Technically we're now in week 105, but I wanted to keep all the games I'd found for the 2 year anniversary together in the same week. I'll be posting loads more over the coming days.
Metal Venture (74.78Mb)
Metal Venture is a top-down shooter with RPG elements, inspired from the Robokill flash game, but different in many ways. A world with a story, consisting of 9 levels is included. Documentation covering the basic aspects of the Level Editor is available. I hope that people will have fun and be creative, making their own worlds, stories and custom graphics. Visit Metalventure.forumotion.net and become part of the Metal Venture community!
Features:
• Worlds split in levels, each level containing up to 196 rooms.
• Multitude of enemies,weapons and items, as well as rare items. Random enemy drops ensure game variety.
• Ambient lighting for greater world immersion.
• Inventory, as well as shops!
• A simple leveling up system, allowing to augment your max energy, health or weapon power.
• Complete objectives, ranging from destroying specific targets to reaching certain locations, in order to reach the next world level.
• Cutscenes between each level, and at the beginning/end of each world.
• Allocating your energy to either your health or your weapon power adds a great tactical feature!
• Conserve energy in order to throw Jolts, which deal great damage to enemies OR unlock jammed doors!
• A level editor, allowing players to create their own worlds, adding events and custom item drops (eg. drop a key when a specific enemy dies, or complete an objective) with merely editing properties in objects in a simple way!
Controls:
WASD keys-move
Mouse Left Button - Fire
Mouse Right Button - Throw Jolt
Z key - Allocate Energy in Health
X key - Allocate Energy in Weapon Power
I key - Show Inventory
M key - Show Map
O key - Show Options
Space key - Interact with Pads (Teleporters/Shops/Save Points)
Esc key (in game) - Brings you back to the menu
Left-click on an occupied inventory slot to discard the item.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYeXz-ZtZkY
Problems and fixes:
The game starts in fullscreen mode. If you don't want this, open the options.ini file in the game directory, find the line:
fullscreen=1
and change it into:
fullscreen=0
For nVidia fraphics card users: If graphics look glitchy, do the following:
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 the 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 all about.
There’s a levels editor included with this game. You can find the executable inside the unpacked game. There’s no full installer so you have to install the game manually then create shortcuts. It’s easy enough to create start menu/program shortcuts to include the main game plus the editor. I’ve posted a short tutorial on how to do this in the game discussion forums. (Just check the stickies for the thread.
System Requirements:
OS: Windows 2000 or higher
CPU: 1.0 Ghz
Memory: 128 Mb
Video: 32 Mb
Hard Drive: 91.5 Mb
Metal Venture forums can be found HERE
Download:
You can download Metal Aventure HERE or HERE