7cb4
File flaretype_.rar - (7.35MB , flaretype.rar )

version 0.0.8
Implemented Credits.
ice now dissipates after hitting twice.
balanced fire and soda against each other; fire deals more damage, soda has more range.
Cheez slightly shorter duration

I could kill the boss of D with fire, you just have to do it between the rings of shots.

0.0.8 was a good update.
Ice isn't overpowered anymore, and soda is preferrable now in mashroom because ice can't take out mid-boss quickly enough anymore. And it's not so good with dealing the roof and floor monsters either because it dissipates. Still the best weapon in desert and some parts of D.
D mid-boss stopped firing completely after first eye-lazors.
D boss stopped emitting the ring of plasma things at some point after a couple of different attacks and didn't do anything anymore either.
I couldn't figure out how to see credits.

D is definitely more difficult than any of the previous maps and you really have to use cheez a couple of times to beat it comfortably on Radiant. The second half's start doesn't feel so cluttered anymore either.

Anonymous 2011/03/10(Thu)09:28 No. 1593 ID: 4d7cb4
File flaretype_637.rar - (7.34MB , flaretype.rar )

Minor update those bosses should be fixed now.

Bug in Mashroom: If you touch a mushroom on Radiant difficulty, you die instantly regardless of the amount of cheez.

>>1596
this has been fixed but I'm waiting to do some more work before I upload a new version.

Slinkoboy 2011/04/05(Tue)14:04 No. 1690 ID: d6ae01
Audio Flare_3.mp3 - (2.83MB , Flare 3.mp3 )

Third Flareys song. This one had a lot more work put into it!

It's a nonspecific song, so you could put it into any level that feels right. It could work as a level 1 song, but the other one might fit that level better, hmm.

I will try a themed song next, possibly one for the desert level. However, I need to finish Venji first.

Also I'm really bad at flareys, so I can't actually time these songs to the level's lasting time unless I had some kind of invincibility code, or maybe just a list of how long all the levels run.

Anonymous 2011/05/07(Sat)11:54 No. 1780 ID: 940ab2
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a few of the level transitions:

Anonymous 2011/05/07(Sat)16:20 No. 1784 ID: 940ab2
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better? y/n?

Anonymous 2011/05/07(Sat)18:24 No. 1786 ID: 940ab2
File flaretype_970.rar - (15.94MB , flaretype.rar )

version 0.1.0
put the boss test room away so the game doesn't start with a broken boss fight with Hope. Fixed the bug where cheese hit during death animation would carry over to next life, added music.

>>1784
Nah, I like the more-saturated one better. Those are some really good-looking title screens by the way.

>>1784
I'd like it a bit more saturated, but not as saturated as >>1783

Anonymous 2011/05/16(Mon)11:51 No. 1794 ID: 940ab2
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level design update.

Anonymous 2011/11/15(Tue)16:32 No. 2319 ID: c6408e
File g-1.zip - (17.65MB )

Need some playtesting feedback on this level. I can't beat it but I dunno if it's because it's too hard or I just suck.

It's over 20mb, so I can't upload it to the site any more. New version here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21315217/flaretype.rar

>>2496

1) Choosing "Continue" after losing all lives currently shits out a lot of errors and breaks the game

2) Lohrke caves need rebalance of the mushrooms. Their bits fire in every direction so randomly it's hard to dodge it. It's especially visible if you use MD or Chili peppers.

>>2744


___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 6
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Error in expression:global.select_a
position 8: Unknown variable select_a

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 6
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Cannot compare arguments.

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 8
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Error in expression:global.select_b
position 8: Unknown variable select_b

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 8
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Cannot compare arguments.

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 10
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Error in expression:global.select_c
position 8: Unknown variable select_c

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 10
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Cannot compare arguments.

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 12
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Error in expression:global.select_d
position 8: Unknown variable select_d

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 12
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Cannot compare arguments.

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 14
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Error in expression:global.select_f
position 8: Unknown variable select_f

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 14
of Key Press Event for <Space> Key
for object cursor_continue:

Cannot compare arguments.

This was really cool, but I got the same errors as above, when i tried to continue.

new version is up

I need some feedback on this level so far https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21315217/FlaReType.7z

level E is semi finished, up till the boss. It's currently in test mode and starts when you start the game. W and F cycle through powerups. I need testing feedback on that and the water level. To play the rest of the game just hit esc to get to the main menu.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21315217/flaretype.7z

Loving it so far but I'm terrible at it. Can't wait till the continue button works and I can get past the first two stages... heh.

new version https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21315217/flaretype/FlaReType0-Default-1.6.exe

It's mostly just migrating stuff over to new game maker. Score and health aren't drawing for some reason.

Bug: Crashes when you press Z in pause menu to resume game.
Bug: Menu items in main menu can be scrolled past Start and Exit.

Water level's bosses weren't that hard on Radiant. They are still both quite easily managable without taking any hits.

Is cave level's midboss supposed to give any upgrades when killed? Almost always get hit there by the pollen and stuff.

City is really hard to not get hit at all in. The small towers that do the green beam attack (same as the large fetuses do in Factory) are the really annoying ones. Still haven't really figured out how to dodge that beam consistently.