Heya folks. Finally finished my game. It isn't close to perfect, but the time to work on this project has run out. Overall, I'm fairly satisified with how it came out. It was interesting working on the install script and while trying to keep a current GDD didn't exactly run well, the usual design plans held pretty darn solid to keeping issues down. It unfortunately does have a few remaining bugs in it, most notably it crashes once every so often, inconsistently. Anyhow, it now gets the nice position of largest game project I've worked on, weighing in at just under a half megabyte of final code. Damn that took a long time to write.
Anyhow, check it out, comments welcome:
Skiing Adventures Installer (http://www.pishoque.net/soulriders/Games/Install%20Skiing%20Adventures.exe)
Dracos
Meow
Good:
Mmm...music.
Looks like it could be fun, once you've ironed out some of what I have below.
Bad:
High scores only allow alpha characters?
Can you change your landing angle in midair? I always take a hit on the first slope, because I land funny.
Ugly:
Sometimes, when you hit an obsticle, the guy gets up, then proceeds to hit it again! ...and again, and again, and again. Lost two lives on the first pit that way.
In Total:
Neat game. I'm sure I'd figure it out a bit more once I have time to really devote to playing it. A much more efficient "time-waster" than Civ3. which is what I've been catching people playing in the library, during finals week. Which would be great, except that they're not in most of my classes, so I get no curve-love that way...
Actually, you can change your landing angle in mid-air. Pressing up and down does it. And for the high scores, I coded that and the general thought was "It wasn't worth the time to keep going and add number/symbols". It could've been done, but I figured it was intended to take names so all it really needed critically was names.
And huh, while collision detection inevitably had some roughness, it should've tossed you up and, at the minimum, there's a second or so of invulnerability to leap out of situations like that. Unfortunately, there wasn't the time to fix that before the project was over.
Dracos