[WIP] Outnumbered - Public Alpha - Violence Inside

@J-Rad: That was Ironic ;) ...
The current Double Eagle handling is realy anoying i know ;) .. I have also a new conecept in my mind that i code in the weekend (i hope).
Obstacles are not easy, then i have to make the AI a bit complicated more .. that would eat some CPU power :/
And scrolling is also bad, i have no Flash8 so i can use the Cache Bitmap Technique D=

@Ray Beez:
Thanx. Like said sometimes before .. you can reconfigure every key in the next version .. ;)
You can purchase a speedup abillity too in one of the next version when i implement the purchase system.

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BULLETTIME!!!!!!
PRESS THE SPACE BAR TO HAVE FUN WITH THIS UNIQUE, NEVER USED BY
SOMEONE, FEATURE =O

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hmm, ive played 2 differant games with this feature, some game based on the matrix, and another based on the madness series (very nice series)

Ok, not to myself ... Flashkit board readers doesnt understand irony! ;) ..
That was allready said trogdor

Looking very good
It'd be cool if you could now take it to the next level with more dynamic characters with hit and die animations

I think that the blood spraying out when someone is shot is cool, but it would be even cooler if it looked like real liquid blood spraying out
also blood splatters on the floor could be cool and inexpensive with a BitmapData

sounds of bullet shells dropping on the floor also add a nice effect.

You have something really nice on your hands, and I definitely think you could go big with it if you polish some parts (or maybe even if you don't)

I'am not that kind of 2D Pixel master that i can pixel every animation, also it would take a lot of Memory. I*ve planed to build the player an enemy Character in 3D, Texture, Skin, Animate and then render it from above and put it into that game, but that would took to much time and Graphic Memory.

No FLash 8 == No BitmapData :( ... (SPONSORE MEE!!!!!) ;) ..

I had a Shellsound but durring the playtest and many shots it cracks too much and sucks ;)

Thanx for the compliments ;) ..

The current progress is that I rewrote the Mode for the Dual Deagle, now it's more Cinematix :D ,, when I finish the keybinding and the bulletime bug I release a new Alpha.

There are so many nice and free open-source solutions. But this is another discussion.

Maybe you tell me one of them? .. And a sollution for what?

Good points to start from:
- MTASC
- OSFlash
- FlashDevelop
- ANT & PrimalScript
- SciTE|Flash
- SEPY
- Eclipse

There are a lot of plugins for Eclipse but since I do not use it I have no clue about those hunderets of extensions.

I use SEPY and I could not even think about coding ActionScript in the Flash IDE. :)

Allright, but where does it helps me?`o_O .. I dont understand what you want to tell me with that ..

?? I think hes trying to get you to use and external AS editor. BTW sephy is good if your gonna get one.

I use UltraEdit and that good enough o_O ... What i need more then Syntax highlighting and Autocompleting??

You said you need some sponsoring for Flash 8 but you can also develop Flash 8 content with open-source tools.

Aha thats the reference!! Why didnt you said that -_-
So you say I can use cache bitmap without own FLash8? ... Crazy ..
I Check that out.. Thanx

e:/ ok checked it out .. doesnt understand ANYTHING .. so i stay with mx2k4 and my lame performance D=

hm,the cacheAsBitmap feature is used (as the name says in a way) to cache a vector graphic shape as bitmap (in ram) to avoid having to caclulate the vector shape each frame refresh.
Your game doesn´t look like it would feature vector shapes so i don´t see how that should help you with performance anyway.
As i see it the biggest performance bummers in your game are following:
-Screen dimensions: Neither f8 nor f9 help there,the more pixels flash has to render,the bigger the performance impact.
-Many bullets moving & enemy pathfinding: Depending on how you did it it could maybe also optimized in f7 or f8,to actually improve the performance of the code heavy sections a lot AS3/F9 export would surely help most though.
Without seeing any of the actual code its hard to give more suggestions but yup,cacheAsBitmap is often misunderstoofd as the grand savior of performance for each and everything,but well,its not that. In some cases (where you already had raster graphics for everything) it won´t make a big performance difference,in other cases (where the graphics alter in scale or rotation over frames) it can actually have a negative impact on performance (as each time you alter the graphic it has to be cached again)

Well i never worked with flash8 and BitmapCache, but i always thought with that method you can render 2 objects to one. so i can leave the dead bodys or bloodsplats in my bake dirring the whole game just buy render it down to one layer with bitmapcache ;) .. k good to knowthat thats not possible..

no,you don´t bake two objects into one with it,as soon as something moves or changes inside the cached (display of the) mc (or the mc itself gets altered in other props than _x and _y),it has to be cached again.
What you could do would be drawing several things into one bitmapData,depending on the usage it could bring some performance. For example you could draw all flying on the floor bullet shells onto the floor bitmap (instead of placing lots of performance heavy mcs for those). Same can be said for other objects you want to "bake" in static look onto a static image.
I suggest you download the f8 trial now and experiment a little with its features.
You can always buy it or experiment some more with an open source solution thing if you like it then.

