Tower Puzzle

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#1

I’ve written this puzzle game start:

http://www.cokeandcode.com/twist/twist.jnlp

However, I had a rough idea what I was doing but I’ve kinda lost my way and run out of things to do next. I guess this is what everyone says about writing a design doc first.

Anyway, if anyone has ideas, suggestions, problems, feedback, it’d be much appreciated.

Controls:

Left Mouse Drag - Rotate the rings
Right Mouse Drag - Rotate the tower

I’ve only tested on windows, so any reports of Linux/Mac would be good.

Thanks for any time spent,

Kev

#2

as you already know, plays well on windows. One idea would be target cells. Cells with icons/logos you should strive to squish…maybe for more time, points, etc…

#3

Updated,

Added some sound effects, a quick title screen, and the block are no longer infinite.

Thanks for the ideas MB, think i’ll be trying those out next.

Kev

#4

Hi,
Brilliant game! I’ve just played a round… took me several times to figure it though. Maybe worth a few instructions. :slight_smile:

Chris

#5

error loading nvidia something -tls.so

“Cannot load tls data”

and … crash!

#6

Eeep, what the hell is tls ? Is that on a Mac?

Kev

#7

Updated:

  • Added instructions
  • Added level of difficulty

(Incidently, you can mute the sound with ‘m’ if you need)

Kev

#8

Ran fine on Windows. Didn’t start on my Linux box, gf3 with less than half a year old drivers and Java 1.5.

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not open ALC device
      at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(Unknown Source)
      at Twist.a(Unknown Source)
      at Twist.<init>(Unknown Source)
      at Twist.main(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Launcher.java:1098)
      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Launcher.java:1045)
      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Launcher.java:896)
      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Launcher.java:468)
      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Launcher.java:218)
      at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:165)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
#9

Ah ha, OpenAL fails… groovy.

Thanks for that.

EDIT: New upload, should be fixed.

Kev

#10

[quote]Eeep, what the hell is tls ? Is that on a Mac?

Kev
[/quote]
Sorry … GF2, linux, nothing changed from what I use to test 90% of the time :).

EDIT: correction, I upgraded to recent nvidia drivers last week. No problems so far, but mayve I just haven’t got around to playng a LWJGL game yet? Might be a problem with the drivers, I guess…

#11

[quote]Ah ha, OpenAL fails… groovy.
[/quote]
Heh groovy indeed, now it even hangs the java console :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t have a soundcard in that machine, don’t know if it could be related to that.

#12

Nope, sound should be ignored altogether now… any sign of anything visual at all?

Such a primitive game, so many problems! :slight_smile:

I’ll zip up a distro for linux, maybe from the command line will make some sense.

EDIT: http://www.cokeandcode.com/twist/linux/twist-linux.zip

Kev

#13

nope no visuals, the Java console pops up with an exception for a split second and then greys out. Unfortunaly my brain aren’t fast enough to read the exception :slight_smile:

#14

If you’ve got time, could you try the command line distro above. Should be able to run it with a:

java -cp twist.jar;lwjgl.jar Twist

Kev

#15

Ok tested it, under java1.5 absolutly nothing happened. Tested it on 1.4.2_03 and there I got this

So I downloaded the lwjgl 0.95 and ran the test app and got this

[quote][Found 46 display modes
Moving to 100, 100
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0”.
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not init GLX
at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.nCreateContext(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.createContext(LinuxDisplay.java:176)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:530)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:507)
at org.lwjgl.test.WindowCreationTest.main(WindowCreationTest.java:66)
Unable to create window!, exiting…
[/quote]
Seems like this problem is in the lwjgl lib and not your game.

#16

very nice little concept.
Only problem is that the game sometimes stop without any reason (time and colors left)

#17

You’ve got the latest version I take it? The one with a difficulty level and a instructions at the start…

Thanks for the report, I’ll take a look. Does the game just stop all together (i.e. no response from escape or anything) or do you just stop being able to control it?

Thanks again,

Kev

#18

When you [drag] the mouse out of the window, and it enters the window again, the [move] will behave as a [drag] until you right-clicked. Very annoying when you are playing the game very fast (and accidently move out of the window).

Fun game though :wink:

#19

I’m aware of that one :slight_smile:

Problem is LWJGL doesn’t let me know when the mouse leaves/enters the window. Best thing I can think to do is grab the mouse and render a software mouse cursor. This means the mouse won’t leave the window tho which I feel is going to be even worse.

What I could do with an absolute mouse position relative to the screen.

EDIT: Or, I could grab the mouse when you press the button (make it invisible) and just use deltas on the mouse position, neat! :slight_smile:

Kev

#20

What I mean is that the board of tiles is reset before the timer hits 0 or all the requisite for colors are met.
I have tried the latest version, yes.