Super Rocketeer

There is a fatal flaw in your demo: If you die while doing a rocket boost, the game freezes, and I get a negative ms value from Flash when determining FPS.

Yes, that's an old problem I've known about for some time, since then it's been fixed in the current build of Super Rocketeer thanks to some help from Alexin. Please know that the Rocketeer demo doesn't reflect Super Rocketeer's current state.

~ Blob

I really like how the new graphics turned out - good luck with this!

Well, it's nice to see it's already been fixed. ^_^ You never know when these go unnoticed...

At first I was rather surprised with the name of this game because it made me think of not only the movie Rocketeer, but the SNES game based off of the movie. Your game definitely takes the word Rocketeer differently, and that is reflected in your gameplay.

There is a fatal flaw in your demo: If you die while doing a rocket boost, the game freezes, and I get a negative ms value from Flash when determining FPS.

That demo is outdated. He's redoing the game.

Edit: Oh there's a page 2 with posts on it.

There is a fatal flaw in your demo: If you die while doing a rocket boost, the game freezes, and I get a negative ms value from Flash when determining FPS.

That's nothing, KFF. I've managed to get different one in which game not freezes, but new Rocketeer is spawned every few seconds and after a while you get army of 300 or more Rockeeters. Tough I don't know how to reproduce it.

That's nothing, KFF. I've managed to get different one in which game not freezes, but new Rocketeer is spawned every few seconds and after a while you get army of 300 or more Rockeeters. Tough I don't know how to reproduce it.

Ah, that's another problem I was aware of way back, but I thought I had fixed that for the old demo. In any case, it's not a problem now as Super Rocketeer doesn't use the flag checkpoint system, which was the source of the problem.

~ Blob

EDIT: for those who haven't seen this cool little glitch:

I've gotta say, the make-over you gave this game is absolutely.. orgasmic.

I've never played it, but your glitch reminds me of a 2D version of Pikmin.

Sorry for the delay in updates, I know this game went under the radar for a lot of newcomers, but now I have the first update ready for mentioning some of the accomplishments I've made with the game thus far.

[click titles for screenshots]

Mobility

While I've been fine-tuning the controls from the original Rocketeer prototype, I've also been giving Rocketeer more abilities such as ground pounding, ducking, rolling, and picking up objects, giving the player more ways to handle situations.

Water

Water shifts gameplay from platforming to precision movement. I'm debating whether or not to have there be a breath-holding time limit.


Fire

Fire is the first hazard in the game that isn't death-on-touch, it gives you time to find a water source to cool off. Right now it doesn't add too much variety to the gameplay, but I've toyed with the idea of dynamic fire. It probably won't make it into the Super Rocketeer demo as it's planned for later levels.

Power-Ups
I've made a handful of power-ups for Rocketeer that change up gameplay. I'm not going into specifics just yet, but you might've seen a couple as my avatar.

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There's more I could talk about, but I think I've covered enough highlights for now. As usual, feel free to comment or give feedback on anything. A demo is somewhere on the horizon and I'd like to make it as smooth as possible.

~ Blob

Those graphics are absolutely gorgeous Blob! I cannot wait for you to release the demo as I am sure it is going to be amazing! Great Job!

Those graphics are so great. @_@

Excellent banner!

Lookin' great! I like the new features, and it'll be nice to see exactly what the power-ups we've seen as your avatar do. :]

Definitely can't wait for the demo.

BLOB This is SO COOL bro, post more soon!

-thumbs up-

<3 ali

Finish it please