BOUNCE - 2D Platformer w/ destructable terrain

WIP games, tools & toy projects
#1

A simple Minecraft-esque 2D platform game.
The storyline (if I had to give it one) centers on you, a circle, lost in an alien world of squares.
In order to escape you must make your way through 30 levels fighting bosses and hardcore parkouring along the way.

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Download in Vid Description

Download (Newest Version - As of 14 March 2013) :
(Java 6) https://sites.google.com/site/bouncethegame/downloads/BOUNCE_LW.jar?attredirects=0&d=1

Rate. Comment. Post your own levels. Suggestions?

#2

Can’t play it right now, but that is truly awesome looking. Looks like a triumph of gameplay over graphics :smiley:

#3

Haha, yeah thanks. I wanted to keep it simple (everything - even the bosses - made entirely out of blocks).
No OpenGL or LWJGL or anything.

By the way, I can’t seem to figure out how to upload/browse for images and embedding the YouTube video doesn’t seem to work either. ???

#4

Should just be [ youtube ]SW6qslz3bok[ /youtube ] without the spaces.

#5

Oh ok thanks :smiley:

How do you upload images?

#6

Use [My Files] in the header of the site.

#7

So I’ve uploaded an image to My Files. How do I include that in the post?
Sorry for being such a noob :frowning:

#8

Click on the image link, copy the URL from the address bar, then do:


http://............/my-image.jpg

Edit: oh, my upload feature is currently restriced to JARs :persecutioncomplex:
Please upload the images somewhere else, until I ‘fix’ it.

#9

The game idea is cool, i really liked the youtube vídeo. Anyway, I had a problem, sometimes when i’m stuck between the blocks, if i hold UP+LEFT or UP+RIGHT the ball pass through the blocks and go insane through the level (in level 1 it happened). Another thing, i think it’s consuming too much CPU for a “simple” game, in level 1 for example is about 25% on my core i5 2.6 GHZ. Maybe a problem with the gameloop.

#10

Yeah I have to work on the collision detection.

Did you have particles on? They do cause a lot of game lag.
I should probably include some sort of efficiency algorithm so that only certain blocks get updated each loop.

#11

EDIT:

Yes and No. I first tried with particles, sound and textures ON and after i tried setting all OFF. I’ve got the same problem. Another thing, i don’t know if it is purposeful, but if i fall and die in level 1 level 0, the game let me go to the level 2 level 1.

#12

The level you start out on is a randomly generated terrain (level 0). It doesn’t really matter if you die or not.
I’ll probably take it out.

#13

For some reason the image I posted isn’t showing up as the screenshot ???

#14

Epic graphics, awesome particle effects. Great game!
Just shows that you don’t (necessarily) need amazing graphics for it to be a good game. This actually reminds me of Mario as well as a cell phone(old) game also called bounce.
Very nice overall.

#15

Thanks, I am really proud of the particle effects code. I’ll definitely reuse the classes in the future.

So, does anyone know how to add a thumbnail image to this topic?

#16

Does it? I can’t see it on my screen… ???

#17

nvm, i can’t see it either…
try a .png maybe?

#18

Still nothing…

#19

that’s still a jpg

#20

Finally got it to work. Needed to be http not https :clue: