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Wasted Sky

Posted by TomFulp Dec. 5, 2007 @ 2:32 PM EST

I just updated Wasted Sky to Flash 6 to test out some AS1 ad code. The original version was made in Flash 4, back when Flash had laggy keyboard input, hence the mouse controls.

After converting to Flash 6, the game stopped advancing past the com screen discussion (right before the astroid belt). It's at this point where the game does a loop to make sure there are no more enemies on the screen. The old Flash 4 code was converted to read:

if (Number(/enemy2_a/:go) == Number(false)) {

I changed it to:

if (!/enemy2_a/:go) {

and that fixed everything. My next observation was THIS GAME IS FUCKING HARD. It was a lot easier back when I had just created all the boss patterns and knew them by heart. I decided to double the player health, which makes the game a lot easier, but still pretty rough in spots. Hopefully now more people will play it all the way to the end.

The sad thing is, I never finished level 3 - which featured insane burning city parallax that scrolled with added vertical parallax as you moved up and down on the screen.

I decided to leave in the broken high score submission form, just to remind myself that we need to get back on track with the high score system we scrapped years ago. It was never fully hacker proof back then, but we're ready to give it another go one of these days.

Wasted Sky is a fun little reminder of how ahead of its time NG was back in the day... It was the late 90s and we had an intense side scroller shooter in Flash (the first, to my knowledge), with ship designs by the community and a web-based high score table.

Can everyone beat it now?

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Dec. 5, 2007 | 2:57 PM homor says:

every game you've ever made is hard.

MAKE THEM EASIER.

Dec. 5, 2007 | 3:03 PM pezzo says:

second commet yah and thats pretty cool tom ill go check it out

Dec. 5, 2007 | 3:11 PM Phil says:

Pico's School isn't that hard.

Dec. 5, 2007 | 3:13 PM BoMToons says:

That code syntax makes me cry.

Dec. 5, 2007 | 3:22 PM BoMToons says:

I got to mishka, but when he came from behind he destroyed me and I didn't want to have to replay the WHOLE 2nd level :P

Dec. 5, 2007 | 4:17 PM SaltshakerClock says:

6th comment.

Dec. 5, 2007 | 4:38 PM Kirbyzilla says:

i beat it before the update...but it easiser now

Dec. 5, 2007 | 4:45 PM Sterockicy says:

Very nice game to play. It's incredible how you made such a game.....IN 1999! I was eight years old then and didn't even have the internet nor did I care about it. I find it fascinating how you could manage to learn scripting when there would have been so little help out there since it were so new. How?

Anyway onto the game, when I first started I was stunned to see so many ships coming at me. Very hard from the word go, I beat the first boss but then was destroyed by those little buggers.

Nice work on fixing the script and even though I really don't have a clue what it says, or means, it looks good.

If by any chance you reply to my comment(unlikely) would you be able to tell me if the rankings page plans on bringing back the "total b/p" list? and how soon is the chat section going to be complete in? I just noticed it the other day and I am not sure how long it has been saying 'coming soon'.

Cheers!

Dec. 5, 2007 | 5:30 PM TomFulp responds:

Are you talking about stuff like this blam rankings page?

http://www.newgrounds.com/ranking s/blams

The chat... It's hard to say, there is some big restructuring going on for the back-end and it pushed things back.

Updated: Dec. 5, 2007, 6:27 PM

Dec. 5, 2007 | 4:46 PM jacobdg says:

tomfulp have a happy christmas!

Dec. 5, 2007 | 4:51 PM ricksed says:

The game is challenging
P.S. If I wanted to make a new collection how do I?

Dec. 5, 2007 | 5:31 PM lazydoctor says:

Tom, get to work on castle crashed mufucka, im gettin a 360 today, I wanna play your stuff homie. FFFFFFFFFF

Dec. 5, 2007 | 5:36 PM Sterockicy says:

Yeah I know there is a rankings page with blams and protects seperate but remember the list that had the top 50 total b/p ranking users. With Wylo up the top followed by ramagi and denvish. Basically like this list http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/7 4269/370 but in the actual rankings section.

Arent you going to keep that list?

Dec. 5, 2007 | 6:12 PM silentkat says:

I love your game. Did you know that?

Dec. 5, 2007 | 7:40 PM Zailotech says:

never played it, sounds cool.

