Ship Scaling Sprites

[Cameron Mitchel]

nice demo, but the hud gets in the way sometimes. The main thing is that you cant see the text on the HUD sometimes.

[Battera]

I don't really know what you mean...


here's the story of the game given in the game. I've decided to give meaning to the titles 'Beta' and 'Alpha'.


Stargate Battles
The Beta System

Prologue:
The Stargates are devices built by the Ancients-A powerful race of highly evolved aliens that discovered the secrets of the universe. The Stargates are used to travel from planet to planet instantly.

The Ancients built Stargate-Networks in many galaxies, including the Ida, the Pegasus, and the Milky way. It is within these galaxies that our stories take place.

The Year is 2020. The Ori threat has been eliminated using the San'graal, a device designed to kill ascended beings. Earth's Allies, the Asgard, have been able to reverse engineer technologies from both the city of Atlantis, and the repository of knowledge obtained from General O'neill's mind.

Using Asgard, Human, and Ancient technologies, the united states government has constructed a warship superior in every way the both the BC-303's and the DSC-304. They made the first ESW-305, codename Illiad. It's commander-Brigadeer General Samantha Carter. The ship's first mission-fly to the asgard homeworld for the final diagnostics of the ship, as well as the installation of Asgard weaponry.

Story:
The Illiad's powersource is a supspace pocket generator, much like a ZPM. During the flight to the Asgard homeworld, a glitch in the humans engines make the engines draw far too much power from the Zero-point generator, and propell the human ship far into another galaxy...

Welcome to the Beta System.

The 100 year war:
A war is being fought in the Beta system, by two races-the Baltians and the Jarshja. The two races began their war when the Baltians found an Ancient outpost in their galaxy and claimed it. The outpost was on the boundaries of Jarshja territory. In a rage, the Jarshja sent a fleet to destroy the outpost, and the Baltian settlement on the planet. Thus the war began.

A third technologically advanced society exists in the galaxy. They are the Vajnaarians. They have considerable numbers, and are significantly more advanced technologically then either the Baltians or the Jarshja. Infact both races have attempted to form an alliance with them, only to be ignored. Vajnaarians are insanely brilliant strategists. They have never lost any ships in their battles. The only time the Vajnaarians intervene in the war is when the battles come too close to their territory.

Twenty years ago, a fleet of Baltian and Jarshja ships were engaging eachother. A gas cloud disabled their navigations, so they had no clue that they were knee deep in Vajnaarian territory. Apparently they stumbled apon a planet with great importance to the Vajnaarians, because they portected it with a fleet of hundreds, and decimated the Baltian and Jarshja fleets, leaving no survivors. Afterwards, the Vajnaarians issued a warning to both races-encroach on our territory again and we will enter your war...


Species:

Allied Races:

Asgard-the grey aliens. Highly developed technologically, however they're species is on the brink of destruction because of a genetic error found in the asgard's bodies.

Tau'ri-Humans of Earth. Rapidly developing society, the Tau'ri has only a bit of understanding of the technology they've been given, but they're learning...


Enemy Races:

Baltians-A mammalian race, not disimilar to gorillas. The shields and hull integrity of their ships is highly developed. Their weaponry has a great yield, but poor fire rate. Because their ships are so heavily armored, their hyperdrive engines are sluggish, and their sublight engines are much more noticably afflicted. The Baltians, despite their animalistic appearence, are civilized, and have steadfast resolve.

Jarshja-Reptilian in appearence, the Jarshja are more closely related to fish then snakes. Their ships are smaller then the Baltians, and their hulls are not as durable, and their shield technology is inferior, however the Jarshja warships are easily mass-produced, and often out number the Baltians. Jarshja engines are highly developed. In the battlefield, they swarm their enemies, and bombard them with great might. Individual shots of Jarshja weaponry have little effect, but they possess the capabilities to rapid fire salvo after salvo of weapons at their enemies, in the long run inflicting terrible damage.

Vajnaarians-No one knows what they look like, or how their society is structured. Logic dictates that they might be peaceful in nature, like the Asgard. They're style is questionable however. Their ships are built with many thorn-like extrusions, with an unknown purpose. Their weapons are powerful, their engines are powerful, and their shields are greatly resiliant.


The New conflict...

A baltian scout encounters the ESW-305 and engages it but is easliy destroyed. The baltians dispatch a fleet to investigate. The fleet is defeated single-handedly by the ESW-305.

The jarshja learn of the ship, and see how powerful it really is. The ESW-305's shields are greater then the Baltians, its engines are swifter than the Jarshja, and it weapons... atleast the Asgard designed ones are powerful single-fired and when fired in a salvo... The two races believe that they can capture the ESW-305, and use it's technology to fix the flaws of their technology. Let them try...

[ste]

dude, i made it to level 3 in your first demo, oh my god, its so hard, i launched all fighters and destroyed to many ships but still i was flyin in a sea of enemy fire, ya need a kill count, somethin like how many you killed and how many are left so people can get some hope, great game though, i played it for ages just to get to level 3

was playing the new demo, is there only one level?

[Battera]

yes, the demo is merely to demonstrate the new features of the game.

I was watching 'Comedy Central's roast of William Shatner' which my TiVo recorded for me, and I decided to remove the built in message feature of Game Maker's role as the story teller, in exchange for a 'captain's log' of sorts. Sam Carter will give the 'play by play' of what's happening.

The missions will also be structured differently. Each mission will have different waves, or parts if you will, like 'Act one', 'Act Two', and so on. The stroy details and goings-on of the game will be kept secret, only the back story will be released, but I will be generous enough to give you the details on the first mission:

Objectives:
1. Fly to Earth's outer atmosphere
2. Destroy the remote-controlled Ha'tak (like a 'real' battle sim to test the ship)
3. Activate Hyperdrive
4. Fly to unknown scout ship.
5. Scout ship has attacked you. Engage scout ship.
6. Another scout has arrived. Engage it.
7. Three more scouts have arrived. Engage them.
8. Five scouts and an Escort war-cruiser have arrived to finish off your ship. Defeat them.

I plan to have about 40 missions like the one above in the game. Some longer, some shorter. There are no shield/ammo/hull recharges inbetween mission objectives.

[jhkplaya888]

omfg it is impossible 2 fly in the game

[Battera]

...no it isn't. It may take a while to get used to it, but it is possible.

[Bootbinder]

I have DLed the zip, I will try this out when I get back on my home PC instead of this laptop. This all looks interesting.

[jhkplaya888]

only 1 lv?

[tsjr]

Good Demo but the screen is way too small, would be easier if it was full screen. also it might be helpfull if you knew how many enemies you had to take out

[Battera]

Well... ther IS a radar. Ok, I'll add a 'mission details thing' where it'll show you what enemies you need to fight, and how many.

[stewsith]

nice job on the sprites anyhow

[Battera]

Thanks! Also, I'd like to ask:

Would any of the talented sprites that visit this topic be interested in making sprites (top-down of course) of the bridge of the Illiad (same as the prommey and deady), and bridges of the baltian and jarshja and Vajnaarian ships, as well as sprites of Smantha carter, a Baltian, a jarshjan and an Empress (Female ruler) for the game?

[Ltcolshepjumper]

I don't know about eople. bridges maybe. But not people.

[Cameron Mitchel]

Hey, I told you I'd work on it, but I just need a little time. School is in session, so I just gotta find time.

[Battera]

Yes, and you said maybe on the people.