Kai Zone

Aaagghh.

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It's a game made in flixel. I'd rather you play it for a few seconds instead of having to explain its features, being a terrible writer.

So if you've played it for at least a few seconds, here are my thoughts:
The lighting system is pretty BYONDish, what with the tiling.
The shooting system and movement is pretty much a mix of what is found in my shooter projects, uberSniper and Platformer War (although the game is one I found just now, rather than an inspiration).

If you don't know what I mean by "BYONDable," I mean "able to be made with BYOND."

I'm pretty sure the HUD screen could take the lighting effects rather than objects on the map. Combined with the client pixel offsets, it would probably be easier to show them.

The pixel movement and gravity system is better than what's found in Platformer War, and I've been tinkering with smoother movement lately in a separate project. And of course, I've pretty much only worked with pixel-based systems on BYOND for a really long time, now. (Not that it's really a big deal, it's just a simple equation to convert coordinates from jt_vectors to the pixel offsets)

The game runs at ~44 fps. I guess lowering tick_lag can account for that. BYOND runs at 10fps by default.
With a small chance of key sticking, my computer can run BYOND at a tick_lag of 0.1. Cool thing is, the screen doesn't freeze, it's just the commands that stick. Not sure why it does that.


Anyway. I probably won't attempt to make this in BYOND. Too lazy, school interference. Just throwing the idea out there. If anyone else tinkers with jt_vectors a lot too, a decent single-player, pixel-based BYOND game could be made.

I'd like to see someone make a completely readable open-source game with modified syntax like this.
(It runs, by the way.)

But books started to bore me so I burned it down.

And then I made this! (hub)
Requested by Rushnut, who fails too much to use Kunark's. Mine uses jt_vectors's coordinate and vector system, so I'm cool. (Of course, it's probably slower than Kunark's, but eh.)

edit:
Hub page
Game: byond://Kaiochao.PlatformerWar

It's another shooter, with a gravity system that took an hour or so!
And a collision system that took pretty much a few hours to perfect. Simple box collision with different sizes. (pixel-based system using jt_vectors, as usual)

Screenie(s)!


(New) They seem to have found a way into my bunker.



When NPCs want to move but can't, they jump. And this is the result.
Includes crouching, running, shooting, and dying. Yay!
Also note the different elevations on the grass. Took a good several minutes to do that cleanly.

God, I hate math. If I were Hobnob, who knows what this could turn into? (Of course, I've been using jt_vectors months, or even a year, before the article came out. ;\)