cough found serious bug… hold down left mouse button whilst playing 
(Hence you find me mysteriously at the top of the hiscores list! Hehe)
Cas 
[quote]cough found serious bug… hold down left mouse button whilst playing (Hence you find me mysteriously at the top of the hiscores list! Hehe)
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Doh… dragging out of the screen :o
[quote]cough found serious bug… hold down left mouse button whilst playing (Hence you find me mysteriously at the top of the hiscores list! Hehe)
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Cheater!!! >:(
You know, cheaters never win!!! Wait…hmmm…they DO win…and rather quickly… :-[
lol! Convenient bug, just hide Zog and go for coffe and when you come back you’ll have a nice highscore
The bug is fixed now anyway and I have deleted the highscores that seemed to be cheats. So moonpxi it seems like in the end cheaters don’t win 
I didn’t even cheat, when I made the highscore. I think the stones were too slow.
ok, so slow that you could have gone on forever? And you didn’t by any chance get alot of snail rock features?
A boring game, I thought, although I was grateful for a game I could play for just a minute, since I’m usually too busy to play any normal games.
(…5 minutes later, having found the highscore table and the powerups…) Grr. Must. Beat. Score!
I’m now forcing myself not to try again (or I’ll never get backto work 
), but here are a few simple suggestions for improvements you might like:
[]Don’t center the initial positions of the rocks AND the “start game” dialog! I die three times every time I try to start a new game :(.
[]Make the counter move faster when zog’s not moving - kill two birds with one stone: takes too long to get going for some people, and also staying still is a skill.
[]…or even: Make the counter accelerate when zog’s not moving, then reset to normal speed when he stops - this rewards anyone who can predict (or thinks they can) where all the rocks are going to move. Adds the spice of playing “chicken” with the rocks ( can I get away with this pending collision? Dare I stay still, and preserve the fast counter, or move and live to fight another day?)
[]perhaps hard-limit the rocks speed to a slightly lower max speed, if you introduce new features, so that people have more time to compete on the new features rather than raw speed / luck.
[*]Display a countdown timer showing how much longer you need to survive to get one tick higher on the high scores table. Cruel, but… :). Obviously, this needn’t be 100% correct, just correct as of the last synch to the highscore table. Also show your current position on the highscores table…
Oh, and rocks bouncing off each other as well as the walls would be nice, increasing the difficulty. Perhaps, after say 100 seconds, it switches to this mode (makes it much harder to predict where rocks will go, AND means the amount of “safe” screen space is constant; at the moment there are times when there is more safe space because of overlap)
[quote]Interesting that you came to this idea, I reached the same conclusion about games a while ago and started doing 40 hour projects (http://www.newdawnsoftware.com/40hrweb/).
Thats where Warlock came from…
Kev
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Nooooooo! ZIP’d JAR! You sinner! (is there a need for these ZIP’s? What?)
To be honest, I would happily click a jar on a webpage (opens automatically because I’ve set up the association), but I can’t be bothered to:
[] Click on link
[] Wait for mozilla (slow app) to display save as dialog
[] Find somewhere sensible to save to
[] Save the ZIP
[] Open up a new terminal window
[] Navigate to relevant directory
[] type “unzip blah”
[] (possibly move to a new subdirectory, happens often )
[] Find filename of jar file
[] type java -jar blah.jar
PS Please continue developing the 1942 clone; my addiction to that game is so strong that even though I haven’t played your version, I’m sure you’re onto a good thing here
Fraid it's all be left behind like so many other my projects, filled my 40 hr quota tho ;)
Zipped Jars, I know know! I have been converted honest, this was before WebStart was really available properly and before I realised the error of my ways…
However, my other sin is laziness, and hence no updates shall ever get done
</THREAD JACK>
Kev
[quote]ok, so slow that you could have gone on forever? And you didn’t by any chance get alot of snail rock features?
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I created the highscore (I think it was 32x.xxx) before there were features. For the last couple of times I played, it was OK. Is the snail rock feature supposed to make the stones slightly slower? At least I don’t see any visible effect. Time freeze and the immaterial thing works fine.
OK, I just had problems using the immaterial thing. Are there any conditions when it doesn’t work? I desperately pressed my mouse button without success. ;D
Grr 143 seconds and the time freeze didn’t work.
Resurrection!
Can I name a level in Hallucinogenesis after Zog’s Rocking Trouble?
Cas
Sure
Is the soruce avaiable for this game?
Thanks to bring this topic back alive princec. Really addictive game :).
Too bad it’s not possible to enter new scores anymore to in the high scores (or was that a bug)?