just look at the background and...

ok, imagine that these images come from a game (well, the current graphics are really unfinished and so empty but the visual structure is here)...
if the game was a car race, what would be the most interesting scrolling...?

1) classical horizontal
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_exchange/car_hor.gif

2) more original, diagonal
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_exchange/car_dia.gif

keep in mind that the final window (in case of game adaptation) will probably be 256x224, so exactly half the size...

of course it can be turned into a GTA-style game, but... let's think about a simple race game. (these days i'm charmed with pixel art, so i'm trying my skills with that...)
graphics are done of course in pixel, 256 colors, no more...
here the perspective with the car is not that right, but if the scrolling (horizontal) is fast, i suppose we don't see anything...

thanks for your eventual opinions ^^

i'd say the landscape (horizontal) is the best. i don't think the portrait (vertical) gives the player enough vision (time to see the on comming traffic)

how would you catch up to your opponents in horizontal? in just a right-left scroller, you cant really outsmart your opponents by taking a sharp turn or speeding up at a flat road.
i guess you could add things to hit: puddles and such, fire hydrants, people :D...

but vertical is possible if that screen size could be enlarged 4x. that way as blink pointed out, you would be able to see whats ahead of you.

oh and cool car :)

Can someone please tell me the steps to making a scrolling terrain, any actionscript i can jsut edit later.


Thanks

guys, i'll post a moving .swf just to see how it looks

Matt105
hey welcome to the boards!
just put an image in flash, turn it into MovieClip, and the put that code in it:

Code:

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onclipEvent(enterFrame){
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
 _x-=3
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
 _x+=3
}
}

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^ this is basic and simple, i simply tell that image to move left when you press left with your keyboard, and right right ^^
the enterFrame event means that it will be moving constantly while you are pressing.

i have something more elaborate, check the zelda 3 open source in my signature (it will conduct you to my site), but beware, the code will be too hard if you are begining with actionscript. i suggest to take a look in the "movies" section just above ^^

actually motte you need to put that when the user presses left it goes right and when they press right it goes left

otherwise it would seem like youre going backwards

perhaps, you could make it instead of vertical or horizontal, make the view area larger. Instead of your two boxes, make it four. There you go, no problem.

this is just a test, with a special vehicle (hehe, of course i'll change ALL the graphics! plus this one as no wheels)

> http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_e...he_runner.html
arrows to move, space to accelerate.

of course it's VERY early, but it might be a cool little game if it's continued ^^
> where you have to avoid accidents with other vehicles or race with opponents, i don't know...

NOW, why not implement rally-like playability, like hem... anybody remember the old RC pro-AM, NES? a game like that...? or some of these rally games NEOGEO (thrash rally...etc), or Great 10Miles Rally, arcade?

but i'm afraid i'll need a car model in 3D, so i can pixel it after easily ^^.

hey, what do you think of it?
of course, i'll have to continue my platform game one day ^^

very smooth!
you have so many projects motte, almost none of them finished :(

Hey, marmotte, hows it coming on your new game/website, the new version?

http://board.flashkit.com/board/
i also got that boxy one from the swiftville tutorial;
http://www.nlc.net.au/~oceana/tutori...ls/vehicle.png
just post/mail/pm if your interested.

Marmotte, if you ever need any pixel help, come to me. :) I'd be willing to help.

and if you want to join forced with blink and create a game like rock´n´roll racing,i´d like to do the engine (so you too do the graphics).
i just loved that game

looks very nice! topspeed is a bit too high at the moment though, maybe if you can allow / account for it a bigger window too :) nice work
[m]

i reckon go for the bigger window too

wow! and i was thinking that the thread was ignored ^^
thanks for your answers, all!

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you have so many projects motte, almost none of them finished

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yes, i know. it's a disaster...
anyway: my current projects:
1) little shinobi
i improved it a bit, redrew the character, added platforms and corrected a lot of bugs in the engine
2) that car game
i'll talk about it below
3) i'm in the process of releasing a collection of small games that look like gameboy games... it will be called "pixelBoy" and i've almost finished the first one...
they look like that; graphics are not finished though, but the games are simple to code, so i may expect a lot of things...

http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_e...e/pixelBoy.png

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hows it coming on your new game/website, the new version?

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mmmhhh... i think i answered you in the other thread... or... "was i dreaming" (© silent hill)?

blinkOk
hooouuu, it can be soo interesting... i'll contact you if i need to, big thanks ^^

tomsamson
really? houhouuu! i'm pretty sure you are thinking about tile method ^^
read below, i will talk about my ideas and then tell me what you think

mbenney
yes, the speed seems quite fast... but i'm not sure with the bigger window... because there's no doubt, there will be characters, traffic...


OK, what about that game now... note that it was supposed to be only a pixel experience for me at the begining, i didn't thought i will be turned into a real game.
anyway, here are some ideas:
i draw the entire town, plus some environments. the game can be like a GTA game, but only with the car control, where you have to reach a precise place in the down... just think about crazy taxi for example... the car will be controled like these top views rally games, where the car can rotate (that's why i thought 3D model as reference). and of course the ability to drive in the entire city. that would be cool. but that would be also one of these big games with a lot of potential, but never finished :-(

^ that's why generaly i don't want to involve people in my works, just in case i'm not motivated anymore with it... and since creating flash games is a part of my free time (no money involved), so none of my project is never 100% serious.

hope you understand. but i'm very happy with the guys that are willing to help anyway, thanks ^^

well, tell me what you think about the future of this game... yes it could be cool, very cool.

Thanks alot marmotte that really helped.

mmmhhh... i think i answered you in the other thread... or... "was i dreaming" (© silent hill)?

Ahh, yes, this was posted before the other question. SH is good, I played it the other day. Scared the bajezzes out of me, and I didn't get very far, because I was busy being extremly scared.

hehe... are you speaking about SH1 or SH2?

here's how to play it, like i do:

1) turn off the light, and if needed, close your windows
2) put the sound on your hi-fi
3) put it LOUD
4) play ^^

haha, i remember playing it in an old cave, it was incredible.

if you are speaking about silent hill 1, be prepared to be scared only after around one hour of play (when you enter inside the nightmarish school). the game is annoying when you first have to search for some keys in the entire town, but when you got them, the game really begins to be more and more frightening and strange ^^

play it, Virgo. and like i said.

The scariest parts of SH1 were the creepy short demons in the school and those zombie doctors near the end of the game.
I used to do the same thing marmotte, it was so scary.