Znax 4k

[benny!]

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

Any bug-reports, comments welcome ...

[ninogenio]

cool, its so tiny!

hope you get it all worked out and definitly worth while

[benny!]

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 

[Shockwave]

Looks so cool it would melt in the fridge Pleas continue mate!

[mike_g]

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.

[benny!]

Looks so cool it would melt in the fridge Pleas continue mate!

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

I like the 3D blocks benny! Looks very nice Smiley

Thanks mate...

[benny!]

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 ... 

[ninogenio]

wow you work quick very nice progress have some K+!

[Shockwave]

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

[Shockwave]

Ran fine that time, very good work, I never heard any sound here though. You must really love that game Benny!

[benny!]

@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 ?

[ninogenio]

the intro runs really slow here although i think its my gfx the game runs smooth though. i also never heard any sound.

[zawran]

Runs fine, but no sound here either.

[benny!]

@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 !!!

[benny!]

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 !

[mike_g]

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 

[benny!]

@mike_g:
Strange. Someone else has the same problems ? I will have a look on it, mate.
Thanks for the bug report !!!

[benny!]

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

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 

Hope it will run on the majority of cpu's and configurations...

[benny!]

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 !?