First to beat McGivers' Footer!

[El_Thierro]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I did it! I finally did it! I beat McGivers footer!

Now I don't know if I'm actually the first, but I sure am the first in the statistics:
http://www.digitalhalo.de/footer/statsv51/stats.php

I did it! I did it! I'm so happy! :party:
Yaaah!

:thumb: :D

P.S.I have a screenshot, but I haven't posted it because I didn't want to ruin the ending (and the last level) for other players...

[kirupa]

I think I stopped after the 3rd level. It's too addictive :)

[andr.in]

I couldn't get past 4 ... oh well gotta try again ;)

[El_Thierro]

But he enhanced the thing, now you can get weapons from crates and your shots do more damage and such...try it, it's a bit easier :thumb:

[Maxtr0sity]

I get bunch of mumbo jumbo when I click the link. Using Firefox.

[kirupa]

I tried changing weapons, but nothing really happened. I was still seeing "gun" as my weapon choice?

[El_Thierro]

You still have to fire on some crates, and when a little brownish square with a flame comes out of one, just press 2 or 3 (depending on how far in the game you are) on your keyboard. (I pressed the number keys above the normal letters, not on the numeral pad, dunno if that makes a difference). Normally, it should change to either Rockets (2) or Smartgun (3) then.

[Johnny64]

I get bunch of mumbo jumbo when I click the link. Using Firefox.
Same here
but it worked in IE for me :)

[Maxtr0sity]

Yeah, ok, I see it in IE. Nice.

[McGiver]

hey congratulations :)
but there was still a bug remaining and I improved the design of the crates' weapon icons, so I changed the swf again.

[andr.in]

aww can't get through 11 :(

btw it's strange that the enemy tank's barrel follows the mouse cursor too :P

[El_Thierro]

hey congratulations :)
but there was still a bug remaining and I improved the design of the crates' weapon icons, so I changed the swf again.
Thanks :)
But...does that mean the cookies changed as well? I don't have my weapons anymore! Noooo! Why, ow why, cruel faith? :(

I want my rockets back :(

:sure:

[Coppertop]

how does the smart gun work? so far, it seems like a bigger gun.

[SeiferTim]

Yeah, I like the rocket better, the SmartGun doesn't seem to be much better than your basic gun... If it started with a much bigger radius-of-death ;) it would be better.
Is it supposed to sort of Home?

[El_Thierro]

I know, I haven't really figured out what the smart gun does either. It just seems the opponent almost never misses with it... I personally like the rockets better as well :thumb:

[SeiferTim]

Rockets = Swiss Cheese Maker
;)

[McGiver]

The smartgun distroys enermy armor as well as life.
The less armor your enermy has, the more damage he will take.

yes the enermy gun does follow the cursor, but that doesn't affect its shots.

[Coppertop]

but it would be really cool if instead it was a homing missile or something

[McGiver]

well, it would be a little difficult to win if your enermy had let's say a tactical nuke :P

but let's see if, and where I can add some code :)

[SeiferTim]

I think I got to the end... I beat the night level, and it said "congrats" or something, then went back to the same level, which I lost, and went back to the hill & tree level with the smartgun guy....
I found a glitch, though.
I got the rocket, permanantly.
Beat the next few levels.
Lost to the first Smartgun Guy, lost to the rocket guy twice in a row, then beat him, and it said: "Press 2 to switch to Rockets!", and I had the Smartgun on the next level, permananantly. Didn't really matter, since I don't use it ;) I like my rockets :D

[Maxtr0sity]

Lol, and this is under 15k how?

[SeiferTim]

Magic.
Duh.
;)

[andr.in]

oh that "congrats" message was the end? bah now you're telling. me :P

[El_Thierro]

oh that "congrats" message was the end? bah now you're telling. me :P
Yeah man, I specifically kept that quiet :sigh:

And yeah, it's not really a glitch, I guess, you just get to keep the weapons after you've completed certain levels. A cookie gets stored on your HD which holds the information.

[McGiver]

Lol, and this is under 15k how?yep, it's 14980 or something like that.
1400 lines of code including all the levels, graphics inside the game +3kb "click to play" graphic :D


oh that "congrats" message was the end?there wasn't enough space in the 15000bytes for the 20 minute end movie I planned :P

[El_Thierro]

there wasn't enough space in the 15000bytes for the 20 minute end movie I planned :P
What a shame...I think if you ask Kirupa nicely and let us all sign a petition or something, he'll let you exceed the size a little...

