Vanity: A Hectic Retro-Style blood-filled neon-lights-everywhere box murder simulator - Games

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lhj3jIz34U&feature=youtu.be[/media] [B]Vanity[/B] is a game created in Construct Classic that revolves around hectic arcade madness and challenge. I have been working on it for quite a while, but I wanted to get some feedback and have some play-testing done before I sold the game somewhere, so that way it is less shit, and more awesome! The music was made by [url="http://pitfall.bandcamp.com"]Pitfall[/url] prior to the games creation, but he allowed me to use the music for the game. I plan to split around half of the revenue with him, but I haven't talked to him about that yet... You can download the game from this [del]SendSpace[/del] Download: [url="http://www.mediafire.com/?bv3rck2hky986pk"]MediaFire Mirror[/url], or you can purchase the newest version(s) on [url="http://www.indievania.com/games/vanity"]IndieVania[/url] for whatever price you want (Above $1 because of the people out there that will pay $0.01 for it) README Contents: [code]---Minimum Requirements--- OS: Windows XP/Vista/7 GPU: DirectX 9 compatible card CPU: Anything that isn't awful RAM: 128MB Free Hard Drive Space: 100MB maximum ---Controls--- WASD/IJKL/Arrow Keys/NumPad Arrows = Up/Down/Left/Right (Can be setup for shooting instead) Left Mouse Button = Shoot/Select Menu Items ENTER = Start the game in Arena (When in Menu) TAB = Goto the main menu (When in game) ESC = Pauses the game when in game, or goes to the main menu when in the credits.[/code] Please leave feedback or opinions about the game here, or some ideas for weapons/enemies/options/etc so I can expand/correct on the game, and I hope you enjoy my work. ;)

I can imagine getting a seizure from this game.

This pixely shit + bloom is getting old.

reminds me of a modern day asteroids

[QUOTE=raccoon2112;39976194]This pixely shit + bloom is getting old.[/QUOTE] The "Bloom" (It's actually a glow effect but I doubt you care about that) can be disabled if you desire. I am trying to have most of the stuff in the game optional. I might work on making an option that disables the low-res font I use as well.

Add a 3d option($10 dlc)

So from what I see its basically a less appealing version of geometry wars?

[QUOTE=Badballer;39975719]I can imagine getting a seizure from this game.[/QUOTE]

I tried downloading this and chrome flagged it as malicious. Welp.

Really awesome and simple game, good work!

[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;39978229]I tried downloading this and chrome flagged it as malicious. Welp.[/QUOTE] It did that because the file wasn't something commonly downloaded. You can click the arrow on the right of the download and click 'keep'. (unless you don't trust me) [QUOTE=HellSoldier;39978400]Really awesome and simple game, good work![/QUOTE] Thanks!

Wow this looks addicting as hell. I'm tempted to try it.

They spelled "challenge" wrong in the video.

Cool game, just beat all the bosses. However, there is a bug. After beating all four bosses once, it looks like this: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4aNiChr.png[/IMG] Seems like beating boss 1 increases boss 1 count by 1, boss 2 increases 2 and 1, boss 3 increases 3, 2 and 1 and boss 4 increases all of them by one. Also, powerups that are currently on the screen stay when restarting. [editline]aspidmn[/editline] Some more bugs: 1. You can shoot once while the game is paused. 2. "Enemies spawn less" and "enemies spawn more" still appear on boss fights. Some ideas: 1. Gun powerup in survival: a gun with 5-10 shots, to get rid of some enemies for you. 2. Bomb powerup: either immediately destroys all enemies in a circle around you, or gives you a bomb that you activate with another button to destroy enemies in a circle around you.

The bosses like to crash the game at random points during the fight, but the luckily the arena modes don't crash for me Also there should be a way to quit straight to the main menu when you die, instead of having to press esc + space

[QUOTE=NotAName;39981196]Cool game, just beat all the bosses. However, there is a bug. After beating all four bosses once, it looks like this: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4aNiChr.png[/IMG] Seems like beating boss 1 increases boss 1 count by 1, boss 2 increases 2 and 1, boss 3 increases 3, 2 and 1 and boss 4 increases all of them by one. Also, powerups that are currently on the screen stay when restarting. [editline]aspidmn[/editline] Some more bugs: 1. You can shoot once while the game is paused. 2. "Enemies spawn less" and "enemies spawn more" still appear on boss fights.[/QUOTE] I've fixed all the bugs listed here, and that bomb idea occurred to me before, but I didn't implement it right and gave up on it. I will this again and hopefully it works as intended. :) I also made Random Arena more wild with the items! I will upload R16 soon and update the changelog. Thanks for the help :) [QUOTE=axemunger;39982130]The bosses like to crash the game at random points during the fight, but the luckily the arena modes don't crash for me Also there should be a way to quit straight to the main menu when you die, instead of having to press esc + space[/QUOTE] I've never had a boss crash the game on me. What kind of system/OS do you have? Do you get any errors?? If you could explain your problem further it would help in finding the problem. I also made 'TAB' the 'Goto Main Menu' key for all layouts. Woo, Thanks!

