Game Maker Space Game Preview

DESCRIPTION:
A quick preview of my upcoming game "Rimor ex Steedin".
There are no sound effects YET.

DISCLAIMER:
Some of you have noticed that this game in its early stages looks a lot like Ted Lauterbach, A.K.A. (rotten tater)'s game "Super Space Game".

I'm a big fan of Ted's work, and I would never try to steal his work. What I was trying to do was make a space game with the same roaming around collecting money and leveling up as his, but make it much more complex (i.e. buy and sell worlds, upgrade your ship's looks as well as weapons, buy your ships motherboard [more and better HUD], et cetera), the only problem is I'm not really very good at making sprites, so I made the poor decision of using his method and color palette for making the asteroids.

I was planning to change the fuel system to a much smaller bar at the top of the screen, I am also considering changing the asteroid style (it is the same style as Ted's) as well as the death event.

The reason the effects look so close to Ted's, is because I wanted a strong starting point for my game. I guess I probably shouldn't have posted a preview of a game so far from being complete.

I have actually discontinued this project because I figured that nothing good was going to come of it, and because I was getting a little tired of the same thing over, and over again.

-Mike

CREDITS:
Ted Lauterbach (rotten tater):
-personally helped me get the HUD to work properly.
-originally came up with the asteroid style which I used in the alpha release of this game
-inspiration to make this game

Mike Miller (virgildog1950) [me]:
-making everything else in the game (including using my own technique for the HUD [his involved the player not moving at all, and the world just moving])

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• game
• maker
• space

[TheRubixGuy]

how do you win?

[virgildog1950]

@TheRubixGuy It's not done yet; you can't win.

[virgildog1950]

Also, the Asteroids probably look like his because I used the same color palette and depth system.

I am considering redoing all of the asteroids graphics so no one gets the impression that I'm trying to steal Ted's work.

[Kuj4kReviews]

This is really weird, this looks exactly like a game i played a year ago by a guy named rottentatter. Im pretty sure it won some awards and stuff. It looked just like this, well actually a little better. What do you think you are doing?

[virgildog1950]

@Kuj4kReviews Yeah, I was going for the same effect that he was going for. This is still under construction and his game inspired me to make it.

Obviously my goal is not by any means to try and impersonate or take credit for his work but rather to get the same base movement and particle engine.

I ended up actually emailing him myself to talk about how to get the HUD to work the way it does now.

I hope that this clears everything up, and if it doesn't, hopefully the final release will.

-Mike

[joshtt10]

can you make a tutorial for this?

[tankyroo]

Good job! it looks awesome.

[ntkita]

I like the idea. Maybe there will be stations to refuel and buy/sell ship parts

[luthimir]

@Kuj4k You're right, it's on GameJolt.com

[SynforgeGames]

nice game, I especially like the particle effect graphics