Metal Venture v1.03 [+Update] [+Youtube Previews]

It is impossible to describe the amount of progress which has been made all this time. All that remains is level designing. I just can't stop adding more stuff, graphics, rare items, enemies.

Wow. That looks awesome. I'm looking forward to a new playable version!

Wow. That looks awesome. I'm looking forward to a new playable version!

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oh shit that is awesome I want it now stop fooling around and release it omg omg omg 

I just uploaded a demo of the "official" world's first 2 levels, complete with cutscenes and stuff. I uploaded it  in order to show it to some close friends/testers of mine. Bad news are that it's about 75 MB in size (hey, what do you expect with 45 music tracks?).

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j2jnwhemxuj

So, consider this a very unofficial demo release - I won't even put this in the front page of the thread. But you can download it if you like, see some of the new graphics and music, find glitches etc.

PS Testing controls (enemy spawning, infinite energy etc) have been disabled in order to test game balance.

It's done!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?f4tuaoxmmmy

(74,72 MB .7z self-extracting .exe)

Additional testing is required. The credits screen is still empty, documentation for the Level Editor and a tutorial level should be done as well. But hey, you can play the main world. All of it.

Feedback is imporatnt, especially bug info and overall game balance/difficulty curve.

Great!
I'm downloading it now. I'll get back to you later.

Edit
There seems to be something wrong with, well, just look.

Screens 2 and 5 seem to be fine, although I think 5 is a lot darker then it was intended to be.

I tried switching to windowed mode, to see if it was a scaling issue, but it did nothing.

Edit 2

Edit 3

Do you have an NVIDIA graphics card? If so, go to the nvidia display control panel, go to the Adjust Image Settings with Preview and move the slider to "Quality" preset. Alternatively, enable antialiasing in  nvidia display control panel. This is by no means a "Metal Venture" issue, but a "Game Maker 7" issue, I went through a lot of pain in order to determine the source of this graphical glitch, and then a few expert members at the Game Maker community told me what this was al about.

minmay, salmoneous and razzorman were added as testers to the credits screen for providing me with feedback. Thank you! If I have forgotten someone from this forum, please let me know.

Version 1.00 is finally here! Weeeee! See this
http://nifflas.lpchip.nl/index.php?topic=78.msg306#msg306

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Thanks! My bad. Fixed now.

No prob

Played a bit of it whilst my wii was dumping, and this is awsmoe! really nice to play! I take it you are using GameMaker to make this game, so i would like to know how you made a level editor. Very Intriguing!

Got a bit tired of the red orb icon, so i chucked this together in IcoFX
Nothing special, just made out of the ./visual/hero/ guy thingy (main charachter) =P

Oh, yeah, the 256x256 icon aint great, its a little blurry

Well in my hurry I left the default Game Maker 7 icon (a red ball). Thanks for the icon! I was also considering the Metal Venture logo as the game icon.