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Project Started:	18th August, 2009	Last Update:	29th May, 2011
Project Owner:	MongMaster	Project Members:
Project Type:	Side Scrolling Shooter	Project Progress:

INNNCOMIIINNG!!

Posted 8th Oct 09, by MongMaster

I've got a single-player-demo-beta type thingy all polished and ready to be uploaded! I'll find some good webspace and upload it while I'm writing this. Then I'll submit it to the Downloads section... and then we play the waiting game.

It's had the Multiplayer, Duel, Lame Survival and Two Player sections removed, and most of the sounds and music have been either removed or reformatted and compressed down as much as I can, without making them sound like garbled mush. I managed to drop the filesize down to about 73MB compressed with WinRAR, so that's about half of what it was.

It's still a pretty hefty file, though. Sorry about that, but there's not much else I can remove without ruining part of the game.

In my defence, I think it's quite worth the download, as it does have a fair amount of features which just keep unlocking as you play the game. It has most of the Single Player functions:

The Single Player game mode (soon to be renamed "Quadrillion Mode"),

All of the currently available Challenges,

The Intergalactic Mall,

All of the unlockable items,

Most of the Achievements.

There are still some things in there that I'm gonna change (or try and change) at some point, such as the theme music. I've become really attached to the main theme, because it sounds awesome and works well... but that's already the theme of an indie game called Cortex Command. I don't really want to use their theme music, because A) I think it's REALLY wrong and unfair, and B) Their game is much better than mine, anyway.

I've credited the game in the Credits screen for now, but I've gotta find some different theme music quite soon.

Anyway... I'm submitting it to the Downloads section now. Keep an eye out for it, and let me know what you think if you try it!

Any crazy/unique/cool/random ideas will also be welcomed, too - this game can be expanded in so many more ways.

PS: If you've arrived here from the download page, and you liked the game, feel free to give me a favourite! That little number is a lot of encouragement for me.

Posted by Marko

8th October, 2009

Bloody hell - 73MB?! I'll download this bad-boy anyays, but what's making it so big? Are your sounds in .ogg format, for example?

Posted by MongMaster

8th October, 2009

I've had a look, and I think it might still be the music. I've just added the size of all my music files together, and they come to about 25MB. :S My sounds are all in .ogg format, but some of them might still have pretty high bitrates.
I'll keep trying to reduce the size every so often, and I'll be working a lot more on it towards the end of development.

I should've really paid more attention to the file size earlier on.

Posted by Marko

10th October, 2009

I've been there myself