This is a devlog to my new SHMUP in the making, Geometrical Rampage. It’s about a square, who goes on… well a rampage. I’m thinking of bosses and stuff and bullet upgrades too, this overall is supposed to be a fun game anyone could play. No link yet by the way since the game isn’t in a playable state. Also my birthday was on Feb 5, Monday hooray
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Happy belated birthday!! 
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happy birthday
unrelatedly, this sounds fun keep going
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Happy birthday!! : D
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Devlog 1
Feb, 8. 2024
As of right now I just have movement and shooting. I’m planning on adding basic enemies and progression to multiple bosses. You shoot orange triangles that look like doritos.
Plans
- 10 Bosses
- 5 Common Enemies
- 3 Weapons
- Cool background.
Overall, not much today. Just making a plan I guess.
Can you make the enemies circles and triangles?
Devlog 2
Feb 9, 2024.
I got a circle-pacman character called a chomper in the game. He spawns randomly from the top and goes down, touching him will get you to lose 1 HP and shooting him gives you 5 Score Points. But after a long time, the game gets super laggy. Does anyone have a cure for this?
Bugs Found:
- Lag happens after playing for a bit.
Here’s the link: https://arcade.makecode.com/#editor
Overall, not a lot happening yet. Will develop bosses after enemies.
Off-Topic Question
(also, off-topic but does anyone know if there’s going to be a point where I don’t have to wait for my posts to get approved? It gets pretty tedious as when I post something I don’t have the patience to wait for it to be approved.)
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Unfortunately, since we have so many young visitors, each and every post has to be officially approved. Sorry for the delays…but we get used to it!
Also, would you mind using the share button in the upper-right-hand corner to grab the link for your game? The #edit URL will just take everyone to the games that they’re currently working on.
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Yeah they’re probably gonna be that anyway.
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can i make a boss?
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if you don’t shoot him or if he doesn’t touch you, he never dies and stays moving infinitely downwards without interacting with anything. add a bar at the bottom which kills them on contact and you’ll be fine.
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Sorry here’s the link to the game; https://arcade.makecode.com/S22154-58650-99781-71084
And yes, @Cursedeclipse you could make a boss. Just make sure it’s shape themed and make sure the boss is fair. Depending on how hard your boss is, is how I’ll put it in what number boss it is.
I’ve got two suggestions that might help!
Either:
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Make the chompers projectiles that fall from the top:
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Or set the lifespan of the chompers to something small, like 1000ms
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Thank you! The lag died out really quickly.
ok, i have 3 ideas so let the people on this thread decide:
- B: a large circular bee which summons smaller circle bees and has a weak attack
- Snek the Mighty: a snake made of triangles that comes in from the sides and splits into smaller snakes
- Dave: a round tank with powerful cannon and lots of health, but can’t move
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Is there a story?
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SNEK!! 
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I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED
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Square Man with anger issues gets mad at a group of circles for making fun of him since he can’t roll, then his day gets worse as a group of triangles beat him up due to being some of the pointiest out there. Then some other Square had recently robbed the bank and exactly looks like the Square Man who has been having a bad day so the police go after him.
As Square Man runs to his house, he begins trashing everything and goes on a rampage.
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no matter how epic snek will be, he’ll be hell to code because of 2 things:
- splitting is very hard
- making him wiggle is very hard
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