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Omega Race 2009: updated to version 1.2

May 26, 2009 By Sokurah

It’s been a fun couple of days. I’ve listened to the feedback I got on the first release and I’ve made a bunch of changes to the game.

The game is now at version 1.2 and can be downloaded here.

Here’s the changes I can remember right now;

Added a lot of sounds: when enemy fires, when enemy transforms, when shots hits or go through walls, a few others.
Added a “check for update” option.
Added mouse control.
Added an option for better sound on Windows Vista.
Added the possibility to enter name using joystick, to make the game more cabinet friendly.
Game will now keep increasing speed and spawing the red enemy if you stay too long on a level.
Tweaked inertia a bit. Now the ship takes longer to slow down, but loses a bit of speed when hitting the borders.
Many more minor changes to the difficulty.

Filed Under: Remakes, Updates

Completed: Omega Race 2009

May 21, 2009 By Sokurah

Yes, after 3½ week I’ve finally finished Omega Race 2009.

I think it turned out even better than I’d hoped for and I hope you will all enjoy it too.

Please give me some feedback and tell me what you think of it – is it too easy, too hard, too shiny, too pretty or too-something-else?

Update: May 22th 2009. Just 12 hours after original release I’ve updated to v1.1. This version is a lot easier.
If you have already downloaded the game then download it again if you want it to be less challenging.
I’m also working on a version 1.2. This will appear soon and have many more tweaks and features.

It’s been a fun little distraction from Psycho Pigs UXB, which I’ve been working on for 3 months now, but now it’s time to continue working on that game.

Filed Under: Remakes Tagged With: Glowing, Omega Race, Vector graphics

Early warning of a new game.

May 10, 2009 By Sokurah

Just a quick note to say that I’ve been on a little break from Psycho Pigs and been working on another game for a couple of weeks now and it’s nearing completion.

Expect a new game in (probably) no more than a week from now. 😉

Update, May 18th: Alright, as people probably already know the game I’ve been working on lately is a new remake of Omega Race.
I also remade this 3 years ago but I decided I could do better and I think I have.

It’ll be a bit late as I ran into some problems with a bug over the weekend so I didn’t get to finish it completely.
It should be out later this week though. 🙂

In the meantime here’s a screenshot of the menu.

Menuscreen

Filed Under: News

Pigs…pigs everywhere.

April 10, 2009 By Sokurah

My my, now time flies. 6 weeks since my last post but my only excuse is that I’ve been too busy programming to post. 😉

The development of the game has caught the eyes of Retro Gamer Magazine and it was mentioned in issue 62, but in their…excitement…they managed to get a lot of facts wrong – including my name which became (name here).

Click here to see the magazine article.

Oh, well, it was good for a laugh and the editor did say ‘sorry‘ so that’s okay. 😉 Now I just have to concentrate on the game and make it as good as I can so it can earn a review once it’s finished. There’s still a long way to go but the game is really coming together and looking better and better daily (or whenever I can be arsed to work on it). 😉

Anyway, I’m currently only working on the singleplayer mode and although I haven’t quite decided if I’m doing a multiplayer mode yet, I’m programming it in a way that it’ll be as easy as possible to add in another player when I’m closer to being finished (although it may not be that easy – multiplayer mode is a ‘bug-magnet‘)… but it won’t be considered until I’m 100% satisfied with the singleplayer mode.

I won’t go into detail with what’s already finished and what’s still missing but I’m starting to have a good feeling about it – like I said…it’s really coming together as a game and I expect to be able to give my artist an early demo of the game in a couple of weeks. By then it’ll still be far from finished, but making a demo must mean there’s something to show off, right? 😉

I just made a screenshot from my current build, where you can see a new background, some more enemies, a few special items and the dino-suit powerup the player can wear, which makes the player able to withstand a single hit from a bomb…plus – it looks impossibly cute. 😀