Bizmark Demo

Hi everyone,

Here's a demo of my first BlitzMax game Bizmark. It is still in early stages of development but already provides somewhat decent gameplay.

Bizmark is a simple 2d action game where you need to capture spheres that match the symbol on top of the screen. First stun spheres with your laser (left-click) and then deploy the bionic arm (right-click) to gather them.

Graphics are all done by myself using Paint Shop Pro and I got all music loops and sound effects from freeware sites.

Screenshot:


Download Bizmark here http://www.harpon-online.com/Bizmark/bizmark.exe

Game controls:

move space ship    --->  mouse horizontal move
fire stun laser    --->  left-click
deploy bionic arm  --->  right-click
show FPS           --->  'F'
save screenshot    --->  F12

Check it out!

thanks,

Spikenspan

**edited to fix post tags..

I guess a simple 2d game doesn't grab much interest... I had fun making it though. I couldn't have done any of this without the excellent forums !!

I'll try to put some more time into it to make it more interesting.

thanks!

This game isnt bad, but it lacks a way of losing :o

Give it some time -- it's always much quieter during the weekends on this forum, especially during a holiday. :->

Yeah, I still have some loose ends to tie up.. thanks a lot for the comments!

I noticed that the score board is not visible on some machines I tested the demo on. I later found out that those PC's had video cards integrated on the mother board and offered limited/no OpenGL support.

Are the BlitzMax executables able to run on PC's that do not support OpenGL ? if not, can we detect the presence of OpenGL drivers ?

thanks