Crazy Reef

[Leginus]

Thought I would share my little game so far. Its called crazy reef and is very similar to feeding frenzy. It is a Windows moile game only. I have attached some screens and a video link, as the screens don't do the parallax type scrolling justice.

This is a long way from being finished, but with collisions (my own routine which needs tweaking as it misses occasionally) and scrolling, plus music, sfx and fish I am getting from 50-71 fps on my acer n35 which is a non vga 200mhz machine. I have been playing with it on my acer n300 which is a vga and a nightmare of a machine and I can get it running quite well with a few tweaks, so no video on this yet as it needs work.

Here is the video link. Its 10mb and not the best, but give you an idea of speed and scrolling

http://www.nthuze.co.uk/CrazyReef.avi

See what you think. Like I said it's very early days but comments more than welcome........i think ;-)

[Nicknack]

it's looks very auspicious, i like your color choice and especially how smooth the fish moves. i'm really convinced that it swims in water :D
my upcoming suggestions:
1. add rising bubbles and animated plants in front and distant swimming fish in the background to complete the conception of a lively reef
2. add animations for the hit fish
3. add hostile fish like sharks who tries to catch you (or crazy frogfish :D )

[Leginus]

Hi Nicknack and thanks for the comments. Feedback is always useful.

I have got animations for all the fish in the pipeline, as well as animations when they are eaten, but have not got around to coding them yet, this is more of a speed / gfx test.

I take the point that the fish might be a bit too smooth :-)

I am in the process of drawing other fish e.g. enemies. So far I only have the main character, the damsel and a puffer fish. The clownfish that was featured in the video was only a test fish and far too large and *cough* i didn't draw the clownfish.

I had not thought of animating the coral which is a great idea and one I will look into, and the same with the bubbles.

Thanks again.

[Mike Halliday]

oooo,

nice parallax scrolling! :)

You have been working hard with PPL! :)

Would you be willing to submit some tutorials for the newsletters?

Maybe your scrolling technique?

Keep it up and release a demo sooooooon!

[Leginus]

Thanks Mike.
Sure I would like to help in anyway, just let me know. I will happily come up with some examples and things that I have found have worked and not worked so well.

As for crazy reef, hopefully I will be able to release a demo for testing in then next month or so. It would be great if some people from this community could test is and give me feedback / ideas.

[PointOfLight]

Look sweet. You can definitely count me in when you need some testing done.

[Leginus]

Excellent thanks. I think you guys are definitely the best to test it as you all have a technical knowledge as well to help point out why any bugs are happening. Looking forward to having a demo ready, but it's still early days as I don't want to release it until I am really happy with it.

[jdixon]

Leginus,
think what you have done so far is great. What I see so what I have been trying to figure for my self, so let me when you do the tutorials.

Juan

[Leginus]

Thanks Juan. The tutorials should be in the next newletter all being well. I need to discuss with Mike.