[WIP] ZDanmaku... 2? + DanmakuScript (Take a look)

[Hyperresonance]

Go to the second page or whatever. The good stuff's updated there.

Original post, for brevity.

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ZDanmaku
(but, admittedly, it's mostly influenced by the Touhou Project series.)

Danmaku (Wikipedia)
Touhou Project (Wikipedia)


WHAT IS THIS?
ZDanmaku is essentially creating a bit of a danmaku "engine" (I hesitate to say that word, as I'm not entirely sure if it would apply here) to ZDoom. This is all done in ACS.

WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING?
A few days ago (actually, 3 days ago), I had a sudden desire to make something for ZDoom. However, I'm lousy at DECORATE, and spriting, nor can I muster up the willpower to make a .wad heavy in those. Instead, I thought of something insane for ACS.
And here we are now.

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(thumbnails; click for full size)
Why yes, I am using ASCII characters for enemies at the moment.

PROJECT AIMS
- To create a reasonably well working danmaku "engine" for ZDoom, using ACS.
- To then make it easy enough to use that danmaku .wads can be made.
- To [eventually] release open-source to the public (but I don't think that's going to be for a long while.)

DONE / TO BE DONE

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Already done:
Player movement
Bullets
Enemies

Partially done:
Bosses (the framework's there.)
Code Externalization (is that the right term?)

To be done:
Items
Bosses (it's not done done.)
Power/shot types
Lives
Bombs
Lasers/rays

GOT A FEATURE?
If there's a major feature that you do not think any danmaku game cannot be without, feel free to post here or send via PM (I'm not entirely sure about guidelines on that, so, well, whichever the rules support more.)

WANT TO HELP?
I will probably be seeing a need for spriters/graphic artists in the future, when this actually gets built into games.

[Shadelight]

Well..It certainly looks interesting!

[phi108]

Looks... different. Wait.... might it be possible to have.... Kingdom of Krozzdoom? (That's the only 2D ascii game I know of.)

[Hetdegon]

Looks a lot like Touhou indeed.
Reading the title I expected a 3D FPS-ish translation of the bullet hell concept, but this is a very interesting coding exercise.
How well does it perform? And, how much control over shots does it allow at this stage?

[Hyperresonance]

Well, I do have a progress report now. I've just moved the code for one enemy outside of the script, and am working on moving it all out. In short?
It'll be much more easily moddable.

Beyond that, to answer a question, currently I have no lag at all while testing (admittedly, I have a decent computer, but I'll try and find someone with a lower end computer to test a few times), except in the first two something tics, thanks to initialization. While I'm not an expert on how well code performs, nothing's really that intensive. It's basically hudmessages and some basic arithmetic... looped several hundred times.
Shots work off of fixed point, so can move in any direction and speed. There's also frame by frame and a few variables to work with. With a little bit of work, the bullets can do just anything you want (well, mostly, but still.)
Enemies are much the same, except they use integers, not fixed points (call it laziness.)

[scalliano]

This looks like fun. I'm a big fan of games like Raiden, so I'll be all over this.

[Hetdegon]

Good good, I will be looking forward to a sample!
I see you need help with sprites. If you need artists I might be able to help.

[Big C]

Just for the record, Touhou isn't the only bullet hell game.

Also, I wonder if an engine like this could be used to make a top-down arena-type shooter, like Phobia: http://www.redlynx.com/phobiaIII/

ACK! I'm sorry, I didn't look at the timestamps! I followed the link here from another thread and kinda posted without thinking.

[DoomRater]

I played a Bullet Heaven game once. Definitely my kind of game.

[Scripten]

ZDwarf Fortress, anyone?



But seriously, this looks awesome. And the fact that you're making it moddable is twice the awesome.

[InsanityBringer]

has anyone realized yet that the post is nearing two years old and the original author hasn't been here since then?

[wildweasel]

Yeah, I was about to say something about that.

[Big C]

Entirely my fault. Someone linked to this thread in THIS thread...

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=29327

...And I posted without bothering to check the timestamp. Though in retrospect this explains why I didn't see the thread on the 1st page. (For some reason I thought the post was in Editing.)

Rookie mistake. Won't do it again. Hopefully.

[wildweasel]

That's completely understandable. That does occasionally lead to confusion on my end as well.

[DoomRater]

I did, I just figured I'd plug Bullet Heaven while I was at it in case someone needed another Touhou like game.