BIONICLE Fighter, Multiplayer platform fighting game

im not on bzp they recently stopped adding members

And to Katuko:
I love your game! It just inspired me to make a game of Bionicle of my own. Can you help me out?

This post has been edited by Arctic on Aug 1 2012, 02:54 AM

@fire: The Huna glitch I'm aware of, but I'm having some trouble fixing it due to the way masks are listed in the code. I might have to slap on some crude circumvention to get rid of it.

@Arctic: BZP is still accepting new members just fine (the member list shows join dates every day this past week), so I dunno what you are talking about there.

I'm glad you like my game, and yeah, I do offer some Game Maker coding help; though that is better suited for PM.


EDIT: Finally updated topic with the BZP version of it. Version 9.5 is now available here too.

This post has been edited by Katuko on Aug 1 2012, 10:39 AM

I can confirm it doesn't work on Wine on Linux Mint.

That was quite the crash.

Every time I try to be a new member at bzp it says that the administrator doesn't allow new members. I'll try again.

I just need help on the Toa coding to make it move, jump, attack (melee and ranged), and use their mask power. The game is based called Bionicle 2001 The Game based on the 2001 storyline so you may know the mask coding i need. But I mainly need the walking coding and jumping coding.


This post has been edited by Arctic on Aug 1 2012, 09:47 PM

Has any BZP account registered from your household's network ever been banned? If so that might be branding your new registration attempt as a duplicate account. Otherwise I dunno what to tell you, since as said there have been new members lately and so it's not a general site issue, it seems.

You need help with basically everything from scratch, then? In that case I'd suggest you first start by going through the tutorials provided with the program, especially the one about platformers. Then there are also plenty of resources and examples on the Game Maker Community in order to learn specifics.

I can still walk you through the basics, if you want, but mke sure that you have the game planned out in advance. This game was planned in detail, but even that didn't help once new stuff started to be added. Internally, my code is inefficient and kinda inflexible. I'll be rewriting a lot of it in order to add certain things. If you want to avoid that, make sure you know what your player should be able to do beforehand. For example, programming just running and jumping first and then adding a special slide move later can be hard. It would then be better to have it from the get-go.

Okay I think I managed to get into bzp.

Anyways I would love to keep on asking advice from you but can we PM each other about that. I'm a bit afraid that I'm slightly getting off-topic cuz this topic is about your game, not mine.

I cant sign up for BZPower it says the administrator does not accept new members it says here http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00

My friend, you're trying to sign up to the old forums, not the new ones. That's the archive. You need to sign up here:

http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php

I signed up for dat already

Ahhh. That what's with bzp. I was wondering about that. So I am on bzp.


Edit: Actually somehow I had 2 accounts on BZP and I think I've been banned...Guess I'm stuck here then.

This post has been edited by Arctic on Aug 6 2012, 09:54 PM

I have updated this topic with the latest version of this game.

I love this game!

In the new version - 10.1

is there going to be guns or everything in the old games?


posts combined/edited for readability-Imatron

This post has been edited by Adrninistrator on Oct 25 2012, 09:49 PM

Woah there, no need to quote the entire first post.

New version will have some new stuff, yeah. Exactly what is a bit hard to say, but there's been some trouble with loading settings and character files that I'll have to look into. I'm also planning to make a new engine on the side that I will later port the current game over to. Should improve a lot of things.

Meanwhile, check the final few pages of the BZP topic and my blog for some game design and sprite reveals. Plus, the Dropbox gallery.

This post has been edited by Katuko on Oct 25 2012, 05:15 PM

HOORAY! I been waiting for the update to come out, and it is great! Great job.

No chance of making it more linux-ready for those of us who feel the overpowering urge to be different?

This is one of my favourite games!

I have no idea how Linux even works, so I don't know what I'd do to make it "Linux-ready". My Game Maker version only exports Windows EXEs anyways.

I'm gonna allow myself to bump this in order to tell you that there is a new version out. Sonics, Psionics, updated Light and item rebalanced, here goes.

Although I'm impressed by your game, I can't say I enjoy the gameplay much. I think I just have to wait until it's complete because it's very unbalanced in its current state.

Fair enough. You are right in that there are some rather glaring issues here and there, which can be blamed partly on missing features like multi-direction melee, regular blocking, roll/dodge/crouch etc. and partly on bad code. Most elements fire out of nowhere, which gives you less time to dodge and allows an AI player to just chase you down with Lightning that hits instantly while you can't even dodge properly.

Being able to shield should improve survivability, having slight start-up lag for elemental projectiles should make them a bit less spammy, and adding a proper scoring system should make the game feel better overall.

Oh, and some revision in stats and status effects and stuff. Lots to do still.

This post has been edited by Katuko on Jan 1 2013, 12:57 AM

Just wondering, when you finish the Toa and Rahkshi code, are you going to do the Bohrok and others like the Piraka, Zyglak, Glatorian, Barraki. And are you planning to also incorporate vehicles like the Jetrax.

