Bolt Thrower Wii

Bolt Thrower
General
Author	Titmouse
Type	Shooter
Version	0.71 Final
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2012/11/27
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Wii Bolt Thrower is a Space shoot 'em up video game for the Wii, developed under the Wii homebrew platform and is released free for all.

Controls

A - Fire Missile

B - Use Thrusters

D-Pad Down - Drop Probe Mine

Pointer - Point at screen to target

Home - Back to the Homebrew Channel

Power/Reset - Power off, Standby, Reboot Wii

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Media

Bolt Thrower v0.47 (Cid2Mizard)

Changelog

Ver 0.71 2012/11/26

• Final release - nothing big, decided to submit remaining changes into release.
• Optimized probe mines code using spatial grid (you can now have far more probe mines).
• The Probe mine's interaction behavior has change as part of the optimize.
• Reworked credits screen.
• Shield level now remains at zero when you are killed.
• Tune loading is now on it's own thread.
• Tune loading now uses a pop up.

Ver 0.70 2012/07/28

• Added display thread for loading/updating.
• Changed the way enemies move .
• Small enemies now shoot back.
• Mines now do damage to a small area, before they could only take out one thing.
• Added some new shielded enemies to the first mission.
• Moon now terraforms in 2nd to last mission.
• Made changes to the graphics
• Scrolling credits.
• Last Mission is now a Survival Mission, things will hot up.
• Note:v0.70 has been sitting on the self for 6 months; sure I’ve missed commenting various changes.

Ver 0.62 2012/01/21

• Music playback fix.

Ver 0.61 2012/01/19

• Added health pickups.
• Added gun ship collision.
• Changed the lighting in-game and menus.
• Updated and added better sounds and used the Ogg Vorbis format.
• Optimised logic when erasing a single container element.
• changed the way prob mines mines lock on.
• Added Recall for prob mines - Dpad Up toggles recall mode on/off.
• Optimised Display code - tweaked some matrix 'libogc' functions kept in utils3D namespace.
• Reduced any single image loads that can exists in the main bank.
• Updated Music player - supports far more types of tracker Modules (and playback is now spot on).
• Added 3D in-game panels

Ver 0.60 2011/10/29

• Added auto update.
• Added change tune feature.
• Changed menu look.
• Added on screen ping for spores.
• minor ingame tweeks.
• Added Http download feature.
• Music folder now scanned, no need for config entries.
• Music can be cached via Http config list.
• Added ogg vorbris support.
• Added language support via config.
• Added Klingon language.

Ver 0.59 2011/07/09

• Added radar pings to enemy spore satellites - It was hard to spot them and complete the first mission.
• Added a startup "Loading..." message.

Ver 0.58 2011/07/08

• Added more front menus.
• Added In game music.
• Added scrap pick-ups after enemy is destroyed.
• Added some missions - mission 6 4 will never end.
• Added Base defences (gun turrets) on later levels.
• Added rendezvous & collect terraforming satellites.
• Added base's terraforming shield.
• Added enemy fleet attack formations .
• Added some more 3D objects.
• Added skull at death.

Ver 0.47 2011/04/23

• Added enemy gunships - just noticed I forgot to add these to the radar, my bad.
• Added bigger mine explosions.
• Added a controls menu screen - (will add more later to pick other control methods).
• Updated main menu - now shows a 3D WiiMote in the background.
• Updated Credits - now shows a 3D Viper (MK2) in the background.
• Reduced amount of enemies.
• Updated enemies movement logic - speedy enemies now find it harder to lock-on.
• Update Intro screen - camera view glides in 3D space.
• Added Camera catch-up the player's craft - the player craft will now drift away from the centre.
• Added some new 3D models - Viper (MK2) & Wiimote.
• Updated 3D object code to use all the layers in a Lightwave object (lwo).
• Bit of code refactoring (reworking internal design), hopefully everything will still work the same.

Ver 0.36 2011/03/18

• Added Radar - showing enemies, mines, missiles & satellites.
• Added Menu, Intro & Credits screen.
• Intro screen logo made from mines (scanned from tinylogo.tga), these mines start of slow then spurt off after the crafts.
• Added Music - 'Space Debris' Amiga tracker module, plays while in the menu screens.
• Add Trails to enemy crafts.
• Changed trails for missiles and mines.
• Changed to way collisions work - ship to ship collisions now destroy enemy crafts.
• Change the way the 'you are dead' screen looks.
• Added 'bye' screen.
• Fixed zero bugs "which was nice" - I've noticed the looped engine sound plays on into the menus if you died with thrust burning, I'll fix that on next release, at the moment its a feature.
• Added Hardware Drawlist for 3D objects - so pre-build objects can be spat out without the need of the main CPU.
• Increased the resolution of Wiimote to help pointer travel off screen and still be active around the edges.
• Changed the look of some resource graphics - mainly explosions which also double up as stars and exhaust trails.
• Optimised the mines - I was creating and displaying a new mine trail every frame, requiring about 60 objects plus all the overheads that go with it.
• Optimised the dispay code for most objects.
• Added a lower detail moon with some rocks spinnig in orbit.
• Improved the lighting on 3D objects.
• Added ingame backdrop far into the Z plane so it scrolls slowly, reduced from 1024 width at the last minute to 800 pixels so it fits the 2MB upload limmit - I'm just far to lazy to look for somewhere else to upload, plus its a challenge making a game fit into 2MB.

Ver 0.35 - minor update 2011/02/5

• Shows remaining foes & spores.
• More game data moved into the XML configuration.
• Sound fix.
• Correct Meta.xml version TAG this time, needed for Homebrew Browser.

Ver 0.34 - GAME 2011/01/29

• Added more sounds.
• Added probe mines.
• Added missile trails.
• Added probe mine trails.
• Added player ship thruster trail.
• Added player collision.
• Added blue (ok) to red (overloading) shields.
• Added 'Well Done' message once everything (including satellites) are destroyed.
• Added 'You are very Dead' message.
• Added XML configuration, data used to store graphic positions,sizes, frames & other game data like 'AmountStars'.
• Added more types of explosions.

Ver 0.23 - DEMO 2010/12/18

• Enemy drift off into space when hit.
• Added explosion trails.
• Added a few rocks around the moon.
• Added another enemy ship type - takes 3 shots.
• Added More sounds.

Ver 0.12 - DEMO 2010/12/12

• Added missle hits.
• Added Spore spinny things.
• Bad ships go boom.

Ver 0.01 - DEMO 2010/12/08

• First Demo.

External links

• Google Code - https://code.google.com/archive/p/wii-bolt-thrower/
• WiiBrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/BoltThrower