BeetleMania: updated, open-sourced OpenGL version

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#1

BeetleMania has been ported to Kev’s new 2D library, Slick. Slick uses OpenGL through LWJGL to render everything, which gives a great speed boost. on my machine, I went from 50fps to about 650fps! try it out here! (note the BeetleMania site uses the original Java2D webstart link, so don’t launch from there).

also, I have released the source code. it’s quite scary, as this project started out as a 1-afternoon hack-up. OO enthusiasts beware: download the source code.

oh, and you can press the “F” key in-game to check out the FPS

if you’re new to BeetleMania, be sure to check out the website, or the game won’t make much sense (especially with dieing).

#2

WOW! :smiley: I now get a ~1000 FPS :o :o :o on my not so game geared laptop. Have to give it a try with the desk top one as well!

Very good advertisement for Slick, and cool that you opensource the game, I will have to have a look at both as soon as I get a chance!

#3

Hmm 2048 fps lol. Not too bad.

#4

Nice game :smiley:

How on Earth did those guys get such high scores? I tried using my automatic key-presser to press ‘space’ a zillion times a second and I still didn’t get above 12,000, but they’ve got 200,000!

480 FPS

#5

Wow, my computer got over 3500 FPS…

#6

read the website, it isn’t about how many shells you shoot, it’s about the chain reactions you set off :wink:

thanks for comments everyone, glad to see the large fps numbers :smiley:

#7

A good strategy is to idle on the left or right screenside and shot the shell if there were enough on the screen. With some luck you might get ~32k pkts or more :slight_smile:

#8

I felt it important to update this thread, as I would like you to observe the recent changes on the scoreboard :slight_smile:
http://javaunlimited.net/beetlemania/

#9

Hi!

It works but I have no sound:

[quote]org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not open ALC device
at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:145)
at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:104)
at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:170)
at org.newdawn.slick.openal.SoundStore.init(SoundStore.java:194)
at org.newdawn.slick.Sound.(Sound.java:23)
at BeetleMania.init(Unknown Source)
at org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer.start(AppGameContainer.java:161)
at BeetleMania.main(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Launcher.java:1468)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Launcher.java:1414)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Launcher.java:1225)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:114)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
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