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Title: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 13, 2007
Hi.

I started today to make a 4kb remake of Znax ( have a look at the arcade section ) ;)
Coded in C/C++ using OpenGL. I didn't make it that far today - I wanted to add some
scoring mechanism but I have certain problems with Crinkler and the vsprintf
command.

Nevertheless, not quite sure if I continue it if I cannot fix the mentioned problem. So far
you can not even play this game. There is just an intro screen and the game field itself
(ref. screenies).

Controls ( so far ) :

[ESCAPE]  exits the game in every state
[SPACE]    starts the game in intro screen
[CURSOR] move around on the playing field

No selecting or game logic implented yet - sorry ...

You can download it, if you want (1.647 bytes without music) ...

www.weltenkonstrukteur.de/ext/Znax-4k.exe (http://www.weltenkonstrukteur.de/ext/Znax-4k.exe)

Any bug-reports, comments welcome ...
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: ninogenio on April 13, 2007
cool, its so tiny!

hope you get it all worked out and definitly worth while :goodpost:
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 13, 2007
Thanks nino. Will see how things evolve. If I have some time tomorrow - I will
try to build in at least some game logic ... will see  ::)
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: Shockwave on April 13, 2007
Looks so cool it would melt in the fridge :) Pleas continue mate!
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: mike_g on April 13, 2007
I like the 3D blocks benny! Looks very nice :)

If you are feeling lazy I could always give you my Javascript code for checking the tile selections, but then again that might be taking the fun out of it. I look forward to playing it.
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 14, 2007
Looks so cool it would melt in the fridge :) Pleas continue mate!

 ;D ... >> so cool it would melt in the fridge - thanx mate ;)


Quote from: mige_g
I like the 3D blocks benny! Looks very nice Smiley

Thanks mate...
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 14, 2007
New version online ( same link / see first post ) !

Added

+ game logic


ToDo

+ scoring system
+ instruction / credit text + text-routine
+ game-over sequence
+ proper design
+ sound


Not so many bytes left ... file is now 2.241 bytes - but rather un-optimized.
Maybe I have some more time next week ...  ::)
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: ninogenio on April 14, 2007
wow you work quick very nice progress have some K+!
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: Shockwave on April 14, 2007
Wow, had a huge crash there... But I have been hacking around in memory a bit.
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: Shockwave on April 14, 2007
Ran fine that time, very good work, I never heard any sound here though. You must really love that game Benny!
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 16, 2007
@ninogenio:
Thanks mate.


Wow, had a huge crash there... But I have been hacking around in memory a bit.

@SW:
Ooops ... sorry to hear that. Hope it isnt directly caused by my game.

@all:
Does anyone else have problems / crashes running my game ?
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: ninogenio on April 16, 2007
the intro runs really slow here although i think its my gfx the game runs smooth though. i also never heard any sound.
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: zawran on April 16, 2007
Runs fine, but no sound here either.
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 16, 2007
@ninogenio:
about the speed - no idea. actually it is some simple opengl stuff. which
gfx card do you have ...

@ninogenio+zawran:
about the sound - it has still to be implemented. It's on the ToDo list ...

maybe in the middle of this week I have some spare time to work on it
again - will see.

but thanks a lot for testing !!!
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 19, 2007
New version online :

Added

+ Timer
+ Score System
+ Game Over Screen
+ POLYGON_SMOOTHing
+ New color scheme


Still on the ToDo list :

[!] Soft Synth
[!] Melody
[!] Maybe some more fx like shadows and stuff!
[!] Intro text plus typing scroll system


Exe sizes is grown to 2.599 bytes ... so still some bytes left ;)
Download link --> see first post !
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: mike_g on April 21, 2007
This wouldent work for me. When I ran it a grey bar appeared at the top of the screen, then nothing happened for ages. Task manager showed no Znax application running, so I had to shut down the process. Its a shame, cos I want to play this  :'(
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 22, 2007
@mike_g:
Strange. Someone else has the same problems ? I will have a look on it, mate.
Thanks for the bug report !!!
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 24, 2007
Hi.

I added now some tune to the game. Nevertheless, I am feeling right now that
I need to learn more about shaders and OpenGL in general. So, I decided to release
the game as it is now. Have a look to the final release info right here :

http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?topic=1791.0 (http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?topic=1791.0)

Actually, I wanted to implent some more gfx because there are still some bytes left ...
but well ... I feel like I need to aim for other things right now  8)

Hope it will run on the majority of cpu's and configurations...
Title: Re: Znax 4k
Post by: benny! on April 24, 2007
This wouldent work for me. When I ran it a grey bar appeared at the top of the screen, then nothing happened for ages. Task manager showed no Znax application running, so I had to shut down the process. Its a shame, cos I want to play this  :'(

Have a look at the official release - I included now a safer version. Maybe you want
to try this !? Would be interesting to know if this would work for you. Please let me
know !?