@Arctic: I don't think they would work in a game like this. Skakdi use their elemental powers in a strange way. Glatorian don't use them at all. Barraki have very narrow selection of powers and don't forget that they aren't one species. Vehicles are a cool idea but I don't know if there are Rayg sprites of them. And Zyglak... seriously?
I'd rather suggest Bohrok and Makuta.

@Katuko: A couple of things I didn't mention in my previous post:
- Why are the sprites so blurry? If it's intentional, I must say it doesn't look good at all. It ruins all these beautiful details Rayg's sprites have.
- Is there a way to change the color palette in the 'character' section? I think you should limit it a bit and change these generic, mspaint-ish colors to the official LEGO ones, preferably labeled with their names. And if I were you I would assign the colors to their respective elements to prevent people from creating e.g. yellow Toa of Air or blue Toa of Fire.
- I can help you with some minor graphics and programming.
- I can also translate your game to my language.

This post has been edited by Ninja on Jan 5 2013, 06:58 PM

But then I wouldn't be able to create white/yellow male Toa of electricity and tan/silver female Toa of plasma.

And then there would be Problems.

That said, I still haven't dual-booted Windows on this, so it's not like I'll be playing again any time soon.

I've asked him,he is a single programer.

"I remember a guy with spiky hair who carried something like this."
I know you probably won't add this to the game. I made it just for fun.

Every time I try to be a new member at bzp it says that the administrator doesn't allow new members. I'll try again.

I just need help on the Toa coding to make it move, jump, attack (melee and ranged), and use their mask power. The game is based called Bionicle 2001 The Game based on the 2001 storyline so you may know the mask coding i need. But I mainly need the walking coding and jumping coding.

I think you've trying to make an account in the archived topic.
To make a registration just go to the new forums,and click become a member.

This post has been edited by maxthethrax on Feb 5 2013, 02:41 PM

- The sprites are blurry because the game is scaled to 150% at the moment. This was done to make things appear larger and thus easier to look over, while not making you able to see 5 miles around you. Of course, it also looks pretty bad, so I will add view size as an option.


- You can literally mix any color that your computer can handle; just reduce saturation if you feel the need to. Right-click the element button to set a character to the "official" colors of that element. I might write my own color picker later, but I can guarantee that it won't be much different.

I kind of want to limit the colors to canon, in some way, but in another I do not. One of the major reasons I made this game was to have a game where you can make almost any character you want, so blue Toa of Fire will probably stay, despite the incosistency in terms of color. In fact, the only reason you can't have blue fire as well is that it's the powers that need to be distinct, not the character. It's not like the colors will surprise anyone for more than a few seconds when you first meet them, anyways, and mask powers + potential use of Rahkshi staffs or other weapons can emulate powers.


- I'm always happy to get help with some sprites, backgrounds, music, etc; but I will have to do most of the programming myself. It just gets messy otherwise. If you're skilled with making multiplayer games in Gamer Maker 8, however (particularly the Faucet Networking DLL), I'd be more than happy to get some help there. Screen distortions and light systems from surfaces without killing FPS would also be nice to get some help with. I have a forum I can ask for help, and plenty of examples on the web, but having someone who actually knows these things that I can discuss privately with could help.

For now, I need missing Rayg poses for Rahkshi, and some other stuff, if anyone would like to help with that.


- Translation is OK, but considering that all the text is hard-coded (or worse, hard-labeled onto the graphics), it's not really possible to do a translation without making a copy of the project. In that case, my work increases a lot per language. It will stay English.

To be fair, I do have a few years more experience than you, my code is somewhat messy even as a one-man team, and I have most of the programming skills I'll need already. What I might need help with, I would need to ask some pros about anyways. Therefore, I'm a solo programmer with a few outsourced tasks here and there.

Pretty nice sprite, that, at least. Way too big for these sprites, though.



Regarding sprites, here, have a gander at some upcoming graphics.


<-- Female Toa walking. Will be slightly edited before use.

<-- Toa dashing/flying both forwards and backwards. To be used with Flight and Dodge powers.

<-- A Toa using the new Earth primary attack.

<-- Onua Nuva using the new Earth secondary attack.


This post has been edited by Katuko on Feb 17 2013, 04:25 PM

I didn't know that.Sorry.

And that:

Thats right.I started to make games 9 years old.

This post has been edited by maxthethrax on Feb 17 2013, 06:48 PM

9 years? Earlier than me, then, at least when it comes to computer games.


Lately I've been working on sound effects for this game, by the way. Sounds make everything come alive, sort of.

9 years? Earlier than me, then, at least when it comes to computer games.


Lately I've been working on sound effects for this game, by the way. Sounds make everything come alive, sort of.

Now I'm 10.

I can help you!