Super Swap

WIP games, tools & toy projects
#1

Hello Everyone, this is my first post, but I have read a lot on here.

This is a game I have been working on for a little bit recently, there is still lots to add, but I hope you enjoy it.

Controls: WASD or Arrow keys to move. At random intervals the keys will swap, so W will go forward, but after swapping will go back. Red tiles kill you, purple are stars and the gold is the finish.
When you finish a level, press escape to go to the next one.

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5a6xy0agig782a/super-swap-0-0-3.jar

Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas / improvements.

Thanks, Max

#2

Hey, solid game you have there! Worked flawlessly, just took me a while to find out that “Escape” gets the game to start :point:

Time: 0:41
Stars: 3
Deaths: 0
Score: 7180
;D

#3

Thanks! I will add a notice on it now, great score!

#4

Also just added 2 more levels. When you finish a level, click escape and it will take you to the next one!

#5

Are you going to add some basic textures soon, or is the look intended to be minimalistic.

Also, what library are you making this in?

#6

I am using LibGDX to make it.
I am planning on adding better textures, but 1) I am not very good at art and 2) I am not sure how to make them better, while still keeping it quite simple.

#7

If you have photoshop (or some other image editor more advanced than paint (GIMP is free)) you can easily do a bevel/emboss effect like this:

That took me all of like one minute.

#8

Okay thanks, at the moment I am using Paint.NET, but I will download Gimp and have a look. Thanks!

#9

If you decide to do a more low-res game, you don’t even have to add a filter.

Just do something similar to this:


I know it’s hard to see, just paste it into Paint.NET and zoom in. If I resized it using JGO’s resize-thingy, it would add anti-aliasing and make it blurry.

#10

Haha. Yes, you could do your own bevel effect if you want to go more low res. Even if you don’t, I believe Paint.net supports plugins to do different effects.

EDIT: A youtube tutorial on beveling text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4GaIYD88DQ

The same technique could be used for things besides text.

#11

Too bad us Pinta users don’t have good plugin support :emo:

Pinta is an incredibly unstable Paint.NET port for Linux.

#12

Thanks for all your help! I have tried to do what you said, and it looks loads better. Thanks! I updated the download with the better graphics.

#13

:smiley:

Are you setting the colors of the images in the code, or are you making separate images?

#14

I am using an external tilesheet.

#15

That looks pretty good. Now you just need a background. And maybe make the stars…you know…stars? Haha.

#16

Hahaha, the stars aren’t very ‘starsy’ :smiley: I will do that now!

#17

There’s a basic concrete floor texture :slight_smile:

EDIT: EEEK! Sorry, I accidentally made that 17x17 and not 16x16.
Fixed.

#18

Added a star. And updated download

Thanks for all your help!

#19

Cant start the game now…
[spoiler]


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoa
der.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: Method org.lwjgl.openal.ALC10.nalcGetStr
ing(JI)Ljava/lang/String; name or signature does not match
        at org.lwjgl.openal.ALC10.initNativeStubs(Native Method)
        at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.init(AL.java:157)
        at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:138)
        at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:102)
        at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:201)
        at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.openal.OpenALAudio.<init>(OpenALAudio.java:
70)
        at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.<init>(LwjglApplicat
ion.java:82)
        at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.<init>(LwjglApplicat
ion.java:64)
        at com.thocro.swap.Main.main(Main.java:15)
        ... 5 more

[/spoiler]

#20

I added my own floor texture, what do you think?

I also added yours, however it doesn’t tile great, but Thanks!

Which do you prefer?