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What would you like in a Top Down Shooter?
stuzza:
A friend of mine is finishing up his Computer Science Uni degree and is thinking of creating a game as a side project so he can learn more about game design and programming. I've convinced him to have a go at doing a classic Top Down Shooter style game (but with updated 3d Graphics) that I could play on my Arcade Cabinet and he wants suggestions for features to include in the game.
All I've suggested so far is that the game have fully remappable controls and by default use the standard MAME keys.
If anyone has suggestions for things they'd like to see in a Top Down shooter feel free to post them and I'll see if he can include them. Include anything that you'd like in a game, be it the type of levels, guns, powerups, themes, etc...
Minwah:
The only thing I would say is make sure it has some big interesting bosses!!
Magnet_Eye:
have him check out the demos for the shooter on smallrockets.com
ultra assualt and star monkey are really good!
NoBonus:
I think the key to a good top down scroller is a keeping the player's interest as the game progresses. Some games have power-ups you can buy at the end of each level, etc. Also, there is the debate to if you should use a real plane or a made-up one... the Wright Bros. plane might me interesting... Also, I love having at least four different planes to choose from... you could have the wright flyer, a space shuttle, ....
hey I got it. Make the game progress like this: You start off with the Wright flyer on level one, on level two you get a WW1 bi-plane, level 3 you get a WW2 fighter plane, level 4 you get a jet, level 5 you get a stealth, and level 6 you get a futuristic craft of some sort. The weapons and enimies on each level could correspond with the time period as well, for example, on level one, your enimies would mostly be birds which you could shoot with a rifle and ground enimies whom you could drop rocks and old-fashioned bombs on. Then level two would have WW1 era weapons and enemies and so on.
Any thoughts?
NoBonus
NoBonus:
--- Quote from: Magnet_Eye on May 13, 2004, 08:20:16 am ---have him check out the dmeos for the shooter on smallrockets.com
ultra assualt and star monkey are really good!
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