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Originally Posted by X-Tender

Well i never worked with flash8 and BitmapCache, but i always thought with that method you can render 2 objects to one. so i can leave the dead bodys or bloodsplats in my bake dirring the whole game just buy render it down to one layer with bitmapcache ;)

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You are confusing 2 different things:
*cache as bitmap option in F8 allows objects to be drawn on stage as bitmaps so if you have complex object containing many vectors and all it does is to move around on screen, bitmap is created from it at the start and so when it moves around Flash does not need to redraw all the vectors over and over at each frame.
*bitmapdata objects are new type of objects in F8. They can be assigned into movie clips so they become visible, but they can exist only in the memory too. This is what you want to render many things into one single bitmap without slowing down the game. Notice that it does not work too well with moving objects, but it is very good to cover whole screen bloodslpats.

Yes the second one is what I would like to have ;o) .. That i can leave the bullet shells, and blood splats and the sleeping enemys on the Screen.
Maybe i DL the Flash8 Trial today and try it out ....

Thanx

Really liked it, lots of potential, just not sure how you're going to make the gameplay differ over the levels ( At the moment it gets a bit samey after a short while ).

Good work :)

Squize.

UPDATE!

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Changelog
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Version - Alpha 0.96

GFX:
- [CHANGE]        Background GFX
- [NEW]                Foreground GFX
- [CHANGE]        Health-bar
- [CHANGE]        Bullettime-bar
- [CHANGE]        Crosshair have a Circle arround the Cross for better visiblity
- [CHANGE]        Enemy Bullet (Better Visibility)

Code:
- [FIXED]        Bullettime Buttonmashing-Bug
- [NEW]                Keybinding
- [NEW]                Keybinding Save/Load

GamePlay:
  WEAPONS:
- [CHANGE]        Dual Deagle Behavior (Autoaim on Enemys)
- [CHANGE]        Dual Deagle ShotMode (NO Automatic)
- [NEW]                AmmoSystem
- [NEW]                Purchasemenu for Armory (Weapons/Ammo)
- [NEW]                Reload-Delay

  ABILITIES:
- [NEW]                Add Ability "Sixth Sense" (Activated forrever for Testing [Level 5])

Roadmap
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- Purchase Menue

  Player can buy here Weapons,Ammo,Special abilitys,ect.
 
  - Weapons
    Katana - Mellee Weapon - Allways in inventory
    Glock - Cheap Weapon, Medium Firerate, Medium Ammo
    AK-75 - Full Automatic Weapon, High Fire rate, Medium Ammo, Expensive
    Pumpgun - Shots 6 Bullets at once, Medium Fire Rate, Low Ammo, High Power on small Distances
    Dual Deagle - Dual Weapon with Auto Aim Function, Medium Fire Rate X 2, Low Ammo X 2, 1 Hit 1 Kill, VERY EXPENSIVE!
    Grenade - Big area Weapon - (Boom)
   
  - Ammo
          Ever Weapon get his own Ammo the Player can/must buy
         
  - Special ABILITIES
          Speed Inc - Increase the Speed of the Player in 5 Steps (Price Increase every level)
          Aiming Inc - Increase the Aiming of the Player in 3 Steps (Less Recoil) (Price Increase every level)
          Sixth Sense - Know from where the Enemy come before he enter the Arena in 5 Steps (Visuel indicator UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT) (Price Increase every level)
          BulletTime Inc - Increase the Maximum amount of Bulletime in 3 Steps (Expensive) (Price Increase every level)
          Invisible  - The Player is Invisible for some Secounds after Buying this Item
          Invincibility - The player ist bulletproof for some Seconds after Buying this Item
         
  - Misc
          Laser Pointer - Increase the Aiming of the Player a LOT (Less Recoil) (Expensive)
          Ammopacks - Increase players health (BIG-MEDIUM-SMALL -Pack)
          Painkillers - Increase the Health during Fight slowly
          Bulletproove West - Reduce the Damage of a Bullet by 25%
         
-  Online Highscore

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