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Cian Rice
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Posted: 14th Mar 2007 01:10
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http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/game/echoes

Binary Zoo ftw. Again. Anyone know if this was made in something other than DB, or what?

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spooky
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Posted: 14th Mar 2007 03:07
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The exe is full of DBPro dll's so looks like DBPro to me.

Nice game.

Boo!
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Cian Rice
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Then I declare it to be the most enjoyable DBP game I have played.

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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 14th Mar 2007 19:41
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Great game! This (and Binary Zoo's other stuff) is definately some of the BEST stuff that has been done in DBpro. Although it is simple in the gameplay department, it is more polished than most pro games are. The attention to detail is amazing.

Good stuff!

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fog
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Posted: 14th Mar 2007 19:48
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It's written entirely using our <dodo> shmup scripting system based around a DBPro engine. So yup, it's all DBPro sprites

As ever, thanks for the kind comments.

As an aside and for anyone that remembers it, DUOtris has now been picked up by a publisher and is out on Blackberry and Mobile formats (see our site) so again, thanks to everyone who encouraged us during the development of that

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Cian Rice
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NICE! I think you should rewrite Echoes in XNA and submit it to Microsoft? Would be a good addition to the XBLA library. =)


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DrewG
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Fog, you are the more awesomest programmer ever in DBPRO.

Sorry Benjaming, Spooky, Cash Curtis, etc. but you have to admit.

WEll not exactly, fog is the best 2D DBPRO coder, the rest is speculation.

-Drew

Sorry if I offended anyone.
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BatVink
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Posted: 15th Mar 2007 00:47
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holy cow, it's Mono on Speed!
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Cian Rice
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Posted: 15th Mar 2007 01:00 Edited at: 15th Mar 2007 01:01
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It's much more than that! It's super speed. >.>


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Drew Cameron
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Hey Fog great to see you back in action; great game!

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Miguel Melo
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What an awesome little game!

I have vague plans for World Domination
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Jeku
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Posted: 15th Mar 2007 04:06
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Awesome game, Fog! You *really* should charge for your next one, and try to get it on Steam, Real Arcade, Shockwave, etc.

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Cian Rice
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Posted: 15th Mar 2007 04:34
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Or make it in XNA for XBLA!


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fog
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Posted: 15th Mar 2007 22:16
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Cheers all

Good to see quite a few oldies still around. Hope all is well.

XNA? I'd love to give it a shot.....if only I had the time

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Cian Rice
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Fog, If I can actually grasp it then you could do it.

As in I'm sure you could make something good in it rather quickly. >.>


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Valle
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Posted: 6th Apr 2007 22:06 Edited at: 6th Apr 2007 22:07
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Awesome game!!! Hardcore addicting!
Damn, my games wont ever be that polished
just noticed the animals wandering around the screen after you dont touch the mouse for a while

one question, why do use more than one image for each powerup, u could just put all the frames in one image and use animated sprites, why dont u do so?

Edit: Why dont you post this in program announcements?


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Zotoaster
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Posted: 6th Apr 2007 22:44
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10 SHOOT STUFF
20 DIE
30 GOTO 10


Good one

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fog
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one question, why do use more than one image for each powerup, u could just put all the frames in one image and use animated sprites, why dont u do so?
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I just wanted something more flexible than the built in animated sprites commands. Something that can handle multiple image sizes, that can playback animation frames in an order other than sequential, that can automatically trigger another animation when the first one finishes etc.

And as the same code is intended to be used for a lot of projects, it is capable of quite a few things that aren't obvious in Echoes.....and let's be honest, Echoes is hardly a good example of sprite animation anyway

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Edit: Why dont you post this in program announcements?
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Because someone else was good enough to announce it here first. I've just noticed there's also a highscore thread too. Anymore Echoes threads and I'd call it spamming


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10 SHOOT STUFF
20 DIE
30 GOTO 10


Good one
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Glad you appreciated that. One for us oldies

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