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Text Based FPS

Author:

Pixelthief

Submitted:

14th September, 2008

Favourites:

Genre:

Interactive Fiction

Downloads:

648

Rated:

130th Place

(4.09 / 5)

Game of the Week Winner

Edited By Pixelthief on 9/14/2008

This is my entry for Peblo's competition, round 3! This is a fully text-based first person shooter, designed to be played via keyboard (and of course, some mouse). Controls should be fairly intuitive to anyone who's played a FPS before, and yes, I am fully aware that my game will run at maybe ~25 FPS and lag horribly on your computer. This is the cost of having to rush a game

. But thats just the method I used for parsing the text, using textures is actually quite a bit faster.

Three Guns:
Plasma Rifle!
Minigun!
Rocket Luncher!

Only a single kind of enemy!

Play the game before you ask any question or comment on it! Its really worth the download~ Made in MMF1.5, 2008 Pixelthief

Review This Download

http://claniraq.googlepages.com/TextBasedFPS.zip (7 mkb )

Posted by Pixelthief

14th September, 2008

I'd like to note this game has a very "Epic" soundtrack, in keeping with the compo's theme

Posted by -Liam-

14th September, 2008

Okay. I really loved the game but this must be said. I keep my wave volume on the lowest setting as its so loud. When the music in this game starts it bumps the slider in volume control right up to the top, I had my earphones on went deaf for a while.

ANYWAY, I absolutly LOVE this game! So ingenius! Sorry to start with a bad comment but gameplay and "graphics" really stike a perfect chord with me.

Top banana.

Comment edited by -Liam/Slink- on 9/14/2008

Posted by Pixelthief

14th September, 2008

JOHN SHOTTED A DEMON! JOHN SHOTTED A DEMON! JOHN SHOTTED A DEMON! JOHN SHOTTED A DEMON!

Yeah I forgot to adjust the volume on the DMC2 object, but thats not a big enough deal to change i guess. Its a fickle extension. But I kind of wanted it to really kick in when the sudden "plot twist" hits

I feel bad I had to release this without figuring what was lagging it. If I comment out the text based stuff and revert it to my texture based engine, it chugs along at 45-50 fps! I've got a few optimizations to write that should keep it at 50, so I can make a full wolfenstein.

Posted by AndyUK

14th September, 2008

Rated :

It seemed to run fine for me, but it's quite hard to tell whats going on, let alone the frame rate.
It's quite hard to tell what the baddies are at first, and they seemed to either get stuck on walls a lot or were just good at hiding just around the corner

This IS epic btw.

are you going to release the source?

Posted by Pixelthief

14th September, 2008

...eventually...

Posted by -Liam-

14th September, 2008

Just stoppn' by once again to say I love this

Posted by Codemonkey

14th September, 2008

Rated :

This is very epic. Very epic indeed...

Posted by Otter

14th September, 2008

Rated :

Yes, this is epic. I liked it a lot, especially the graphics. I realize it's just a concept, but I couldn't have fun with it, sorry.

Posted by Marko

14th September, 2008

Rated :

Epic, good 'Epic' choice in music mate

On a serious note, this game is fantastic! The controls are perfect, the gameplay forces the player to explore and hunt the enemies and the weapons are good to use. Sound effects are fitting and as i've said the soundtrack is 'Epic'!

The engine is only let down by the comical use of text strings for the walls which made my eyes bleed after 5 minutes or so - a change to more conventional textures would bump this to 5 stars for sure.

Masterpiece in the making, then! Excellent work and easily GOTW, even in a more competitive week.

Posted by Simon Colmer

14th September, 2008

Rated :

Made me question life.....i loved it!

Posted by Silveraura

14th September, 2008

Framerate was beautifully smooth.

I love how it's basically a parody of people complaining that FPS have no innovation. Haha.

Posted by erghhhhx

14th September, 2008

The is kinda' amazing, you know?

Got 22 points..

GOTW for sure, but still very hard to rate.

