S World 3

Latest Screen Shots

Here is the latest game I am working on.
You can find the earier games from this series here [S World 1] and here [S World 2].
They are both for the game boy and game boy color

All coded, compiled and tested under GCC with Visual Boy Advance

Release 5 - The Ultimate Release

sworld3v5.zip (100 k)

Secondary weapons

Many new enemies, including boss enemies

Everything becomes ultimate!

Release 4

sworld3v4.zip (105 k)

Difficulty Levels added

Luscious multilayer scrolling backgrounds

A couple of new enemies

Probably some other stuff I am forgetting

Continue and Options menu items aren't enabled yet, so don't bother trying

Release 3

sworld3v3.zip (105 k) Version 0.0003 Greediness increased 1000%

Well, The main new thing is coins that get dropped when you kill the green aliens, and are used to buy weapon upgrades and changes. This really makes the game heaps more interesting.

Some other minor things

An instructions screen
You now have 3 lives - maybe in the future you will have to pay for those too
I am considering if I should go to pre planned alien attack waves or not. If so I would need to write an editor
I also want to have waves, or level and a shop in between levels where you buy weapons upgrades
I definately want to get the character dialogues running again. I played S World 2 again last night, and those were the best part
Well, dialogues and trophies

Release 2

sworld3v2.zip (29 k) Version 0.0002 The basic engine + a bit more

The layout of the code is settling into place now. I should hopefully switch a lot of stuff to call back functions, and put in some more comments for the next version, but instead I will probably just insert more badly thought out and documented stuff :-)

I am quite happy with the misc actors (explosions and sparkles) as they are now. I wouldn't mind setting up a system so they don't have to be limited to just 20 in total, but that would require a little bit of time and thinking.

I have lots of good ideas about the intros for this game, and the way I am going to have powerups and different ships and stuff working, but now I have to find 100s of hours to work on the program to get them all going.

Some things to notice:

A button to fire
L button to increase your power
R button to change your weapon type
start and select to pause and slow motion
the number of enemies increases slowly as you kill them
you can die now, you lose score + power, but have infinite lives (? infinite justice ?)
There is a bug in mappy where some enemies can't be hit.
If you experience this on a real gba please contact me via email ()

Release 1

sworld3v1.zip (13 k) Version 0.0001 The basic engine

I have started work on the next S World game. This is version 1 simply because it is the first version I have released. Please feel free to use this code in any way you feel inclined too.