[WIP] Outnumbered - Public Alpha - Violence Inside

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INSTRUCTIONS
YOUR MISSION IS TO SURVIVE AS LONG AS YOU CAN. CHOOSE BETWEEN
3 DIFFERENT WEAPONS, 6 SPECIAL ABILITIES AND 4 POWERFULL SUPPORT
OBJECTS.

DURING THE FIGHT YOU CAN OPEN THE PURCHASE MENU (E) AND GET
YOUR SUPPORT (E.G. HEALTH OR AMMO OR A NEW WEAPON).

TO EARN MONEY YOU NEED TO ELIMINATE ENEMIES, YOU GET A SPECIAL
BONUS WHEN YOU FINISH A STAGE WITHOUT GET HIT ONCE.

YOUR ARMOURY IS CURRENTLY A PISTOL ON SLOT 1, A AK-74 ON SLOT 2,
A PUMPGUN ON SLOT 3 AND A DUAL DEAGLE ON SLOT 4. THE DEAGLE
HAVE A SPECIAL ABILITY, IT AIMS AUTOMATICLY AT A ENEMEY. THAT
GIVES A NICE CINEMATIC LOOK (EQUILIBRIUM).

PRESS E FOR INGAME PURCHASE MENU!

ON THE BUTTON "Q" YOU HAVE AN LASER POINTER THAT YOU CAN
PURCHASE TOO, THAT IMPROOVE YOU AMING.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST!
BULLETTIME !!! - PRESS THE SPACE BAR TO HAVE FUN WITH THIS
UNIQUE, NEVER USED BY SOMEONE, FEATURE =O) (THATS IRONY - I
KNOW THAT MANY GAMES HAVE IT!)

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Fuchtelworld - WIP Outnumberd

All Comments, Criticism, Wishes, Suggestions, Money, Bras are welcome ;o)

Very impressive graphics and effects with the blood, gunfire, lighting effects. The way the sound pans is very effective.

Great work.

MichaelUK

Note the lack of mousewheel support for Macs.

Very unplayable on azerty keyboards due to wasd-controls.

@Vengeancemx: Sorry, have currently no Mac here at home to test it. You can also change the weapons with the Keys
@Fall_X: An Keybinding function is on the way (like written in the OPTIONS menu)

Well, yeah, but then I'd still have to go through the trouble of binding the keys manually :)
I'd personally prefer it if the default is set to wasd, zqsd and the arrow keys (all three, they don't conflict), so most people would be able to play without fiddling with the options. Just my opinion, but I think it will make more people like the game.

Sorry, but i think that an options to cutomize buttons is theb est sollution. Every player have different favorite keys. WASD is the most used keycombo. I will not include 3 different keycombos, that woudl just make the code bigger and 3 IF querys .. ;)

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WASD is the most used keycombo.

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Sure, in some countries, but there's huge parts of the world that have other keyboard configurations. Plus, I've never played a single FPS that didn't support the arrow keys out of the box (not that I played that many), so why wouldn't a flash game be that accessible? I just find it slightly discriminating and offensive that I would have to fiddle with key configurations, whereas others wouldn't have to do this, based on country.

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that woudl just make the code bigger and 3 IF querys ..

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Erm... ever heard of "or"?

Well, it's your game off course, so do with it what you want. I just won't be playing it :) Good luck though. The graphics look nice.

The problem with the Arrow keys is that you have no real place for the other game important keys ;) (bullettime,laser,purchse menu,throw button)

nice job. The game was too easy at first and I almost quit, but I really enjoyed the game from the 3rd level on. The AI was a little weird when you were close to the baddies. They rotated really slowly, and they could never catch up to you if you circled around them.

If you go into bulletime and press space everytime it stops, you will eventually get to the point where you would have infinite bullettime.

I actually got it stuck on bullettime and couldnt get out! :)

Check the spelling in the instructions ;)

I liked the engine, it has quite some potential. The animation of the main character isn't very well adepted to it's freedom in movement imo. You can barely see it's 'walking'.

What are you planning to do with this beauty?

@TheLostGuru: I just created the small Levels to create some "Gameplay" ;) Before that you just could add some Enemys and Kill them ;) - Its still WIP ;)
AI: The behavior of the AI is currently that they rotate with a speed X to the character, at the same time they move forward in the direction they are currently looking and do avoidance Stuff (THANX TO TONYPA!!) . the X vale for the roation speed increments so it is not possible the run around an enemy all the time because after 1-2 seconds he reach such a fast roation speed that he gets you ;)
The AI is still tweakabel and i know that i build some functions into it to make it a bit better, but i doesnt want to spend to much calculations in it because when too much of this buddys are on the screen it could kill the FPS :(

@JamesMarshall: K, I never tryed to screw it up with Buttonmashing ;) I check that.

@SaphuA: I was never good in english :)
The walking animations is just a moving of the Body/Head/Arms also there the Foots mooving :D, of course i could make an complex keyframed animation but that would eat too much space and maybe Perofrmance (no f8 license == bitmapcache feature D= ).
Plan? Hmm, add buttom customization ^^ Highscore, and then Tweaking,Tweaking,Tweaking .. :/
I also want to make an better Background .. more atmospheric ;)

Very nice game dude, LOVE the way the enemies bleed, how did you get it looking that fluid?

I like it a lot : i'd ideally like to see some diversity in the levels, with maybe bonus crates to get weapons, reloads, health, shields, what not ... also parts of the background where we could hide, etc ... but very nice job so far

last thing : i kinda have 5trouble to see the bullets, hence making it difficult to dodge them ... maybe bigger, another color ... ?

Neat game X-Tender great graphics too. One bug. If you hit space a few times you get infinite bullettime :)

@EvilKris: Its not realy complicated (just a bit) I just spawn a few Particles one ofter another with 4 different bloodsplat gfx and move them in the same vector direction like the bullet flyed. but the ttrick is that when the victim rotate or move the vector changes so it looks like it always comes out from the exit wound.

@luxregina: You can buy Health/Ammo/Weapons ect. from the Purchase manue that currently doesnt exist ;) .. I can compare it to the way "Crimsonland" manage it.

The thing with the bullets is right, I had also sometimes problems to see them, I think about it.

@hooligan2001: Yap that was allready above-mentioned. The problem is that I doesnt just turn the bullettime on and off. When you start it the time decelerate and when you deactivate it, it accelerate. Use an Intervall for that.. must see where the bug is.

Thanx so far for to comments ;)

pretty cool. but i have definitly seen bullet time implemented in flash games before.

I found the double-eagle's ability to move both arms is extremely hard to handle. I got quickly shot up while trying to unsuccessfully aim at two guys.

You should try to make this a scrolling game!

you should add obstacles to hide behind.

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Originally Posted by Fall_X

I've never played a single FPS that didn't support the arrow keys out of the box (not that I played that many).

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You must have stopped playing FPS's in the late 90's. Most FPS since then uses WASD out of the box. I know because I always have to go through the hassle of reconfiguring keys to use the cursor keys. This was true of Doom3, Half Life 2, and I think even Far Cry.

Great graphics. Great potential.
Reloading was annoying. Is there another way? I think space bar for reload would be better.

Also, I hope there are plans for "speed" power ups, because as it is, the player moves way too slow.
(I tested the IE version)

@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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