Invaders of the Lost Cause

[AceHart]

There I was.
Yet again.

Hanging out in some Tavern in the middle of nowhere.

Pondering... what actually?
Secret past, lost love? Sure, but who cares. Not me.

Suddenly, the skies filled up with weird creatures...



So much for the introduction.


Invaders of the Lost Cause,
a single-player vertical scroller,
preliminary testing "release",
by AceHart.


So, vertical-scroller... means the terrain view is moving automatically.
Your Hero stays, or so he tries, inside the view as it moves.
Your mission, if you accept it, is to shoot down anything that flies.



Terrain:

The terrain is pretty much approaching my limits on what I can get out of Sunken Ruins.
I consider it done, give or take the odd shrub.


Heroes:

Pretty basic currently.
Four Heroes to chose from.
The only difference is looks.
They also only have 4 abilities (4 levels),
and one innate ability (no mana, that's intentional).


Items:

Some would say the current items aren't worth the shop that sells them.
They are probably right.
I just wanted to get some sort of random system going.
But, you can, at least, see where the shops are.


The mission:

Fly around, shoot things. That's it.
Now, the abilities are, currently, totally uber.
Once you pass level, let's say 8, ... well.
You can't really die.
If you, somehow, manage to die after all,
you're given two simple choices: restart and quit.
Not to mention..., but, well, try to die.

At the end of each lane (there's four of them),
you're supposed to meet some Boss.
There aren't any bosses yet.
Just fly onto the central structure to "pass" on to the next lane.

Of course, you're going to meet different units up there.
And, while they are pretty static currently,
a somewhat more active version is, sort of, ready.
But not implemented yet.



All of this and more is working or coming along quite nicely.



What I would like to read are a couple suggestions or ideas for

- Heroes
- Abilities
- Items
- More activity
- Bosses


Done:

- Terrain
- Overall map idea...



Yours,
AceHart

 

[phyrex1an]

Comments:
Unic, but slow. Seems that all the spawns comes at the bottom of each lane, after that it is empty. Maybe that I am just tricked in some way ^^

Tips:
Faster camera movment after time.
If there is enemies on the screen the camera slows down, else it is speeded up.
Spawns from other directions than from the upper part of the map.
Weaker abilities, or stronger spawns. I wasnt able to get below ~80%hp with sattelites. But so you said.
Some effects, storm with ligthings and wind that sways you camera. Stuff like that.


Only have one boss suggestion. First lane just screams GARGOYLE!. i even have a little suggestion. Add some gargoyle statues, when the boss takes dies. It makes a cool effect, dissaperes and one of the statues comes alive. Fight until all statues are gone. If you take to long to kill one of the gargoyles it goes into statue form and another statue becomes alive (gargoyles in statue for heal themself, thats the idea)

 

[Arcane]

Hm...I'm seeing an awful lot of minigames lately. Snake, wisps of the forest, this, and some others...no more big projects? (Rpgs, Aos, or other more, long term kinda maps.) Or too lazy to make large maps. *That's usually why I trash my maps, or they get too boring.

I can't try this game out now, but I'll try it out soon when I can.

 

[emjlr3]

I am excited to try it out, terrian looks good, cant right now though ...btw I love your post, made me chuckle

 

[UnknowVector]

Good map man! What phyrex1an said, yea i was gonna say that stuff. Also in lane 2 theres an arch and when you fly over it you go though it, a terrain thing but i think it would be realy cool and would add stuff to the map if you went under the arch, mabey more spots to go under stuff that would be realy neat.

Btw the terrain is uber!