Prince of Java - Pulpcore Prince of Persia like

WIP games, tools & toy projects
#1

Hi all,

i create this topic to show you my new finished game (but must remain some bugs, notice it if you found one :wink:

Just to summarize, I was testing Pulpcore few months ago, which is a framework that allows you to create fast applet for 2D animations/games
In november, first just moving a sprite of the Prince of Persia on the screen, and as iā€™m a fan of the old game,
i asked myself why not to create mine ā€¦ and 3 Months later, i can present you what iā€™ve done !

Just some few characteristics :

  • name of the Game : Prince of Java (started in November)

  • developer : me (a friend help me a little for sprites desing)

  • plateform : Java (eclipse + Pulpcore framework)

  • In-game keys :

    left, up, down, right arrows to move the prince
    shift to make a little step on your right or left (left/right arrow + shift), to hang when you jump or climb down
    control to jump while running, or not moving (just press left/right arrow + control)

    escape to go back to menu
    space to see remaining time

  • screenshots :


http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2338/shot60d.th.jpg


http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2711/shot61.th.jpg

If you have remarks, questions on Pulpcore, find a bug, or something to improve gameplay, donā€™t hesitate
my mail is provenza24@hotmail.com

Hope youā€™ll test it :wink:
Have a nice day,
Franck

#2

Very, very nice!! :slight_smile:

#3

feels pretty authentic compared to original NES version. You should definitely find the NES version music and sound effects and add them into the game. Even the animations are very much alike to the original ones, just awesome.

#4

Haha, cool. And I JUST started prototyping a Prince of Persia 4k game :smiley:

It plays pretty nice and seems to have the same controls as the PC version (unless Iā€™m mistaken?), which I played a lot back in the day.
I did get teleported through a door once, though. :confused:

Very nice!

(Although those graphics are probably not legal)

#5

Could you please add another key that does the same thing as control? Control+left and control+right are already taken by OS functions, so now I canā€™t jump :slight_smile:

#6

hi all,

thanx for responses :wink:

  • i donā€™t know if the sprites of the Prince are illegal, i found it for free on the web, so donā€™t know at all ā€¦
    http://www.yoyogames.com/extras/resource/file/san1/244/244/princespriteswb3.gif
    all others sprites come from me and a friend who designed it

  • i just saw the bug of the gate, in a particular case, if the gate is closing and you jump while running, a very few time you pass throuht it :-\ iā€™ll try to solve that

  • i tried to add music and sound, but finding good sounds is not easy at all, and increases a lot the loading time of the applet due to
    their size.
    I wanted the applet to be loaded very fastly (the heigh of the applet is 1.2Mega without sounds ā€¦,), so i decided to not
    integrate sounds ā€¦

  • for keys, maybe iā€™ll change a little the options to let the player defines his own keys
    Control is problematic for you, shift can be problematic too ā€¦
    (temporarly i added Alt key so you can use now both Alt and Ctrl to jump)

I whish iā€™ll time to make modifications soon

Thanx for comments !

#7

[quote=ā€œprovenza24,post:6,topic:34886ā€]
Um, if you read the text on the spritesheet it says: ā€˜Sprites Copyright Broderbundā€™ :-\

#8

[quote]- i tried to add music and sound, but finding good sounds is not easy at all, and increases a lot the loading time of the applet due to their size.
[/quote]
For the music, yeah this is true but pulpcore can play .wav files easily. You could probably add 3-4 sound effects (~10-20K each) without a significant increase in your resources size + will greatly enhance the game experience.

#9

NB : something that confuse me is that google can display all web image embedded in their web site ā€œvia the search imageā€ without carring about copyright, and they made money with that ! world is sometime so strangeā€¦ no ?

Great game remake !! and keep your graphics :stuck_out_tongue: , about pulpcore : I really love the seamless of pulpcore => Applet + no popup + nice & smooth graphics and loading , very pleasant to see such a good work !

I did such attempt of clone (just one or two screenā€¦ not as much as you !! ) nearly 17 years ago :ā€™( time is going onā€¦ anyway I did not reconise the graphics I used, I suppose that there was different graphics depending on platforms mine was looking as below (but with a different player caracter fully white dressed and without hat) :

http://www.maniacworld.com/prince_of_persia-2.jpg

edit : this one

http://www.classicamiga.com/images/stories/jreviews/games/P/prince_of_persia[screenshot]lvl1.png

#10

this is really nice, if it wasnā€™t for the fact there is no sound and doubt over legality of graphics, Iā€™d put this straight in the featured section.

also game doesnā€™t work for me on linux, iā€™m guess this is most likely a file name case issue. (remember the file system is case sensitive).

get this in the console

Asset not found: ressources/images/font/smallArabian.font.png
#11

I got this error too in m console but all run fine

#12

In the US Google has come out clean with ā€œfair useā€: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Google_Inc.
In Europe (Belgium, Germany) theyā€™ve been losing copyright cases: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2008/10/google-loses-tw/

#13

ah ok, seems just like a chrome problem then, works fine on firefox.

#14

thanks for those precisions :slight_smile:

EDIT: sorry for being of topicā€¦ I recently ear that some news papers was also being ā€œstressedā€ (dont find another/good wordā€¦) by the news module of google as it seems people read the headline their and never go to the website

EDIT: funny that google win invoking a ā€œfair useā€, seem that google is an expert in looking cool & fair society, probably this is the new way to go for selling / advertise in our new century ā€¦

#15

thanx guys for suggestions !!!

sorry for linux, i donā€™t have linux at home and didnā€™t test the game on it, but iā€™ll try to fix soon the little problem raised with the font to work fine on both system

a lot of people made the same remark about sound, maybe could be fun yes to add musics and sounds, but the search of free sounds takes a lot of time ā€¦

maybe something great too i started last month but didn"t finish would be to add ennemis and swords fights ā€¦

About the prince sprites, is there a solution for the problem of copyright ? or the only solution is to create my own sprites ???

#16

You can edit them and change them enough so itā€™s not recognizable ā€¦ like replacing his head with a donut or a chipmunk .
itā€™s a lot of work, but probably better than having problems ā€¦ or maybe just leave it as it is and focus on the other suggestions here :slight_smile:

#17

say you are cool ā€¦ lol

more seriously maybe start by asking the owner (without pointing your game yet)

#18

hi all,

i made the fix for linux for the font but cant test ā€¦
hope it will work !!

good night !

#19

yes, it does work now :slight_smile:

#20

A very good game, played before in a simulator. But this is the on java ā€¦ :smiley: