Hyperion, A 2D Platformer.

[zzz]

Hi, I just registered on this forum, so I hope I'm posting in the right place!

Hyperion is a 2d platform shooter I'm developing using SDL. It's a wip, but I felt that the
game is stable enough to release a small demo. Level editor included!
Tested on F200, but it doesn't use the touch screen so it should work on F100 as well.



Game is about 6MB.
[GP2X version]
[PC version]
[Archive]

[Hyperion mini-site]

[Youtube video]

Controls:
Menu:
A or B to accept current selection. (X or Z on PC)
Game:
Jump with B-button. (Z on PC)
Shoot with R-button. (S on PC)
Press Home to return to main menu. (Enter on PC)

Steer with the arrow-keys / d-pad.
Use SCREENRES.txt to change screen resolution for the PC version.

Hope you like it! ^^

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi, and welcome

Screenshots look very promising, I'll give your game a go ASAP !

Don't forget to upload it on the Archive !

A post in the news section would be great too

btw, Hyperion is also the name of a company working on Amiga, I hope it doesn't matter...

EDIT with first impressions:

+ Main menu
+ Parallax scrolling !!!
+ Dying animation
+ Animated sprites
+ Hand drawn graphics ? / Pixel Art

- Music (doesn't fit well in this game IMO)
- Some inertia when jumping...
- Enemies...

It looks really promising, and with more levels, some story line, different weapons, enemies, stages, etc...it could really be a great game !

I'll post my impressions about the level editor later

Bye, and thanks for the hard work !

Magic Sam

 

[zzz]

Thanks for trying my game! ^^
I've now uploaded it to the archive as well; http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,35,2843.
I copied the text from the minisite so the formatting got a little weird, sorry about that.

Glad you liked the graphics, the music and sound effects where more or less thrown in there(this started as a school project, so I was working towards a deadline), but I kinda like the music.
Hyperion is a moon of Saturn(why I chose the name), and originally a Greek god according to almighty Wikipedia.
More levels, enemies and weapons will be added sooner or later.

 

[Magic Sam]

I think I've found a bug in the level editor:

If you add a starting point somewhere, and then you delete it, you can't add it again, anywhere

You have to save your level, exit the editor, and load your level again to be able to add a new starting point.

Bye, Magic Sam

 

[zzz]

Ok, I'll have a look at that.

Edit: Weird, I can't replicate that error on the GP2X or Windows. :/
Edit2: Nvm, searched through the code and found at least one thing that could cause that error.
Edit3: Fixed, I think. There are however some other bugs in the level editor. Sometimes you can
spawn in some crazy places, when you have a small level roughly the size of the gp2x screen.
Lol. I'll have a look at that some other day.

 

[Alex.]

Nice game zzz The graphics and music fit very well.

I'll keep an eye out for updates and more levels. By the way, depending on what toolchain you use, a Wiz port could be as easy as removing the -static flag in front of the libraries you link with.

 

[Farox]

Just tested the game is very very nice.

i'd like to see more levels...

 

[zzz]

Thanks for playing! :lol:
I'll have a look at porting it for the Wiz.
There may also be an osx port sometime in the distant future.

 

[Orion4874]

Very cool, can't wait to see how this progresses. Off topic, I guess there's no way in hell that Soul Hunter could be ported to the GP2X or the Wiz? Maybe the Wiz has a better chance since it has a 3D GPU?