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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

It seems puzzle games are very popular recently. Well, here's my equivalent of the cakeass thread. Not endorsed by 23yrold3yrold or Canada in general.

Ever played Puyo Puyo? Or perhaps one of its western ports, Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine or Kirby's Avalanche?

Well, here's a little remake of that I'm making. In the future, it will feature hot-seat as well as networked multiplayer mode, but for now there's just endless practice mode. Combos and chains both work, but the "next" fields are kinda empty. Don't try to use the Host Game or Join Game menu options.

Anyway, test it out, and tell me if (when) you find bugs.

Controls: Cursor keys to move around, X/C to rotate. O queues up a bunch of ojama blobs for you (for testing purposes).

Runs in windowed mode by default, but if you pass "-fs" as a command-line argument, it will run fullscreen instead.

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Frank Drebin

Member #2,987

December 2002

crashes when pressing a key

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MiquelFire

Member #3,110

January 2003

The broken cookie said:

Runs in fullscreen by default, but if you pass "-fs" as a command-line argument, it will run fullscreen instead.

Err... what?

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

Eugh, runs in WINDOWED by default. edits

Fladimir da Gorf

Member #1,565

October 2001

Hahaha! Got rid of all of 'em! See the screenshot. Took about 15 minutes of playing though... always when I got rid of a color it reappeared. But still, victory! (in my rankings)

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

Hehe ... in the original, you get a bonus if you clear the well in two-player mode - extra ojama for the enemy!

Mars

Member #971

February 2001

I really like it. Although I've never played any other version of this game I imagine it would be a lot of fun. I love the sprites -- you own creations, I suppose?

I found the controls a bit impractical: Often I only intended to send one key press, which however where interpreted as two, thus sending the blobs exactly where they shouldn't be.

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23yrold3yrold

Member #1,134

March 2001

Good beginning. I'm not as fond of that kind of game as I am of Tetris Attack (or even Super Puzzle Fighter, which is very similar to this), but it plays really well. I saw the point bonuses for chains and combos in there Really, good job 8-)

Quote:

Often I only intended to send one key press, which however where interpreted as two, thus sending the blobs exactly where they shouldn't be.

Seconded ...

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

Yes, the repeat timing for the controls need to be tweaked - but it's just modifying two #defines in a header so I'm not exactly prioritizing that right now.

And yes, the sprites are mine.

DanielH

Member #934

January 2001

It was good, except I think that when two blobs are connected, they should stay connected. When a blob is cleared underneath a connected blob it becomes deconnected and falls.

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

DanielH: That's how the original works. That's part of the point - you can chain up some massive combos/chains that way.

Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Hmm. Crashes when I hit enter at the menu screen on the practice mode. It was running in Windowed Mode. No real idea what might have caused it to crash. I ran it while on a WinME machine. Ahh! I want to play! Tell me what's wrong!?

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

I have ABSOLUTELY no idea. Did you try fullscreen?

Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Same thing happens in fullscreen... hmm... I did have to download the allegro dll, and I downloaded the plain dll distribution from alleg.cc. I think it may be newer than yours? Maybe it broke something? I highly doubt it, but you never know.

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

I have Allegro 4.0.3 ... there could be a number of things going wrong here, but I suspect it may have something to do with the socket module (as always) ... what kind of crash was it? Segfault?

aybabtu

Member #2,891

November 2002

X-G: I run it, and the title screen pops up, but then if I hit a key or anything...it blows up!

X-G

Member #856

December 2000

If you hit a key? WTF? I can see no reason why it would do that. Anyone have any clues? The menu function looks like this:

1void menu()
2{
bool qgame = false;
int cmark = 0;
BITMAP *bg = load_bitmap("bg2.bmp", NULL);


while (!qgame)
{
  clear(d_buf);
  drawing_mode(DRAW_MODE_COPY_PATTERN, bg, ticker/3, ticker/3);
  rectfill(d_buf, 0, 0, d_buf->w, d_buf->h, 0);
  
  drawing_mode(DRAW_MODE_TRANS, 0, 0, 0);
  set_trans_blender(0, 0, 0, 64);
  rectfill(d_buf, 85, 56 + cmark * 20, 235, 73 + cmark * 20, makecol(0, 0, 0));
  solid_mode();
  
  shadow_textout_centre(d_buf, g_font, "Practice", 160, 61, makecol(255, 255, 255), makecol(32, 32, 32));
  shadow_textout_centre(d_buf, g_font, "Host Game", 160, 81, makecol(255, 255, 255), makecol(32, 32, 32));
  shadow_textout_centre(d_buf, g_font, "Join Game", 160, 101, makecol(255, 255, 255), makecol(32, 32, 32));
  shadow_textout_centre(d_buf, g_font, "Quit", 160, 121, makecol(255, 255, 255), makecol(32, 32, 32));
  
  masked_blit(g_gfx, d_buf, 0, 0, 90, 57 + cmark * 20, 16, 16);
  masked_blit(g_gfx, d_buf, 0, 0, 214, 57 + cmark * 20, 16, 16);
  
  copybuf();
  
  while (g_time > 0)
  {
    g_time --;
    ticker ++;
33 
    if (keypressed())
    {
      int k = readkey();
      
      if ((k >> 8) == KEY_ESC)
        qgame = true;
      if ((k >> 8) == KEY_DOWN)
        cmark ++;
      if ((k >> 8) == KEY_UP)
        cmark --;
      
      if ((k >> 8) == KEY_ENTER)
      {
        if (cmark == 0)
          practice();
        qgame = true;
      }
    }
    
    while (cmark < 0)
      cmark += 4;
    while (cmark > 3)
      cmark -= 4;
  }
}
59}

I know it's crap, but it's more of a placeholder than anything else right now.

Oh, and by the way: Does the background scroll? It should.

Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Background scrolls. I can hit up and down and it moves fine. Just closes itself without any error message or anything when I hit enter while the Practice mode is selected.

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X-G

Member #856

December 2000

Ultio and people who had problems - I added some debug messages to points where it can just return mysteriously. Try the attached version (which also has a chain display bar, btw )

Ultio

Member #1,336

April 2001

Not much helpful. Now all I get is a useless information window instead of the program just crashing. "Tt has caused an error in TT.EXE. Tt wll now close."

Tried to hit the debug button and then realized that the MSVC installed on the computer has been removed. Sorry, I couldn't give you any more information!

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Carrus85

Member #2,633

August 2002

I would test it, but I

A) Am running linux, so I cannot run the supplied binary
B) Cannot recompile the program for linux because the source is not supplied.

Sorry

X-G

Member #856

December 2000

I fully intend to both release source and linux binaries in time. I run linux normally - but more people use Windows around here, so I'm more likely to get responses if I supply Windows binaries.

Carrus85

Member #2,633

August 2002

True...

I really don't see why more people just use linux. After all, it is much more programmer friendly, not to mention highly customizable. If you know what you are doing you can configure wine to run most of your MS applications, and you can just have a small windows partition for all of those "Must have" proprietary games.

X-G

Member #856

December 2000

Indeed. I use linux normally - I don't really know why I chose to start this project in Windows. I'm in Windows now, mainly because I'm technically at a LAN.

aybabtu

Member #2,891

November 2002

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