Demonstar released!

[PaulNZ]

Yay! Demonstar is now available at mac.mking.com (http://mac.mking.com). Feel free to grab the shareware version and give it a whirl. Let me know if you encounter any problems with it. :D

[sealfin]

Um, switching to fullscreen or high resolution fullscreen inverted the colour of everythingÖ

[PaulNZ]

What sort of machine and OS are you running it on?

[sealfin]

Indigo iMac DV, X.1.5

[Patrick]

I also get color inversion in full-screen mode.

eMac 700Mhz, OS 10.2.5 here.

[PaulNZ]

hmmmm...bummer :( I'll look into it....

[erazorhead]

it worked fine in fullscreen for me

10.2.6
g4 quicksilver

i got the shareware notice twice on quit.

other than that, fantastic game! didn't quite figure out the weapon upgrade system, but hopefully it will come to me if i play it a few more times.

congratulations on the release!

PS i love the music especially

[PaulNZ]

Thanks dude :)

There is some info on the power up system but it is in Windows Help format (it's in the help file for the PC version). I'll try to convert it to PDF...

[David]

Works fine for me :)

Nifty game, I like the megabomb effect :p

[ChrisD]

OOOOOO COOL...

We need more shooters on the mac!!!!

[PaulNZ]

For those people that had problems with the palette in full screen mode, could you please try this version and let me know if it's fixed or not:

New version (http://www.mking.com/~paul/Demonshr.sit)

Cheers! And thanks for the positive feedback :D

[Bachus]

Very cool. Much better than Deimos Rising (I don't know how they managed to make a shmup boring).

Three things. 1) Sound effects are a little weak and repetitive. Nothing major. 2) The blue laser used by bosses is very cheap. There's no warning! 3) It makes my game in development look bad. Stop that.

[ChrisD]

Originally posted by Bachus
Very cool. Much better than Deimos Rising (I don't know how they managed to make a shmup boring).

Three things. 1) Sound effects are a little weak and repetitive. Nothing major. 2) The blue laser used by bosses is very cheap. There's no warning! 3) It makes my game in development look bad. Stop that.

That games actually rather old now(?)
and Believe was pubpished at one point by a number of? different people...
I doubt you will see changes...
this was a striaght out port.

[David]

This may just be me... but I can't shoot and move diagonally up-left at the same time, maybe there should be an option for just having the shoot key always down?

[PaulNZ]

Which key are you using to shoot? If you are using Z, try using the ctrl key instead and see if it helps.

[David]

I am using control :p

But now that you mention it, it works with Z.

Never mind.

[PaulNZ]

lol :p

During testing I had someone have that same problem but using ctrl fixed it - the exact opposite. Very odd... :???:

[codemattic]

purchased.

love shooters - hope they dont completely die out. Demonstar does the genre proud.

I wish it was a higher rez tho - but its gameplay that counts - and Im having fun.

I worry that unless a shooter is distributed by Ambrosia or Freeverse it will have a hard time getting enough registrations. Let us know (after enough time) if you felt it was successful and got enough of a response from the Mac community - and hopefully that you plan on porting more games.

good luck,
Codemattic

[Patrick]

Originally posted by PaulNZ
For those people that had problems with the palette in full screen mode, could you please try this version and let me know if it's fixed or not:

New version (http://www.mking.com/~paul/Demonshr.sit)

Cheers! And thanks for the positive feedback :D
This fixes fullscreen for me. Nice game :love:.

Is there a mail order( money order ) option for the Macintosh version? The PC games at mking.com have one, but the Macintosh order page doesn't seem to have that option?

[PaulNZ]

Originally posted by Patrick
This fixes fullscreen for me. Nice game :love:.

Is there a mail order( money order ) option for the Macintosh version? The PC games at mking.com have one, but the Macintosh order page doesn't seem to have that option?

Cool!

I'll ask about that when the guy than runs the site wakes up (stupid timezones!!) :) I'll get him to update them all too. I'll post in here when it's all up and I'll let ya know about the mail order thingy.

Cheers!

[PaulNZ]

Originally posted by codemattic
purchased.

love shooters - hope they dont completely die out. Demonstar does the genre proud.

I wish it was a higher rez tho - but its gameplay that counts - and Im having fun.

I worry that unless a shooter is distributed by Ambrosia or Freeverse it will have a hard time getting enough registrations. Let us know (after enough time) if you felt it was successful and got enough of a response from the Mac community - and hopefully that you plan on porting more games.

good luck,
Codemattic

Yay! My first sale! :wow:

I'll let ya know how it goes! I will be porting some more, next on the list is the follow up to this one called "Secret Missions 1"...

Cheers!

[Wrisc]

hey, I didn't realize that there was a thread here about the game :P

I was thinking, if you want some more publicity for Demon Star, try getting it put up @ macgamefiles.com, and/or e-mail insidemacgames to let them know it's been released :)

[PaulNZ]

Originally posted by Wrisc
hey, I didn't realize that there was a thread here about the game :P

I was thinking, if you want some more publicity for Demon Star, try getting it put up @ macgamefiles.com, and/or e-mail insidemacgames to let them know it's been released :)

Yep, did that last night :D I didn't want to pimp it too much at first in case there was anything very badly wrong with it...

[codemattic]

is there a way to 'warp' to a higher level when you are in full-screen mode? I cant access the menu.

[PaulNZ]

Originally posted by codemattic
is there a way to 'warp' to a higher level when you are in full-screen mode? I cant access the menu.
Hmmm..actually, no there isn't :( I don't think there was on the Windows version either (although I could be wrong). Something to pencil in for 1.2 perhaps...:)