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- Magistross
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- 24 Oct, 2015
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The difficulty curve is a bit steep. Took me a few tries to even beat the first level. But then you get to unlock upgrades and what not, so it evens out... altough, I find that the energy depletes a bit too fast with the fully upgraded laser beam rate of fire.
- Magistross
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- 23 Oct, 2015
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You can use the PickedCount expression.

NPC.Function = "woodcutting" -> Set global to NPC.PickedCount

else -> Set global to 0
- Magistross
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- 21 Oct, 2015
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Great game, sorry I busted your highscores table...
- Magistross
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- 21 Oct, 2015
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hey Magistross !! look what I did using your template ;D https://www.scirra.com/arcade/shooting-games/2ws-2856

That's quite impressive! Nice work adapting the template to your style too, it fits seamlessly!
- Magistross
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- 14 Oct, 2015
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I might create a basic capx later today... but for now, I'm at work...
- Magistross
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The logic should all be handled via arrays, with enemies moving from a room (array cell) to another with the method of your choice. You could also use a tilemap (with tile IDs for its values), simply for its ease of use and visual representation at edit time, and make it invisible at runtime.
- Magistross
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These games did not animate the background as you were moving, so if it's what you are looking for, it's simply a matter of having a multitude of backgrounds to represent the different configurations of hallways, doors and what not, and display the correct one depending on neighboring rooms.
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- Magistross
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- 9 Oct, 2015
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jojoe It's a simple fix. In "edittime.js", there are two expressions with the ID 0, simply change the second entry to 1 and it will work.
- Magistross
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- 9 Oct, 2015
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It's implicit, if "Pick nearest" return something, it's <Found>.
- Magistross
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- 8 Oct, 2015
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Don't worry, that make a lot of sense. However, implementing it correctly will be your next challenge !
- Magistross
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- 7 Oct, 2015
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You could also settle for a hybrid method. Procedurally generate chunks of new terrain on demand, and only have the current chunk and its neighbors loaded in memory at a time. This way, generation would only occur once per chunk, and the world would still be consistent and "infinite" without weighting terabytes of data.
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It's in fact quite a complicated subject. But you got the basics right, it all boils down to using seeds so you can manipulate the RNG in producing consistent and predictable results.