šŸ’„ Missile Battlegrounds

Arcade Show & Tell
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Press a to shoot

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its not working

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I can confirm for @kirbob that shooting is broken right now.

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yeah pressing A does nothing

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So I can confirm that there is in fact a problem, although Iā€™m confused, I looked at the code and everything checks out and it seems to be fine

@richard can you help me, Iā€™m genuinely baffled

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@MeatballDev when you pause inside an ā€œon A button pressedā€ handler, it will prevent that button from being pressed again until the handler finishes running. your A button handler is calling startSP which has a ā€œplay song until doneā€ block in it thatā€™s pausing the handler until the song finishes. looks like there is also a separately do block, so i wonder if that song was perhaps moved out of that separately do

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MBG Announcement - Removal of Missile Battlegrounds from Makecode Games Site

Due to personal reasons i will be removing Missile Battlegrounds, and every single game created and published on the makecode forums and any other site by me after August 2023 from the MakeCode Games Site, this is effective as soon as possible

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3 Years of Missile Battlegrounds and Meatballdev

3 Years Ago Today I signed up to the forums, all I had was a simple space shooter, hopes, dreams, and duct tape, I had no idea how far I would come, I thought I would be just another user who made that one game but its gone so far, I am a Top 20 User with over 4,000 Likes and rising fast, I am one of the most popular users on this forums, I created massive games, game jams, news outlets, and most importantly, my lifeā€™s work, Makecode Game Awards (RIP), and knowing its already been 3 Years, I feel old, where did all the time go, to celebrate my 3 year anniversary Iā€™ll have many things planned, but now, lets talk about the next update which will be releasing in the coming months

Missile Battlegrounds 2.1 - Chaos Theory

So for this update Iā€™m stepping away from the system of massive updates which not only take a long time to code and cause burnout for me which results in multi-year waits that nobody wants, so Iā€™m doing tiny updates, so coming in January 2027 (knowing me its subject to delays) is 2.1 - CHAOS THEORY

so 2.1 will do several things

2.1 Plans

Definitely

Bug Fixes

So we all know how New Horizons took 1Ā½ Years to release, but it was rushed, and when I did release it, it was an absolute buggy mess, so we are fixing the following bugs this update

  • Leaderboard out of Alignment
  • Blank White Screen After Intro

There is much much more but I cant think of them right now in the middle of Math Class

Frenzy Powerup

A New Powerup is arriving to Missile Battlegrounds, The Frenzy, this power up is an extremely rare power up, when activated it initiates a special mode where enemies more faster, more enemies spawn, sector spawn locks are removed, powerups spawn more, you gain more points, and much more, its a high risk but high reward event, it will last for 1 minute

Coin Drops

To Make way for the new economy system there will be a new drop on the screen, these coins give 50 points and no gameplay benefit and will only be used in the upcoming Vendor and Customization Update (Yet to be named

Points Overhaul

In another addition to set up the new economy system the way points are received will receive a complete overhaul, before if you killed an enemy you gained 1 point but this system will be changed, now its

  • Standard Missile: 100 Points
  • HVM: 500 Points
  • Other Enemies: 250 Points
  • Shield: 50 Points
  • Reset Orb: 25 Points
  • Coin: 50 Points

This should make getting high amounts of points much easier

Chaos Mode

A New Gamemode is Coming to Singleplayer, CHAOS MODE, so you know all the luxuries you have on Standard Singleplayer, Powerups, Health Increases, Multiple Lifes, yeah thats gone in the brand new gamemode, in hard mode there is no Second Chances, No Powerups, and 1 Life, it is the ultimate challenge only the most skilled can take on

Maybe (if i have time)

Settings Menu

The Unfinished 2.0 Update had a very advanced menu, and the second option is Settings, but it does nothing, it just says ā€œNot Hooked Up yetā€, so 2.1 will bring the settings menu which will allow you to adjust several things like volume, themes, and more

Tutorial

Many people dont know how to play the game which leads to many people not properly understanding the games systems, which leads to people being bad, which leads to early deaths, which results in people only ever seeing the simple game that is the early game, but as the game goes on it gets much more fun but most dont survive to make it that far, which is understandable, missile battlegrounds is of the, if not the hardest game on makecode due to the rapid progression, minimal learning curve, and fast reactions needed, its not a game for the weak, so 2.1 will add an indepth tutorial to teach people how to play the game

AND THATS ALL FOLKS

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For a 3 year old game this is kinda unfinished and still worse than Solaris may be skill difference or smth but hey keep working it will get there eventually

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this is great but for some reason I couldnā€™t fire in the newest version.

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