Posted by Pixelthief

14th September, 2008

the engine is actually kind of elegant, especially with the additions I've made since then, but the actual game I put together in a single sitting last night, like the enemies, powerups, copy/pasted story, etc. its more an exploration of an *idea*

Posted by Eternal Man [EE]

14th September, 2008

Rated :

Oooooohh... *EE puts on his fancy-pants*

Posted by Ricky

15th September, 2008

Rated :

This is awsome

Posted by -Finn-

15th September, 2008

Rated :

u owned them

Posted by Va1entine

15th September, 2008

Rated :

Seriesly Pixelthief was you on some sort of acid trip when you created this? I was honestly especting a nice little text adventure game not a Doom style 3D game with matrix code everywhere! It felt like i was Neo and i could see the Matrix! I did enjoy it though and i was very impressed with your 3d engine! Good job!
Comment edited by Va1entine on 9/15/2008

Posted by UrbanMonk

16th September, 2008

Rated :

This was awesome, I have no idea how you did the text walls and such, just plain cool

This deserves a 5

Posted by traugott.simon

16th September, 2008

Really i have NO idea, how you did this. Which product did you use and can you give us at least a littlebit information, how you did this?

Posted by izac

16th September, 2008

It's not a bad game.

Music was a really bad idea, I was expecting some game music no a real song. Wasn't so sure on the mouse handling it was way to sensitive, if you play a lot of FPS like me you'll know how it feels.

Overall pretty nice, 3/5

Posted by Tropik

16th September, 2008

Rated :

Wow! My eyes! :

Posted by Pixelthief

16th September, 2008

its um, more a audio/visual pun than a *game*

Posted by alastair john jack

18th September, 2008

Rated :

This is amazing! Quite insane, highest form of beauty and art I have ever seen!

Posted by ben mercer

20th September, 2008

This is pretty cool!

The only thing is that you should use a control object for the keypresses because when there is slowdown then there can be a large control response delay which screws up the gameplay.

Posted by Muz

21st September, 2008

Rated :

Lol, this is an awesome game. I'd give it 5 stars, but -1 for not much gameplay, and -1 because I don't want to be embarrassed in the future for giving it 4 stars once everyone starts making one

Still, it's a thing of beauty. At least for today.

Posted by Dynamite

21st September, 2008

Rated :

This is amazing! Although when you press an arrow key or shoot it takes a while for it to actually take action.

This game is VERY good! Great job! The music was cool.

I wonder what the words say...

Posted by Muz

21st September, 2008

Rated :

Somehow dying made me sad.

Posted by Toasty

22nd September, 2008

Rated :

Best 3D imitation engine i've seen made with a click product. Put in real textures and you would be on par with wolfenstein 3d or even doom.

Posted by Toasty

22nd September, 2008

Rated :

n/a

Posted by Pixelthief

22nd September, 2008

You mean like that?
Comment edited by Pixelthief on 9/22/2008

Posted by alastair john jack

25th September, 2008

Rated :

That looks amazing!

Posted by viva/volt

27th September, 2008

Rated :

Love it.

Posted by Jeffrey Beyer

5th October, 2008

Rated :

i can't figure out how it works?

Posted by 3kliksphilip

3rd November, 2008

...great reason to give it 0 stars

Posted by sunraider3

13th November, 2008

Rated :

dude. if you cant get it to work don't rate it. it probably has nothing to do with the download. its probably your computer.
Comment edited by sunraider3 on 11/13/2008

Posted by sunraider3

13th November, 2008

Rated :

i congratulate your epic skillz.
although my ADD prevents me from doing anything other than read all the words on the wall. well done! 5 stars all the way!

Posted by UnknownAlly

10th January, 2009

Rated :

It ran slow on my computer.
I couldn't strafe neither

Posted by [EclektiK]

30th May, 2009

Rated :

LOLBULLETSLOL

pewpewRocketspewpew

Posted by iAlex

24th June, 2012

Rated :

Looks Genius But Unfortunetly i dont have dmc2.cox on my computer and i cant find it! do you know where to find it? It would be great if u reply to this!