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Yet another Game remake....HoverTank 2k4
ErikRuud:
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Player specifc barriers that the matching player can enter and hide while other players can't.
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Not entirely unique! The Odyssey2 game "Invaders from HyperSpace" had something like this. The screen had planets that floated around in a sort of orbit. When they got shot they would change colors. When they were the same color as your ship you could "land" on them (actually fly into them). While you were in the planet you could not be shot. If the planet changed colors while you were in it, you would have to wait for one of the planets to change back to your color.
The game looks cool so far, keep up the good work.
Howard_Casto:
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Yes
Howard_Casto:
This will be old school guys... no 3d effects, no crazy animated backgrounds. The only thing "modern" I'll allow you to do is background music and skinnable sprites. This is mostly for my benefit. I want this thing to run on a machine with the crappiest video card on the planet. This means no hardware acceleration.
The game will have every element in the original combat including invisible tank sprites (thus the skinnability) fighter planes (actually all this was on the original combat was the tanks with different sprites and the throttle stuck "on") and jet planes.
The main thing I will be adding are different modes of play and different barriers/blocks.
I was not aware of the odyessy title, but regardless, this is still different. With this one you can actually hide.... the sprite of the barrier is drawn on top of your tank. So with a properly authored level, you could sneak over to the enemies camp, ect.
Hope that answers questions.
HAC
hulkster:
hmmm...so no volumetric smoke effects? aw man. 8)
ErikRuud:
That is why I said "not entirely unique". Your sprite was not visible while on a planet, but the planet would flash while you were on it.
I like the idea and look forward to playing your game.
I liked Combat. My friend had one of the earliest Sears versions of the Atari 2600. We played Combat a lot. There was a lot of trouble in those days with the joysticks failing, after the third trip to Sears for a replacement stik, his mother got fed up and returned the whole system. >:(
Shortly after that I got my Odyssey2 and we played Armored Encounter a lot. I liked the O2 joysticks better and the graphics did not flicker like many of the Atari games did. On the other hand there were nowhere near as many titles.