Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Michael Garcia Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: And now for my first game Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:35:15 +1000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c210-49-140-38.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: G'day there, Ballistic, yer i remember that one, great game, played for hours. Anyway good to see the ny'er are still busy here! Mine is still in mint condition too. Wouldn't sell it tho. later crew Mike Shawn wrote: > Well, I guess I can't do this game after all. I purchased a new Playstation > game today called Ballistic and it happens to be exactly what I was wanting > to make. So I'll have to come up with something else. I can always try the > other 5 variations of this theme that I had in mind that aren't exactly the > same as the spiral theme in Ballistic. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > > "Shawn" wrote in message > news:c33o3a$6bu11@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > >>Well, >> >>I got my Yaroze all set up now. I'm using a TV capture card so I can play >>the Yaroze on my PC instead of a seperate TV (since I can't get another TV >>setup in here easily). Being as I haven't used this Yaroze in the past > > for > >>all these years it is good as new. >> >>So... my plans for my first game on the Yaroze: >> >>I want to make a simple 2d game that has some colored balls on the screen >>and a cannon in the middle. The cannon has a colored ball and the idea is >>to shoot it in between the balls on the screen to are coming towards you > > and > >>match a certain number of colors to get them to dissapear. I have in mind >>about 6 different variations on that theme that can potentially constitute >>different levels or types of game play. >> >>It all sounds so simple but I think it's small enough I can do it as one >>person. If I can succeed at this I might make it a 3D version also. What >>would really be cool is a 3D Raiden II type game but that goes beyond my >>capabilities because I can make the engine no problem, but not the > > graphics. > >>Anyway, >>Thanks >> >> > > >