Not to mention you've titled it similarly. Hundreds of shooters have similar styles, but you are nearly copying Angry Birds in nearly every aspect save for apparently gameplay. At least use a different color scheme or SOMETHING that people can identify as yours.

I think it's perfectly doable. I'll go ahead and link to the thread for my game Courier. I don't have hundreds of layouts, but I do have a lot, and they're all quite detailed. I have a ton of unique different objects, though I reuse assets as much as possible (note, though, the game is NOT built up of tiles--I wanted more freedom). Land-wise, my game is larger than Ocarina of Time (excluding the dungeons--just everything outside of them). I haven't had any trouble with stuff getting slower because, as far as I know, js will eventually cleanup and drop out unused assets. I've tried to be pretty efficient, however, so my vram use is never very high. The downside to piecing things together like I do is an increase in object count, but I can get a ton more freedom while minimizing the amount of assets I need to create. I rely on some fancier graphics tricks, however, so I don't think a phone version is possible right now (and I'm not interest in mobile anyways), but it's been smooth sailing on PC.

Not as a bragging point, but for comparison: I have more unique NPCs than OoT and LttP combined if I'm not mistaken, my overworld and surrounding areas are bigger than either game's overworld and surrounding areas, every character is animated, grass sways, trees sway, the ocean has waves, etc--it's all very detailed. I have a pretty detailed shadowing system in place. I have maps in excess of 10,000 pixels across. And C2 has run it just fine.

So long as you're careful and put thought into how you design the game, it's perfectly doable.

> It's tough to know exactly what you're talking about without a screenshot, but set snap to grid to at least 1x1. This way, you won't be dealing with subpixels. Depending on your art style, you could also switch to point sampling in project settings. And, if you're unfamiliar, when you set the snap to grid settings, don't click off of the numbers until you've clicked back on the previous number entry box--otherwise, the values get reverted. You'll see when you try it.

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See how it fades? the lining things up like that is irritating.

Also, snapping to grid now would require a complete level redesign, since some are alreday in subpixels and moving them doesnt just snap them to a whole pixel

That looks sort of like stretched out sprite objects. If it's just repeating/one-color stuff like that, use the Tiled Background object so you don't get stretching. If that isn't a stretched sprite, then I have no idea what would cause that other than something in your source image.

It's tough to know exactly what you're talking about without a screenshot, but set snap to grid to at least 1x1. This way, you won't be dealing with subpixels. Depending on your art style, you could also switch to point sampling in project settings. And, if you're unfamiliar, when you set the snap to grid settings, don't click off of the numbers until you've clicked back on the previous number entry box--otherwise, the values get reverted. You'll see when you try it.

Here's an example:

Live example in browser

Here's the associated capx:

capx

Use a variable. Add or subtract to the variable and then set the angle of the object to that value. Then, all of your comparisons can be done off of the variable instead of the angle of the object.

Thanks for the advice and kind words OddConfection <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

I just started a Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16 ... ar-nomad-2

I should have done a Kickstarter simultaneously with the Greenlight campaign, cross-over the audience/clicks early on... but I didn't plan to, as I can finish the game without extra financial assistance. I had planned to use free music & sound effects to save money and dropped the idea of using painted scenes to tell the intro and ending story.

But I think Star Nomad 2 deserves better so I'm talking to some composers now to negotiate and contacted my favourite artist for the scenes.

Sadly I still suck at promotion/marketing so its limited to a few posts on gaming forums and that's it. See how it goes, whether a good game can market itself or $$ for marketing is a must...

On the subject of music, I think I've done more with interactive soundtracks than anybody so far with C2 (as far as I've seen), and I totally believe in supporting fellow projects. If you need help with implementation or how to even go about the stuff, let me know. If it's a route you're interested in trying, make sure your composer of choice knows what an adaptive score is and how to do it (it would be the music seamlessly changing itself or re-ordering itself based on gameplay). At least judging from the gameplay video I've seen, it would be a really neat approach and would add a lot to your game.

The capx would be a sprite, the mouse plugin, and then that exact event sheet. I screenshotted the entire thing. You might need to check out the manual or a tutorial on how sub-events and object-picking work--my capx wouldn't change anything with your understanding of those. If you're trying to affect multiple objects, you might need to look into "for each" loops as well.

Probably, but it's just as easy to do it through events. Give your object two instance variables (I'll call them "goforit" and "fade" for the heck of it).

Now it's a little unclear exactly what you're looking for, but it sounds like you want to activate a fading loop/psuedo-flash once you click on an object. I also presume you want to turn the behavior off. By default, both values will be 0.

On Click, set "goforit" to 1. You'll use this as a toggle to active/deactivate the effect

From there, you'll just compare the state of the object and change the opacity accordingly.

Here is an image showing the events to make this in a very flexible way:

300 is the speed of the fade, the rest is state management.

Thanks for the compliments! I have a new post on my DevLog too that shows off some of the magic abilities your Courier can get. Check it out and keep the game in mind!

My system is probably not as technical as a lot of people would make theirs out to be, but it works great for me. I just have a list of every quest in my game (I keep a spreadsheet). Each one has a number assigned to it. This corresponds to an in-game column in my data array that I store everything in. I just change the value of each cell to correspond to the status of the quest. Typically, 0=Open, 1=In Progress, 2=Complete unless the quest needs more to keep track of. I do the same thing for puzzles, chests, and objects throughout the game--the game just checks an instance variable on an object vs that cell in the array to see what to do (or not do!).

Is it the best way to do it? I'm sure it isn't. Does it work flawlessly and do everything I need (and is easy)? Absolutely.

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Good luck on the Greenlight! You deserve it with all the hard work you've put in. Don't worry, you're going to get through Greenlight, even if it takes longer than you plan for. Courier got through just fine. And it can be a downer reading about other games not doing well on Steam, remember that your game is likely completely different from theirs (I assume you're talking about Daniel West's article). There, fortunately/unfortunately, is not a good comparison game to be made in the game industry. As much as people try to tell you stuff, every game is its own case. There are certainly things that help, but each game has its own unique production and sales story. Push through with the game you believe in and try to get as many others as possible to believe with you--that seems to be the only thing that is constant in game production. That said, your game is already looking pretty polished, so I'm sure you'll do well.