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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 01:17
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Not very origional, but I never made one before (and its 3D!). Get it here:

http://www.mikenmaz.btinternet.co.uk/spi3d.zip

Its got online high score table so I'm looking for people to fill it.
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Northern Fist
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 02:01
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Downloading now...

"The keyboard is mightier than the sword."
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Northern Fist
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 02:08
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Neat! I like it. A very well represented Retro of the classic game. The menus were fantastic, the models clean, and the sound/music appropriate. However, my only complaint is that the ship seems to maneuver a little too slowely (minor detail).

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Sonic
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 03:00
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Very nice indeed - almost commercial quality (in a retro 3d remake kinda way). I see lots of effort put in here - well done!

Pros: The presentation, the AWESOME effect when you take down the flying saucer, music/sounds, graphics & gameplay (had me hooked for 15 mins or so)

Cons: "Could not connect" message at the end - told me to re-start the game although I AM connected. So I guess I lost my 12000 ish score? Holding down the spacebar did not repeat fire (even after the life of existing bullet had expired). The aliens take a little too long to speed up, making the game too easy (you can quickly shoot down a whole row until you only have a few left), The aliens don't shoot at you enough (again makes the game a bit easy).

Overall though it easily rates as one of the better DB Pro games I've played

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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 12:24
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Thanks for feedback.

@ Northern Fist
The ship did go faster at first but I wanted to get that whole desperate chase for the mothership thing that the origional had.

@ Sonic
Gonna speed up aliens more and ad few more bombs. The fire thing I will also change.

@ Everyone who plays
Can you all connect to my high score table?
Seems to me you can't
Would it be a security thing that my ISP only allows FTP connection from my IP?
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walaber
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 13:14
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any chance of getting a screenshot? many people with slower connections won'tt download unless they have some eye-candy

i have a fast connection so I'll give it a try tonight regardless

Go Go Gadget DBPRO!

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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 13:38
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ok:

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Sonic
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 23:54
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Imposible to say without giving out your FTP details but I don't think it's usual to have IP restrictions on FTP accounts.

I think the way you have the "Auto upload" as a default setting is asking for trouble - maybe just check your code and have it as an option with default of OFF as it caused the game to crash for me - a rather dissapointing end to an enjoyable bit of Space Invaders fun

Its a shame we all harp on about the flaws of something though - as space invader games go this is the best clone I've ever played (apart from the original of course). You have some good graphics in there - everything gells well and the gameplay is good, although could do with some tweaks. I also liked the font thing you had going on - presumably you are rendering that from a bitmap?

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sponge008
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Posted: 14th Feb 2004 04:25
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Heck, I like this better than the original, except that arcade machines don't freeze when you attempt to access high scores, lol.
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walaber
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Posted: 14th Feb 2004 04:45
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hehehe. yep.


very nice, complete game!! great effects, nice music... much better than your original post makes it out to be!!

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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 17th Feb 2004 21:02
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Just had e-mail back from my ISP - as a security feature only I can FTP connect.
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