Flaming Mitten Weekend Tech Stuff! (LCD game)

SparkyidrSparkyidr Member, PRO Posts: 2,033
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
So...

I was sat around, not doing too much tonight.

So I decided to play around and make this :



Now.....I could have made it nice and easy, with a background image, and some actors for the player, bullet and enemies.

But OH NO.

I decided to make it for real, with led actors that turn on and off as needed :)

enjoy.

Comments

  • TouchTiltGamesTouchTiltGames Member Posts: 1,162
    LOL that is sweet. Love to see it more developed!
  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    you so crazy!
  • BarkBarkCoBarkBarkCo Member Posts: 1,400
    Did you create the art for the LED's yourself?
  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member, PRO Posts: 2,033
    no.

    I nicked an off image and an on image from this

    http://images.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/images/ledpanel_20070608170833.jpg

    i recolourd the on image in green for the enemy led trigger.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Wow that is very cool. I love it.

    So is that 224 individual actors in the scene and if so how is performance.

    Great Work.

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  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member, PRO Posts: 2,033
    yeah. it's 224 instances of the led actor, that has a rule to be on or off when a trigger actor collides with it.

    I then build the moving stuff out of invisible trigger actors etc.

    Performance is pretty bad.

    45fps on my 3GS. Although, because of the way the movement works in "steps" you don't notice. It still feels as responsive as it does on the mac.

    If it was made in a cheating way :

    The off LEDs are a single background image, and the moving actors are made from on LED graphics, the obviously, performance should be pretty great.......but thats no fun :o)
  • firemaplegamesfiremaplegames Member Posts: 3,211
    Beautiful stuff!
  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    45fps doesn't sound too bad at all to me. I haven't noticed chug on games until the fps get down to around 15-20. And that's awesome work for just one night of tinkering. Very impressive.
  • VoidedSkyVoidedSky Member Posts: 1,095
    Haha its amazing what the mind can do when it is bored!
    Great Job!
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  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member, PRO Posts: 2,033
    What took the longest time, was placing all the led actors into the stage.

    224 22x22 actors.

    fun fun fun

    The actual coding part was pretty easy.
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    Love that you do this kind of stuff, Sparky! The demo actually looks awesome to me :D
  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member, PRO Posts: 2,033
    Am thinking I might convert it to the cheating way of doing it. (the frame rate isn't so bad...but all those actors onscreen make for terrible loading times) and turn it into a simple little game like from the late 70's

    Or maybe a compilation of silly little games.. Shooting, racing, and er......another one I have not thought of yet :o)
  • CapCap Member Posts: 225
    Wonderful! But now go back to work on the Mode 7 template, Sparky. It's your fault when I miss the release date for iF-Zero!1!11 ;-)
  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member, PRO Posts: 2,033
    lol.
    the mode7 thing is still going on in my brain.

    'm still not sure it's 100% possible.
    I've tested a few different ways of doing it, but nothing looking tooooo good so far....but it's still in the works. :o)
  • mzxmzx Member Posts: 151
    Cool, or as we say it in the Netherlands: "Vet man!".. haha.. but really, it looks very cool! :D
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