Sup*r M*troid(Update 17Oct13) New in Blue

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...is a cool game! And is the inspiration for my next android game project. I don't have pictures yet but the code has been started. I believe the genre is called Metroidvania.

 Many Android platformers don't feel right when you play them like the little dude isn't moving fast enough or there is something wrong with the gravity. I have not found one game yet that the character is nice and spry and is a joy just making him move around. This is the starting focus of this game- making it fun to move the character around responsive and quick.

 I'm borrowing elements from the Metroid series and Cave Story. I have yet to play even one Castlevania game so I don't know if there will be any of that in there.

 Naturally a game like this must have a huge area to explore and this one will.

 That's all for now. 

Here is the main character (before and after DNA enhancement)

And here is one of the armor suits:
At last, actual coding has begun! I can't wait to see my little dude run. I'm writing the code to include a zoom feature and whether it will be player controllable is still up in the air, but it will most likely be important to game play.

Just the beginnings of animation, control, sound, and level management.
D-pad: lower left.
Jump button: lower right.
Invisible change-character-button: Upper left corner.
All feedback welcome.
www.egdahl.com/sm.apk

A couple of screenshots:



I now have the foundation of the engine to add as many rooms as I want. Just add a text file and BAM a new room! Yeah!

The Exosuit has 94 sprites to animate him. And I made this toilet:

And this terminal for the game:

It was intimidating to contemplate creating hundreds of rooms in Notepad like this:
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The look and feel of the room is lost when looking at the raw file it's drawn from so, I wrote a nice little level editor in GLBasic to aid in making the rooms I need for the game.
So, with several modifications to my level editor, development is moving along the underground base is more that 1500 feet wide which is almost one third of mile(my target width and height.) I'm moderately certain it will be easy to make the base take up more than a Square Mile, but I think I will retain that name for now as "More Than a Square Mile" doesn't sound as good. If all goes well this evening, I will upload a new apk for download to the link above.
D-pad: lower left.
Jump button: lower right.
Invisible change-character-button: Upper left corner.

All feedback welcome.

www.egdahl.com/sm.apk

Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 23, 2013 at 11:39 PM

    Instead of making your own level editor, you could use something like Tiled.

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    1. UnknownNovember 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM

      Yes, I looked into most of the common tile editors and opted against them. I would have had to rewrite my game engine level loader and update to understand whatever file format they save the data in. I was quicker to write something that worked around what I already had.

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  2. Veritas CoyoteSeptember 15, 2015 at 8:54 AM

    You shouldn't work so hard, give some of the the Load when you face 404

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