Nexus

[Astro]

Nexus is a game I work on only my friends and I work on in our free time, which isn't much time at all. I thought I'd just like to show you all to see what, in total, about 4 hours of development has done. Brace yourselves, because it isn't that good.


The HUD in the upper-left corner of the window. From left to right: health, fuel, ammunition, oxygen.


The game window. Not much else to say about this.

I know the game isn't the best so far, so please, no destructive criticism, please. Instead, tell me how my team and I can improve this.

Latest Updates (v0.1.1c)

• Decimal bugs fixed (Thanks, Jimanzium)
• Oxygen is once again used by the player, and will drain
• Fuel once again is used, and will drain
• The NPC will copy your movement, but will not attack you
• Textured lasers (bullets)

Nexus.love

Nexus download (v0.1.1c)

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[Jimanzium]

Hi, we can't help much without being able to play the game, you could attach a .love, to make a .love just zip up all your game files and rename .zip to .love.

Also, to fix the decimal bug use math.floor() e.g:

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num = 1.00034
love.graphics.print(math.floor(num),10,10)

[HugoBDesigner]

...Or you can use the "round" function, which I think works better, because you can still see the decimal values, but restricted to a maximum amount of decimals:

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num = 1.27934
love.graphics.print(round(num, 2),10,10)
--> prints "1.27"

And the round function (is also available on my "Small extra functions" thread):

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function round(n, r)
   local r = r or 0
   return math.floor(n*10^r)/10^r
end

But the game looks very good at this point. But tell us more about it's gameplay, I'd like to know what you can do in this game!

[Positive07]

This may work a little better... just saying

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function round(n, r)
   local r = r or 0
   if (n % 10^r) > (0.5*10^r) then
      return math.ceil(n*10^r)/10^r
   else
      return math.floor(n*10^r)/10^r
   end
end

[davisdude]

Nice looking game! I would love to play it once you get it ready for demo!
- In my opinion, I think the icon in the top right corner would get annoying.
- I might make the players larger (unless there's more planned that you don't want to spoil for us).

Now, about the rounding:
My function's a bit lengthy, and I'm sure you could shorten it, but it works.
The other functions (from my testing) didn't work correctly, based on how numbers are supposed to be rounded.

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function Round( Number, DecimalPlace ) -- Number is the number being rounded. DecimalPlace is to how many place values (i.e. 0 would be integer, 1 would be 1 decimal place, etc.)
	local DecimalPlace, ReturnedValue = DecimalPlace and 10 ^ DecimalPlace or 1
	
	local UpperNumber = math.ceil( Number * DecimalPlace )
	local LowerNumber = math.floor( Number * DecimalPlace )
	
	local UpperDifferance = UpperNumber - ( Number * DecimalPlace ) 
	local LowerDifference = ( Number * DecimalPlace ) - LowerNumber
	
	if UpperNumber == Number then
		ReturnedValue = Number
	else
		if UpperDifferance <= LowerDifference then ReturnedValue = UpperNumber elseif LowerDifference < UpperDifferance then ReturnedValue = LowerNumber end
	end
	
	return ReturnedValue / DecimalPlace
end

Sorry for the conversation getting off of your game, by the way, we're just trying to be too helpful, I guess.

[Astro]

Hi, we can't help much without being able to play the game, you could attach a .love, to make a .love just zip up all your game files and rename .zip to .love.

Also, to fix the decimal bug use math.floor() e.g:

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num = 1.00034
love.graphics.print(math.floor(num),10,10)

Thanks a bunch. This was the most efficient way to do it in the replies left. I still thank the rest of you for helping as well. And as far as the .love goes, I had been in a rush when I posted this, and forgot about it. It has been added.