DronS V1.6

[leinad]

Nickname: leinad (a.k.a. n00bey)
Project name: DronS
From: Germany
Division: NDS GAME
Original entry: NO
Support Motion: YES
In last NEO Compo this project have won in the top 10: NO
Project description: An Armagetron clone. Every player is represented as a "line" and has to avoid to drive into other lines - and therefore try to "kill" the other players.

Features:
- English, German, Czech, Spanish, Dutch and French laguage support
- Online-Multiplayer feature - Play against people all over the world
- Supports NeoFlash Rumble Pak
-  Very customizable: You can set every color, speed, arena size, mirroring, acceleration, brakes ammount, maximal speed, rumble ....
- 3D-Gameplay:
-- It is possible to steer the camera
-- The "head" of the players are displayed as cars
-- Walls have some textures on it
-- The ground is mirroring everything
-- . . .
- The whole button-map is configurable
- Motion-Actions can also be mapped

Screens:

On the top-screen you can see the arena, on the bottom screen messages are printed and players are listed. Death players will be stroken. Also there is a status bar showing the speed, remaining health and left brake.

Here some random screens; keep in mind that you can almost change every color/size!:


Changes since V1.5:
- Changed maxplayers to 12
- No more PAlib - I just kept the text-sheet
- Changed the default config
- Player positions are more mixed now; Every player starts on different positions
- (they no longer start next to eachother)
- Added motion support (change sensity in menu), motion is just taken as buttons in button-remap

Download:
See attachments or download it on my blog.
If you dont use motion, dont download the motion version to avoid problems!

[Conle]

You have improved this dramatically since last year! The truth must be told!
Awesome work!.

[LightningEagle]

This looks great... and plays really well too.

I don't know if it's meant to be that way but it feels like collisions are detected rather late sometimes. I hit the CPU# player but I could still get around to turn and continue when I would've sworn I'd died.

Apart from that it's running real smoothly and looking great.

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Say, since it has that many languages supported already.
If I said I wanted to translate this into Danish. Would you give me a list of phrases and words ... etc. needed to do that?

[M. Lucanius]

I don't know if it's meant to be that way but it feels like collisions are detected rather late sometimes. I hit the CPU# player but I could still get around to turn and continue when I would've sworn I'd died.

I too was confused by that at first in an older version, but apparently you have health points measured by percentage. You can run into opponents "lines" and remain alive for a few seconds. It really helps when you want to ride other player's "lines". Try it out.

[LightningEagle]

Okay, that's cool. Never noticed the Health status... or perhaps I did but never gave it a thought.

I did notice however that you accelerate incredibly when riding lines. Which of course only can be a great feature then.