Misty ninja is the first focus of this project, a side scrolling platformer it has a basic principle, run right and jump.
The story is simple as they come,
Ghostly ninjas have been causing trouble, to get rid of them your bribing a dragon with all the tastey tastey gems you can find.

Gameplay likewise is based around collecting gems and in some cases defeating the ghostly ninjas to get the treasures they're protecting.


the current version has the level editor fully working, safe point finding, scoring, lives and springy mushrooms. I'm currently working on putting in
disappearing and moving platforms, so as to liven up the general platforming, after that I'll work on the rock puzzles (moving rocks on switches to open doors) and after that enemies.


Misty ninja is about the only thing actually in development right now, but the top down shooter is next in line. gameplay will consist of wave based survival, relying on powerups and upgrades to help you blast through the alien horde.
Enemies as you can see the first smallest enemy on the sheet, will be alien animals, be it little critter of massive beast, you'll be aiming to shoot it dead before it can bite a chunk out of you.
Beyond this not much has been planned, as seen in the picture guns take up a lot of space so it may be limited in selection (although I'm likely to reuse sprites with different projectile / flash in order to make the guns seem more diverse)
if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.


very very little is planned about this, its just one of my favourite genres and I'd be an idiot not to give it a go, gameplay is obvious, your flying up, enemies flying down, shoot the enemies, pick up any powerups they drops and don't get hit.

any downloads I will post in this area, so if anyone is interested in watching these games progress, the links will be here for your convenience

Contents so far,

Player Movement & shooting,
Character select
Crush deaths,
Getting hurt (first losing shield, then rings, then dying)
Scoring,
Checkpoints,
moving platforms with trigger based direction control,
NPC's who react to how many points you have, if they talk they add their name to a list which will eventually be used to open new paths / activate objects,
powerup monitors (blank point monitor, 10 ring monitor, shield monitor, speed shoes monitor, invincibility monitor and a not yet complete robo monitor)
goal post,
end level screen and ring bonus,
playlist system (which will eventually be customizable but at the moment is hardcoded)

Changes from previous versions,
I've fiddled with the jumping mechanics and lowered acceleration to make speed seem more significant.
I've changed how tilesheets handle so now tilesheets can be maxxed at 4096 x 4096, as opposed to the previous limit of 256 x 256, this has required a change in how they save so previous versions maps will not work correctly, but no known bugs are present in this version and I've tested the saving and loading thoroughly, so maps from this version should work for following versions.

plans,
in the next 6 days I plan to add button / door / hazard puzzle pieces, at least 2 enemies (likely the wheelie worm and doom fly, wheelie worm being a slow worm-like robot who will curl up into a spikey wheel and charge at you, doom fly being your typical flying nuisance, though you will be able to bounce off the top of it, destroying it should you fall on it.), springs and gravity switches.
I'll likely have free time left over which I will use to set up some basic backgrounds to get the game looking more complete.

INSTRUCTIONS!
In Game
use the mouse to pick your character from Johnny, Nayrman, Solaris or Ted.
W,A,S,D - move (you can jump on the monitor boxes)
Space - shoot (you can shoot the monitor boxes)

Level Editor
F1 - edit mode toggle
W,A,S,D - move
Left Click - when in the main window places tiles (be sure to use the red X tile to clear tiles, its much more efficient) when in the side bar selects objects (top left) or tiles (bottom left)
Right Click - place an object (some objects have dialogues for you to change their nature, read their instructions to understand how to use them) hold right click to remove objects.

SAVE / LOAD NOTE: a small oversight in the editor makes the editor lose focus when you load, to fix simply go out and back into edit mode

DOWNLOAD LINK!
Note: if you have not already install the msi included in the download, it is the XNA redistributable, it contains the necessary libraries used to make (and by extension to run) the game.
http://www.mediafire.com/?72yql5elgx14dl7

MEDIAFIRE LINK
INSTRUCTIONS
P - swap between play mode and edit mode
I - save
O - load (load map 00 to get a quick look at the game so far)
edit mode controls
WASD - move around
Left Shift - hold to quick move
left click - to press buttons, select objects to place from below the buttons, select from the tilesheet to the left your current tile to place and place tiles on the game screen to the right.
right click - hold to delete objects you've placed, click to place an instance of the selected object, objects do not stack on one another, only 1 player can exist at a time
player mode controls
A & D - left and right
W - jump, hold to jump higher
NOTES
the very edges of the map do not have reliable tile detection, your best off building a level with 2 tile padding from the map edges.
mushroom and gem tiles do not act as mushrooms or gems, use the objects at the top of the screen to place gems and mushrooms.