Have any of you played 1945? It's a scrolling shooter where you control an American airplane and fight against Japanese fighters (I believe, at least). For a grad class, I have to make computer games, and this was one of the games we were instructed to make. With the help of a tutorial I went ahead and made it. You can download it at

http://www.filefactory.com/file/abcd96/n/1945Game_exe

After playing it for a little while I found a couple of minor bugs, however it seems to work pretty well. Watch out for the white planes... they are dangerous! But, they are worth the most points :D

What highest score did you get?

Do you have any cool little computer games to share? I'm going to be making more, so I'll probably share them also.

Murlox

France1699 Posts

October 10 2008 23:54 GMT

650 points

Could you add some sprite to show when your plane is leaning toward left or right? it would look nicer.
Also, the most left or right planes are unreachable, thus unkillable.

And your plane is quite slow :/ And no options at all?

edit : by options I mean weapons upgrades, shield, speed, bombs...

yubee

United States3826 Posts

October 10 2008 23:54 GMT

lol there weren't even computers in 1945 lol???

SayaSP

Laos5494 Posts

October 10 2008 23:56 GMT

Read more, yubee omg

micronesia

United States24779 Posts

October 10 2008 23:57 GMT

On October 11 2008 08:54 Yank31 wrote:
650 points

Could you add some sprite to show when your plane is leaning toward left or right? it would look nicer.
Also, the most left or right planes are unreachable, thus unkillable.

And your plane is quite slow :/ And no options at all?

Making it lean is definitely possible, but tricky D:

I was gonna make the planes spawn slightly further from the edges, but got lazy... and I think it's ok if you can't reach every plane anyway.

Yeah the plane is slow... that's the recommended speed though. I could increase the speed by changing one setting.

On October 11 2008 08:54 yubee wrote:
lol there weren't even computers in 1945 lol???

I hope you are just being silly and realize it's about the war in 1945 :p

FragKrag

United States11566 Posts

October 10 2008 23:58 GMT

On October 11 2008 08:54 yubee wrote:
lol there weren't even computers in 1945 lol???

;__;

QuanticHawk

United States32151 Posts

October 11 2008 00:03 GMT

Romanians.

All of you.

I thought you're a teacher?

micronesia

United States24779 Posts

October 11 2008 00:05 GMT

On October 11 2008 09:03 Hawk wrote:
Romanians.

All of you.

Even me!?

I thought you're a teacher?

One that needs to get a masters degree.

Murlox

France1699 Posts

October 11 2008 00:14 GMT

Micronesia i understand that you don't have to reach every planes, but actually this is what makes the difference between a good game and just a random game.

If you *could* actually reach all the planes, but it would be hard to do so, then one can actually see a challenge, and then enjoy himself trying to beat that challenge and set a high score (think parodius, any shoot'em up really)

You're supposed to be able to kill'em all, god dammit!

Incognitodies

United Kingdom184 Posts

October 11 2008 00:21 GMT

#10

I played this game way bacak when it was on the Amstrad. That was a long time ago though so I can't really remember it that well (though I do remember the noise when the large plane or whatever it was came on and started spewing bullets).

825 Points first go anyway. Regarding your game I just want to say plz don't ever set the fire button to the space bar ever again =/

micronesia

United States24779 Posts

October 11 2008 00:39 GMT

#11

On October 11 2008 09:14 Yank31 wrote:
Micronesia i understand that you don't have to reach every planes, but actually this is what makes the difference between a good game and just a random game.

If you *could* actually reach all the planes, but it would be hard to do so, then one can actually see a challenge, and then enjoy himself trying to beat that challenge and set a high score (think parodius, any shoot'em up really)

You're supposed to be able to kill'em all, god dammit!

It's impossible to kill them all regardless since they just regenerate as soon as you kill them lol

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6642 Posts

October 11 2008 00:51 GMT

#12

I used to play this back in the day in a massive mame pack. There were some classics in there.

IntoTheWow

is awesome32278 Posts

October 11 2008 01:20 GMT

#13

On October 11 2008 08:54 yubee wrote:
lol there weren't even computers in 1945 lol???

LOL GOOD JOB YUBEE.

Frits

11782 Posts

October 11 2008 02:11 GMT

#14

haha yubee is the new charliemurphy

There were computers in 1945 though weren't there? Just not the kind that have microchips.

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

October 11 2008 03:01 GMT

#15

On October 11 2008 08:54 yubee wrote:
lol there weren't even computers in 1945 lol???

<3
(HelloWorld in IRC btw.)

Too bad it is .exe =\. No compatibility for me...

riotjune

United States3394 Posts

October 11 2008 03:35 GMT

#16

How long before transforming bosses show up?

micronesia

United States24779 Posts

October 11 2008 05:49 GMT

#17

On October 11 2008 12:35 riotjune wrote:
How long before transforming bosses show up?

Didn't include that in this version :p

beetlelisk

Poland2276 Posts

October 11 2008 08:13 GMT

#18

Toggle music on/off would be great ;P or is it in?

micronesia

United States24779 Posts

October 11 2008 12:53 GMT

#19

On October 11 2008 17:13 beetlelisk wrote:
Toggle music on/off would be great ;P or is it in?

I didn't put it, but yeah it wouldn't hurt.

dm47

82 Posts

October 11 2008 18:14 GMT

#20

for a Grad class? I made this same game in 7th grade o_O, and then I made it even better by adding boats and all other sorts of things. I think I still have my version, maybe I'll post it here when I get the chance. Hopefully this is just the beginning of your grad work