Shark killing game

pekuja on 2006/03/27 18:53 of Trip on the Funny Boat

My game seems to be about killing sharks now. There is now basically a stream of sharks that come at you and you have to shoot them. I will add some more enemies, such as the sailboat I had in the mockup screenshot. Currently I'm trying to fix the code so that the waves aren't such a kludge that they are now. I will probably try to make the waves a core thing to the gameplay mechanic, so that you'll have to take advantage of the height differences to reign victorious.

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philhassey on 2006/03/27 19:34:

hey nice looking!

alex on 2006/03/27 21:09:

Oh the poor sharks! Couldn't we have some sort of motive thing? Maybe you play Moby Dick?

pekuja on 2006/03/27 22:01:

I assure you, the sharks are very evil. I thought Moby Dick was the whale? He doesn't run on steam does he? ;-) Anyways, if you're worried about the poor sharks, just imagine they're dolphins. That should help.

korg on 2006/03/28 00:06:

Those are some sweet looking sharks!

Hey you could make the game about having to "jump the shark"! That always works.... atleast for TV shows.. :)

tenuki on 2006/03/28 02:34:

Look at this project http://imfish.sourceforge.net/ perhaps you can take something from there.. also in the cvs version are fish animations!

alex on 2006/03/28 03:01:

Oh, right you are. But whales eat sharks, right? And if he's being chased by a steamboat, then isn't he running on steam, in a sort of roundabout way?

pekuja on 2006/03/28 08:24:

I think whales eat plankton, so that probably wouldn't work too well... I might have a whale as an enemy though.
About the imfish: I don't think the colorful, non-threatening fish would make for very good enemies, and at this point I'm probably going to try to make some more varied enemies instead of more fish. ;-)

pekuja on 2006/03/28 08:45:

Oh, and I just want to note, the game isn't actually supposed to be about killing sharks, but I'm just calling it that because that's all you can do right now. :-P

gnatinator on 2006/03/28 09:22:

You are my heeeero Pekuja! Make them have lazer beams on them! ;)