hal9000
Member
Hello everyone,
Sparks is a vectorial shooter that I have written, inspired by Vektar and Geom. Wars. It has already been posted on the developpement section, but now I have a version which runs decently on Pandora. It has just been posted on Open Pandoa boards as well.
The game includes an arcade mode, as well as several custom modes, which are actually mini-games featuring each of the enemies you can encounter in the game.
Standard Arcade game:
Asteroid mini-game:
Missile launchers, very tricky opponents:
Video by tony11 (technical test level, not really showing the gameplay):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kyybN2zj3U
Pandora package: Sparks-0.4.5.pnd
Source: http://github.com/haltux/Sparks
The game is not finished, but is perfectly playable and even quite enjoyable. Missing elements include sound and score saving. Difficulty should maybe be tweaked a bit.
The game runs on PC and Pandora (with double analogic keyboard) but has been written with Pandora in mind.
I have some performance issue on Pandora (PyGame, software SDL...), and I would like some Pandora owner (I don't have any Pandora) to help me with some feedback:
- Please start level Custom/"Test 1 enemy", Custom/"Test 10 enemies", and Custom/"Test 30 enemies", press "f" which displays FPS (works only in game) and tell me the frame rate in each of these levels when you don't shoot. Then please shoot as much as you can on these enemies (on level 30) and tell me how low the FPS go.
- Edit the .sparks file in yourhome /pandora/appdata/Sparks directory
- Change "precompute_sprites: 1" to "precompute_sprites: 0"
- Tell me the frame rate for the three tests level as well with this new configuration.
I would also like someone to give me button numbers for Menu, Start and Select on Pandora.
By the way: there is no sound. Any contribution would be welcome.
Enjoy!
Sparks is a vectorial shooter that I have written, inspired by Vektar and Geom. Wars. It has already been posted on the developpement section, but now I have a version which runs decently on Pandora. It has just been posted on Open Pandoa boards as well.
The game includes an arcade mode, as well as several custom modes, which are actually mini-games featuring each of the enemies you can encounter in the game.
Standard Arcade game:
Asteroid mini-game:
Missile launchers, very tricky opponents:
Video by tony11 (technical test level, not really showing the gameplay):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kyybN2zj3U
Pandora package: Sparks-0.4.5.pnd
Source: http://github.com/haltux/Sparks
The game is not finished, but is perfectly playable and even quite enjoyable. Missing elements include sound and score saving. Difficulty should maybe be tweaked a bit.
The game runs on PC and Pandora (with double analogic keyboard) but has been written with Pandora in mind.
I have some performance issue on Pandora (PyGame, software SDL...), and I would like some Pandora owner (I don't have any Pandora) to help me with some feedback:
- Please start level Custom/"Test 1 enemy", Custom/"Test 10 enemies", and Custom/"Test 30 enemies", press "f" which displays FPS (works only in game) and tell me the frame rate in each of these levels when you don't shoot. Then please shoot as much as you can on these enemies (on level 30) and tell me how low the FPS go.
- Edit the .sparks file in your
- Change "precompute_sprites: 1" to "precompute_sprites: 0"
- Tell me the frame rate for the three tests level as well with this new configuration.
I would also like someone to give me button numbers for Menu, Start and Select on Pandora.
By the way: there is no sound. Any contribution would be welcome.
Enjoy!
