WackyToaster's Forum Posts

  • I couldn'see anything wrong with the project, this does actually look like a bug. You probably should post it in the issue tracker

    github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues

    I thought that maybe a ray shoots off randomly somewhere or that the order of polygon points gets messed up somehow, but since drawing the outline works perfectly that can't be it.

  • Congrats, a lot of people don't even get this far in the first place.

    I am being inundated with spam emails asking for free steam keys.

    Lmao yeah, those are pretty much all key resellers trying to nab a free key. Most of them might look legit at first glance but they don't pass a closer look. Thankfully this dies off somewhat after a while.

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  • You also have to set the lvl variable of the object. And also there's no check in place where and how quickly you can create the objects.

    I'll let you figure out the rest. ;)

  • Checking for collision between the same objects is a little whack in Construct. You have to put the sprite into a Family and then do:

    SpriteA is overlapping SpriteAFamily

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/objects/families

    So in my code you'd just replace Sprite2 with SpriteFamily.

  • Are the objects roughly circular? That'd make it somewhat easy, since the intersection will always happen at the same distance from the middle point.

    cos(angle(obj1.x, obj1.y, obj2.x, obj2.y))*obj1.radius

    sin(angle(obj1.x, obj1.y, obj2.x, obj2.y))*obj1.radius

    It's not a perfect solution but it's simple and will likely do the trick for what I'm assuming is a suika style game.

  • If there is no empty space on top of the object, you can use the bounding box. BBoxTop specifically

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/common-features/common-expressions

  • Do you think some of the frustration with the controls in your game go back to the origin? Was it Solomon's Key?

    It was solomons key 2 in some regions and fire n' ice in some others. I don't think it has anything to do with the original game, just that the way I programmed it turned out to be terrible with a whole range of knock-on effects on the movement. The main problem was exactly what you described as players often failed to stop where they intended to. I tried a bunch of methods but most were just kind of slapping a bandaid on an open fracture.

    If it's the movement controls I'd say just remove all inertia from the player.

    That's part of what I did for version 2. Funny enough, this would have not properly worked in version 1, it is really bad lmao. But the movement in this version is now very much linear and I think I also have a better buffering system.

  • It would be cool to see the quadtree method adapted to work as a 3rd party addon. I could help with that as I think there is still some value in having it as an alternative collision algorithm.

    Go for it, I'm pretty tight on time currently so I cannot help much more here, not to mention I haven't touched the SDK in a while. I think if you go for an algorithm it's probably a good idea to go for rBush since it's even faster. I sort of toyed around with the idea in my head in case missed it:

    What about a plugin that can be placed like a sprite though? For infinite games you'd pin it to the player and ignore everything outside. The object could easily be adjusted with the properties bar and it being an object rather than being buried in the depths of the engine allows to tap into its optimization outside of just collision detection. It would have a "Pick candidates" action that can be called to pick the candidates from the relevant cells. This then allows to do whatever with the picked instances, be it "is overlapping" or any kind of loop. Although that means that the engine builds both collision cells and the tree then for the instances, which could again be not ideal.

  • I also use a mouse for pixelart. Pixelart isn't exactly requiring the features that a tablet provides. There are maybe some features that could be interesting, but mostly it isn't required at all. But a tablet can still be used regardless and obviously can also be used to draw other stuff.

    I personally recommend a cheap wacom over pretty much any other brand if you wanna buy one. Even though other brands can be dirt cheap, they often end up feeling cheaply made. Also seems like there's black cyber week right now with some nice discounts.

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  • It's not shipped yet, there will be a stable release first, then the next beta cycle starts. So maybe in a week or two.

  • Yeah I saw the hint system, seems pretty good. I couldn't get it to work properly in version 1 either, but I got it running well in version 2.

    If the feedback in general was good, and your movement is fool proof, I guess you don't absolutely need it. Some of my levels defenitely also need some adjustments to make them overall require less steps. I've cut out a few at least and some will get those adjustments. I think such a feature in puzzle games makes more sense than in shmups though. If I were to make a shmup I wouldn't add a rewind, that seems weird an silly unless I also make it a core mechanic in general.

  • The game looks great though.

    Thx, funny though one consistent feedback was that the graphics are meh.

    Most issues were regarding the controls being sluggish, the lack of a "step-by-step rewind" feature and a lot of people thought it costs too much. I rewrote the entire game from scratch in a 3 week burst of insane momentum that surprised myself. I even added a handful of new mechanics on top. I grew a lot since the release. It's not entirely done yet though. But I think one of the ultimate issues was the lack of marketing, so few people bought my game barely anyone even disliked it. People just don't know it even exists in the first place. I have some plans to hopefully get some eyes on it, even if it's gonna cost me some money.

    What's funny is that the only reason I have any incentive to do all that is just one guy who really enjoyed it (despite also disliking the graphics). He sank like 70+ hours into it and even made a walkthrough, contacted me for help on one of the final levels. He said it's a hidden gem :) So I believe there's merit here and not just my general insanity of updating a "failed" game.

    But back to your game, does it have a step by step rewind feature yet? Because that was like the #1 request I got. It's pretty much expected it seems and I can kinda understand it (especially if the controls are sluggish and you accidentally walk off a ledge and die and have to do all over again, duh. That's frustrating)

  • Have you looked into Steam visibility rounds?

    No I haven't touched steam in a while apart from writing the announcement that I'm working on the udpate. I'll look into it.

    What is the game you're updating?

    Rimebeard. Please don't go out and review it, I actually want to stay low right now until the update drops. :V