Dec. 5, 2007 | 8:08 PM MartyManX says:

Are u gonna make another new postr and samuri ssshole 2? Oh yeah a happy merry christmas TomFulp!!!!!! :)

Dec. 5, 2007 | 8:25 PM IammeoramI says:

"Can everyone beat it now?"

No I suck, sorry.

Dec. 5, 2007 | 8:36 PM Eggys says:

Wait, I sped read, you have to download this game from somewhere or it it just a flash game somewhere on this site?

Dec. 5, 2007 | 10:45 PM Seamonky says:

I screamed when an asteroid hit me.

Dec. 6, 2007 | 2:07 AM CaptainBob says:

I remember not being able to beat level 2...and it looks like I still can't. As said before, every game you make is hard. I never could beat the AH flash here, but I have beat on 360.

Dec. 6, 2007 | 9:55 AM JoxskornerStudios01 says:

post a screenshot tom!

Dec. 6, 2007 | 11:27 AM mike says:

haha, /flash4/slash/notation
i'm always impressed with the craziness you managed to pull off with flash 4

Dec. 6, 2007 | 4:09 PM SaltshakerClock says:

it was awesome, but the screen got too crowded.

Dec. 6, 2007 | 4:51 PM adrian-kane says:

i love the development newgrounds is going through.........your game rok!!.......but can you make a few additions to the mature section ;).......keep up the gud work dude NG ROXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!

Dec. 6, 2007 | 6:19 PM princessyoko says:

tom is gay i saw him fucking a guy at the bus top and the guy was on cocaine sleeping it off, i think it was wade cause i heard tom screaming "oh wade"
maybe it was a diff wade though

Dec. 7, 2007 | 2:48 AM Pacman5415 says:

wellll i think ill play it YA SURE ILL DO IT!!!1!!!! for the god of newgrounds

Dec. 7, 2007 | 5:15 AM Drfigjible says:

I.... I can't do it

Dec. 7, 2007 | 11:58 AM Retrato says:

I cant get pass level 2!
Do i suck or is this game that hard?
Oh and by the way...
Those the story change depending on witch space ship you pick?

Dec. 7, 2007 | 12:11 PM Little-Rena says:

Nope, I'm hopeless at these games XD

But good job on it.

Dec. 7, 2007 | 1:01 PM SBB says:

but what about the jellyfish

Dec. 7, 2007 | 3:57 PM Retrato says:

Hey Tom!
I found were you live in google earth lol!

Dec. 7, 2007 | 7:42 PM PicoZX says:

Make a Pico plusie!

Dec. 7, 2007 | 8:32 PM codemonkeys says:

every time i try to play pico roulette no matter what i put in i can't play why? plz leave a mail at my acount other wise your gamew pwn :) thanks for pico he rocks and tankmen :)

Dec. 7, 2007 | 9:54 PM dancingweasels says:

i can finally beat the first level. by the way, what the hecks up with that lenins tomb boss guy, it was messed up

Dec. 8, 2007 | 5:07 AM ZekeySpaceyLizard says:

Tim Flip

Dec. 8, 2007 | 9:58 AM Luis says:

im so fuckin sick of people complaining that games are too hard.

Dec. 8, 2007 | 8:25 PM Cema says:

Lenin's Tomb raped me thouroughly.

Dec. 9, 2007 | 3:08 PM backlash10 says:

yo, tom, have you ever made a flash with krinkels. that would be freaking epic

Dec. 9, 2007 | 11:16 PM Sterockicy says:

Hi Tom, just thought I would show you this guys userpage, it contains links to the NG secrets, http://bombuzi.newgrounds.com/news/po st/56016, ban that guy!

Dec. 10, 2007 | 2:50 PM Retrato says:

Hey Tomm there are some fake bots around.
Like LOL-bot.
But i dount know if 3-bot is real or not...
Anyway nice desings with the real bots! :D

Dec. 10, 2007 | 8:21 PM americanidiot2f says:

Wasted Sky, I played it, pretty nice, but seriously was hard.
Oo, I got one little question out of curiosity. Just an estimate, how many penicorn orders are you getting per day? It must be A LOT.

Dec. 11, 2007 | 12:01 AM codyrocks2007 says:

k welll not really anything to say bbut yeau do make some hard games somestimes

Dec. 11, 2007 | 6:03 AM junipe says:

this may be erelavent......buut when will you finish the chat rooms????????????????????????????????
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Dec. 16, 2007 | 11:17 PM Russ3ll says:

Pssh, I beat the game with my eyes closed. Twice.