Goomba VS Subcon, Sidescrolling Shooter - Updated (2)

Originally for the minigame competition, I want to make something bigger out of this:

Goomba vs Subcon
F4 for Fullscreen is highly recommended, as you use the mouse in this one!


Title Screen


Mission 1

One man army Goomba has to go to Subcon and defeat Wart for Bowser.


Known Glitches:
- Slowdown Glitch.
Text has been made more efficient and is close to not lagging at all, but there might still be other slow-downs. Still, it might now be playable also on slower machines.


I hope you enjoy it.

Hint: Don't be distracted if you don't win at first try. It's hard on purpose, but if you play longer, you will get used to it.

This post has been edited by Guinea on Aug 17 2007, 06:52 AM

Looks nice I'll try it out.

I think there should be a checkpoint system instead of having the Goomba to respawn at the exact death spot. If you fall into pit and a log was the last touch of solid ground, Goomba may respawn on a bottomless pit and result an instant redeath, if you can't get on safe ground.

But still. No other critique is needed. This is Awesome!

EDIT OFF TOPIC: How is it going with Super Mario Bros DDX by the way?

This post has been edited by Ultramario on Aug 1 2007, 03:34 AM

This is a very fun and addicting game... Good job.

Very good, but it takes a year to finish a mission because of how slow the score is put.

Then your PC is too slow.
Or my text displaying script is not efficient enough.


Thanks for your positive comments, guys.
And I'll try to fix the log respawning thing.

This post has been edited by Guinea on Aug 1 2007, 04:27 AM

I have played this game with the blood censored and I have found a glitch in the second level when Goomba fell under the screen.

Which would be... ?

I do not understand this question.
Goomba was stuck when it fell under the waterfall and it did not die.

The question was:
What glitch did you find?
That you found A glitch doesn't help me much. So I asked (unpolitely) what glitch it was.

Now that you seem to have understood the question and answered it even if you didn't understand it, I do know know that you were talking about the wooden-log-respawn glitch.
Trying to fix that, as said. Thanks for pointing that out.

"And thanks Mark Overmars for selling your soul to YoYo Games =/"


Clever footnote there, mister.


Also this is a great game. Although it runs a bit slow over here :<

Thanks for reporting that.
It must be that text displaying script.
Trying to fix that one.

Well, for me, the game usually says that it runs at 60fps, and it still takes forever for the end mission thing to finish, especially in mission 3 where I got 1.(random numbers)E13. I would imagine that it would take a while to finish if it gets into scientific notation.

UPDATE:

OK, I've now written a more efficient text displaying script.
The game has been updated and shouldn't lag anymore because of the text.
If there is anything else lagging, it's not the text, that's for sure now.
Also the annoying log respawning glitch is gone.

CRIPES

I just noticed another glitch myself:
Due to a typo the game GIVES you 1/3 of your score instead of taking it when you die.
So please don't post your incredibly high scores until I update a second time...


Updated.
You do now LOSE score when you die.

This post has been edited by Guinea on Aug 1 2007, 11:08 AM

That explains how I got the E13 score then. I'll try it out again in a bit.
Oh, and thanks for the blood turn off feature. I normally don't like blood in the games I play.

So if everyone has the latest version, you can post your high-scores.
I'm curious who's the best =)

I got 186753 points. Not very good in my opinion.

Can't remember, something .43. (heheheh)

GLITHIO!
Third level, the ice one. I slipped my way up the very last few platforms and into the door to the boss room. Trying, though, to counter-act the slippery ice friction, I was holding VK_LEFT at the time, causing me to walk left and fall off into the water. The boss music started, I respawned. I couldn't get back in the room thanks to your invisible blocks.

I had to restart the game.

Also, serious serious lag. Ruined the fun factor.

The shoot_fx needs to be different than the default GM fx.

The bullets are only 1 pixel high, I think they should be bigger.

Bosses tack entirely too long to kill and can become boring. Just click click click click click click click click click click click click click click. |=\

Otherwise, nice. Potential is high.

If you have something .43 as the score, you have obviously not the latest version.
The new one has only rounded scores.
If that's the case, you might also have the laggy version.

If the newest one still lags, it's probably your PC as it works well on everyone elses I talked to (And one of those played the first version with 3 FPS)

"The shoot_fx needs to be different than the default GM fx. " Needs not. Default is not bad. It's the best fitting.

"The bullets are only 1 pixel high, I think they should be bigger." Shouldn't. Those bullets are just lines drawn, they have actually NO height. And normally you should know where you shoot as you have your crosshair. You might play fullscreen (F4 as mention in the Help File) to better see your shots.

"Bosses tack entirely too long to kill and can become boring. Just click click click click click click click click click click click click click click. |=\" That is if you just started playing. Also, the bosses with lots of HP (Mouser and Wart) have weaknesses. Shoot Mousers bombs back at himself, for example.
As for the others, if you only have one gun and no Machine power-up, you will have to take your time. You'll be able to keep those once you start getting better.


About the glitch, just don't do this anymore then. It's not like you have to have awesome skills to avoid it, more like you need awesome skills to get that one.
Might be solved by the next update though since it is annoying...