;)

[McGiver]

I was abled to reduce the front image size by 800bytes without making it look too crappy.
Maybe I will add some homing missile for the last enermy like coppertop suggested.
It's 4 o'clock in germany, and I just came back home. So, maybe tomorrow...

[El_Thierro]

I was abled to reduce the front image size by 800bytes without making it look too crappy.
Maybe I will add some homing missile for the last enermy like coppertop suggested.
It's 4 o'clock in germany, and I just came back home. So, maybe tomorrow...
4 o'clock over here as well, I'm going to bed too... Don't make the game too easy though ;)

G'night fellow European ;)

:asleep:

[andr.in]

ohh... I just found out you could move your tank! :beam:
:P

[El_Thierro]

ohh... I just found out you could move your tank! :beam:
:P
:thumb:




:huh:

[McGiver]

Ok, new version again.
I reduced the Intro image size by 200 bytes
4 weapons now:
Gun (1 bullet, big explosion)
Rockets (7 bullets, small explosion)
Smartgun (1 Bullet, midsized explosion, destroys enermy armor, semi homing)
Seekers (3 Bullets, small explosions, full homing missile)
I made the game a little harder again (hope not too hard, but we will see)

Added a kind of "outro" text at the end (in front of the intro image), so that people will notice it as the end :)

[El_Thierro]

For some reason, whenever I start playing the game now, it jumps immediately to the last level...anyone else seeing this? :h:

[McGiver]

oups, my fault :/
(when betatesting I access the levels directly, seems I forgot to reset a variable)

[McGiver]

I changed it, should work now. :)

[MxNecromancer]

I changed it, should work now. :)
hey is it possible to make an option to have a 2 player game available? you know from the same keyboard?

[McGiver]

I was thinking about an online 2 player footer version.
tanks not abled to move, data stored in php mysql.
But it will need time to make that (I worked a lot with php in the last time, but I lack the mysql skills), and I don't have too much at the moment. Maybe after I made my final exams.

[GreenLantern]

If I drive off the edge again, i'm going to stick my head in my monitor.

[McGiver]

huh? :P

[GreenLantern]

I'll try to maneuver myself out of a hole or something, and it just jumps right off the edge of the level. It happens to me all the time.

I would fail the McGiver tank license test.

[McGiver]

I'll try to maneuver myself out of a hole or something, and it just jumps right off the edge of the level. It happens to me all the time.
huh? never noticed that one

anyone else or is this a special skill of RedMirrorBall

[tucker]

guess who got to level 6?

not me!

[GreenLantern]

I just got to 10, that is the farthest I have been.

[MxNecromancer]

It happend to me once, you should make it easier to get out of hoels thats for sure. i get hit once and i'm stuck on the floor till the end of the game

[McGiver]

It happend to me once, you should make it easier to get out of hoels thats for sure. i get hit once and i'm stuck on the floor till the end of the game
that's intended. The ability to move is there that you can place yourself behind a tree or move away if your enermy already shot holes in the floor in front of you. If you fell inside a hole, you shouldn't be abled to get outside anymore (depends on the size of the hole of course)

[MxNecromancer]

that's intended. The ability to move is there that you can place yourself behind a tree or move away if your enermy already shot holes in the floor in front of you. If you fell inside a hole, you shouldn't be abled to get outside anymore (depends on the size of the hole of course)

http://senocular.com/smilies/bigtongue.gif

[El_Thierro]

I am still king of an internet forum user footer game! What an honor! :sure:

Anyway, I managed to dig a tunnel underneath one of those hills by continuously shooting rockets into the hill. It was great, if I moved quick enough, the enemy couldn't hit me anymore as he kept shooting on top of the hill...untill I blast myself out of the bottom of the footer :(

[McGiver]

lol :P

[GreenLantern]

There needs to be a website dedicated to McGiver's footer.

El_Thierro, you are in charge of the hacks section.

:beam:

[SeiferTim]

Make a GameFaqs Faq... ;)

[m_andrews808]

smartgun seems to bend the path of the missle a little towards your opponent so you don't have to be as accurate, personally I'd go for rockets every time