supaplex

[darkstone knight]

i was busy making supaplex, so i thougth i share my project here

the folowing screenie shows the AI of the enemies, you cant die, yet
[attachment=2642:supaplex12.gif]

the screenie here shows a random level (warning, 8 mb gif )
edit: cant seem to get the screenie to work..... >.>
copy-paste this: dhost.info\stefand/supaplex13.gif

i *hope* to complete this in summer, im already working on this for [s]almost[/s] 2 months

[DigiTan]

This combines two of my childhood passions. The 90's and running with scissors!

[darkstone knight]

what? no calc programming?

[cjgone]

That looks really sweet. Keep up the good work. :D

How exactly does the AI work? Like when the scissor thing hits a wall, how does it know which direction to take? Or is their some sort of preference, like left is chosen before right, etc..

[darkstone knight]

[attachment=2643:supaplex15.gif]
(seriously, i should use this as my avatar )

well, they use some sort of the "left wall trick"

-if there is noting left of him, turn left
-if there is noting in front of him, go straight
-if there is noting left of him, turn left
-otherwise, turn clockwise

pretty easy to understand, harder to code

especially since you need to detect the other scissors...

[DigiTan]

I never could get the hang of left-handed scissors. But they seem to work for this game. I gotta say this project look pretty exciting so far. This is the kind of thing that could get TIing back on the map.

[darkstone knight]

POTY, here i comeeee!

[bananaman]

Just wait until Spencer releases Zelda this year.

[darkstone knight]

yea, i hope he gets massive dalays... (let the flame war begin!)

also, bcc basic, f-zero, robot war, ...

well, i think i got a pretty good chance at a feature (vote supaplex! )

[darkstone knight]

i decided to host a demo, sooo...

[attachment=2646:supaplex.zip]

have fun, it takes a whole 5 minutes to complete (at least 0x5)

(it is bug-free..)

edit: zip'd, pick your favorite
edit: removed the .rar and removed the partialy-completed explosion code in the .zip.....

[kalan_vod]

Seems like the best pac-man type of game I have seen!

[darkstone knight]

its not pac-man, its builder dash >.>

suprised nobody downloaded the demo yet, had at least an hour fun whit one level

(because it is way too hard, even if you cant die )

[Mapar007]

Not everyone wants to install WinRAR/IZArc/whatever, I'd put it in a zip file.

[DigiTan]

Heh heh. I like to call those WinRAREs. At least it wasn't in tar.gz format. :sick: I'll probably check it out after work.

[darkstone knight]

ZIP'd

[darkstone knight]

i uploaded all screens here

http://stefand.wikidot.com/supaplex1

the engine is nearing completion, just a few more tasks on the "todo tist"

i looked at the compression aswell, the problem is that it requires rather extreme compression to reduce 150k to 20k...

[cjgone]

Looks quite nice.

Will be excited when you release this.

[geekboy1011]

Awsome do you really think it will be done this sommer or do you think mabey sooner
ps i downloaded the demo:)

[darkstone knight]

depends, i still have ~105 levels i need to copy, each one takes about an hour

i think the engine is finished within a month (a exams )
but i still need to create compression algorithm, this is giving me headaches...

[Eeems]

why don't you just steal the algorithm from something else?