Topic, BL Game Ideas

  I don't know, but if you the turtle pilot engine close to the RT engine you will have thousands of possibelities of levels, you can make gates, and other traps.
You can make conveyors to move the crates etc. but if you design the enemy aircraft and make them havepaths like in CDvZP and making them shoot missles or whatever it would be very cool!

Switches would activate things, crates can kill you.

Actually, everything you touches would kill you.

  Cool. What about score-based items?

  I'm thinking about crates that acts like boulders, turrets and enemy aircraft.

  Hog pop is already very golfy...

Pilot turtle .. It needs some features that'll make it possible to make thousands of original levels.

  I suggest hog golf, pilot turtle or a BL-bomber like game.

  it could be the same lines as in JG 2, and RT, just bigger so the smallest size would be 10? so you really could se the change in the colors. and also custom background where you could choose between a background with mountain to one with trees. also water could be added, and you will drown if you jump in it. but there could be an air bubble so you would be able to go underwater for a limited amount of time. (changeable in the editor)

  AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! We need something like Gravitee... :P

  that could be a good game. reminds me of 'Color the void' and 'Color my world' on Bubblebox. :/

  Okay iv'e got an idea.
Its a platformer game about a "Thing" (stickman, push-alike guy, etc. i haven't decided) living in a world without color, and its been stolen by an enemy/something evil/darth vader. the thing-guy have to bring back the colors to his world (the level) by finding buckets of color (red, blue, green, whatever color is needed in the level) so the earth, sky, or plants can have a color.

the level maker would be able to put buckets of paint around in the level, and the player have to find them. a little like gundus, "find the coins/stars" levels on RT.

The game developer could make a story to it in the officials list, and introduce people to the game, and the evil force that have stolen the color. like Captain_404's levels in cdvzp.

  BUUUUUUUUUUUUMPO!

  The story about that... girl... So sad... How could he...? That's just... evil. When I was doing that level... I was like.... "I can't believe I'm doing this"... *pulls the lever*... :'(

  You played that, too? :O

'twas a beautiful game, I'm stuck on a level. xP

  Wow, one of the most original games I ever played was the "company of myself"
Or why not level ditor ?
thesewould be nice aditions for BL (game like that)

  I have just got ideas for RT!
Finish only available on switch(optional and is faded when offline)
Finish movable with paths
Inventory(0-9 numbers for stuff like grow, shrink(if included in RT2), speed, etc.)
Enemy AI(think though, like goombas or something)
Invisible lines
Gravity disable, gravity toggle item, gravity direction, gravity direction item, other gravity things

  So will there be Capsules? :O

  I know.

My friend at school don't stop to say "zor" like you so I want to know where you found this!

  I don't knowz0r... I think it's mostly the last word in the sentencez0r.

  @Im, Why do you say "zor" at almost each word

  Well, I'm not actually making the game, buuuuuuttttttttttt....... I suppose that could be possible. You'd have to code the path yourself though (unless I did some premade paths. 'twould be quite cool!

  Ummm...... Whatz0r? /:(

  geckojsc, how about, instead of typing a code for the object to move directly when pressing the button, why don't you type a code for a path to activate when the button is pressed?

  Umm... W00Tz0r? :D

  @Captain - Sounds really neat, and easy for beginners yet still very powerful!

@JP - Wow, I nevery knew there was way to use Lua in Flash! I'll have to check that out and incorporate it into my next Flash project somehow! (oh, it's AS3) D:

  @jp - I started writing it a while back, but I think I'm going to start over.

Thanks for the link to LUA. I'll look into it, but I doubt I'll end up using it; it all depends on how flexible it is/what it is exactly.

Part of what I want to do is structure a language specifically for people who have no idea how to use one. Generally, I'm adding new commands to deal with things that confused me as a young programmer and to help simplify some of the things that are still pretty complex.

For example, you can add an object to a thing I call a 'group', which acts a bit like a combination of an array and an object.

Say you've got a ton of enemies and you want to check if the player is touching any of them. Normally you'd have to write a loop to go through each and every one of them and check for a collision, something that's a bit hard for young programmers to grasp. With my language, all you have to do is create a group called 'enemies' and then check for a player collision with the enemies group. It would look something like this.

ifTouch(player with enemies) {
delete player;
}

Much simpler and (I hope) easier for a newbie to understand. There's a lot more stuff like this too. I just really want something that's easy to understand.

  Asforien, how about using the mouse as a movable tower? I haven't seen that in any TD games... or, at least, the ones I've played.

  @Captain_404, did you write your own scripting language ?
Maybe it's too late for this advice, but I think using LUA as a scripting language would be a good idea, for 2 reasons :
- It has been coded already in Flash (requires Flash 10 to work) : LUA in Flash >> demo.
- It's a standard, some level designers could already know the syntax (I think many games like World of Warcraft, are using LUA already), or if you have to learn it, you will be able to use it in other projects.

@Gecko, yes I think I will port BLockoban to the iPhone, just to try if this kind of game can be successful. I know this is not the kind of game that reaches the top 100 (tower/castle defense games are also the winers on iPhone!) but it can be a challenging time waster for 5 minutes, while you wait for a bus or a plane. Let's see.

  Interesting, Captain_404. :O (I wonder if I'll find da easter egg... Mwahahahaha... Mwaha... Mwa...)

  I sugggest the hogpop golf!

  Tower defense games have been done to death. We really need to find an interesting twist, and also one that can generate hundreds of levels without being repetitive. Just changing the maps isn't enough imo. But that's not saying that it's impossible.

  Captain_404, is it that game on your profile that's called 'Don't Ask'? Anyways, why doesn't someone try to make a customizeable tower defense game(customizable towers, customizable map, etc...)?