Recommended: 3ghz processor.
Controls:
WSAD || HOME/END/DELETE/ PAGEDOWN = MOVE
LEFT MOUSE = LEFT GUN
RIGHT MOUSE = RIGHT GUN
E || PAGEUP = BOOST
V = PAUSE
Tip: Boosting makes you invincible.
http://prime.turquoisegrotto.com/java/bluefiend.jnlp
runs a bit slow here, guess the mass of System.out.println()'s don’t help performance.
That and the blur makes this thing a beast Still, it runs at 40% on my p4…
Does use a lot of cpu, but does run for me.
I found it easy, boss was no challenge but guessing this is only the start… Keep up the good work.
Thanks. I already updated it to version 1.1 you can try it with the link in the first post.
Totally unplayable here. It just continually jumps around all over.
Windows XP Pro
Java v1.6.0_06
processor and ram?
edit:
I have some ideas about my game I think I’m going to implement
Like taking out the Z+X gun
And making it so that the X bomb goes off even if it hits something
Also, should guns lose power if you’re boosting since boosting makes you invincible?
edit 3: removed center gun, fixed x bomb, added strafing (A,S) and changed how boosting works (hold down to use);
Added new controls.
The mouse aiming is a little strange, if I point directly into an enemy I wont hit it, I have to calculate a small “deviation” …
Also, the controls are a little awkward for this kind of game . Normally you rotate you ship and go forward - backward .
Apart from that it can be a good game if you work in the control issues
Cool graphics, but like the above, mouse aiming is weird since the bullet doesn’t go where you click.
I like the way there’s no security dialog and it just works. How did you do the blur etc? Just using java2D?
Great work,
Keith
Pretty cool, worked fine on my laptop. You’d probably get better performance if you used images instead of lines - I find that Java’s drawing tools go really slowly.
The boss was super easy.
Also, the enemies eventually would just stack on top of each other in the corner and shoot me from there, instead of moving around.
added in new enemies, and made endboss not suck.
(8:17:49 PM) CyanPrime: I got rid of the reload
(8:17:57 PM) CyanPrime: and made the bomb gun only have 3 shots
(8:18:04 PM) CyanPrime: I made the player bullests fater
(8:18:14 PM) CyanPrime: and I gave the player powerups
(8:18:19 PM) CyanPrime: when he kills 15 and 30 people
It worked for me, but it was quite jerky. I recommend you try one of the openGL bindings if you would like to get smooth vector gfx. I also had the mouse deviation problem. The control system is unusual but interesting – you should persevere with it. I am not sure what the blur is trying to achieve, it just seems to confuse things.
cheers
josh
Okay, so I got rid of the background to make things less confusing, and I halfed the blur. Also, I made the player ship twice as fast.
…Oh, yeah. I open sourced it too.
Just click on the get source button here.
I’m looking for ways to make it use less resources, so if anyone figures out how t cut it by like half please let me know.
Cut health by 1/4th.
weirdly enough on my freakish icetea ubuntu broken x - it ran smooth.
some comments:
controls are ‘unusual’ - but I like it.
quite crowded quickly - perhaps make all the units and bullets smaller ~ scale the ‘map’ bigger
use colours to differentiate between power ups - I suddenly was firing 3 bullets while I couldn’t grasp how that happened.
perhaps add heat seeking missiles or something and or objects to hide behind - but that’s something up to the creator
build up of difficulty could use some tweaking
imho offcourse
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hmm notify the user more I gues - free game fade to 50% gray or alike and splash the screen with “15 kills! - powerup” or killingspree! and resume or some other visual aid.
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That also gives a better sense of achievement - adding additional objectives (or rather more targeted ones) will have towards that respect
could be me but aiming seems to be a bit inaccurate at times - can someone confirm?
I can conferm the aiming. It’s a bug I’ve been after for weeks now. 
someday it WILL be fixed.
Also, I will be adding the power up notification to the next version.
i actually enjoyed this game. The only thing i could say would be to try and make it act more like a space ship with some physics, but then again that might not make it as fun. 
The first time I played this was on my work computer. Now that I have played it at home the playability has improved a bit. However I think the biggest performance hit is having all those ghost trails for everything. It really makes the game hard to follow.
You might want to scale everything down a bit too. With the size of my ship and tha bad guys, the control system makes it hard to not run into everything.