KAZESUI'S PROFILE

But he sure took his sweet time

author=bulmabriefs144

This is not particularly good code (good code, should as much as possible, save variables). I'll try to dig up an example of good code.

...What point are you trying to make here, because you're not really making a lot of sense.
Are you trying to claim that loops are bad and that you should rather rely on copy pasting, or are you trying to argue that there's any particular good reason for being insanely sparse with memory, considering each variable only cost couple of bytes anyway?

Cool, a let's play (or whatever one typically call these) :D
Yeah, this game has a couple of glaring flaws, the speed being on of them, as you can stack speed powerups, making it go kind of too fast even.
The reason here is due to how the system was built, using only half and whole numbers rather than decimal numbers to deal with the speed... which I should have done, but didn't think of at the time (and I only had 1 month for making the game, so by the time I noticed the problem, I didn't really have time to fix it)

The sprites comes pretty much exclusively from Gradius as it had very convenient amount of 16x16 pixel sprites making my job a lot easier (Zero Wing sprites are generally bigger), but the power up system is more akin to some other games. You shoot the power up itself to change the upgrade, and the colour of the item determines the power up, purple being the speed up you so sorely wanted.

also, the power ups are stackable by collecting more from the same colour, akin to that of Zero Wing.
Also, yes, all of this is merely event scripting, almost patch free even (I don't recall if I got a patch for extension of picture Id's at the moment or not, but I might have done that).

Ah yeah, and the savefile is actually intentional. It's there for skipping the intro. The stage is exactly the same, no hard mode or anything as it's hard enough as it is, potentially a bit too frustrating (in good gradius style, there are some cheats though).

But yeah, thank you for taking the time to play this, and rather than thinking about playing this again, you might want to consider the Cure of Cpt. Loveless instead (though just a demo at the moment), which is somewhat of the same, but with less of the issues found here.

If I understood you correctly, you're having trouble removing the "transparent colour" you typically choose in the editor. The blend modes don't work like that.
Too make something transparent using .add, you make it entirely black.
Additive adds colour and black is lack of colour, hence nothing gets added.

This means you might need to adjust the palette of your png if it doesn't have a pure black colour.

Transparent stuff using multiplicative blends are done by using gray (that is rgb = 128,128,128... or 127, dont recall right now).

As for the error message which keeps popping up... I suspect its a timing issue of sorts, but I just don't have time to sort it out at the moment. From the looks of it, the bug will stay for a while =/

As said, the association alone isn't enough.
If you did a direct copy paste, the most likely reason for it not working is that you forgot to use "show picture" for that ID. If you associate a text with picture ID 1, you need to have used "show picture 1:" for the text to actually show.

If however a direct 1 to 1 copy paste works, but changing a single parameter doesnt, then it would be helpful if you could post the comment command itself.