Metal Venture

After a year and a half in development, Metal Venture is finally ready. It’s the largest project I’ve worked on so far. This game is a top-down shooter, inspired from the Robokill flash game, but different in many ways. A world with a story, consisting of 9 levels is included. Documentation covering the basic aspects of the Level Editor is available. I hope that people will have fun and be creative, making their own worlds, stories and custom graphics. Visit Metalventure.forumotion.net and become part of the Metal Venture community!

**Features :**

* Worlds split in levels, each level containing up to 196 rooms.
* Multitude of enemies,weapons and items, as well as rare items. Random enemy drops ensure game variety.
* Ambient lighting for greater world immersion.
* Inventory, as well as shops!
* A simple leveling up system, allowing to augment your max energy, health or weapon power.
* Complete objectives, ranging from destroying specific targets to reaching certain locations, in order to reach the next world level.
* Cutscenes between each level, and at the beginning/end of each world.
* Allocating your energy to either your health or your weapon power adds a great tactical feature!
* Conserve energy in order to throw Jolts, which deal great damage to enemies OR unlock jammed doors!
* A level editor, allowing players to create their own worlds, adding events and custom item drops (eg. drop a key when a specific enemy dies, or complete an objective) with merely editing properties in objects in a simple way!

**Technical Stuff:**
The game starts in fullscreen mode. If you don’t want this, open the options.ini file in the game directory, find the line:
fullscreen=1
and change it into:
fullscreen=0

Estimated Requirements:
Pentium 4 Processor or better
640 MB of RAM
Graphics card: NVIDIA 7600GT/ATI x1600XT or better with at least 256 MB of VRAM
Tested on Windows XP/7
100 MB free Hard Disk space

For nVidia fraphics card users: If graphics look glitchy, do the following:
Go to the nVidia display control panel, go to the Adjust Image Settings with Preview and move the slider to “Quality” preset. Alternatively, enable antialiasing in the nVidia display control panel. This is by no means a “Metal Venture” issue, but a “Game Maker 7” issue, I went through a lot of pain in order to determine the source of this graphical glitch, and then a few expert members at the Game Maker community told me what this was all about.

**Credits:**

Game design and programming – level editor:
vdweller – Vdweller.awardspace.com

Music:
Voytek Pavlik – Rustystudio.com
get the soundtrack: Cdbaby.com

Additional ambiance and sound effects:
Freesound.org \- special thanks to ERH

Testers:
fago – heretic – lithium – magma24 – maroutas
minmay – Pet Smil – Razzorman – salmoneous

Special thanks:
h0bbel – kaietnap – kyle solo – mark overmars
tsg1zzn – xot

Metal Venture was developed by vdweller, Released in 2010-02-10

Metal Venture was Released on Windows
Metal Venture is a Single Player game

Metal Venture