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Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby zygoth » Sat May 02, 2009 12:56 am

Finally! The beta version of Nova is complete. I am looking for bugs, advice, and comments. I plan to release this game commercially, so you are not allowed to copy or distribute the files, and eventually I will take the file off of free downloading, but I felt like the forum has helped me a lot and deserves to play it. Special thanks to Kalladdolf for helping with the music! After working on and off for two years on this, I feel like I should write more, but...I'll let the game do the talking. :P
Enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f5ae ... 0a1ae8665a

Zygo

EDIT: Go here for the fixed Alllevels file which will fix the freezing on level 6. Once I have time I will upload a fixed installer too.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tzwjd0e4uzm
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby jimmynewguy » Sat May 02, 2009 1:32 am

love the graphics, the only thing i dislike about it are no lives = kinda hard :)
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby Camper1995 » Sat May 02, 2009 11:44 am

Wow, its amazing! You can put in the background planets and you can make the background color little bit darker, maybe you
can make it black, not light black, and make more lives. :D
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby zygoth » Tue May 05, 2009 12:33 pm

It is supposed to be hard...And I agree about the background being boring, but I haven't come up with a good way to spice it up. Only three people have downloaded it! :? I know it's 25 mb but it is a pretty complete game.
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby Kalladdolf » Wed May 06, 2009 3:42 pm

I like the whole game and it's challenging.
Maybe you should only make the first few levels a little easier in order not to get the player too frustrated at first.
I barely managed the first level. The second not at all. I had to cheat through it.
Now, the game gets really interesting once you have more powerups, weapons and the enemies get more complicated. I love that!
Just let the player... get there. :)
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby zygoth » Wed May 06, 2009 9:53 pm

I still don't know...I don't think it is that hard, but that is probably because I have played it so much. I will consider making it easier...
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby Kalladdolf » Thu May 07, 2009 12:54 pm

Oh, when I beat the whole of level 6 and was supposed to reach the boss, the whole program just... collapsed and I had to strangle it with the task manager.
Is that just because it's a beta and you're not quite done with it, or is it supposed to... go on?
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby zygoth » Fri May 08, 2009 2:34 am

First of all, congratulations on getting so far. I am still trying to figure out why in the world it freezes right there. The rest of the game is there, it just freezes at that point for some unknown reason. As soon as I figure it out I will let you know and post a fixed version. you will probably want to move your save files over.

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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby j2graves » Fri May 08, 2009 4:47 pm

I've heard about this game from Kall, so I will try it out =D
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby j2graves » Fri May 08, 2009 6:17 pm

I've encountered a small problem ( I don't know if it's the game or just my computer) but I couldn't remove the icon for the game from the start menu.
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby zygoth » Fri May 08, 2009 8:31 pm

I have no idea about that...there is probably some way (Add/Remove Programs?) to do it. Did you try to uninstall it or what?
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby j2graves » Fri May 08, 2009 8:42 pm

no, I just shoved it off the start menu by getting other programs to appear there.
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby Kalladdolf » Sat May 09, 2009 8:32 am

I have some bug reports to make *swatted*:
1) The Xpods don't always work. Sometimes you can't shoot them even if you have selected the right weapon and press "space".
2) The same goes for the ice ray (that weapon rocks, by the way).
3) You might want to get rid of the mouse and make the boss music loop.

Also, may I inquire what resolution you use? 640x480?
I might have a few ideas for the background.
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby j2graves » Sat May 09, 2009 6:55 pm

I find the game to be rather hard. could you add an extra life or two?
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Re: Nova Beta Complete: Testers Needed

Postby Kalladdolf » Sat May 09, 2009 7:15 pm

And a couple of extra weapons in advance? XD
Detailed information about the weapon issue: The freeze ray only works in level 4 and the menu. Xpods only work in level 5, 6 (sometimes) and menu.
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