S.E.U.C.K
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:53 am
some might remember the shoot 'em up construction kit from the C64 or the "miggy", few have picked up that idea and ported a modern version of such, especially for free. 
but since a while exists the GACK which means games app construction kit.the software is still under cunstruction, but already you can make on your PC some simple games.don't expect to much, if something is simple to handle the result will be limited.it's somewhat different to the s.e.u.c.k, especially because it's possible also to make a jump 'n run game or you can exceed it to something else,you will see.further it's far easier to work with compared to the old s.e.u.c.k, i tried to compare...it's horrible.still it's limited, but i guess it now offers quite more, i never liked the s.e.u.c.k games to much. little had at least i funny idea behind which has let the limitations become less boring.still enemies will follow only a given path...there are some leaks, like you can't make a standalone game by now (by now? hmm, i guess he has his reasons)joysticksupport is unfortunately incomplete? but if you have a proper software to assign keystrokes to the stick it works fine.anyway often i prefere this way instead of a "direct" joystickcontrol, especially for older games.i guess after some different projects i started, i can say, a shoot 'em up is the worst you can do with the G.A.C.K.personally i have more fun with the other experiments i started.a funny feature of it is the "programmable synthesizer" you use for the sfx, instead to simply load wave file you have to create the soundeffects yourself.that's at least 100% legal 
and can be real fun!don't be surprised it's a bit tackling to click on butttons which appear as new entries at the bottom of a menu window.in the beginning i thought the sfx are limited to 9 "slots" but it's only because it's hard to reach that damned button.interesting sounds to me the, that its planned to make the final games once portable to various systems respectively handhelds.actually it's bound to a windoze 
the editor is easy to understand and creating sprites and animations is really fun to to withsequential animationthis friendly alien is from intellivisions "Game Factory" (in fact it's a little fox)8 way, directional movementa simple one, only 4 (2) different spritesbackgrounds are made of tiles, similar to the sprites, you have unlimited amount for, it can be either a set of repetive used tiles or a unique background from a scene like a photographic picture.you have various methods for scrolling the game screen, the classic vertical shoot 'em uphorizontal scrollingstatic screenbut it's also possible to give the player gravity and you can create a jump 'n runhoizontal scrolling...or static respectively this one is vertical scrolling it's a bit complicatet to make a static screen with gravityyou can make even a large map on which the player has to find his way through a labyrith (hack 'n slash or chop 'n run? )it's a bit limited because you can't scroll downwards, but you can compensate that with a clever layout of the labyrinth and use it as a additional challange (to play the game, there is no turning back).[/hr]here you can download the G.A.C.K editor[url]http://seuck.glbasic.com/[/url] projects are in this location(scroll down to reply 9 and 10)[url]http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=6523.msg57963#msg57963[/url]
but since a while exists the GACK which means games app construction kit.the software is still under cunstruction, but already you can make on your PC some simple games.don't expect to much, if something is simple to handle the result will be limited.it's somewhat different to the s.e.u.c.k, especially because it's possible also to make a jump 'n run game or you can exceed it to something else,you will see.further it's far easier to work with compared to the old s.e.u.c.k, i tried to compare...it's horrible.still it's limited, but i guess it now offers quite more, i never liked the s.e.u.c.k games to much. little had at least i funny idea behind which has let the limitations become less boring.still enemies will follow only a given path...there are some leaks, like you can't make a standalone game by now (by now? hmm, i guess he has his reasons)joysticksupport is unfortunately incomplete? but if you have a proper software to assign keystrokes to the stick it works fine.anyway often i prefere this way instead of a "direct" joystickcontrol, especially for older games.i guess after some different projects i started, i can say, a shoot 'em up is the worst you can do with the G.A.C.K.personally i have more fun with the other experiments i started.a funny feature of it is the "programmable synthesizer" you use for the sfx, instead to simply load wave file you have to create the soundeffects yourself.that's at least 100% legal and can be real fun!don't be surprised it's a bit tackling to click on butttons which appear as new entries at the bottom of a menu window.in the beginning i thought the sfx are limited to 9 "slots" but it's only because it's hard to reach that damned button.interesting sounds to me the, that its planned to make the final games once portable to various systems respectively handhelds.actually it's bound to a windoze the editor is easy to understand and creating sprites and animations is really fun to to withsequential animationthis friendly alien is from intellivisions "Game Factory" (in fact it's a little fox)8 way, directional movementa simple one, only 4 (2) different spritesbackgrounds are made of tiles, similar to the sprites, you have unlimited amount for, it can be either a set of repetive used tiles or a unique background from a scene like a photographic picture.you have various methods for scrolling the game screen, the classic vertical shoot 'em uphorizontal scrollingstatic screenbut it's also possible to give the player gravity and you can create a jump 'n runhoizontal scrolling...or static respectively this one is vertical scrolling it's a bit complicatet to make a static screen with gravityyou can make even a large map on which the player has to find his way through a labyrith (hack 'n slash or chop 'n run? )it's a bit limited because you can't scroll downwards, but you can compensate that with a clever layout of the labyrinth and use it as a additional challange (to play the game, there is no turning back).[/hr]here you can download the G.A.C.K editor[url]http://seuck.glbasic.com/[/url] projects are in this location(scroll down to reply 9 and 10)[url]http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=6523.msg57963#msg57963[/url]