Don't Reach The Square

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#1

I’m putting the finishing touches on another 4k game: Don’t Reach the Square.

http://groboclown.net/games/drts-4k.html

The game play is fairly straight forward: there some mines which are attracted to the center square, and repelled by your mouse pointer; you need to prevent them from reaching that center square. You can also create a “force ring” that pushes the mines away.

It has a (mutable) sound track, so you may want to adjust your speakers as necessary.

I’ve tested it on JRE 1.6.0 on both Windows and Linux.

#2

Woo, I made it to level 7, quite cool! I like the ripples, they’re awesome. Can you make the music stop when I close the window, though?

#3

Hm. I thought I had handled that case. It should be terminating the sound properly now (there will be a slight delay between closing the window and the music stopping, but it shouldn’t be more than about 2 seconds). Let me know if it works for you.

#4

It lasted a very long time, then went away when I opened a different applet (I don’t know if that was cause or coincidence).

#5

Sound is still playing for me when I closed the applet.

#6

Thanks for testing this out, everyone. I think I have it solved now.

If you’re still hearing the music after closing the window, please tell me the browser and JDK you’re running with, to help me debug it.

#7

This is amazing! I love it! ;D Could play for very long time.

#8

Very nice :slight_smile: too bad though that when I lost on level 9 I went all the way back to level 7 :stuck_out_tongue:

#9

addictive, I reach the level 10 :slight_smile: and was not able to go further… was bored when I get back to level 4 ! :frowning:

#10

can t find the source in the sourceforge site

any help??

#11

It’s buried in the CSV tree:

http://groboutils.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/groboutils/projects/grobo-games/4kgames/dontReachTheShape/src/C.java?view=markup

#12

i am not much of a digger, it seems

thank you

#13

Very cool! Also got to level 7. I like the -1 level penalty when dying. Great job!

#14

Very clever game!

Cool that you even get music into 4K and still have a real game. GFX is also quite nice except for the square! You could have rounded corners and/or maybe some highlighting/shadow. Really nice that you don’t have to start from the beginning when dying, it makes quite a difference on how much I play a game.

example of square with rounded corners and highlighting
That is two lines and 3 pixels removed in each corner. I started off with just squares, but this really made a difference in my mind. Still not super pretty, but passable for very few bytes.

#15

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.

I have been looking at possibly turning it into a rotating cube. The arithmetic isn’t hard, but the switch to rendering polygons would be some extra bytes. A rounded-edge square might also work well. I’ll post here my results.

#16

retry and reach level 12 8)

#17

The 3d rotating cube ended up taking 105 bytes more than it should (209 bytes total), even with the most optimizations I could manage. I attempted the rounded corners, and then I tried out a simpler pulsing, glowly square. I ended up opting for the pulsing square effect.

#18

Great game and very addictive, I really enjoyed my time playing it. :wink: