CGCA

FrieChamp and Sindwiller both pointed out I was supposed to do something cool for 1,000, so it was an excuse to start work on a project I’ve wanted to do for a while, do some progress and post it up here – however it’s been about 4 weeks and I’ve managed to get very little free time to work on it, and I’m basically learning as I go (first c++ and opengl project, no libraries but SDL, etc) so it’s been slow. Very slow. I'm basically posting it just so I can start posting again

So, there’s not much here. The working title is CGCA and it’ll eventually be a manic, arcade shmup. At the moment it’s temporary Cave sprites and an almost fully functional engine.

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Yeah...

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Haha cool Tay, I love those kind of games as long as the difficulty doesn't ramp up to Japanese hardcore nerd extents.

Heh, well I’m certainly not going to make the next

. But I think difficulty is one of the genres attractions and a nice way to get replay value from a 30-minute or so game. I did accidentally do this though:

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I made a few decisions to make it like an arcade game, such as the 240x320 resolution (displayed at 480x640), but these have turned out rather lame. So I think I’m going to rethink a few things...

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HAS TO BE DONE BY 2000TH!

Ah, shit!

Unfortunately he has a few exploitable safe spots and people are already taking him down, whereas only one person managed to No Miss his previous incarnation. They recalled the boards due to a scoring oversight and hopefully they'll fix him too. They also put the DoDonPachi Green Helicopter back in as a bonus