🐔 Chicken Invaders 1 Remastered #11

[OfficalK12]

but untick the letterbox it turn to original resolution

[CattyCheese]

wide (1920x1080 without letterbox)
also intended as description said

[RainbowBoyVN]

@InterAction_studios

Native resolution is 640x480, 4:3 aspect ratio.

[EhadBalayla]

is it ok if i will backup all beta versions? the more this game gets updated? (cuz now it says beta 0.1)

[EhadBalayla]

also whatever you do, if you are gonna add languages (i guess not cuz its a remaster not a remake) but still, don’t add Hebrew

[Bandicoot]

Thanks.

[InterAction_studios]

@iIfireIi

“Press fire to join” is covered by FPS

@iIfireIi

Can you remove the red FPS graph

Turn it off

@iIfireIi

Score is too close to heart meter, can you move it slightly away?

No matter how far I move it, it will eventually overlap.

@iIfireIi

Same happens in CIU
Solution: Press F7 again.

I’m not doing anything with F7 (especially). It could be some other piece of software on your PC that uses that as a keyboard shortcut (perhaps doing video recording? that would explain the FPS drop)

@Sammarald

still seems to have CIU text leftovers

Fixed

@Sammarald

and is called CIU in task manager

Fixed

@PlasmaX

Can you add the CI1 download link to the “Download CIU” topic

Not here. It will eventually appear on interactionstudios.com

@Sammarald

What were these?

I don’t know. I imported the whole folder by accident, and they were there. Probably unused/superseded. Removed.

@Sammarald

The code for egg movement seems like it was changed, because now it is possible for eggs to move up instead of down on the minus waves

Code is the same. A had a quick look and this is an RNG issue. Borland’s RNG will return positive numbers when passed negative ranges. Some more digging reveals that the % operator discards signs in Borland, but preserves them in Microsoft’s compiler. This is odd. I was under the impression that it was codified in the C standard. Maybe the compiler is too old, or non-compliant.

Anyway, won’t fix.

@Sammarald

Cheating still qualifies for a high score

Not any more. Changed.

@theawesomesonic

if you skip the cutscene at the beginning of the game, the music that accompanies it will not stop playing when you start a new game

By default, music keeps on playing throughout. You can turn off the “In-game music” option.

@PlasmaX

Also for people that only use keyboards, you can’t actually fire

Looks like you’ve changed the bindings yourself. If you press “Reset to default” on the previous screen, does the “Space” return next to “primary fire”?

@Omaruvu

I have a question will you add official online leaderboards like in the episodes?

With all the cheating going on? No.

@Platinum

You might need to add a heart and missile counter my guy.

Lives are now specified as “x ???” if you have more than 3. I’ve left missiles as-is, because it’s much rarer for them to overlap.

@Platinum

gameplay feels slow, you might want to make it faster (game is locked on 30 FPS

This is not possible to change, as was explained in this series.

@VerMishelb

switching from keyboard to mouse results in mouse being wherever it was

Fixed (although I don’t think switching between input methods mid-game is a common occurrence)

@VerMishelb

The spacecraft is not centred most of time

Indeed, the rendering was off-center (even in the original). Fixed.

@VerMishelb

these lightning issues which were hidden by the low resolution of original game are now apparent.

Suprisingly, there were NO lights (!) in the original file. I’ve added one and tried to match previous shades (it’s not perfect)

@VerMishelb

the network predictor circle is way too opaque

I don’t want to do opacity effects, but I’ve changed the colour to make less conspicuous

@VerMishelb

like the ones going from hitting Earth

I had a close look, but I can’t find anything wrong. Maybe just that, due to the 2x scaling up, the particles seem to be positioned slightly inaccurately. How does it compare against CI2? Do you think CI2 explosions look more/less correct?

@VerMishelb

the game feels slower than original

The original was at 26.3 fps, this is at 25 fps. I’ve changed it, but I doubt it would make such a significant impact.

@VerMishelb

you can’t shoot with keyboard without taking controls off from the mouse.

I’ve changed this (you still have to click at the “press fire to start” screen so that the game knows you want to use the mouse, however)

@gabytzu

why on max resolution is 16:9?

That’s your screen’s actual resolution. It has nothing to do with the aspect ratio of the game (which is indeed 4:3)

@Ericbruh

aren’t the low graphics we’re supposed to remove all the smoke trails and particles like in the original game

No. Nowadays there’s more than enough horsepower.

@Sammarald

there is a memory leak on this menu screen

Ah, right. The new text leaks. Fixed.

@OneWingLunarian

the firerate is slow, can you make it faster

Click faster.

@Rippi_17

my mouse gets outside of the windowed gmae, and i can’t move for that time

Fixed.

@TrophyHunter

Does the food originally is not this bouncy enough to reach the ship

Physics should be exactly the same.

@RainbowBoyVN

what’s the purpose for this

To enter your name in the highscores

@RainbowBoyVN

So does that means that there will be more special weapon aside missiles

Oversight. Fixed.

[iIfireIi]

@InterAction_studios

I’m not doing anything with F7 (especially). It could be some other piece of software on your PC that uses that as a keyboard shortcut (perhaps doing video recording? that would explain the FPS drop)

Uh, yes, forgot the software in tray after recording CIU hack result video, which I later showed in your DM. Thanks for pointing out lmao.

[michaeltime204]

[trueuser]

CI1 is not CIU

[OneWingLunarian]

@InterAction_studios

Click faster.

you missed the joke

Also, the game doesn’t seem to lock your cursor into the window with windowed mode.

[SofiaXY]

not necessarily need 60 fps menu. maybe lock them all at 25 or 30

Also, why a crosshair while using mouse? the other games don’t have it, so I hope there’s an option to hide it as well

[VerMishelb]

@InterAction_studios

How does it compare against CI2? Do you think CI2 explosions look more/less correct?

I’ll try recording all 4 and post the result here.

[ZiadMamdouh]

Great Job!

[MinhDuc2k5]

I’ve reached a fairly high score in CI1 Remastered
How about others?

[EdgardCIfan97]

Nice remake iA.

[Retro-Renegade]

Does that mean the original 1999 version on the IA website will be phased out by the remastered version?

[trueuser]

no

[taxter789]

My feedback for the first beta of CI1 remaster:

It plays as the original (like it’s expected to do so), but some enhancements would be much appreciated like:

-Difficulty modes (Rookie and Veteran, just like in CI2)

• Rookie difficulty mode changes some gameplay mechanics to be much easier for people not experienced with arcade shooters before

• Veteran is just like the original

-60 FPS (kinda looks deceiving when there is like up to 150FPS support and then the core game is stuck at max 30 FPS [if not then please keep the consistent FPS, like 30 frames] )

-Smoother animations (like those chickens in the intro or basically everything in CI series starting from RotY)

-Language support (the original was only in English, so it would be no big deal if translations were considered)

-Gameplay tweaks

• The circle is supposed to phase out when the spaceship approraches the area of it, just like in CIU;
• Preventing the auto-clicker maneuvers for a fair gameplay [except when you’re in Rookie difficulty]
• The continue button if you quit the game instead of lost all your hearts (absent for Veteran difficulty))

-Maybe some new in-game music (by 2db if possible) instead of reusing the CIU Anniversary mission music for the whole game (this is optional, but would be appreciated if put into consideration)

[Costa]

He already addressed most of these in the other posts, he wants to keep the game simple and not add new things because he has to work on CIU and most of this stuff would require a lot of work for a free game.