Bolt Thrower Wii

Bolt Thrower
File:Boltthrowerwii.jpg
General
Author	Titmouse
Type	Shooter
Version	0.71
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2012/11/17
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Wii Bolt Thrower is a Space shoot 'em up video game for the Wii, developed under the Wii home-brew platform and is released free for all.

Controls

Button	Action
Wiimote A Button	Fire Missile
Wiimote B Button	Use Thrusters
Wiimote DPad Down	Drop Probe Mine
Wiimote Aim	Point at screen to target
Wiimote Home Button	Back to the Homebrew Channel
Wiimote Power Button / Wii Power Button / Wii Reset Button	Power off / Standby / Reboot Wii

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Changelog

Ver 0.71 - 26/11/2012

• 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 - 28/07/2012

• 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 - 21/01/2012

• music playback fix

Ver 0.61 - 19/01/2012

• 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 - 29/10/2011

• 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 - 09/07/2011

• 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 - 08/07/2011

• 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 - 23/04/2011

• 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 - 18/03/2011

• 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 - 05/02/2011

• 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 - 29/01/2011

• 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 - 18/12/2010

• 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 - 12/12/2010

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

Ver 0.01 - DEMO - 08/12/2010

• First Demo

External links

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