WinoFly – old windows with flies

 

A fly flew. All the insect flies flew. A warm breeze wafted in. The game is ready! It's a simple shooter like Galaxian. You move left and right and shoot at enemies. With a ton of insect sprites. I love drawing! And the Windows 3.11 theme as the background and window decoration.

Each level consists of three waves of enemies. The enemy lines up. A line is made up of five flies. And there can be up to five such lines in later levels. The difficulty gradually increases. Enemies sometimes shoot. Rarely. In these pixelated clumps. And about once every seven seconds, one of the insects makes a special move. It stands on line 6 and makes a square. It describes it. And then returns to its place.

The game turned out fun and colorful. The only thing is that the background is white. It's easier that way. And this is a Windows 3.11 stylization. All the menus are the same. It's simple. And that's the visual aspect.

 

It's amazing that this game will have both music and sounds. During gameplay. Cheerful 8-bit music and equally cheerful sounds. There are compositions for the game. And a ton of sounds. Sounds for when the player takes damage, for when flies perform a special move, and for when flies disappear. There are lots of sounds, and they are randomly selected.

The game uses free music. Thanks to the author and musician, Kevin MacLeod, for two wonderful tracks. In the style of upbeat 8-bit chiptune music. And I created the sounds myself in Bfxr. It's a very lightweight program for creating sounds like those on the Dendy or even simpler 8-bit sounds.

 

I spent a long time tinkering with the developments for this game. I took the risk of using third-party libraries for Free Basic. I want to display graphics as PNG, play music as MP3, and create fonts using True Type. This will be better in the future. That's why I didn't improve any features in this game. It took a lot of time to figure out how to connect FB Sound, Free PNG, and FreeType. Before that, I tried for a long time to connect anything, and it turned out to be very difficult.

 

So, these simple and fun things are what I got this time. A retro pixelated theme and windows reminiscent of Windows 3.11. In the main menu, you also choose the screen scale. It's like a shooter. And a vertical screen format. And you can make the window small, or almost full screen. Use the left and right arrows.

 

And also the language selection. The very first screen greets you with a choice of which language to display everything in. Thanks to True Type fonts for such a wonderful feature. And you can immediately hear beautiful MP3 files in the main menu. This is FB Sound at work. Music and in-game sounds play simultaneously! And all the sprites are PNG images. It's convenient, modern, and compact. Thanks go to FbPng for that. These are all the different libraries integrated into Free Basic. This is the first successful attempt!

The game turned out to be quite cheerful... About flies and insects. The theme is friendly animals. The flies fly. They're all colorful. Sprites. And cheerful music plays. Fun sounds play from time to time. There are over 10 levels. So the game will take some time. It's good for relaxation. Just playing and unwinding. Away from the routine. In the middle of the workday. A game about old windows with flies.

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