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#1

This is my first java game, and actually the first one i worked to a point where it is (at least) playable. Enjoy :smiley:

It was done using Java2D, and i had a lot of fun developing it, from art to mechanics. Also iā€™m now laughing at my old code, i guess thatā€™s a good sign.
I had some more stuff planned (i still do, to be honest :yawn:) for the game, so you might notice itā€™s still quite simple, with few mechanics and no sound/music. You might find it boring. But it has potential for a lot more of levels, powerups and different bosses, and i expect to expand it as time goes on.

I didnā€™t test it on other computers, so iā€™d like to hear from you guys how fast it runs, if itā€™s choppy, lagging or crashing. I got a steady 500fps at all the time, but i shouldnā€™t take that as a global parameter. Yet, i had to do some workaround on the assets, in order to use less processing power.

About the game? Well, itā€™s a mix of megamania and a reflex test. You gotta try:

PLAY HERE!

I hope you have fun!

Some info:

  • It has 25 levels;
  • Levels 9 and 18 are the hardest levels, in my opinion; But they can be done, i guarantee it :stuck_out_tongue:
  • Press CTRL+D to enable debug mode;
  • Donā€™t click QUIT! (unless you want to crash the applet, in that case you are free to try)

07/25/2012 - 0.6.2

  • Fixed several screen-related bugs;
  • Removed the option to quit when running as applet;
  • Added basic structure for arcade mode (Coming soon).

07/24/2012 - 0.6.1

  • Fixed mouse movement when a button is down;
  • Changed the JRE compliance to 1.5;
  • Decreased difficulty on level 9.
#2

Beat the game, had a blast!

  • You already mentioned that you donā€™t have any sound but once you add that in it will make a big difference. (I know you know this but Iā€™d still like to say it)- The game play was great but at least for me I feel that the difficulty should go up with level and not certain levels like 8-9 being harder than level 25, but maybe youā€™re going for a randomized feel, Iā€™m not sure.- Iā€™d also like to comment on how much I hate a score system that awards billions of points for everything, it makes me not care about my score, but thatā€™s just personal preference.- More abilites please, they are fun to use ;D!

Other than that the game feels professionally done, good work.

Edit: When you hold down left click you canā€™t move your mouse, even if youā€™re not using an ability, is that intentional? Oh and I ran on a very smooth FPS rate anywhere from 300 - 550.

#3

Thanks!

I was planning to add the music before showing off, but i was worried, since no sound = 80mb ram usage, with sound = 220mb D:
The score system really needs a revamp (Actually it has no point, since you gotta break all the boxes to advance. The only factor here is the time speed bonus and breaking bombs with thunders)

But iā€™m glad you liked it, really!

#4 

com/rorkien/MVM/GameApplet : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

:frowning: does it really have to be this high?

#5

A friend of mine told me he had this same error
I told him to stop being a goofy (not with these words) and to go update java. It worked then.

But i guess it doesnā€™t apply to you, godfather tubo :yawn:
Well, i used JDK7u3, maybe i should try to build it on JDK6?

#6

Really fun game! Effects are nice and performance is great. Canā€™t beat lv 8.

#7

Are you using eclipse? You can just go to project, properties, Java Compiler, Compliance settings, and set it lower(I always set it to 1.5 since 1.5 has everything I need).

#8

The applet doesnā€™t load for me :slight_smile:
Java 10.6.2.0
Java Deployment Toolkit 7.0.60.19

No errors thoā€™. Maybe itā€™s my slow connection @work, will try again later :slight_smile:

#9

Game ran fine. The curser can be laggy though, and why canā€™t I move it when I hold the mouse-button down?

#10

Didnā€™t even notice that. You are never supposed to do it, anyways :stuck_out_tongue:
But i fixed it, just had to copy-paste mouseMoved event to mouseDragged

Also did what teletubo said, TIL.

@_Al3x: Iā€™m sure it is not your connection. The jar has only 70kb :persecutioncomplex:

#11

Yay, it works now!

I didnā€™t reach very far since my precious f***ed up wrist canā€™t handle too much quick mouse movement.

Very polished, and the pixely graphics look great!
For the powerups, something that makes the cursor bigger would be great!

cheers

#12

Whaaaaaaaat?! What kind of input handler doesnā€™t recognize a dragging mouse, as a moving mouse? :cranky:

#13

@Mads
MouseDragged and MouseMove completely different.

#14

Canā€™t play the game because my antivirus blocks it, because of the co.cc. Original link please?
Rebirth is right, mouseDragged and mouseMoved are different.

#15

Yeah, itā€™s not co.cc, but the host itself :emo:

But here, have the jar!
http://www.mediafire.com/?xxstgkrvse1w5rj

#16

Quick suggestion, instead of just copy and pasting the contents of mouseMoved to mouseDragged, I suggest you call mouseMoved from inside mouseDragged. This way when you change anything inside mouseMoved, you wonā€™t have to remember to change it in mouseDragged too :wink:

#17

ā€˜Dear diary, TIL i can call an event from another event, because apparently they are methods after all.ā€™

Now to wonder why the hell i didnā€™t think of this before :expressionless:

#18

This game is amazing!!!

One feature suggestion is to resolve the behaviour of dragging a mouse over a box so quickly that the mouseMove call does not catch the mouse over the box (causing it to pretty much pass through). This can be done with a line segment collision detection by subtracting the velocity vector of the box from the velocity vector of the mouse move to form a line-segment for that mouse that you can check against the four edges of the boxes.

#19

Tested it again on my desktop, worked perfect, pretty well done, I would like a smaller cursor, since you need to be precise to break the boxes, also I didnĀ“t get right away that the bombs were a BAD thing :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, ā€œThink fasterā€ is just mean :stuck_out_tongue:

I like it :slight_smile: