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A simple shooter mini game that can be played within Ace with a script call.
The game is designed to be simple. Enemies are random, they shoot random lazors at you. Powerups are random. Slowly during the course of the game the enemies spawn faster and faster until eventually the player will be overrun completely and die. A set time through the game, a reset powerup will spawn. If the player manages to get it, they get another chance at more points as it sets the spawn speed back to the start.
Variables are used for current score and high score which you can use in your game to give your player bonuses for doing well or not.
You’ll need the demo for all the graphics (but feel free to create your own)
NOTE: This is intended to be simple for now. Please don’t ask for add-ons or improvements. I might improve it later but for now, it is what it is.
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Amazing. I love your scripts :D
I’ve been tinkering around with this mini game for a couple of weeks, and and I’ll definitely be using this in my non-commercial project. It’s like an old arcarde shooter on crack.
There need to be more mini games like this :D
is there a way to change the game music?
In the settings you can specify a list of random music to use.
BGM_LIST
Really great script. Congrats ! Sadly, I tried to use a PP Common Event with Var1 and SceneManager.goto(Scene_Map) in order to close the game immediatly when a certain score is reached but it doesn’t work… Any idea ? =/
Common events don’t work while in the mini game. You’d need to modify the script to do that.
Would there be a way to add power-ups or enemies? Or make the different power-ups do different damages?
You’ll need to learn some scripting to do that, I didn’t make this with easy customising in mind I’m afraid.
Oh ok, thats for the quick reply. Do you have any tips on where to start?
There are lots of scripting tutorials out there. Google is a good place to start :) Sorry I don’t have time to do these changes or anything more
How do you give bonuses for getting a certain score or higher?
Any kind of bonus. Exp, gold, items, anything at all?
You can use the score variable in a conditional branch and use eventing to add your bonuses.
I have troubles about how to implement rewards via eventing.
1. What variable do I have to put in the conditional branch?
SCORE_VAR, HIGH_SCORE_VAR or $game_variables[Galv_SI::SCORE_VAR],….and how do I set the target score? for example HIGH_SCORE_VAR >= 200?
2.Do i need to set a local variable (see 000X variable = HIGH_SCORE_VAR) before the script call and then use it in the conditional branch?
I tried all the combinations with no effect.
Thank you for all and thank you for all your excellent scripts!!
SCORE_VAR is the number of the variable the script stores the last game’s score in. So if it’s 10, then you would use conditional branch with variable 10 to get the score.
The HIGH_SCORE_VAR is the number of the variable that keeps the highest score reached in the current game. It only changes if someone beats it.
Other than that – learning about using variables is something you could ask in forums :)
Hi Galv
I get a
script line:67 Syntax error unexpexted tINDENTIFIER expecting keyword_end
PLAYER_SHIELDS = 10 # Hits player can take before game over
this a ver 1.2
but when i use 1.1 everyhing is fine
what could be the problem??
Sounds like the script isn’t copying properly, you missed copying part of the script or your browser is creating weird characters (Some people seem to have that problem that I cannot duplicate…)
Can I make a system that when you hit a certain score,you can earn a prize? I’m don’t know yet how to use the scripts properly…
Yes, you can do it outside of the script using eventing and the variables it stores the score in.
How difficult would it be to switch it from “vertical” shooter to “horizontal” shooter? Not asking you to do that, just asking how difficult it would be for a novice at scripting.
Not difficult so much as time consuming changing all the hard coded values and checks
Thanks for the quick reply.
Got it working, just changed most of the “x” and “y”s and switched around some “widths” and “heights.” One small question maybe you can help me with, tried googling but probably not doing the correct statement. Is there a script call to change certain settings within the Invaders script, such as changing the Player Shields or the backdrops?
Sorry, no I didn’t set that up and don’t have time to do requests I am afraid.
All good. I have it working almost perfectly going horizontal and shooting horizontal. Only small issues are being able to go “outside” of the screen a bit at the bottom, and the … laser upgrade seems to simply make you stop shooting until you grab the blue orb lasers. I’ll get em worked out later, but just wanted to say your scripts are awesome, and for others, not impossible to adapt! Having fun with the duel and shard scripts too!
Hey man, is there any quick way to get rid of the ending screen?
So it just closes the minigame upon death without offering the option to retry?
You’ll need to edit the script – I’m too busy to do requests but should be an easy one if you ask on a forum :)
Okay dude :) Thank you! Great scripts across the board by the way!
Without any knowledge on how it’s written (I haven’t checked yet and I’m pressured on time at the moment), would it be possible to add it as bonus on Title Screen after you’ve finished the main story? Y’don’t have to explain anything, just give a simple yes or no and I’ll look into it.
It would require some changes but yes, possible.
Sooo…. Where’s the demo? I want the graphics thanks!
Oh wait nvm, I’m being stupid! Lol
Hey, I’m looking through the script to try and find out how to shut off the X key from closing the game if possible. Can you help or should I just ask on the VX Ace forums? Sorry, but I am so use to X being Bomb in Touhou that I’ve had times I’ve pressed X on instinct and ended up exiting the Mini game when I didn’t want to. XD
Sorry, I dont have time for requests, I recommend asking in a forum :)
Is there a way to add an image between the “backdrop” and the scores, as a sort of HUD? I’d assume I would type up a few lines of extra code to add on to it, but how would that go? (I’m not a huge Ruby Coder)
Unfortunately I don’t have time to modify the plugin to do that. I recommend asking in a forum to see if someone else does
Thanks for getting back to me! I’ll definitely go ask around in the forums. Thank you very much again and have a good day. :D
Are the projectiles allowed to be fired while in $game_map by a $game_player or an event; outside the mini-game.in other words?
No… This mini game is completely unrelated to those things.