My take on a Touhou style shmup engine.

Not intended to be a carbon copy, I plan to include many different features, such as equips, interactive level, and multiple player bullet types.

<img src="http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u86/Kaosjkm/Screencap.png">

Current features:

Basic and Focus Movement

Shooting (duh)

Special shooting for focus mode.

Enemy Indicator

Basic Score system

And... no sprites yet, as I intend to make custom sprites.

TODO:

Some form of enemy management and AI

Cleanup code and HUD

Allow multiple powerup levels and multiple bomb types.

Item pickups, weapon equips

blah...

Controls:

Up, Down, Left, Right - Movement

Left Shift - Focus Mode

Z - Shoot

X - Bombs (Not yet implemented)

Download link:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/10ldga

=====UPDATE=====

A minor update to get everything working smoothly. Also a code cleanup.

ADD - Particle effects for bullets

CHANGE - Enemies now die.

CHANGE - Trackbar now targets closest enemy.

FIX - Trackbar no longer goes offscreen.

FIX - Bullets did not fire right with multiple enemies.

DEBUG - Left clicking will spawn an enemy at mousepoint.

Screenshot:

<img src="http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u86/Kaosjkm/Screencap3.png">

Direct Link:

http://kaosteam.110mb.com/files/project ... ild002.exe

Eh I figured it out, It was mostly idiocy on my part.

I can get a fairly large number of bullets on screen, to the point that there are only a few safe pixels here and there, so its fine for what I want it for.

I have Superior Windows XP 64

I tried a test to see how many bullets I could get on screen, and I didn't get very many (<500) before there were stutters in the pattern.

I'll just keep looking into it.... I'm trying to create a danmaku game as well, and i'm hoping i'll be able to use construct for it.

HGE could be an alternative, but it's been a while since I brushed up on C++ so I'd rather not...

Hrm...

I know it probably wouldn't be possible or feasible for any full-fledged 3D for construct, however....

There should be some form of support for loading up static, textured meshes for things such as backgrounds and such.

Even MMF had a 3D Sprite object used for loading simple 3ds files.

Yeah, I'm looking to implement Touhou-style backgrounds as well.

What I think I'll do is bunch several 3D boxes around in a clever fashion to emulate it as well as I can.

I worked on a project a while back where you have to navigate a circle(physics) through a 3D maze.

Hmm... in a platforming game with a futuristic theme, these could be doorways or something.

Anyway, great effect. I'll see If I can expand upon it...

Lol, Level 2 is much tougher, guys!

I saw a tutorial for this for MMF a while back, it started normal, then you entered an area and it was endless in one direction (Forward).

I added a counter to keep track of how many wraps you did so that it would take you that much time to get out.

These are some nice effects!

I particularly like the smoke effects, and the explosion from Vol 1.

Now this is interesting!

Even if making really complex thing with this, including collisions, would be too difficult, this could at least be used for some great backgrounds/foregrounds.

Nice work!

Im actually working on a Danmaku engine as well. Not sure if the final version is going to be used in Construct though, because I want it to at least have decent support for full 3D backgrounds.

Still, cool work and keep it up!

Ok, I like this idea.

Ive been working with MMF for... years now.

I found out about construct from SFGHQ actually, some years back.

I am/was good with MMF but I haven't had it installed on my machine for roughly six months.

If I can, I would love to contribute to this project though. as I've been wanting a sonic engine since the day I switched to construct.

I worked on one myself (Not 360, but a classic "Static" engine) but didn't get very far due to an annoying collision bug. (It was colliding with the slopes bounding box, not the ground itself.)

So yeah, if I have the time i'll see what I can do. Best of luck guys!