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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #60 on: September 29, 2010, 06:08:50 pm »
That looks fantastic!
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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #61 on: September 29, 2010, 06:56:42 pm »
This is so much fun!  I'm playing so much of this.  Excellent game! ;D

Edit: New high score: 2354
Why don't you make part of it playable look like what happens when you die and the score is over 1000; Black Horizon, White Cubes, and a Grey Floor/Ground?
« Last Edit: September 29, 2010, 08:05:35 pm by ztrumpet »

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #62 on: September 29, 2010, 08:54:39 pm »
you should definitely try out camera rotation without the background gray just to see how it looks. however, im doubtful it could be any more awesome than it is now.

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #63 on: September 29, 2010, 10:50:39 pm »
Lol ztrumpet, that is a bug I have noticed and removed. But yeah, now that you mention it, I'm not limited in anyway to the current color schemes so I'll probably put that in later :)

Camera rotation works. The problem is that it looks a bit odd when your horizon is at 0 degrees while all the cubes are slanted. Currently the lightgray area is drawn with RectI()r . I can't think of anyway to make it slant along with the camera rotating, since Rect() only supports....well, rectangles. I could do it easily with Line(), reducing the horizon to simply a light gray line or two instead of having a whole "sky."


I'll put up screenies tomorrow when I can to show what I mean, I just got back from swim practice and a bit tired ;)

Oh and for those of you who are playing, does it ever get boring/too easy? If so, at what score (general range is ok). Currently the difficulty never changes, so I need to start working on that. My best score is around 4000, but after around 2000 it gets kind of boring for me lol, but of course I don't know whether the fact that I made the game or not affects the interest/difficulty


oh and the new quick modify button is awesome and recognizable. props.
« Last Edit: September 29, 2010, 10:54:31 pm by squidgetx »

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #64 on: September 29, 2010, 11:08:08 pm »
I don't mind if the gray is removed to add rotation. I know it would be extremly hard to implement rotating horizon with the gray filling the upper part of the screen. you would have to run a For( loop to fill the upper part of the back buffer with a Line command and I am sure it would slow things down quite a lot.

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #65 on: September 29, 2010, 11:41:04 pm »
Cam rotation sounds awesome! Go ahead, replace the grayscale if you have to, because it sounds epic :D




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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #66 on: September 29, 2010, 11:43:36 pm »
Yeah, I don't mind if you remove the grayscale.  Also, I remember you saying earlier that you have a Pause in your loop?  If that is the case, you should change it to:
For(I,0,PutANumberHere
DispGraphrr
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to make the gray less flickery.

Also, on the scripted runs, I was able to get outside of them.
« Last Edit: September 29, 2010, 11:44:09 pm by SirCmpwn »

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #67 on: September 29, 2010, 11:47:48 pm »
Yeah, I don't mind if you remove the grayscale.  Also, I remember you saying earlier that you have a Pause in your loop?  If that is the case, you should change it to:
For(I,0,PutANumberHere
DispGraphrr
End
to make the gray less flickery.

Also, on the scripted runs, I was able to get outside of them.

Yeah, that's a good idea. I used something like that in my program, but instead it had a timer that updated the screen constantly but ran through everything else only once every few iterations. This seems a lot smaller ;D But would there be a problem with occasionally having longer pauses between DispGraphrrs while it updates everything else?




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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #68 on: September 29, 2010, 11:51:34 pm »
What do you mean?  I'm suggesting that he replace his Pause XXXX line with my code.

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #69 on: September 30, 2010, 12:10:30 am »
Nice idea indeed. I did not try the game so I couldn't tell if it was flickery on-calc or not, but it's a good idea to take advantage of the fact you can run better GS if you were gonna use Pause to slow down the game anyway ;D

EDIT: If there's no pause in the code, I would recommend removing the gray. I tried the game and the gray seemed very flickery. :(
« Last Edit: September 30, 2010, 02:22:47 am by DJ Omnimaga »

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #70 on: September 30, 2010, 11:42:37 am »
Why does it seem sometimes that some programs that update DispGraphrr actually seem more flickery than ones that update it a bit less? Do we actually have to find the perfect timing?




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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #71 on: September 30, 2010, 03:42:31 pm »
I might change it later back to 3 color gray, but right now it's still 4 shade (although I don't use the light shade anywhere in v0.4) The gray is still pretty flickery  :-\

v0.4

New features: cam rotation :D and a new tunnel around 2000
Other changes: some bugfixes with the scripted runs. Pause line was taken out (for dev purposes, but never re-added. I don't think it was super necessary though)


Yeah, you are able to cheat a little and get out of the scripted runs. This is because I was lazy when punching in coordinates-I can make it tighter in the next version.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2010, 03:48:05 pm by squidgetx »

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #72 on: September 30, 2010, 05:09:47 pm »
That is AWESOME!  Like really, really awesome!

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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #73 on: September 30, 2010, 05:49:57 pm »
Ya, that looks really cool! Great work :D
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Re: Axe Cuberunner
« Reply #74 on: September 30, 2010, 06:23:24 pm »
O.o
This is epic!  I really like the new version! ;D
On v3:
I really liked this version. :)
I got up over 3000 twice, with my score averaging between 1000 and 1500.  I never thought I was boring. ;)

I think this needs to be only a three level greyscale game, as it flickers a lot.  It looks really, really cool though. ;D