RetroStar

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• jdbc Member

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  Download link?

  JDBC Games on Google Play
  

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• talis Guru

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  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 .

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017

  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.
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017

  Video of latest work in progress:
  
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  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
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  August 2017

  Yes, I'll do the French translation

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017

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

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017

  The Swedish Translation is being done by Niclas Åberg
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017

  @Pie has done the Italian translation.
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  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"

  

  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  September 2017

  Video of latest build:
  
  
  

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• talis Guru

  September 2017

  @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.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  September 2017

  @talis, thanks.
  

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• HubertRonald Member

  September 2017

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

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  September 2017 edited September 2017

  Spanish is now in already.
  
  (But thanks for the offer)

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• HubertRonald Member

  September 2017

  Spanish is now in already.
  

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

  
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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  September 2017

  Spanish from Spain.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  September 2017

  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

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• John_Vella Member

  October 2017

  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

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  October 2017 edited October 2017

  
  
  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:
  

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• Yan Member

  October 2017

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

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  October 2017 edited October 2017

  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.
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  October 2017

  I added a new intro to RetroStar...
  
  

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• talis Guru

  October 2017

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

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  October 2017

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

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• talis Guru

  October 2017

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

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  October 2017

  Thanks for the great review.

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