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From: "Andrew Partington" <a.partington@yaroze41.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: game preview: 'Invs' [zip attached: 13K]
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:11:36 +0100
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Yep, this game's looking good, it plays nice and fast!  How about being able
to shoot the alien's gunfire - if you hit it twice or three times in a row,
it would knock the alien's bullet back towards him for some kind of bonus.

just a thought :)

Andy


Matt Verran <mverran@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:9j9n07$sk26@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> Very nice and very stylish in a Designers Republic kind of way.
>
> I don't reckon all the invaders ought to need multiple hits, maybe just a
> few of the top layer. Maybe they should change colour after each hit too?
I
> like the idea of defending the ground and invaders swooping to steal it,
> maybe they should stay there longer tho so you have time to blast them
> before they dissapear, or maybe somekind of warning that they are about to
> swoop down?
>
> Another fine project on it's way then :)
> MattV
>
>
> pal <pal_news@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:01c11137$e8037a20$8d09e4d5@pal-s-omnibook...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It appears that the mood is at previews these days, so I'm posting mine
> > too... It's not yet fun to play but the mechanics are mostly ready for
> > turning the thing into a game. Makes a decent screensaver... Please let
me
> > know what you think :)
> >
> > Use L1 when you need the Invs to come again.
> > select+start quits.
> >
> > I attach it rather than put it on my homepage because it is very small;
I
> > hope it's ok, please let me know if I'm wrong.
> >
> > I also take the opportunity to show the vanishing pixels problem I
talked
> > about recently: the big sprite uses exactly the same data in vram as the
> > small ones on the three top rows. The big one shows all its pixels, but
> the
> > small ones... well, hopefully you'll see.
> >
> > I'm going off for about ten days, so don't worry if i do not reply to
any
> > follow-up quickly.
> >
> > pal
> >
> > P.S. The story will be roughly as follows : they were, you came, guess
> what
> > ;)
> >
> >
>
>