I Made A Game...

zoddtheimmortal

<div class="IPBDescription">Its called Bouncer...</div> No its not like the bouncer on ps2, its a 3D "The Helicopter Game" clone (The Helicopter Game can be found at www.arabuni.co.nz) anyways its got better graphics but its alot bigger (890Kb > 50kb <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> ) and its not a flash game (flash the macromedia product not the sparkly meaning, infact it looks quite flash). Ummm, well try it out and tell me what you think...

You can download it from the homepage <a href='http://www.geocities.com/bouncergame/' target='_blank'>Homepage</a>
the download link is at the bottom of the page.

Liku

Pretty fun. Awesome work. I can't tell where you crash on the Floor, making it a bit hard.

Dubbilex

Yeeeeeee-haw! Good work <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Rob

Wowza, dude, that's damn fine work. Few things: the controls seem a bit jumpy, like when you click you hop up like 20 feet, it's nothing that takes away from actual control ability, but it roughens up the gameplay a bit. And like Liku pointed out, a clear line where the floor is would be nice.

But other than that, that's some quality work! Good job!

*Edit* Maybe you could put in some extras... Like powerups. A "bounce" power obviously comes to mind, were you get so many "bounces" off the walls. Maybe like a phase powerup where you can phase through stuff once or twice. I dunno. */Edit*

Infinitum

*downloads before geocities collapses in upon itself*

Edit: Pretty cool, but yeah.. my problems with it have already been pointed out

Thansal

first up the name of the game is gaves or snake... not the helicopter game <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> (the truely amazinf one is over at sfcaves)

so yah, the problems as have been pointed out:
controlls are rather jerky
noclear borders for anything (floor, celing, your craft, blocks)
I would suggest making the start button and the activate button one and the same
so if you can press space to start you should be able to press space ro go up etc.

but over all a nice little package

RPG_Jssmfulhud

Looks good. The only thing that's really annoying is, what everybody pointed out already. The sudden change of raising/descending. And my mouse will break if I contonue doing this... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Liku

What are your scores? I got 170 last night at 2 in the morning. ^_^

[EDIT]Just got 810.[/EDIT]

RPG_Jssmfulhud

Haven't played it much yet...

Supra_Soldier

The website doesn't work, says ur geocities thingamagigy isn't there, please fix.

Smoke_Nova

782 without concentrating hard.


But yeah, define your boundraries, don't make it a 3d side scroller. that's just...ridiculous to me.

Zel

blech i died about a bajillion times before discovering the thrust button is on my mouse

Psycho-Kinetic_Hyper-Geek

There is utterly NO physics in the game which is almost the entire point of this type of game. If I have been accelerating up and release my key I should have a bit of time where my upward acceleration slows, stops and then falls down at an increasing rate. Thats what this game is SORELY lacking.

Delarosa

uhh, you might want to put somewhere a listing of the keys... cause all i get is an immediate crash... i know p for pause, and spcae to begin...

zoddtheimmortal

I released version 1.2 now, it shod fix alot of the previous problems. Here is an extract from the update log:

1.2
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+ Fixed collision detection bug, should work fine now.
+ Title looks better now.
+ Smoother controls.
+ Changed start key to the mouse, no more reaching for the keyboard.
+ Easier to tell where cave roof and cieling is. (They are now located where the cave and teh background meet.)
+ Size is quite a bit smaller now.
- Took out pause button. (Wasn't mentioned in readme and would of given you too much time to think.)

Thanx Psycho-Kinetic Hyper-Geek for that physics thing, ill work on that.

Also two questions...

Shod i include random final fantasy music? (Yes im serius, i love those battle themes.)

Also shod i leave it nice and simple like it is now or shod i add sum power ups and enemys and stuf.
(I am also working on a Raiden style game ATM, maybe i shod leave the power ups and enemys for that?)

Edit: The controls are listed in the readme, plz read it before playing.

Liku

Yeah! *Downloads* How about adding a Shadow to the ground? Oh, and when you crash make that awesome "Final Fantasy We Just Won the Fight" song.

Liku

Ok, I need a Shadow, trying to make those underpasses it's horrendous, and my Scores were Deleted! *Cries*

zoddtheimmortal

hmmmm, i cod add a shadow, ill work on that and ummm i dont think i will add that winning theme tho thatll kill the cool sounding explosion.

Edit: Saving scores in a file will come soon but it wont have that helicopter game feeling, and youll always be looking at that same dull highscore...maybe a highscore chart?

Liku

Yeah, and with a Clear Scores option. Good work though. I'm addicted.

Paranoia2MB

I sense a supena coming along hehe, you used a copyrighted name. Oooooooooooooooooooh hehe <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

zoddtheimmortal

lol, i did?
well im gonna go ahead and use a copyrighted midi file cuz final fantasy music is in! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
and a moving shadow which shows you how close you are to the ground.

1.3
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+ Yay, final fantasy music!
+ A moving shadow, easier to tell when you're gonna hit the floor.
+ Slight control tweak.
+ Fixed bug where someone could die and then die agin rely fast a couple of times making the score rise 2 at a time.

Man im starting to get addicted myself, that ff8 battle theme really draws you in.

BTW, wats a supena?

Delarosa

technical support question:


how do i fix this:
"Fatal Engine Error E356"
"Problem with EDL script"


?

separatE_Entity

OMG TEH HELEICHOPTAR !11

Align

Seem to be a whole lot of missing files in the latest zip.

Geminosity

uh-huh, I got an error saying it was missing beep.wav =o

Align

Which is when I got suspicious. So I copied and renamed a .wav. Then blitz.pcx was missing. So I faked that too. Then another .pcx was missing, so I figured that any more faking would result in the game not working anyway.

Jammer

Won't run on my machine. Error with bouncer.wdl
?? :-(

zoddtheimmortal

k guys calm down, illl get it fixed by tonight...

hmmmm, runs fine on my machine...

oh and align, i think it wud wok if u faked the followingfiles...
see the game dosnt need them so i took them out but i gess they're still defined in the code sumwhere.

Align

I think you made it a kind of "patch"(by accident or something, or maybe you forgot you did that), meaning if you had the previous version, it's going to work, but trying to download the whole game will result in a lack of files.

zoddtheimmortal

uploading it now, try it in 5 mins (i haf 56k <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )

2_of_Eight

Make the "download" button more visible on the site <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> It took me more than 15 seconds to find it, that's not good <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> heh.