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Ollie wrote:

Is there a FPS counter in the game then?

There is, as a code.
When the player's on screen, press F, P, then S to show the frame count. Sorry to not mentioned that earlier =<

Ollie wrote:

Alright, managed to have a quick go, I think it's safe to say that the frame rate should be set back up to 60FPS. This should make those awesome visuals animate a lot more slicker and it will also make the game play "appear" a lot quicker. Also, is there a reason why this game is forced to be played in full screen? Trying to see how much CPU Usage it uses and it's next to none on my 2.2GHz Dual Core. So it should be fine on single-core machines too when it's set to Windowed mode.

Well I made a few tests running the game at 60 fps (Again on three computers), and just a quick note- when exporting games on my program (Game Editor), you can only export to window or full screen. Having it windowed has it run at 20 fps, even on my computer. Running at full screen is defiantly an improvement - though it feels a lil too fast when at 60. (I hadn't tried it much before since running the game unexported at 60 fps is worse than running an exe version.)

So now I've found the best speed was 50fps, its smooth like 60 only not too fast. You may think thats a strange number, but it reminds me of the old games where you had some at 50 fps or 60, and I knew some games for  example; Shadow of the Beast were made for 50fps, otherwise at 60 it would be too fast!

Ollie wrote:

I personally think that because the game itself is designed to be played at such a small resolution (Really gone for the retro feel, I see!) then windowed mode would be better suited. Especially if you look at these statistics:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

As of the start of this year 0% of users were running at 800x600 or below monitor resolution, the other category is probably Netbook users who have a 1024x600 display. So Windowed mode would be much better than forced full screen.

Wow, i must be really old fasioned 
Personally I feel running a game at this res in window mode is kinda ugly to be honest, I prefer it blown up. Its like comparing a nintendo game in its true res. to it being blown up on a TV. Also It wouldn't be possible to resize since Game Editor's not programmed to do that. I guess because it would other wise change the actual resoloution of the game.
And speaking of which, I chose that res since I was thinking of later porting this to smart phones, and if I made the game at a 1024x600 , It would mean changing everything!

Ollie wrote:

Anyway that's the only issues I've come across. I'm not too sure if the program you've used to create this game can allow you to use external data but splitting your music in a separate folder instead of compiling it all into one executable would give you a performance boost when starting the application.

It certianally would help, though it wont do so in this program.

Ollie wrote:

Can't wait to see how this developers and I hope my feedback is useful and constructive!!

Yes it defiantly helps

Ollie wrote:

...Now I best get back to revision...

Good luck

Dinonemesis wrote:

i mean more resolutions

?

mattt360 wrote:

Does it need to be ~250MBs?

Well I'm currently working on a smaller size version atm, i've narrowed it down to 260MB-ish removing some unwanted levels. I think I'll also want to remove some 'clone' actors (E.g. Collectibles).

mattt360 wrote:

And does the filesize have to double to choose between Windowed/Fullscreen?

Like i've probably mentioned before, my program can only export to either Window OR fullscreen. So in order to select a size, it requires two of the same file, one in full, one in window. (Though they're in .dat files, selected through an .exe window that asks to select what win/full)

mattt360 wrote:

Also, lols @ "AXRIA, Sarah Kinzi are unregistered trademarks of James Leonardo"

mattt360 wrote:

EDIT: Played it. Awesomeness,

Yesh!

mattt360 wrote:

Except for the audiorate(Is there such a word?)/framerate is horrible

Neawhh

Allright, as soon as i'm able to, I'll find a way to reduce size, improve frame rate ect. Infact while typing this, I thought of a way to make every level a seperate .dat file if absolutely necessary!

This game reminds me of 80's anime for some reason,
i love the art style here!
keep up the good work !

I know its not much of a hot topic, but heres the newer version cut down to around 200 MB (RAR file is compressed to 156!)

Demo version 2.

Improvements:
-50fps
-unused content cut out for space

http://axria.webs.com/download.htm

I've attempted 7zip, though i couldn't compress it any better than winRAR did at 156mb. At best i got 7zip to compress to was something like 180mb, trying different option of highest this and lowest that.

Any suggestions on the options i should take in 7zip?

Invincible? Well i guess 20 hits is a bit much. Ill shorten it down to 10 and make him blink when he's hit.
Ill fix the volume on the Boss' fire.

EDIT:

I have a new version here with a few tweaks, if this stuffs taking up too much space, you might want to delete the old one!

28DEC: http://www.mediafire.com/?cubibqa9atmaghd

Last edited by JamesLeonardo (2011-12-28 18:31:29)

Drooling, lol. Great to know, and i hope you enjoy ^^

Jinroh wrote:

Hehe I'm nothing if not dramatic. ^_~

I've just been skimming through this thread since you bumped it, and i gotta say this looks pretty good. I'll offer more detail when i actually have time to read it when i'm not in class, but i like the concept so far, and i really liked the cover concept on one of the earlier pages. Also, i finally get your avatar now

JamesLeonardo wrote:

Near complete game comin' soon!

Well heres that near complete game i was talking about: http://www.senntient.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1756 (This was going to be an april fools but it never happened)

I know this place is dead, but i might as well move it elsewhere.

Last edited by JamesLeonardo (2012-04-04 06:58:07)

znzemily wrote:

Reminds me of Turrican for some odd reason and Mega Man X

Don't be surprised, I was very inspired by those games!