This Is a Waste Of Time [TaWoT ][now beta5.1]

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This Is a Waste Of Time [TaWoT ][now beta5.1]

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My first (long) attempt at using LOVE to make a game :

at first it was a "hey lets learn how to use LOVE"
Then it became a "Hey this game seems fun, lets try increasing on it"

And so here is TaWoT (This is a Waste Of Time)
-The game strangely went through 3 name changes to get to this name.
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Currently 5.1 :
3 DOTS, red, purple, cyan.
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Red - hated!
purple - clingy!, even more hated!
cyan - he is "ok".. for a dot.
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Spacy theme, with a comical main menu!
3 difficulties, easy, medium, hard.
No endgame yet!
simple ingame HOW TO PLAY guide!
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I plan on adding much more, including powerup-dots in future as I learn more and more LOVE :)
-You can read the changelog i will try to keep updated in each release in the Informations.txt in the .love files.
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Download .love :
beta 5.1!
TaWoT b5v1.love
Please drop any ideas and feadback :D
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Nice game!

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U should do a retardard difficult, i ended it with -30000... :|
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cant you lose?
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-30000 points?!
That sounds like I made it too hard haha.

Well I am planning on adding MORE directional dots.
Also dots will be slowed down in favour of the powerups that will be added.
Also im wondering if increasing screen space (ie the area the paddle and dots can move in) will help.

Though a INSANE difficulty will probably be what you see now on hard :)
Also im thinking of changing the "paddle" to a spaceship, since we can just say were dodging asteroids?
(also allows me to add weapons to spaceship...)

Next :
Since there is no winning/loosing condition yet I will start planning on adding them.
My initial idea for winning condition was : "Hold points above 1000"
My initial idea for loosing condition was : "You have lives, if you get hit X times you loose a life. Powerups may add and remove lives in future."

Do note new features in beta6 will be :
version b6
-Add options menu, with fullscreen toggle, resolution changing and "extras" (ie, funky colors mode, slowMeDown, ImOnShrooms,etc)
-Add quit button -no one likes to use the red X
-resize dots, rework speeds of dots.
-implement powers - see [POWERS]

[POWERS]:
version b6
{
Format :
Index : index
Name of Power : Name
DOT color(s) giving power : color(s)
Trigger : Trigger
Description of power : desc
}

Index : 1
Name : Push
Colors : "yellow"
Trigger : on mouse click
Description : creates a inverted vacuum on paddle, force ALL dots away from paddle. lasts 3 seconds

Index : 2
Name : PhaseMode
Colors : white , Blinks in and out, alpha alternates from 0 to 255 to 0
Trigger : on pickup
Description : Causes paddle to phase out, passing harmlessly through Dots, unless Ethereal(Cyan) dots.

index : 3
Name : Shrink
Colors : red 100 to 255, very small DOT
Trigger : nn pickup
Description : causes paddle to shrink ALOT, makes for easy dodging but extremely hard to see own paddle and catch powerups.
END

If you have any suggestions for powers please drop them!
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Very cool for a first project. There is a gameplay issue though: it is possible to sit on the far-right side of the screen and take so few hits that you can generate points without moving.
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Lafolie wrote:Very cool for a first project. There is a gameplay issue though: it is possible to sit on the far-right side of the screen and take so few hits that you can generate points without moving.
That's what I did. Otherwise, I'd never have been able to keep my score positive after the intermediate stage.
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Ah i thought so, i knew a random spawn point on the X was not going to work, so instead ill modify spawn on X to be allways within a area of the paddle.
This will make the dots way more focused on you!
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ArchAngel075 wrote:Ah i thought so, i knew a random spawn point on the X was not going to work, so instead ill modify spawn on X to be allways within a area of the paddle.
Actually, the method was good, you just needed to make the range a bit wider, especially allow larger x coordinates (maybe about 20-30 pixels more).
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Nice :) I managed to get to about 1500 without cheating before I lost interest :P
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