Yet Another Paddle Game ;)... [Tester needed]

L_O_J

Hi there I'm currently making a paddle kind of game, I've been working on these for couple of days now, tweaking the physic and collision. could you guys download and test it ? and after that tell me how does it "feel". thx

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@V1ctor:

I have a trouble with the header, when I wan't to use PlaySound function and include "windows.bi", the compiler complain about duplicate definition RGBQUAD, conflicting with the one in the "FreeImage.bi", and if I only include "mmsystem.bi", the compiler complain about incomplete type in one of the function pointer declaration (forgot tho which one :( ).

also sometimes if I dont close the expression in the IF...THEN with (...) it doesn't evaluate right. something like

Pritchard · Guru

Alright, Well the controls are okay for the most part.

1. The paddle will not move correctly if you run to the right and then try to go back the other way. It takes a little bit movement to the left to get the paddle moving again.

Seems like the amount it is over the edge is about the same length as the paddle. Make sure you subtract the width of the paddle when making the barriers for the mouse. The image for the paddle works fine though.
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2. It'd be nice if you raised how easy it is to hit the ball a bit. Usually you want the strike to be able to go a little over the normal height, and have the smallest tap go a little under the lowest bumper.

Maybe some mouse timing to see how long a click lasts could help you tell if they wanted a tap or a big hit.
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3. The Paddle hits the ball at the maximum height if you just hold the mouse down. I honestly think that takes away the whole "Click to hit the ball" thing away.

If you allow the ball to go at the max height without the player even needing to time his/her clicks, then you might as well not have the clicking option at all.

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Besides those I'm really liking the look and feel of this game.

~Pritchard~

v1ctor · Site Admin

Be sure you included the windows header before the freeimage one, FI will define its own missing Win API structs if they weren't defined already, what will clash with the real ones if windows.bi is included later.

About the ()'s stuff, that could happen in 0.14 because AND and OR had the same level of precedence, relational operators have a lower precedence than arithmetic ones, ()'s should make no difference. Unless you have a snippet that shows the error, i never saw that happening.

L_O_J · Posted: Dec 15, 2005 7:55 Post subject:

Pritchard · Guru

@L_O_J:

1. No screen shot. Just move the mouse to the edge of the scren to the right. Like...Keep trying really really hard. Then SLOWLY, start moving the mouse to the left. You'll see that the paddle won't even move until you go to the left a bit.

Also, with the physics and collision. I reallly liked them for the most part. I've found a few errors I can't pin-point, but I've had the ball bounce off of paddles that aren't there once or twice. ;_;

Overall though, good job! :D

Dr_D · Hero

It's pretty cool, but kinda slow. There was a minor thing i noticed... whichever direction when the ball hits it, then the ball should absorb a respective motion. Other than that, it looks like a good game to me. ;)

L_O_J · Posted: Dec 17, 2005 13:17 Post subject:

Pritchard · Guru

@L_O_J:

You can think about having it check barriers and such every time the ball moves 1 pixel. Yes, you can indeed keep speed up with this.

It's quite simple really. Just move the ball, check barriers, and skip drawing the screen or something :D until it should be drawn.

I'm not the one to ask about timing your drawing and variables and such, because I am still experimenting with the perfect system for my game. ^_^;; I hope I can still be helpful though heh

Dr_D · Hero

Well, what I meant to say, was that the the ball should absorb some of the motion according to which direction the paddle is moving, when they make contact. ;)

lol... seems I'm having a problem typing, every time I come here.

cha0s · Site Admin

you could do some kind of loop like this

L_O_J · Posted: Dec 19, 2005 1:54 Post subject: ...

actually that is slow, you dont have to move the ball every for loop, and my speed is not always 1 or 2 or 3 pixel, sometimes it 1.5 pixel or 3.2 pixel (physic) ;).

this is the way I want to do it.

L_O_J · Posted: Jan 17, 2006 8:59 Post subject:

OK this is not exactly like planned above :p, anyway thx to marzec great lib I can do this.... thx marzec

this is ALPHA, just testing the core, so expect better one on next release.

BTW I really need tester with slow machine (not something like 486 tho :) ) like 450 Mhz or 600 MHz...

[UPDATED]

here is the download (sorry just 7zip, cause I threw away WInzip and WinRAR :p).

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http://datacomponents.ourproject.org/sf/users/L_O_J/Yagloid_nodll.7z

the no dll version need all YAGL dll and FreeImage dll.

SSC · Sr. Member

i got this when i tried to run it, this was from the full version
[img]http://fileanchor.com/16695-r.bmp[/img]
winxp pro
3.2 ghz
1.5 gb ram
geforce 5950 ultra 256 vid card

hmm, picture isnt showing, just copy the link i guess

L_O_J · Posted: Jan 17, 2006 9:33 Post subject:

hmmm weird...
I just test it here (public computer, winXP) and it run just find, although I forget to include the level file :p, sorry, but it should run find without it (you just won't see the bricks).

I'll try it again in other OSes when I got home.. thx

duke4e · Sr. Member

use this program for slowing down your CPU
http://www.tentakelvilla.de/download/cpugrab.zip
this is better than mo'slo and cpu killer.