[sensible GP32]

i finished kid C in round about 8 years :)
god bless savestates, before that i just got very angry................................ alot.

this game looks bad ass,
ill have to give it a go at some point

[FluffyPanda]

Sort of off topic, but here we go anyway.

I personally think that hiding your salary as an employee just hurts you. If everybody was more open about their salaries then you would know a lot better what you could expect to be on for the job you are doing. I imagine there are many people in this world sitting next to someone who's not as skilled and still earning more.

And I earn 24,000 Great British Pounds a year, before the tax man takes his cut.

[PofG1]

£4.50/hour

Im a glass polisher!

Also. Vektar.

[Goity]

I earn 10p a year. I help my dad do stuff on ebay as he is computer illiterate.

[craigix]

They are not inkjet printed, they are phasered (that is why it shines)

But hey, at least the game is good ;)

[silversmurfer]

Game arrived this week - superb - a quick question - I hate swapping SD cards around sooo I thought I'd just copy the contents of the Vektar card over to a dir on my 4Gb card - but it just sits at the loading screen - any ideas or is this a protected app?

[craigix]

It is protected yes.

The reason why I didn't use an autorun script is because people who don't know unix very well would not be able to copy over their own music files as the game would keep autobooting rather than allowing them into the usb menu.

But you can easily add one if you want one :)

[darkman]

I've been playing a lot of mamegp2x this week. I've noticed a lot of similarities between the game "Zektor" and "Vektar." Did some of the ideas come from this old game? In my opinion Vektar is a much better game and I'm speaking of the homebrew one here. I haven't purchased a copy of the commercial one yet. Some of the enemies even look the same. :huh:

[Dzz]

darkman, on Aug 25 2006, 12:12 PM, said:

I've been playing a lot of mamegp2x this week. I've noticed a lot of similarities between the game "Zektor" and "Vektar." Did some of the ideas come from this old game? In my opinion Vektar is a much better game and I'm speaking of the homebrew one here. I haven't purchased a copy of the commercial one yet. Some of the enemies even look the same. :huh:

I can't speak for all the new content in the commercial version, but I've never heard of Zektor. The names are similar, but "vektar" is just supposed to be a more-or-less homonym for "vector" as in vector graphics. If enemies look similar that's probably because there are only so many different geometric shapes you can easily draw with a few lines :)

If the gameplay is similar, well the Asteroids concept is archetypical.

There's nothing really original about the freeware Vektar, it was just something I thought I could code fast enough for the coding competition in february, then I fleshed it out a bit more to make the "full" freeware game. From what I've seen so far (still waiting for mailman to deliver the commercial game), Craig made the concept a lot more original with the directions he took it.

This post has been edited by Dzz: 25 August 2006 - 06:58 PM

[darkman]

Dzz, on Aug 25 2006, 01:40 PM, said:

darkman, on Aug 25 2006, 12:12 PM, said:

I've been playing a lot of mamegp2x this week. I've noticed a lot of similarities between the game "Zektor" and "Vektar." Did some of the ideas come from this old game? In my opinion Vektar is a much better game and I'm speaking of the homebrew one here. I haven't purchased a copy of the commercial one yet. Some of the enemies even look the same. :huh:

I can't speak for all the new content in the commercial version, but I've never heard of Zektor. The names are similar, but "vektar" is just supposed to be a more-or-less homonym for "vector" as in vector graphics. If enemies look similar that's probably because there are only so many different geometric shapes you can easily draw with a few lines :)

If the gameplay is similar, well the Asteroids concept is archetypical.

There's nothing really original about the freeware Vektar, it was just something I thought I could code fast enough for the coding competition in february, then I fleshed it out a bit more to make the "full" freeware game. From what I've seen so far (still waiting for mailman to deliver the commercial game), Craig made the concept a lot more original with the directions he took it.

Gameplay, the ingame box concept, enemies, ai, and a lot of other things about the games look very much alike. I do agree about the commercial game in the demos I have played. It has taken on a very different direction. And I think that is a good thing. Someone at Sega might have noticed some of the similarities also.

edit: Vektar does add some great new ideas with some freshness to that old retro feel. I do like the directional pad used for acceleration rather than pressing a button. It gives you some neat strategical moves to come up with. My favorite is to accelerate through enemies spinning and firing at the same time.

This post has been edited by darkman: 25 August 2006 - 07:34 PM

[Dzz]

darkman, on Aug 25 2006, 01:05 PM, said:

Someone at Sega might have noticed some of the similarities also.

If Sega apparently doesn't care very much about people pirating their actual game itself it seems unlikely they would be interested in games with some superficial similarities in obvious areas like "gameplay is in an enclosed space" or "the enemy follows you".

[nickspoon]

You can't copyright a game mechanic. Clones are perfectly safe.