Xtreme Space War - Online multiplayer space shooter!

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#61

Now version 0.18c is up (www.xsw.se)! It fixes a few bugs, and produces a better logfile. If you are thrown out of the game please send the file Client.log to me to help me find bugs.

Matzon> Glad you liked it! There are some pretty good players out there nowadays, even I get beaten by some…

SluX> Eventually I might get around to it. I have to little time to sit with the packaging of things right now though… so not yet.

We’ve had some very intense battles this week with 7 players involved at times, it’s been great fun :). Thanx all for playing and testing it!

#62

version 0.19 is now up. Adds a couple of new maps, and fixes some bugs.

#63

At what times do most of you play? I want in!

;D

M

#64

Not too many people playing yet ;-( Anyhow, the graphics look great, did you all create them by yourself? Any hints for a graphics noob such as myself? How to get them to look good?

#65

I ran the jar, got the little window to shose play-settings, etc… but clicking play does nothing…music is nice though. I can start a server, it then shows up in available servers. I can launch the Map creator…but no playplay. :’(

Acer 1ghz tablet, winxp tablet edition, 512mb ram java 1.5.06

and finally made Ninja on the boards…!!

#66

I was the only one on the server, but it looks and plays great on my measly Mac Mini. Very good stuff!!

#67

kingaschi> Usually we play in the evening time at GMT +1. Around 21-22, mostly on normal week days, on weekends people are busy doing other stuff. Keep the main window running (consumes very little cpu) to see when people are playing. The graphics were done by a friend of mine, and my brother. I am not very good at drawing graphics myself… guess you need the talent and time to do it. I have neither ;).

MickeyB> Did you get into the start screen of the game? OpenGL driver running correctly? Is there some error listed in the Client.log file (in the root xsw directory)?

tortoise> Try again some other time, you need to experience it in multiplayer ;D

I’m very nearly finished with Team Death Match mode. Hopefully I will have it ready sometime by the end of next week, then we will get some good team games going :). I think this will be very good for new players as then you can cooperate with other players. Right now there are a handful of very skilled players, and I’ve found that new players going up against these find it very difficult to get any kills at all (thus they find it frustrating), so it will be very good to actually have some of these players on your team, :).

#68

Turns out my Acer will not run OpenGL. LOL

Anyway my other pcran it fine and got my rear handed to me a number of times. Played with about 3 others for a while. Fantastic game.

#69

OK, 2 things…

First, need a radar. Was playing witha few people and if you dont see them, you can’t find them to play. Just fly around and hope to run into somebody.

Second,. (*&%(^ , but I hate getting my arse handed to me over and over. My son is a better pilot at XSW. LOL

#70

Err…u suk?

Just kidding, ur son is good :slight_smile:

<-spammer swy

#71

Hi,
killer app!
Is the source open? It would be interesting to see it as I am working on something similar myself
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/motopain) but I’m having problems getting it to run as smooth as your app.

Regards Anders

#72

Ahh, why is it saying version 0.20 is up and it’s not?? And it won’t even let me play??

#73

nva225> You beat me to it… I actually uploaded version 0.20 late last night :). You might be getting the xsw page from your local cache if you don’t see it. Try clearing the cache and reload the page (ctrl-f5 to force reload I think?)

So, everyone, I am pleased to annouce that xsw version 0.20 is now up on the site! The major change in this version is Team Death Match mode! :slight_smile: This will bring great fun for everyone :D. In team mode there are pointers to your teammates on the edge of the screen to help you locate them. No pointers to players in opposing teams though.

Mickey B, I’ve thought about radar before. I like the element of suprise when you sneak up on someone, but I think I will add a radar soon and try out if I like it better or not. Good luck against your son, such things are hard for a man’s pride! :wink:

Astrosmurf, glad you like it :). The source is not open at this point in time… maybe in the future.

#74

Another update. Version 0.20b is up. Now you can see the team score at all times. And also some other visual updates.

#75

WOW! I love your game - great steering & movement. Amazing graphics, and the music & sound is 100% suited. Just needs WebStart… bad ;). Then I wouldn’t have to downlaod 16MB with every little update

By the way, I’m trying to make something similar but using Java2D. Was the lwjgl necessary for this kind of 2D game do you think?

Keith

#76

Thanx for the praise :D. Yes, alot of people here are asking for webstart, I just haven’t had the time to look into it at all. And there are so many other things that I have on my todo list that I can’t promise it will be webstartable soon.

I’m providing a patch file that is much smaller for the updates, so you don’t need to download the full 16 mb each time. I’m going to put the music in a separate download, so you’ll only have to download it once.

The main reason why I went for lwjgl was the lack of support for hardware rotation in java 1.5. Of course all the sprites could be pre rotated, but I didn’t want to do that. Also you can do alot of nice effects in opengl that is not available in java 2d (not that I’m using any fancy stuff yet…). For just fast 2d blitting of sprites java 2d will do just fine.

#77

Well, I think there is hardware rotation to some degree in java 5.0 (see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/2d/new_features.html) but I’m not positive if it’s fully functional on all platforms. It works just fine on my computers but obviously that’s no indication for overall support.

Also yea LWJGL can support translucency a lot better (only supported for windows on this point) plus a few other things. Which is why I still want to learn how to use LWJGL. But somehow I haven’t and have been able to stick with Java2D for the time being.

I’m curious what the performance differences are as well. I imagine java2d would have to be a little slower just because it has to be compatible with software generated graphics.

#78

Version 0.20c is up! Adds team-colored images for the smallest ship (firefly), this was not in 020b, so if someone chose the firefly ship in 0.20b the game would crash for every one in teammode.

Some of the shots have had a facelift. Fixed so scores are updated correctly (before team score and the score in the upper left corner was only updated when the scoreboard was visible).

We had a big 8 player team game yesterday, it was great fun! :slight_smile:

I’ve noticed several players coming in from the states and other places where they have much lag on the connection to my server here in sweden. If you notice your ping is above 150 try running your own server. If the ping is close to 500 it might in reality be alot more than 500, I’m only reporting a max of 500 (to send information in one byte that is then doubled). At this ping rate weird things start to happen like ships starting to jump around, shots and missiles going through other ships etc.

According to: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/2d/flags.html hardware rotation of translucent images is not supported in java 1.5, which is very important to me. For non translucent images I’m not sure what the case is.

#79

Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like that’s still the case in java 6: http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/technotes/guides/2d/flags.html

Still, java2D’s opengl pipeline supports accelerated rotation & other transforms as well as translucency and everything else so Java2D may have sufficed.

Keith

#80

Hmm good point, never though about translucent rotation.

But, do you use any translucent images that rotate? I almost always want translucent images so this may be a very good reason for me to start using LWJGL but I don’t recall any such images in XSW where a Transparency.BITMASK wouldn’t work.

Of course, I’m not saying you should have done it in Java2D. It’s probably still faster anyway in LWJGL. Just wondering in theory if you could have done it. =)