I've tested your game : slow in a simple PC without real 3D hardware : and it's 2D

i've tested other 2D games that runs really fast ; i think Cscript is slow and 3DGS better suited for 3D.

try that : i think you'll quickly forget your very poor 2D game
http://www.arcticgeckostudios.com/pedro/?section=projects

-tap twice forward to acceleration
-keep shoot key to charge a shot

amazing animations and combination of torso, legs animations,
gret level graphics and character.

try to find the acqueduct sub level you'll find water and cool animation when you fall on it

you can see the hair of character is animated with simle physics maths but the result is just great

Another game that proove that 2D can be marvellous compared to lot of
awfull 3D things made by programmers

You're the only one that's getting the slow effect. Everyone else is getting smooth frame rates and things. It may seem 2D, but it does have a strong 3D feel to it. The main reason for 2D is because MED is missing a very important feature preventing me from doing anything with 3D. I ain't going to be punching numbers into the calculator for ten hours to position 4000 skin vertices because scaling doesn't work properly.

TheExpert, please please please watch what are you saying. I have to watch myself to not force myself to open my locker with all the bad words I should put over your tiny head because you are blaming the really hard work of our beloved fellow uli. If you don't like it, leave it.

@uli

Personally I like the style of your graphics, even it is sophisticated retro-style.. cool stuff. Some graphics are so worse that they are looking beautiful in their simplyness in my eyes I played your first released demo some time ago and was appealed there, too.

One thing which is REALLY annoying is that too much things are on the screen for example in the main menu. Or that unneeded elements arent invisible. Lets take the tutorial: all screen elements are visible all the time. You should display them only when needed when you are displaying something, and when you are doing so, just fade them in or out. When explaining some techniqes, animates sprites or small movies are helpful.
Also, which I dislike, is presenting an announced "complete" product without any sound! This is really a thing you should oversleep a night. Use some old synth-sounds to keep them analoge to your graphics style.

I have a clear view when it comes to: how hard it is A) to finish ALONE a demo or even full feature game and B) being stuck because you are thinkin' "whoa my game/code/feature is great". Never trust a programmer who wants to improve his own piece of code / debug his code! Maybe you should do something for look&feel of your game. I mean this serious.. it is in fact an improvement and I'm like you (maybe, haha): Sometimes I get new ideas of our gameplay/design departement apart from the well know design document which features everything I have/had to do. Them I'm thinking in in some cases "wth.. why should I program it, it makes fun at the current state". In the first second I'm lazy but later on in the most cases I say "it IS in fact an improvement and I'm a bad guy because I was too sceptic".

This works with most things.. though, programmers vs. designers are a special case, hehe. Programmers dont like fun

So wether you are taking some good pieces of my cake here or not, you've got my respect and attention.

Best wishes,
Christian

Adding sound is in my future plans. Earlier, I had no known way of doing so. Right now, I have limited funds so I'm not able to get FLStudio for doing so and DirectMusic Producer, my other related program, doesn't have a way to export as WAV so I have to manually record it (using line-in rather than a microphone). I don't get what you mean by the main menu, however.

This is SOOO off topic, i'm ashamed to even say it...

Eeveryone knows how i complain about posters that rip and shred people's efforts, and when I saw this thread i was so worried because of the few jerks who love to rip on Uli.

That said, im very proud with the overall critiques in this thread. All SC1 & SC2 threads should read like this one!

Now on topic:
This thread follows the guidlines of an SC2 post, there should be no question why it's here.

Congratulations ULI! A finished GS project is hard to find in any genre!

I know if you had to do it over, it would be a different project alltogether. But I imagine you've learned a lot, and you wish this project would wholly represent the skills you've accquired over this time. That's OK this project is still good for what it is, and your next will be even better!

Awesome ULI, I'm very proud of you!!!!!!

Jason

keep up the good work, I wish I knew what we could do with that awesome mathematical mind of yours, ever think of going to MIT?

Jason

I have now released the full edition after a long-lasting series of E-mails between me and Regnow. This is the order form. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the order form or even advertise a Gamestudio project, so if it's not allowed, then feel free to delete this post.