Planet Wars Peer Review

[colej_uk]

This project has been a long time coming to Xbox.

http://xboxforums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/108070.aspx

I also think it's my longest-running project overall, as I remember starting this ages back. The iOS version of this was released last year. Since then I've been working to make it better and to also bring it to xbox.

This version is by far the best- it's much more suited to xbox controls than a touch screen. I'm pleased to say it has fully-featured 4 player local co-op too, which took me aggggges to implement but was worth it.

It's a top-down alien shooter with completely customizable weapons, an illustrated campaign and survival mode.

After testing I think it's ready. Hopefully I haven't missed anything.

If you guys could help peer review then that would be awesome

[Danny]

Cole, I'm on it, look forward to reviewing!

[Jeff]

Plays great on the xbox!
I have reviewed!

[colej_uk]

Thanks Jeff & Danny

[Danny]

Cole,

Rather than FAIL it at the AppHub section I decided to post here, not sure whether that's a good thing or not?!

The Survival Mode has a weird crash/bug that I can replicate quite easily.

I enter survival mode with 2 players, I place all the initial factions down bar the last three and click 'Ready', the first wave has already commenced before I put down the first lot of buildings btw, there is only player 2 active on the screen.

Then, the first wave is killed, wait for second wave... nothing. I paused, then resumed, it went to second wave, however they all spawned in the top-left corner and wasn't able to enter the screen so the machine-gun I had setup just killed them all one by one and it went to next wave, again, same process. The wave didn't come until I paused and resumed, when it did they all spawned in top left corner and were easily killed.

I got to ~Wave 4 when I paused to get to wave 5 and the HUD disappeared completely and I have no control over the player using 2nd gamepad (whereas I did at first). I took some photo's as I there was no other way of getting a screenshot/debug info. That's about all I could do to help with this error dude...

One can only assume, when your 'unpause / main loop' group is activated after resuming the next wave kicks in and it's not doing in real-time.
I'll upload those photos now for you in here.

[Danny]

I just uploaded the one dude as they were all pretty similar, however it finally ended up with no HUD visible and no joypad movement. FYI: There was no player 1 from the beginning and player 2 spawned instantly on frame start with the first wave also coming in at the start.
bug1.jpg

[colej_uk]

Ah ok, thanks Danny I'll look into this and post again when I've fixed it.

[Sloxone]

Hi colej_uk
I tested your game,and is playable very good.No problem found with controllers 1

Good luck

[colej_uk]

My game is back up for peer review: http://xboxforums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/108070.aspx

[colej_uk]

Unless my XBLIG page is lying to me, I only need 2 more reviews to pass now. For some reason with this game I've only needed 4 reviews?

I remember it being a lot more with MegaCity. Maybe it gets reduced after you have a game on there already?

So if anybody hasn't and can & has the time, could you check it out? I promise to review your games when you have them ready for peer review!