supaplex

[darkstone knight]

already announced on UTI, now on maxcoders TM!

anyway... for those who don't know, supaplex is one of the more famous versions of boulder dash type of games.

features:
its an app, 2 or 3 pages (the original had over 1 mb of data )
111 levels (if i can fit them on the calc.... levels take 5 min average)
highscores

screenies: this is level 13, which is way to hard (failed 9 times and still counting)
(yes, i died before i got to the hard part....., view in firefox)
edit: WHAT? 256 kib max file size? the .gif is over 3 mb
(sorry for the choppy-4-shades-of-gray screenie...)

[image removed - benryves]
edit: added likt to screenshot: http://dhost.info/stefand/supaplex/supaplex17.gif

annyway, you can download a demo of the game here (.zip)

supaplex.zip

supaplex demo 24/04/09

(16.65 KiB) Downloaded 1407 times

edit: for some reason my host refuses to host screenies on other sites
edit: it's alive! thank god for ftp!

[DigiTan]

This game looks astonishingly close-to-finished already. How'd you make the titlescreen by the way?

[benryves]

Good work on the project!

I removed the screenshot as the link contained the password to your FTP account (which I don't think you really wanted to share with the world). It was also ludicrously enormous; please try and keep screenshots under 512K (which is pretty huge anyway!)

[darkstone knight]

uhh thanks

the engine is near finished, i need to word on the:
bombs, 3 types
more enamies, one is right-handed...

but i still need to make a menu, and compress all levels...
creating (copying..) takes about an hour, there are 111 levels...

i may release another demo next week whit a few levels

edit: about the tilte screen, a friend made it, i think he made it in gimp+istudio

[Arjan]

edit: about the tilte screen, a friend made it, i think he made it in gimp+istudio

I made it with GIMP only

[darkstone knight]

but i used istudio to convert it to hex

[darkstone knight]

i had a bit (a lot, actually) of progress this week

because im lazy, and this site doesn't like 2 MB screens...

http://www.revsoft.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1039

next time il actually upload the screens here, i promise

[Wesley]

Nice work, darkstone knight! It's awesome to see everyone keeping progress on their projects. Maybe one day I will have some of my own (calculator projects), rather than this old and simple one: http://duggzilla.com/wesley/ti/.

The screenies look great!

[darkstone knight]

as revsoft is down, i quickly hacked together a wikidot site

http://stefand.wikidot.com/supaplex1

(maxcoderz smilies rock! )

[NanoWar]

Maybe http://imageshack.us/ ?

MC smileys are the best.

[darkstone knight]

imageshack caps at 1.5 mb, some screens are 8 MB

[NanoWar]

Okay, I have another one... https://www.getdropbox.com/ ? It's really good, but I dont know its bandwidth.

[benryves]

Couldn't you optimise the screenshots?

[darkstone knight]

how?

[benryves]

In the past I've used Adobe ImageReady (part of Photoshop), though that tends to choke on GIFs with a very large number (>1000) of frames. Paint Shop Pro's equivalent, Animation Shop, handles larger GIFs much better, but doesn't optimise as nicely.

Dropping the resolution down to the native 96x64 helps quite a lot, as does dropping the framerate. Unfortunately, last time I used Wabbitemu changing either of those properties caused it to output broken GIFs