Unfortunatly I am not a Lite-C developer. We have not seen anything from A7 that has made us jump up and re-code the last 2 years development work. Out of interest I would welcome anyones input into why we should indeed upgrade, I would be more than open to comment

This little demo, of course is not 2 years of work, lol, more like 2 days, but I really wanted to get a complete Xbox Controller design up and running before integrating it into our main project.

This seemed like the ideal way

I really wanted to add the specialist weapons upgrades and collection mechanics before I upload this demo, Hopefully in the next day or so.

Thanks for the offer of support, I will be posted links to downloads here very soon. Thanks again all

just asking..., have you tried the dll that microsoft offers so the pc can use a 360 controller? i actually use that dll and the setting in the A6.60 property manager to use my 360 controller. its pretty easy to set up. i am a console gamer, so the projects i am working are controlled by my controller, with the option to use the keyboard as a back up plan. setting up the buttons are pretty easy too.

you know I think this is exactly what I am using Bink, although I am not 100% sure as I grabbed from this site

I am really excited to be soon to share this small, fun game. I hope that it demonstrates that A6 is not dead and most importantly might be the stepping block for others here to use and re-develop and create their own shooter games.

I really will upload this very soon. I just want to make it a more polished mini game before I do. Thanks to everyone for their patience, definatly upload it this weekend.

Cheers all

One week later than planned





The Xblaster Beta Test is ready
Download Beta Test Here

Designers Note:
I have yet to implement the drone special weapons, assigned to their matching color buttons, this will be added in the next beta test.

Lives has been increased to 500 for this demo.
Demo includes 10 levels of increasing difficulty.

Beta Test Info

Controls:
Left Stick = Control Ship [Forward Stick = Boost & Back Stick = Brake]
Right Stick = Control Drones
Right Stick Button = Dock/Undock Drones [must be in close proximity to re-dock]

Right Trigger = Fire Primary
Left Trigger = Fire Secondary

Left/Right Bumper = Evasive Roll

Start Button = Pause Toggle

Please Note:
Music - placeholder freeware sample from FlashKit.com

Anyone got any Xbox Controller Feedback?

BTW: You can use the following keys -

WASD = standard movement
Q/E = Roll Left/Right

SpaceBar = Fire Primary
B = Fire Secondary

There's no hookup for docking/undocking the drones though

I only have time to spend a few minutes with this at the moment, but everything seems to be working nicely with the Xbox 360 controller, the vibration works good aswell.
I'll have more time later, so I'll give it another go and hopefully have some better feedback.
So far it looks like a nice little game.

the demo was fantastic! very addictive.the controls were very responsive! only critique was, i wish there was a rumble when i was hit and a long rumble when i died. other than that, everything worked perfectly.

Thanks for checking this out guys, while its only a small demo, I thought it would be a great starting block for game studio users, give them something to build a shooter from.

I was really keen to integrate some console type control, so that anyone building their own shooter from this could easily demo it with an Xbox 360 Pad.

I will make a few more changes, including the critique and suggestions Blink proposed (thanks bud) and hopefully the basic code for the other 4-5 Ai enemies.

Once this is ready I will post one more Beta test and then indiglow will publish the game and the source code for everyone to use.

Thanks again for the great feedback from everyone.

Slightly off topic: whats the best way to share the X-Blaster source? and would anyone be interested in porting it to A7 as we are building in A6 Pro at present?

Yeah, but it does seem normal joysticks are out of the picture entirely... I know loads of devs that use Xbox360 controllers, I think there's a slight shift in using the good old 'wasd' configs to using Xbox360 controllers as the basic control scheme in games actually.

Cheers

Heres a sneak peak at the next release of X-Blaster, which is very close to completion now.



I've spent a lot of time tweaking the controls and adding a little bit more feedback, but mostly I have been adding to the level sctructure including early prototype boss enemies.

The game has evolved considerably and it now has a really solid set of game play mechanics.

I've spent the last 24 hours bolting on some UI and hopefully will have this all wrapped up for a release in the next few days

@Phemox: I think to broaden the appeal of the X-Blaster demo template, I will need to add joystick support, if only for the majority of members here.

I am a little suprised that so few people seem to have a Xbox360 pad connected to their PC. I certainly agree with your comments regarding 'WASD' and the migration to pad controls. Although I think the hardcore gamers will stick with mouse and keyboard for fast FPS games, until something comes out that tops it...

Anyway, thanks everyone for helping test this, much appreciated