Homebrew NewoEscape quick bug fixes 2020

[niuus]

@niuus I know the game is set in space which has no air particles to create trails but adding trails makes the other npc ships look cool as the fly along beside your ship. Its mostly little things being added now to bring it completion. As you know homebrew is never done.

I concur 100%.

 

[newo]

Approaching another weekend and I am playing with the ideal of the game being motion controls ON by default. It would certainly reduce the barrier of entry for more causal players and the pros can always dig into the menu to find the option to disable it. What say you guys? good idea? I will upload a new beta late so you can test it out with wiimote motion waggle.

 

[newo]

testing beta updated new stuff and fixes;

* I am always fixing bugs
* motion controls are on by default. wiimote sideways with the buttons pointed upwards to fly.
* new explosion graphics
* added a small story intro with little explosions
* ship trails.

 

[newo]

Hey guys I am still here nothing much to show. mostly working on background stuff like bugs and random things disappearing. I noticed the loading time was getting a bit long so I changed the game to do some loading before the level starts rather than loading everything in game load. This creates a stutter before each new level but it should be bad. As I said I am working on boring backend stuff, lol. Anyway for those who haven't test the game yet it can be downloaded at the beta link above.

 

[newo]

The more I work on fixing these little bugs the more I realize how hard game development really is. Its easy if you just want to make a simple pixel death shoot the aliens kinda game. But if you want menus, different modes, sound effects etc you have to spend a whole lotta time just putting these things in place. I remember this but I had from years ago when you were on the main menu and you pressed the cancel button you see the game start then stop, then go back to the main menu. This happened because you were on the root menu and if you closed that you had no where else to go but back into the game. But if you went back into the game without clicking restart you are technically still dead so the game kicked you out again. This took me the longest time to figure out. But all this is just a part of gamedev.

 

[newo]

Wow, it has been more than a month since I worked on this. I am waiting on Chris to make a video trailor for the game And I fixed a bug where your score was not being submitted to the leaderboard.

Beta updated; http://owensoft.net/project/newogame/beta/

 

[newo]

At this stage with the game engine and all the modes complete all there is to do is debugging.

* and in case you are wonder you can play the whole game in this debug mode by going into the debug menu and selecting the wireframe option. but I would not recommend it, lol.

 

[newo]

Updated wiibrew with the new version of NewoEscape that I have been working on for the past 4 months?? Its a space junk dodging game for exclusively wii. https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Newo_Escape

The auto-update feature of the previous version seems to be totally broken but I am not sure if its just me. So everyone will need to download the new build enjoy.

 

[newo]

It was posted in the open shop channel today. I am not sure why people are dieing on the first level - all you need to do is dodge the obstacles. Is it the motion controls?

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.

I hope you are ok and also your "Project".
Thank you for this awesome Game and your Time to make it.

 

[newo]

Hello.

I hope you are ok and also your "Project".
Thank you for this awesome Game and your Time to make it.

I am ok, not working on any homebrew right now, mostly irl work and taking better photos for my blog. maybe in the winter I will work on something probably NewoDefence, Fox or something new I'm not sure, depends on how I feel. How are you doing?

 

[newo]

This project is pretty much done. Until I find a new feature to add to it. The only thing it really needs now is a game play video capture/trailer to put up on youtube.
https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Newo_Escape

 

[Alexander1970]

Thank you for your "Update".

Nice to hear you are fine and still in the Wii Homebrew Game "Scene".
Have a nice and good Time and take care of you please.

Thank you for your Time and your Work,my Friend.

 

[newo]

You are welcome. This is just how I work. I jump in to the scene and I code for a few months straight then I move on to other totally different/ things so that I do not get burnt out. This is probably the reason I have been in the scene for so long.