Oh! Look! More Swarmy, Shiny Spaceships

[otaco]

Dear Earthlings,

this is a new alpha version of my game. Please read the README.TXT within the game folder. If you have any questions, drop a post here.


DOWNLOAD

Version 0.022 for Win32, zip

Version 0.022 for Win32, rar


Here is the link in text, the forums form keeps adding stuff to my post and messes up the links
(http://gonzo.uni-weimar.de/~weiszig/references/intergalactic/demo/intergalactic_dev_alpha_0.022.zip)



Some of the changes in this version:

CODE

- gameplay is now much slower
- ships are moving much smoother
- player have different ships, ships are smaller
- some parameters of the random map generator have changed
- changed planet.performance to planet.size scalation
- some A.I. parameters have changed
- added 2 more buildin maps on keys "9" and "0"
- press "n" or "m" to alter logic steps per frame ratio (game runs faster)
- changed glBlendFunc for additive blending (ships, lens flares, ...) from:
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_DST_ALPHA);
to
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE);




Some Media

• Screenshots of all development stages
• My YouTube profile with some videos

 

[darkblu]

niiice!

btw, where did your destination alpha originally come from in the older blending mode?

 

[monkeyo2]

Nice game, well done!

Except it keeps beating me :angry:

 

[MarkoeZ]

Game looks great now! no more bugs for me. Although 3 players and up still is very difficult. Gonna try again now though

 

[iprice]

2. Prees space to start the game

Looks nice

 

[otaco]

niiice!

btw, where did your destination alpha originally come from in the older blending mode?

I'm not quite sure, I never understood the glBlendFunc(). I think the "destination alpha" is the one of the current framebuffer.

Game looks great now! no more bugs for me. Although 3 players and up still is very difficult. Gonna try again now though

Which gpu do you have (so I can make a checklist)?

2. Prees space to start the game

Looks nice

Yes I have sexlexia - the very sexy learning disability.

 

[MDave]

niiice!

btw, where did your destination alpha originally come from in the older blending mode?

I'm not quite sure, I never understood the glBlendFunc(). I think the "destination alpha" is the one of the current framebuffer.

Game looks great now! no more bugs for me. Although 3 players and up still is very difficult. Gonna try again now though

Which gpu do you have (so I can make a checklist)?

2. Prees space to start the game

Looks nice

Yes I have sexlexia - the very sexy learning disability.

Source: http://www.zanir.szm.sk/10-19.html

That should help you with what results you get with glBlendFunc() B)

 

[MarkoeZ]

Game looks great now! no more bugs for me. Although 3 players and up still is very difficult. Gonna try again now though

Which gpu do you have (so I can make a checklist)?



Oh yeah sorry, my card is an ATI Radeon HD 3450. Hope that's enough info.

And just won my first 3 player game : )

 

[Yamara]

I'm not quite sure, I never understood the glBlendFunc(). I think the "destination alpha" is the one of the current framebuffer.
Did you ever decide on a name? "Destination Alpha" would work pretty well as a title.

 

[Username]

Nice. Very fun, though I suck at it.

 

[atiflz]

WinXP professional, Ati Mobilty FireGL v5250. Game does not work. Trying to use previous contents as a backgorund, seems to run at 0.2 fps.

Edit: 1.65 fps

 

[atomicthumbs]

holy crap awesome

please tell me that this will be multiplayer at some point

also, suggestion: add a touchscreen mechanic for dragging fleet units to other planets to make things easier; doing it like this with the mouse is rather clumsy compared to that

 

[otaco]

WinXP professional, Ati Mobilty FireGL v5250. Game does not work. Trying to use previous contents as a backgorund, seems to run at 0.2 fps.

Edit: 1.65 fps

Do you use the latest drivers? There must exist some omega drivers for this card too. Its basicly a x1700 and the game should run just fine - it does on a x1600 MacBook Pro. Try to disable antialiasing for openGL and disable SyncToVBlank in the catalyst control center.

holy crap awesome

please tell me that this will be multiplayer at some point

It will at some point...

also, suggestion: add a touchscreen mechanic for dragging fleet units to other planets to make things easier; doing it like this with the mouse is rather clumsy compared to that

Thank you Mr. obvious

 

[reyawn]

I'm guessing that this is a closed-source app?

I'd love to try building / testing it in Linux .

 

[otaco]

I'm guessing that this is a closed-source app?

I'd love to try building / testing it in Linux .

It will be open source if the first full release comes out. It compiles on latest gcc 4.3 on linux right now. The windows version works at full speed with wine as well.

 

[parag0n]

Any chance of a linux 64-bit build?

Looks gorgeous, cant wait to play!

 

[otaco]

Any chance of a linux 64-bit build?

Looks gorgeous, cant wait to play!

Sorry, I don't have a 64-bit Linux setup at the moment. Yes, I should probably support more than shitty Windows for the Alpha releases. Did you try Wine, maybe it runs 32Bit Windows Apps with 64Bit Linux?

 

[javaJake]

Well, I can confirm this game does not work within WINE on a six-year-old Intel i915 integrated video chipset.

 

[Imerion]

This game is extremely impressive! Very nice work!
As has been mentioned, a Linux version would be nice, but I did get it to work with Wine. Also, nice to hear the game will be open source once released. A Wii version would be cool.

 

[adamorjames]

problem

http://omploader.org/vMThnYw