Plopnoid, remember arkanoid ?

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#1

well, the gameplay is a lot better than on the original :wink:

http://www.mandrixx.net/plopnoid.php
try it and enjoy !

#2

Yes, thx, enjoyed it!

Very smooth (except for ā€˜multiballā€™ :slight_smile: )!

#3

Very nice indeed!

But not smooth on my crappy computer (cel366@550) :confused:
Especially with multiball!!

I also think that the GarbageCollector is invoked from time to timeā€¦ sometime the game stalls for Ā½ a second, and when it returns - it does some catchup, which makes the balls move 5-10 times as fast! - rather confusing when having multiball!

Other than ā€œperformanceā€ issues on slower machines, its rather nice.

#4

try the small version, it should be fine. also try the microsoft VM, it does make a difference on small machines.
that slow down problem is not really related to the memory usage, but more because of the way I manage the balls I think. the balls animation is sampled at a very high rate so the collisions are always pixel-perfect, enven on very slow machines. but this requires to multiply the test on the balls. I didnā€™t thought it could have an impact on some machines though, I donā€™t have any loss of fps here.

I hope you wonā€™t pay too much attention to these technical problems and have fun with it :slight_smile:

#5

How does it work? All that happens for me is that it counts the levels and then I fight a ā€˜bossā€™ā€¦ then it counts the next ten levels and another bossā€¦ All the main levels are missing.

#6

thanks for telling about your problem. there should be levels :wink: I see quite exactly where the problem come from. I made things to avoid such problem and youā€™re the first having this problem on over 50000 games played. could you tell me what is your OS/browser/JVM, and tell me if it never works or work randomly ?

thanks

#7

Iā€™m using:
WinXP Pro, Opera 6.x or 7(beta), JVM 1.4.1
1GHz dual PIII

The problem happens 100% of the time. All I see is ā€œLevel n Get Readyā€ for 1-2 seconds per levelā€¦ ā€˜nā€™ jut counts up to 10 then a ā€˜Bossā€™ appears.

#8

I have only one complaint: the mouse cursor being visible is annoying. Is there any way of hiding it? Other than that its a great game.

#9

thx swpalmer. Iā€™m working around problems linked to the java 1.4.1_01. If you can try an earlier version of java (like 1.4.0), it should work.

for the mouse cursor problem, I donā€™t know how to remove it with java 1.1. And maybe itā€™s better to see it so you donā€™t leave the applet accidently

thanks again guys

if anyone experienced speed problems with 1.4.1_01, please tell me

#10

Yeah, Iā€™ve got the same problem, just counts up to level 10 and then thereā€™s a boss to defeat etc.

Cas :slight_smile: