Comments on: Contest Entries

By: freenode

freenode — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:16:53 +0000

zallan and ace of space are very fun. not sure why kaati has the most votes. i find the game play boring. the game also doesnt meet the requirement of lives and 3 weapons.

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:28:10 +0000

For all you having trouble running some games, please take a look at the Round 2 post. It contains source code for you to compile it yourself.

By: bluebeach

bluebeach — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:38:36 +0000

same here cant run First Flight Planet, Labarum, and Supernova… tried on 4 pcs with redistributable. shame really because i think many people are voting blindly..

johnnd d – you can download supernova from http://www.mediafire.com/?jgygmongjmv its 50 meg mind (didnt compress the wav files!)

By: Jonny D

Jonny D — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:55:36 +0000

According to Dependency Walker, I needed msjava.dll and msvcp90d.dll. The problem, then, is that msvcp90d.dll is a debug version, not a redistributable. Can you post a non-debug build of First Flight Planet, Labarum, and Supernova?

By: Jonny D

Jonny D — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:08:32 +0000

Well, I still can’t play several of them. I’m getting the generic “application configuration is not correct” error.

I did get to play Zallan at full speed though. It is quite good, the best I’ve seen so far.

By: Jonny D

Jonny D — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:51:25 +0000

I haven’t been able to try them all yet (Wine needs those MS dlls, but the installer doesn’t work and I don’t trust other sources…). I’ll vote after I try them on my Windows machine. So far, Ace of Space looks good, KAATI is nice and original (if I clear MDK from my mind), Zallan runs at 3 fps, and Knight’s Slayer needs to grow up.

By: bluebeach

bluebeach — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:58:03 +0000

ive got visual studio 2005 installed & didnt think id need the redistributable to make games run..

ive installed the redistributable in work & got most of them running ok, still having problems with mine and ff planet though (side by side config error).. anyway no great shakes, moving onto my next project now im starting to think about developing for iphone! $$ wish me luck

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:10:21 +0000

For those that cannot run certain games you mostly likely need the VC Redistributable.

http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en

Zallan though should work just fine, it was compiled via gcc/mingw.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:04:50 +0000

Bluebeach thank you for your constructive feedback. Yes, you’re right, the game needs a lot of tweaks and I’m working on them (even if they won’t count for the contest). I got all games working fine in my machine. I don’t know much about prerequisites but I believe it is all included with the zip of each game so I don’t have a clue about your problem…

Knight’s Slayer, maybe the game wasn’t clear enough, but in the second screen (where the name of the game appears), it says that you have to press Q to quit. That also works ingame, so you don’t have to restart your machine to exit the game.

KAATI controls ain’t usual, really, and once again the game was not clear about them. Actually, if i’m not mistaken, the version sent to the contest allows you to control the player with the keyboard too, so you might give it a try.

Leonardo

By: bluebeach

bluebeach — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:17:06 +0000

ps katti game presentation is really cool, i think some people arnet used to the control style its rather unique, took me a while to figure it out / get the hang of it

the game has potential to be an awesum i just think a few tweaks on your player class might help.. personally id make sprites smaller as its difficult to dodge things, plus id probably ditch the player fly-to cursor thing or make the cursor more visible. good luck anyways.

By: bluebeach

bluebeach — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:40:50 +0000

geek look whos talking! some harsh comments but thanks nonetheless.. links working fine, did you get it from the main page or project thread?

has anybody got zallan / sdl boss / labarum / ff planet working? do i need open gl prerequisites or anything special to run them?

really want to check out zallan it looks like it could be an aos beater

By: Knight's Slayer

Knight's Slayer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:10:32 +0000

All what I’m thinking of now is that I made a geek cry… man.. live with it… all this effort in this contest and you send that!! … you need to edge it, and No I’m not in the contest, I’m from a different species.. I specialise in programming robotics.

By: Bakkon

Bakkon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:50:35 +0000

Thanks for those comments guys, the feedback means a lot to me!

Knight’s Slayer: Do you even know the amount of effort and work that goes into these games? Do you have an entry in this contest?

By: Knight's Slayer

Knight's Slayer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:06:53 +0000

K.A.A.T.I. oh man… this game is a lot of bolex, I can’t believe that stupid game like that has actually that much of votes (Please stop voting for yourself). I’ve downloaded your game and you know what! it is a proper shite. I have to restart my PC just to exit and then clear my mind in order not to have nightmares about stupid game control and funky meaningless graphics.
Ahhh Ace of Space, WHAT YEAR ARE YOU LIVING IN!!!! how slow is you game and all what you come up with is this stupid rotating enemies, those enemies haven’t got even an intelligence, if I stop that stupid plane on the right position then I’ll win by doing nothing !!!!
SDL Boss, I love to play your game, I think that you are great, you used openGL and all the proper shit.. Good on you man.
Supernova, that’s what I’m talking about, the intelligent enemies, fast processing, enjoyable what else can you ask for!?, My Vote is for you. (Why I can’t download your game again?, broken link!?)
Zallan Brilliant game man, I love it when small idea could turn up to a big awesome game. You may be the next ipod millionaire.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:25:51 +0000

Bradley, it actually don’t crash… It closes because we didn’t had time to make an ‘End Game’ picture or something and there is no other stage to load. If you manage to create a new stage and link the first with the second (the stage file have details on this), it will load. There is another point here: Tim only provided Windows binaries (at least those links above points to them). On Linux where there is a console, the game prints a message with a little text and your score.

Of course that these aren’t excuses nor justify the fact that the game really seems to crash, I’m just explaining what happens when you kill the boss…