Vector Shooter 2D Top-View Arena game

[sparkon]

Lately i've been working on Vector-Shooter. As the title states it is a 2D top-view arena game, the idea of the game is to provide the player a funny 2d action experience, but unfortunately it turned out to be more a tech demo than a real game, for now i'll be releasing the binaries only, will update the source code later. This because i'm currently rewriting parts of the code that are really bad written.

I tried to experiment with a lot of design techniques and algorithms, in fact the game "features" :
> Goal-Based AI (with pseudo-equations to determine the different state values )
> Multiple pathfinding algorithms ( A*, Dijkstra  )for different purposes.
> Lua integration
> XML loading
> XBox360 controller support
> Game states
& more language specific features

The game technically is almost completed, the big features that are missing are :
> Sound ( i've already written the c++ wrapper for OpenAL and the Engine ), i'm only looking for some music and sound effects
> Graphics ( i'm not really a graphic guy, the assets are 90% made by me, i'll try to replace it as soon as i can.

What i'm working on :
> Port all XML files to LUA
> Polish gameplay, weapons
> Create more maps
> Fix bugs

DISCLAIMER : "The credit menu button IT'S working, but there is nothing to display"

Controls :
ENTER - BACKSPACE - ARROW KEYS : navigate the menu
ESC : pause the game
WASD : move in the arena
Q - E : switch weapon ( will add number support soon )
Left-mouse click : shoot

There are different game modes :
Night Mode - Day Mode
Different difficulties
Time limit
Kill limit

The gameplay is what really needs to be polished.

The project has been compiled using VC++11 ( Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 compiler ) on Windows 7 64-bit.
The game will never ( for now ) run on non-windows platforms because of the XBox 360 controller support.

Download links :
SourceForge : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vshooter/files/?source=navbar
All the credits for the arts are included in each folders.

Here are some screenshoots :

[timo777]

Nice work, and I think the main graphics, not the HUD, are okay. 

I hope you can release the source soon. 

[sparkon]

Nice work, and I think the main graphics, not the HUD, are okay. 

I hope you can release the source soon. 

ahahaha thank you!  are you saying that the HUD graphics suck ? ( i do agree btw

[sparkon]

EDIT :
I'm updating the binaries on sourceforge.net, becuase, after further testing, i discovered that the Lua5.1.dll and the MSVS2012 redistributable packages are missing, now the installer and the dll are included with the program.

In some computers after the Highscores ( at the end of the arena ) the program doesn't respond, i'll fix it as soon as i get home.

[FRex]

I still can't run it, still says that it's not valid Win32 application or something similar(sys message isn't english).

[sparkon]

I still can't run it, still says that it's not valid Win32 application or something similar(sys message isn't english).

Thank you for trying, i'd be really glad if you could post a screenshot of the problem so that i can fix it as soon as possible. For now it runs on all the systems i tested it on. Thank you again!

[FRex]

I'm on xp, maybe that's it.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/images/tui_x64.gif
This kind of error.

[sparkon]

I'm on xp, maybe that's it.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/images/tui_x64.gif
This kind of error.

I didn't compile it with Visual Studio 2012.1, but with the earlier version, that doesn't support XP, now i'm uploading the new version compiled with the right VS version, that "should" work. If you can try, i'd be glad

[timo777]

Nice work, and I think the main graphics, not the HUD, are okay. 

I hope you can release the source soon. 

ahahaha thank you!  are you saying that the HUD graphics suck ? ( i do agree btw

You can say it like that  . I cant test it now, i am on my tablet. 

[FRex]

Still not a valid win32.

[sparkon]

Did you download the VS-0.7-MSVS2012-update1.zip file ( i'm saying it because i have no new downloads on that file and it fixed a lot of weird bugs on my friends's computers)  ? be sure to run the executable ( VC++11 redist ). If it doesn't run. If it doesn't work i'll try to compile it on windows XP, thank you for you time again ! ( btw don't you have windows 7 ? )

P.S. In these days i'll probably port it to linux.

[FRex]

Yes I downloaded VS-0.7-MSVS2012-update1.zip It doesn't say .dll is missing, it's still not valid Win32. I have XP, as I said.