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Radar Defence
So, it has come to this…
A valid observation in absolutely any situation that provides instant gravitas while being inherantly redundant and meaning nothing in particular. Anyway, on with the post.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-34/?action=preview&uid=12627
The game isn’t feature-complete yet, but now that the miniLD is over I can take some extra time to embellish them, just to make for a more sleek feeling interface.
For now, you can build defence facilities and delete them should you choose. Difficulty and enemy spawning rate need some adjustment, but that’ll wait until the other features are implemented, such as facility upgrades, base reapiring, and indeed actual health displays. Oh, and the capability to actually lose once your base’s health drops below 0% would be great too!
Currently I have some compatability issues with Firefox and Internet Explorer, but for the life of me cannot figure out where. The online documentation assures me that all of the events I use are supported by all of the most popular top 5 browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer). I checked this compatability for each individual event, but still cannot figure out why some browsers refuse to run the game.
The stats (damage and kill counts for each facility) are already tracked, but unfortunately they cannot be viewed until I finish (and you know, actually start working on) the swanky new panel extension animation I have planned. At which point I’ll also move the instructions out of that horrible, insensitive, emotionally unavailable alert popup and into a similar high-tech, oxytocin-inducing slide-out panel.
Also a metric for tracking overall progress and score would be fantastic. Again these things are already tracked, but have no method of release. These metrics being a score count based on enemies killed and how strong they were, and of course, a survival timer.
Once these things have been completed, I’ll start to introduce different types of facility, and new art for the radar blips that will allow you to tell one type of facility from another.
So thats my free time for the next week or two, all nicely planned out! As a final thought, I’d like to explain that this is my first proper foray into HTML5 and Javascript, which I have only been learning since the close of LD23, when I vowed to code my future entries on a much more universal platform than XNA; *shudder*. I’d like to think my footing is pretty firm, and that it has been an excellent start. I didn’t use any 3rd party engines or libraries – all of the code, from the preloading to the gameloop to the animation, was written by yours truely. Short of the browser compatibility issues I mentioned earlier, I would say it went off without a hitch!
This has been storytime with RadthorDax;
Goodnight everybody!
I can’t get it to finish loading. It seems to die around 90% every time.
Seems that was just Opera. Works in chrome, although the defense guys don’t seem to always actually shoot at the enemy. Maybe they have a long recharge time?
For some reason Firefox (and Opera it seems) dont fire the ‘canplaythrough’ event when loading an audio file. I can’t figure out why this is so, as all the documentation I’ve seen suggests that they should be firing it.
Until ive finsihed implementing the upgrade system, all facilities are stuck at basic off-the-shelf models. You can see their range of attack when you select them, and when you are building them. The attack range is initially a radius of 32 px (1 grid block), which can be upgraded to a maximum of 96px with 5 upgrades. Their basic attack speed is 1 attack every 2 second, but can be upgraded up to 1 attack every 0.5 seconds. These two stats and the Damage stat will have to be upgraded seperately on each facility.