[QUOTE=Phobos001;39984562]I've never had a boss crash the game on me. What kind of system/OS do you have? Do you get any errors?? If you could explain your problem further it would help in finding the problem.[/QUOTE] I've got Windows 7 & this is the message I get: [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17691911/error.png[/img] & as I said before it only happens during the boss battles at seemingly random & sometimes I don't even get a message. Sorry that I'm not much help, but that's all that happens

Your download set my home search page to a sketchy as fuck thing called "easylifeapp search". Also, it installed some fuckin' tool on my PC called Optimizer Pro that I didn't want. Use dropbox or mediafire next time. I'm sure you didn't mean to do this, though.

[QUOTE=IcyTruth;39986266]mediafire[/QUOTE] [b]HOLY FUCK I FORGOT THAT EVEN EXISTED EIZXCBNUORUSDHF[/b] Uploading R16 now, [i]to mediafire[/i]. [b]EDIT:[/b] Updated! The new download link is where the old one was (Or right [url="http://www.mediafire.com/?nme3j4q6v7w4ayw"]here[/url]). The changelog: [code][R16] -Fixed boss kill counters being broken -Powerups don't stay on the level after respawning -You can no longer shoot once while paused -Bosses have item restrictions -Random Arena allows crazier ranges of variables than before -Pressing TAB at any time will take you to the main menu, even if you are on the main menu already -Fixed a spelling error -Boss 3 now allows the Purple enemies to spawn like they were supposed to. -'Benchmark' changed to 'Unlimited' because I was being retarded when I typed 'Benchmark'[/code]

Sorry to double post, but I am considering putting the game on Indievania for $3. I'm not sure if the game is good enough to be sold anywhere TBH, so if there is anything I can add/improve to make it worthy let me know! Also, thanks to the mods for moving the thread to somewhere more relevant without banning me. I appreciate it :)

[QUOTE=Phobos001;40023758]Sorry to double post, but I am considering putting the game on Indievania for $3. I'm not sure if the game is good enough to be sold anywhere TBH, so if there is anything I can add/improve to make it worthy let me know! Also, thanks to the mods for moving the thread to somewhere more relevant without banning me. I appreciate it :)[/QUOTE] I quickly dropped this game after I realized everything was unlocked in the beginning. It might appeal to some people, but I enjoy the feeling of progression. Maybe that's something you could look into?

[QUOTE=PredGD;40025911]I quickly dropped this game after I realized everything was unlocked in the beginning. It might appeal to some people, but I enjoy the feeling of progression. Maybe that's something you could look into?[/QUOTE] Boss 5 isn't unlocked.

[QUOTE=PredGD;40025911]I quickly dropped this game after I realized everything was unlocked in the beginning. It might appeal to some people, but I enjoy the feeling of progression. Maybe that's something you could look into?[/QUOTE] Like NotAName said, Boss 5 isn't unlocked, but I was considering making R. Arena locked until you beat Boss 5, and survival locked until you beat the arena challenge, etc. I might add it in R17, so stay tuned ;) [editline]25th March 2013[/editline] [img]http://fi.somethingawful.com/images/smilies/emot-siren.gif[/img][b]R17 IS OUT OMFG WOAH MAN[/b][img]http://fi.somethingawful.com/images/smilies/emot-siren.gif[/img] This one has some stuff I wasn't able to fully test myself, but enjoy nonetheless, and please report any problems! Download: [url="http://www.mediafire.com/?bv3rck2hky986pk"]MediaFire[/url] [code][R17] -Included Readme -Fixed TAB key not working to go back to menu when in game (This is why you playtest first) -Improved NumPad key support -Made all text bold. ALL OF IT. -You can now disable the retro font for a more readable Arial font instead. -Fixed blood mists still spawning when the option was clearly turned off. -Made requirements for the survival challenge a bit more difficult -You must now unlock Survival and R. Arena in order to play them (A sense of progression)[/code] [editline]25th March 2013[/editline] Oh balls, I forgot to add the fact that Boss 5 has double the health now. ;) [editline]25th March 2013[/editline] I also noticed that only one quote will ever show up when you start, when it is supposed to randomly pick them. Whoops!

Bump, trailer. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3SYJYExcnE[/media] Waiting on IndieVania for approval. R18 is in progress ATM. :)

Another self bump, but you can [url="http://www.indievania.com/games/vanity"]Buy Vanity with a Pay-What-You-Want system[/url] right now. But I want to make it clear that, although technically and fully playable, [i]is still being worked on[/i]. Expect frequent updates in the near future. Now, time to finish my Chemistry End-Of-Chapter-Assignment before tomorrow :)