Rockbot v.01 BETA-6

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Rockbot v.01 BETA-6
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Rockbot is a multi-platform game strongly influenced by MegaMan. Please check below for more information.

It is with pride, that we announce the beta 6 version. The new features are too many to be listed here, but we basically have now a complete stage with boss (still non-movable once we did not finished implementing the artificial inteligence for it), got weapon screens, sounds, music and pretty decent phisics.

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[monkat]

Oh awesome - I downloaded it when before reading the changelog and was confused as to why every level was the same and went to the same boss xD! Also why I couldn't die xD!

Even in beta stages I didn't think it was this early

- isn't it more like an alpha, then beta when it's mostly bug fixing and feature adding (like a health bar, not being able to lose)?

 

[protomank]

No, usually alpha are closed tests (meaning only the developers get their hands on it), beta means you are still adding features to it and finally release candidates are for bug-fixing only (and some missing featurs can still make in, if they do not break binary and API compatibility). This is what I am following. While I have to make changes in file-format, it is beta.

The game have support for death and different stages, it is just that I've not yet enabled both because, well it is a beta

Beta 7, due to go out in august should have:
- player death
- 8 initial stages and a few ones in skull-castle
- weapons, some simple items as energy tanks and pills
- boss IA/movement

Later to be added:
- ending
- more ground types such as ice and water
- dialogs and better history
- more types of IA for NPC and bosses

Also, please notice the version number, 0.1 is way different than a 1.0

I would like to implement everything much faster, but this is, basically, a one-person project, that started in january, made on my free time. Any help is welcome