Comments on: #3: ThunderStorm http://www.vectorstorm.org Creating games, one brightly glowing line at a time. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:47:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: trevor http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/comment-page-1/#comment-19 trevor Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:09:48 +0000 http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/#comment-19 When you start, one of the existing clouds will switch from happy to angry; that's the cloud you control. The cloud that will switch will be the one that's furthest away from all the other clouds.. but if all the clouds are bunched up together, it's possible that you might have very little time to work out which cloud is the angry one. (It takes about a second for the graphic to finish converting from 'happy' to 'angry', and you're not invulnerable during that time) Not the kindest gameplay mechanic, I'll grant. Maybe I'll return to this game someday and make it a little kinder, when the game starts up. :) When you start, one of the existing clouds will switch from happy to angry; that’s the cloud you control. The cloud that will switch will be the one that’s furthest away from all the other clouds.. but if all the clouds are bunched up together, it’s possible that you might have very little time to work out which cloud is the angry one. (It takes about a second for the graphic to finish converting from ‘happy’ to ‘angry’, and you’re not invulnerable during that time)

Not the kindest gameplay mechanic, I’ll grant. Maybe I’ll return to this game someday and make it a little kinder, when the game starts up. :)

]]> By: Joseph http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Joseph Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:10:04 +0000 http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/#comment-18 Having trouble running this. I get a Game Over as soon as I start- no Angry Cloud ever spawns. Having trouble running this. I get a Game Over as soon as I start- no Angry Cloud ever spawns.

]]> By: trevor http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/comment-page-1/#comment-12 trevor Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:42:51 +0000 http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/#comment-12 I'm not sure how much strategy is involved in this game; I really only got to play it three or four times before releasing it, due to the self-set time limit. I suspect that there's likely to be a very simple "best strategy" which would let you play forever (maybe sitting in a corner and firing like mad, for example); I didn't really have time to do proper play balancing on this one. But I still really like the game, especially the rapid context shifts you have to do when the cloud you've been focusing on is bumped by a happy cloud, and you need to rapidly find another angry cloud to center your attention on. :) I've now removed the password protection from the svn repository. But I very strongly recommend not looking at the game code for this one except for the purposes of compiling; being written in seven hours (and going through no fewer than five complete game design changes) means that there's a lot of messy, unorganised code, and a lot of dead code that's no longer used at all. Just as advance warning. I’m not sure how much strategy is involved in this game; I really only got to play it three or four times before releasing it, due to the self-set time limit. I suspect that there’s likely to be a very simple “best strategy” which would let you play forever (maybe sitting in a corner and firing like mad, for example); I didn’t really have time to do proper play balancing on this one. But I still really like the game, especially the rapid context shifts you have to do when the cloud you’ve been focusing on is bumped by a happy cloud, and you need to rapidly find another angry cloud to center your attention on. :)

I’ve now removed the password protection from the svn repository. But I very strongly recommend not looking at the game code for this one except for the purposes of compiling; being written in seven hours (and going through no fewer than five complete game design changes) means that there’s a lot of messy, unorganised code, and a lot of dead code that’s no longer used at all. Just as advance warning.

]]> By: Koro the Great http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Koro the Great Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:08:26 +0000 http://www.vectorstorm.org/get-games/game-in-a-week/thunderstorm/#comment-11 Fun game! I was able to last for a really long time by just not moving around, holding down left click, and drawing circles in the center of the screen. There are just a ton of lightning bolts everywhere, and it seems to make you storm clouds at about the same rate that you kill your own storm clouds or get bumped in to. It still didn't last forever though =P Also, the link to the source code is prompting me for a password. Fun game! I was able to last for a really long time by just not moving around, holding down left click, and drawing circles in the center of the screen. There are just a ton of lightning bolts everywhere, and it seems to make you storm clouds at about the same rate that you kill your own storm clouds or get bumped in to. It still didn’t last forever though =P
Also, the link to the source code is prompting me for a password.

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