RetroStar

SinisterSoft

It's been about 3 years, but I've finally decided to recode my RetroStar space 'demo' into a game. It's a good way to get used to the Gideros 3D features...

Currently in alpha (hardly anything works!), but if you want to try it here are 5 free redeem codes for the play store - first come, first served!

HZ1LMES8BC67J3ARV2LHMBV
HLZS67VSBWTAZ4VXP9H0CQY
ZMP8VTR5RDM4FFJDUCJHE4R
CGSNXD6QV2TND4GES1K2HEZ
SN3B1KC6K5MXDNV3244BA10

jdbc

Download link?

talis

I guess this link is for android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sinistersoft.retrostar
*used the first redeem key , lasts 4 .

SinisterSoft

If you go to the play store, click 'redeem' on the left, then paste in a code then it will automatically know what game it is for.

SinisterSoft

Video of latest work in progress:

SinisterSoft

Anyone want to translate the text in the game to their language? If you do then sorry, no payment - but you will be immortalised on the credits screen...

(left to right languages only)

First to translate to their language gets the credit.

Please post a message here if you want to do a particular language - so others don't waste their time. (also let me know the name you want to show in the credits)

On the excel file, the demo language is French (fr), please change the 'fr' to the code for your language.

Description file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lneyx3mb2h0sb7k/languages.rtf?dl=0

Excel file (phrases in game): https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lkr0m1niqed0el/languages.xlsx?dl=0

hgy29

Yes, I'll do the French translation

SinisterSoft

Thanks, that would be great - what name do you want in the credits?

SinisterSoft

The Swedish Translation is being done by Niclas Åberg

SinisterSoft

@Pie has done the Italian translation.

SinisterSoft

So far I have English (me!), French (@hgy29), Italian (@pie) and an almost done Swedish (@totebo).

Anyone for Spanish, German, Polish ?

btw, here are the available characters in my font - so Russian, Chinese, etc are out:

!$%&'()*,-./0123456789:;<=>?ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz£ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ¥¢¿¡«»ČčĎďĚěıŇňŒœŘřŠšŤťŮůŸŽž"

SinisterSoft

Video of latest build:

talis

@sinistersoft your retro style rocks. I am sure that you have lots of hidden gems like Retrostar. Please implement those also.
Impressive hyperspace animation. In general the gameplay is really giving me the feeling of i am in space in a 3d environment , front and back views, long range radar, galactic map.
Perfect job, my congratulations again.

SinisterSoft

@talis, thanks.

HubertRonald

Hi @SinisterSoft I can translate your description to Spanish this weekend

SinisterSoft

Spanish is now in already.

(But thanks for the offer)

HubertRonald

Spanish is now in already.

Ok but Is "Spanish" from Spain or SouthAmerica?
'cos pronunciation and grammar is different for these two target market

SinisterSoft

Spanish from Spain.

SinisterSoft

It's now available on the play store, please download and review - it costs nothing to do this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sinistersoft.retrostar&rdid=com.sinistersoft.retrostar

John_Vella

I've downloaded it, tried it and put what I consider to be an honest review on the Play Store. Could not think of one negative thing to write about it. I am officially a fan of RetroStar!

Thanks for a great game

SinisterSoft

I'll be adding a front-end attractmode sequence to RetroStar soon that I'm pinching from a football game I'm working on. Basically (in demo mode) you will see the Earth scale in - similar to Google Earth (but faster/smoother) and it scale all the way to someone also playing RetroStar - right into their screen. And then after showing the title, high scores, etc it will do it again and so on... I think this will look good and be pretty surreal.

Similar to this:

Yan

How did you achieve 3d effect ? Please give a lesson ? How you manage 3d objects ?

SinisterSoft

I wanted to make the coordinates of the objects distort to make things slower at they are in front/behind you. I don't know if there is a technical term for this - but basically you draw them further away at they approach the middle. This also gives the appearance of greater speed as things fly by - I think racing games must use it to lesser effect. I have no idea what the technical term might be (I'm new to 3D).

So I started by experimenting....

So you move things normally in x,y and for 3D also z. But to draw them on screen you have new co-ordinates sx and sy and a scaling factor, s.

eg something like this:

s=128
sx,sy=x/z*s,y/z*s

Now set the position of the sprite to sx,sy. Then set the scale of your object to 1/z (you may have to subtract this from 1 if the scaling works the opposite way around, I can't remember).

Now this will assume that the origin of the screen is the top left. So to correct this, make your sprites children of a 'screen' sprite. Set that to width/2,height/2.

I use this method to manipulate the particles and stars in 3D.

Then I advanced to the built-in 3D for the sprites...

So you can simply make your sprites children of a 3D mesh.

space=Mesh.new(true) -- make a 3d mesh.

Any child sprites of this mesh can have their x,y,z set and be drawn in a 3D world, scaling in/out, etc and they will also be sorted correctly by their z.

If you want 3D objects then just make a mesh in 3D, give it lines, sides, etc (see the 3D cube example in the gideros examples folder). Then add it to your initial space mesh as a child. You will see it drawn in 3D and in the correct location.

The beauty of gideros is that you can tinker around getting things right very quickly.

SinisterSoft

I added a new intro to RetroStar...

talis

I feel like i am watching the Inception movie:D
Perfect idea and well implemented.

SinisterSoft

Thanks. It's in the Android version now, uploaded it.

talis

Full game purchased and i left a comment. My congoratz again.

SinisterSoft

Thanks for the great review.