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<t>Yep it's all my own sprites, sounds and music. I've actually redone a lot of the art since these screenies, and added drop shadow to everything giving the game a bit of a South Park style paper cutout look! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif ...

Perhaps pirates could only decide to attack when you are holding valuable cargo. I always hated in frontier that all pirates were willing to risk their lives trying to kill you for absolutely no reward!

PINBACK wrote:
I can try it out for on a windows 7 64 bit bigbox and a XP bigbox for you.
The problems now fixed actually, but thanks for the offer! You can give it a try anyway if you wish-[url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/70929229/Space%20Malarkey%20Pre-Alpha.rar[/url]

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DarkOne wrote:<br/>
Least you are trying to make something, I never tried Gamemaker series of engines. How easy has it been to learn? If I wasn't knee deep in trying to test out and convert SSC website I would give this a spin for a few hours.<br/>
Hi DarkOne, I think it's incredibly easy ...

<r>----EDIT/UPDATE--- The problem is now fixed! Thanks to deepseaweed I found the cause of the problem. Turns out In was being a silly Billy <E>:oops:</E> Hello, I'm making a game in Gamermaker 8. It all seems to be going well, but when I send it to my brother to test, he says the mouse pointer won ...

I can see this getting better and better until it's able to actually blast off irl!

I think cockpits are something to be careful with.. I really do like them, but once crew members are implemented for larger ships which would logically have a bridge rather than a cockpit, how are they going to be visible? It'll be weird if you have a crew of 8 yet not see any of them.

HAHA I'll have to add in some more of that kind of stuff then. Different uniforms is a fantastic idea too! I'd like to hopefully have someone add code to make the stock market traders visible at some point aswell.

Just a trivial visual thing, but I could make some varying clothing and accessory styles for each faction in the facegen. I've had no time at all to work on it lately, but I do plan to clean the whole thing and make it look more "finished" aswell.

<r>I sometimes play the bladerunner ost when having a fly around in Pioneer. Blade Runner Blues in particular gives a really lonely feeling that I feel fits the emptiness of space quite well <E>:)</E><YOUTUBE id="lSKlDDKxHFw"><s>[media]</s>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSKlDDKxHFw<e>[/media]</e ...

<t>I'll be happy even if (for starters) the only real different between factions is that they manufacture and sell a different range of ships. But if my opinion is worth anything, the most urgent thing that needs to be implemented is a crude trading system. Nothing too complex, just the ability to ...

<r>You're the coolest dad ever! Will it have a joystic too? I've been playing a bit on a 360 pad and it works a charm. There's some nice stuff you can do with XPadder too, a program that lets you bind joypad and joystick controls to do pretty much anything.It would be really cool if you could get in ...

Thanks for that, it looks amazing so far! Well and truly bookmarked

The manual was one of my favorite things about frontier/ffe! The feeling that I had inherited a ship and was now reading the instruction manual before attempting a very first space flight was priceless. This is a great start!

ollobrain wrote:
Its still weighted towards graphics-engine
Haha do I detect a hint of bitterness Don't worry, I'm sure the colonisation and empire building elements will be in the next update!

<r>I was thinking of playing around with the sounds but I can barely find time to work on the facegen stuff at the moment, so it's fantastic you're doing this! If you could (and this is just an idea) make the weapon and laser sounds really punchy. I'm so bored of space games having swishy pew pew ...

Just had a bit of an idea. Does anybody else think it would be good if advertisments popped up on the ui while docked at stations? They might fit in quite nicely with the new layouts and it would be a chance to get a nice bit of humour in the game.

The 3rd and 4th pics have got me really excited. Nice work s2odan! So am I right in thinking you are achieving these improved visuals without needing a gpu upgrade?

I like it even though it doesn't actually work. It's kind of like a throwback to older times when spacecraft needed a runway for take-off.

Come on, let's all get along. IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!