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[Mouse Mash] Game of the Year! |
ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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It's first depot entry of the year (or at least close) I'm looking for reviews of Iphernic and my game, Mouse Mash. http://www.momeme.com/mousemash/screenshots/1.png Please try out the Mouse Mash Demo. It's windows-only (with installer and uninstaller). Thoughts? Suggestions? Vista testing? |
Trent Gamblin
Member #261
April 2000
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Works fine in Vista. Very nice graphics and good gameplay.
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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From screenshots it looks definately nice. Unfortunately I don't know when I get into Windows again. Could you describe what is it about? [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Looks cool. I'll have to wait until I get home to play it. Did you do it in allegro? you gotta fix that website: -- |
Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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The graphics and sound are rather adequate. They are pretty much on par with the shareware games of today, which is quite nice. The interface is clear and intuitive, and the work you put in shows. Unfortunately, the gameplay is based on a very old idea that you can find in many, many other titles - commercial, shareware and freeware. The spinning arena is not sufficient to transform a 15-year old idea into something interesting - but I know there are people who play and buy those simple puzzle games (which make up, together with "find the hidden objects", 95% of everything on reflexive.com, for example), so perhaps this is just me. So, while it is a smooth and polished experience, I didn't spend much more than 4 minutes playing the game. If this is going to be freeware, it's definitely a nice proposition for those who enjoy games like that. If you intend to sell it to the casual market, I'm afraid it's going to lack that special gimmick that would set it apart from other similar titles. [edit] --------------------------- |
james_lohr
Member #1,947
February 2002
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It crashes about 4 seconds into showing the loading animation at the start for me (windows XP).
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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I like it. Definitely one of the better games on this site. Congratulations on finishing the game. -- |
ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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James Lohr said: It crashes about 4 seconds into showing the loading animation at the start for me (windows XP).
Thanks for letting me know. Could you paste the contents of these files? Also try running it again (but paste those files first!), if it crashes while loading it should try a different graphics driver next time... Jakub said: The graphics and sound are rather adequate. They are pretty much on par with the shareware games of today, which is quite nice. The interface is clear and intuitive, and the work you put in shows. Unfortunately, the gameplay is based on a very old idea that you can find in many, many other titles - commercial, shareware and freeware. The spinning arena is not sufficient to transform a 15-year old idea into something interesting - but I know there are people who play and buy those simple puzzle games (which make up, together with "find the hidden objects", 95% of everything on reflexive.com, for example), so perhaps this is just me. So, while it is a smooth and polished experience, I didn't spend much more than 4 minutes playing the game. If this is going to be freeware, it's definitely a nice proposition for those who enjoy games like that. If you intend to sell it to the casual market, I'm afraid it's going to lack that special gimmick that would set it apart from other similar titles. Thanks for the review Jakub. I think you're pretty much right on . On the bright side, plenty of successful game companies started with crappy first games. |
Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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I would change the colors of the balls, they're similar enough to make the game impossible for the colorblind. No, but seriously, I'd like to know, did you make this with Allegro? -- |
ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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It was made using The Thing Library, which has D3D, OpenGL and software (raw allegro) drivers. You can see the D3D driver by setting debugFlag3=1 in the settings file. |
Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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Same as James, it crashes while loading. I'm under XP too. Here's the contents of log.txt and settings.txt (errors.txt is empty): log.txt:
settings.txt:
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ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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Hm.. I didn't mean to leave that vulgar debug message in there Does it still crash if you set debugFlag3 to 0? |
Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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Yes, it still crashes. -- |
ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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Okay, set debugFlag1 to 1 and make sure debugFlag3 is still 0. What kind of graphics card do you have? |
Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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Ok, now it "works". It's kinda slow and it looks ugly, with somewhat "corrupted" images (not really corrupted it just doesn't look good), with no alpha blending. [edit] -- |
ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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Thanks for testing it Oscar. Could you try one more combination? Set all debugFlags to 0. Set fullscreen to 0. Do you know what kind of graphics card you have? Do other OpenGL or D3D games work on your computer? |
Ron Novy
Member #6,982
March 2006
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Arg! I tried it under XP and it just crashes. I get the same results in the error.txt, log.txt, and settings.txt. I tried it in compatibility mode but it still crashes. Current system: ---- |
Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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With all flags to 0 and fullscreen to 0 it crashes again. No problems with any other OpenGL or D3D game. I can try it under Vista too (uuuuh, don't make me boot into that thing T.T) -- |
ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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This isn't going well. Is Loading font1 the last line in your log.txt as well? Could you get me a backtrace from gdb? From both threads please. |
Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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Well, it works under Windows Vista As extra info, XP is the 32bit version, and Vista is the 64 bit version, not sure if that'll make a difference. I'll play the game tomorrow, now it's late, time to sleep! -- |
Ron Novy
Member #6,982
March 2006
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I'm no good with gdb, but maybe this will help... #0 0x005a24fc in ?? () #1 0x00432371 in ?? () #2 0x00433243 in ?? () #3 0x0041dd9f in ?? () #4 0x0047d829 in ?? () #5 0x0056d618 in ?? () info dll DLL Name Load Address ntdll.dll 7c901000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll 7c801000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll 4fdd1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll 6d991000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\gdi32.dll 77f11000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll 7e411000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll 77c11000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll 77dd1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\rpcrt4.dll 77e71000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\secur32.dll 77fe1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll 77c01000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll 76b41000 C:\Program Files\MouseMash\d3dx9.dll 10001000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ddraw.dll 73761000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\dciman32.dll 73bc1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\dinput.dll 72281000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\dsound.dll 73f11000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll 774e1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\glu32.dll 68b21000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll 5ed01000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\wsock32.dll 71ad1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2_32.dll 71ab1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2help.dll 71aa1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\imm32.dll 76391000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\lpk.dll 629c1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\usp10.dll 74d91000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll 5ad71000 C:\DOCUME~1\HP_ADM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\IadHide5.dll 01891000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTFIME.IME 755c1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\hid.dll 688f1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll 77921000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\wintrust.dll 76c31000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\crypt32.dll 77a81000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\msasn1.dll 77b21000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\imagehlp.dll 76c91000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv 72d21000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv 72d11000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.dll 77be1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll 77bd1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ksuser.dll 73ee1000
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Jonny Cook
Member #4,055
November 2003
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Haha, I like the font on your website. I also like how you created it. Good idea... [edit] Source...? I like seeing how well made games are created.... [edit2] The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. |
Ron Novy
Member #6,982
March 2006
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Looks ugly when using debugFlag1=1, debugFlag2=0, debugFlag3=0 http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/594327 ---- |
ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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Ron said: If you know the commands for gdb then let me know... I've got it running now...
gdb "C:\program files\mousemash\mousemash.exe" > run Crash! SEGFAULT at 0xDEADBEEF > thread 1 > bt > thread 2 > bt > thread 3 > bt And then copy paste all of the gdb output here if you could, thanks. WARNING: Change the settings file to windowed mode first! There is little worse than a full-screen gdb crash... Johnny said: Aww, it seems that the game will not be free.(?) Then I guess that means "no" for the source. I appreciate the compliments . I don't know if my source code is really that amazing to see, however. |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Your source is a beautiful work of art! Elegant and balanced, well-coded, with the lines aligned for maximum aesthetic effect. No programmer is complete without seeing your amazing source! /failed attempt to get a free copy.
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