Thanks a lot for the input Christus.
Christuserloeser wrote:I have tested the previous version. This does have potential but needs some work.
- The player's firing sound needs replacing (sounds like a pistol when it should be more like a continuous rapid fire laser gun, no sound effect would be better than a bad sound effect)
I took me a while to find free sound effects. The 3 sites I spent a long time looking through, that was the 'best' sound effect for firing. I'll look and try to find a better one, do you happen to know of any free sound sites I could check out?
Christuserloeser wrote:
- The player's shots are too small to hit your enemies. It shouldn't be so hard trying to hit your opponents.
You think so? I have been trying to balance difficulty with the players shot speed, enemies shot speed, enemy base movement speed, and players rate of fire. I feel the width of the players' shots is good, but it could be widened, as long as it doesnt affect the games balance too much for the player.
Christuserloeser wrote:
The isometric scrolling is a neat idea that separates the game from other shoot 'em ups. Ideally however, it should play as well as your typical vertical shmup, just with a slightly different perspective.
Maybe take a look at Viewpoint (NeoGeo, PS1, Genesis) or Isolated Warrior (NES) for inspiration. Or Sega's Zaxxon.
Viewpoint - man that was an amazing game, great enemies, amazing music and damn good difficulty (if not ruthless). Its a good game to aspire to, but its too far beyond the scope of how big I want this project.
Doing good enemy formations and better pathing/enemy AI is kind of like my final step in this whole thing. I do need to review some other games, and try to pull some enemy patterns that I could use in my game.
