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Here's a shameless pimp of my new game - Invaders from Space.

It's a 2.5D space shooter, presented in anaglyph 3D (red/cyan glasses). Or you can view normally if you don't have the glasses lying...

Trogdor

I've put your new version in, and that works!!

It's clearly an improvement on the original function - as it uses many less operations - and I was aware that trig calculations are slow -...

Aha thanks.

Pooling actually may provide an answer here - but I should have been a little clearer.

The memory usage doesn't go up during the game it all happens in the level build. All the...

all the bitmaps are actually brought in in Sprites (mainly so I can position and rotate) however those Sprites are not nulled.

I'll see if there's a way I can push them all to an array to remove...

I'm using this (fairly well trodden) method of dynamically attaching my levels



ClassReference = getDefinitionByName("Classes.Game.Levels.lev"+level) as Class;

instance = new...

@trogdor



You Mock Me!! I spent hours trying to get it to work! - A lot of the difficulties I had actually were down to the differences between my test and my real implementation - but...

Ahhh, ignore the above.

The problem is that the current method I use to generate the points means I end up with some duplicate data.

This duplicate data was skewing the result.

I've changed...

Ok, I've tried doing that and not had much success - I've attached the relevant code below



for (var i:Number = 0; i<_points_returned.length; i++){
for (var j:Number = i+1;...

hey trogdor, thx for the response.

Your solution will work (I think), but I'm hoping to avoid a brute force method as it needs to be quite fast.

I'm sure there must be a relatively fast way of...

I had a play on this yesterday, and it's really very nice.

I think I just wished that when you did really well (and maybe this does happen and I just didn't do well enough) it really filled up...

I think that some of the kong feedback is unfair - but it's symptomatic of the casual games market - I bet you wouldn't have got that feedback if it was a download game.

I think this game is...

hmmm, well I got a bit further than tony, and managed to enter my name - then it didn't do anything...

I'm really stuck with what I believe to be a sorting issue.

I've got a little test which you can see here:
http://www.pling.biz/tmp/circle_line.html

Basically the circle checks for collisions...

I thought there might be another way to do this, but then gave up about halfway through.

Tony's method of assigning each shape a radius is far and away easier than any other method - and it seems...

@tony

I had realised that doing with a grid and bounding boxes would probably work for me.

The unfortunate problem with the way I've done things (this time) is that some of my objects could...

Thanks for all the responses.

I think Tony has cut to the chase (and basically highlighted part of the information I should have given in the initial question.)

What I'm looking for is the...

I wrote a pretty nifty collision optimisation, which neatly gridded up the screen and then placed the (non-moving) shapes into a relevant array for lookup later.

I know need to do something very...

Another excellent effort - (although I'm not a huge fan of this type of game as I'm way too old, and my reactions aren't up to it...)

I found it difficulty to differentiate between the enemies...

Doing nothing fps = 51, moving around fps = 45-51.
FF3, MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Dual core ,2G Ram.

Looks pretty nice, although if the map could scroll rather than jump it would be nicer...

I think it's great! Although, I've got a soft spot for platformers...
Despite that love, I'm never sure how well platformers perform with players generally (altho, adding the shooting works in its...

That's actually pretty fun... I like the multiplayer aspect (it raises what would be a rather straightforward single player game.)
But all in all I like it!
Good work.

charlie

Well, I just tried it, and I didn't notice any lag (FF3.5.2 Mac 10.5.8 2.4Ghz Dual core 2G RAM)

When I played first time I did see what happened in the attached image, this sorted itself out when...

I have to say, that I agree with some of the above, it could look nicer, there could be more polish.

I also feel that you should crash into the enemies rather than just going over them.

But,...

Or a job for another developer... ;)

Unfortunately, it's too late for me to use box2d (and I couldn't really fit it into this job anyway...)

I think I've got a solution forming tho...

So, following the image, I have the green joints, I know the indigo radius.
The red joints have the same location as the green, but I need to find a way of moving the red joints about, whilst...