October 2017 GameDev Challenge: Arcade Battle Arena!

Penguin · 2017-12-24T09:07:16

Arcade Battle Arena Challenge! Make a game like the classics Bubble Bobble and Super Mario Bros 3 Battle Mode. Those games involve one or two players battling against waves of enemies on an arena. Game Requirements The game must have: Start screen Key to return to the start screen Score system Minimum of 2 enemies with different behavior (AI) Graphics at least for the UI, player and enemies Sound effects at least for when the player is hurt and when an enemy is killed The actual gameplay must happen on a single screen (no camera translation) Art Requirements The game can be 2D or 3D The art must use a maximum 16 colors palette The art must be your own Tips An interesting game design approach of the two games is that they require the player to neutralize the enemy first, before killing it: In the Super Mario Bros 3 Battle Mode, to kill an enemy, the player must first hit underneath the platform where the enemy is walking on In Bubble Bobble, to kill an enemy, the player must first shot a bubble on the enemy You can quickly make sound effects on Chiptone You can decrease your color count by replacing two similar colors with a median between the two colors. This works nicely for similar dark colors or similar light colors Enemy behavior can involve: Response to the environment. What is the kind of tile that the enemy is currently at? What are the kind of tiles that are in front or behind the enemy? Response to the player. Where is the player? Is it too far away? Is it close? In front or behind? How the enemy will respond to that? Motion pattern. Does the enemy walk on the platform and stop for some time? Does it fly? Games like Super Mario World are good examples with a great variety of enemy patterns. The tutorials on Youtube by Shaun Spalding teach some enemy programming. They are for Game Maker, but the logic can be translated to other game engine or framework: " rel="external"> " rel="external"> " rel="external"> Duration 4 weeks - October 6, 2017 to November 3, 2017 Submission Post on this thread only your entries: Link to the executable (specifying the platform) Screenshots: if the screenshots are too big, post just a few, if they are small, you can post more, just don't take the entire space A small post-mortem, in the same post of the entry, is encouraged, where you can share what went right, what went wrong, or just share a nifty trick Source-code link is encouraged

DividedByZero

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October 30, 2017 04:22 AM

Aw man, just found out about this.

Too bad there is only a few hours left - haha!

Will have to keep my eye out for the next challenge (this going to be November?)

Endurion

5,546

November 02, 2017 03:18 PM

Well, here goes my entry. It's a bit more than initially planned but also not really complete. There are nice 10 stages plus a boss fight though. It's a clear Bubble Bobble type game. Birdie had a game like that already, and he beat the evil pumpkin lord once. The pumpkin boss is back and Birdie's had it! This time he pulls out the guns!

If you don't know the game type: Blow notes to catch enemies in bubbles. Jump at bubbles to pop them and defeat the nasties. You can also ride rising notes to reach higher parts of a stage.

Game source is included, albeit no code base files. Should be enough to peek at a few ideas though.

Music is done by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) -> Be sure to take a look there if you need great royalty free music!

Birdie's Revenge can be downloaded from http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/files/BirdiesRevenge.zip

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NubDevice

2,539

December 23, 2017 02:35 PM

@slicer4ever I can't find the executable. Sorry, not gonna build from source. Missing D3DCOMPILER_47.dll error.

@Endurion Birdie runs. I finally figured out how to set keys in options but the move right action just cycled through the levels all the way to the 'you win' screen.

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slicer4ever

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December 23, 2017 03:01 PM

26 minutes ago, GoliathForge said:

@slicer4ever I can't find the executable. Sorry, not gonna build from source.

You literally spent 0 time looking for it, so i'm not sure why you bothered mentioning me at all then.

https://github.com/slicer4ever/TriColor-Wars

(note the TriColorWars_x86.exe and _x64.exe).

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NubDevice

2,539

December 23, 2017 03:06 PM

Ah, I see it now. Is that an installer? Need to pass if it is. Whoops, malfunction over here starting apps from the download folder and not paying attention to what the dialog is on about and simply dismissing. Sorry.

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slicer4ever

6,773

December 23, 2017 06:51 PM

3 hours ago, GoliathForge said:

Ah, I see it now. Is that an installer? Need to pass if it is. Whoops, malfunction over here starting apps from the download folder and not paying attention to what the dialog is on about and simply dismissing. Sorry.

why do you even bother commenting then if your not going to give any useful information?

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Endurion

5,546

December 23, 2017 07:40 PM

5 hours ago, GoliathForge said:

@slicer4ever I can't find the executable. Sorry, not gonna build from source. Missing D3DCOMPILER_47.dll error.

@Endurion Birdie runs. I finally figured out how to set keys in options but the move right action just cycled through the levels all the way to the 'you win' screen.

I'm a genius

Let me guess, you used WASD? I've hard wired D as level complete, sorry!

I'll see to up a fixed version!

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NubDevice

2,539

December 23, 2017 08:24 PM

The graphics on Birdie is cool. Perhaps some instructions for the options page might help. I'm guilty of this as well assuming everyone does things the same as I on how a menu interface should work.

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