Author Topic: Znax Clone In Javascript (Read 9667 times)

mike_g · « **on:** March 27, 2007 »

Heres another game I made in javascript so far its a working clone of Znax, one of my favorite games in the arcade. I'm also working on a set of special tiles and a different time system that will hopefully add some depth and make this a bit more original. If anyone has any cool ideas then let us know. Cheers.

Shockwave · « **Reply #1 on:** March 27, 2007 »

That's really good! You got the tiles dissapearing nice too

My only suggestion at the moment would be that the tiles are a bit dark, but maybe you wanted to go for a dark look so I'll stfu if you like

mike_g · « **Reply #2 on:** March 27, 2007 »

Thanks Shockwave. I wernt sure if i liked the tiles dissapearing all that much as when you remove large areas of them is gets a bit slow. And yeah my friend said that the tiles were a bit dark. Originally I was going to have them bright then shade them when you select em but that looked a bit too in your face so i reversed it. Still lightening them up a bit is easy to do.

benny! · « **Reply #3 on:** March 28, 2007 »

Awesome. Just awesome. Holding the highscore of the arcarde znax, I do really
love this game. Your conversion is just great. Really cool ...

Karma ++

Clyde · « **Reply #4 on:** March 28, 2007 »

Welldone MikeG

mike_g · « **Reply #5 on:** March 28, 2007 »

Cheers

rdc · « **Reply #6 on:** March 28, 2007 »

Looks cool. I can't really tell the different colors apart though.

mike_g · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2007 »

I finished the game off. It now has special tiles which hopefully make the game a bit more interesting. I made the tiles lighter too.

Play it here

rdc · « **Reply #8 on:** March 31, 2007 »

Nice job on this.

mike_g · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2007 »

Thanks.

Jim · « **Reply #10 on:** March 31, 2007 »

Good stuff! I thought Javascript was just for popping up windows

Jim

p01 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 01, 2007 »

How the hell does the game work ? I never played Znax and can't figure the game logic.

I can not click the same tiles twice, even if it was not part of a 'removed' rectangle. And there's no indication of which tile I can click or not.

Jim: Luckily JavaScript can do much more. Have a look at the JavaScript demo scene prods.

mike_g · « **Reply #12 on:** April 01, 2007 »

@ jim: Glad you like it dude

@p01: Yeah maybe the instructions arent clear enough. You can find the original flash game here in the arcade which has a demo of how to play. Maybe I ought to code a little example like that that runs before you start the game.

p01 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 01, 2007 »

thanks. I can click the same tiles several times in the Flash version

FYI I'm using Opera 9.1

I don't know if you want to be true to the original, but it'd be really nice to only have to click the tiles of the opposite corners of the rectangle, and have some sort of overlay showing the rectangle ( with an indication saying if it is a valid rectangle or not ) when you look for the second tile.

mike_g · « **Reply #14 on:** April 01, 2007 »

Hmm.. I only tested it in firefox and IE. There may be some issues with opera as I dont have any problems clicking the same tiles more than once. Click on one once it goes on click again it goes off.

As for an overlay and automatically removing valid diagonal tiles, it sounds good. I suppose that would make things a little quicker.

p01 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 01, 2007 »

[wild_guess] using innerHTML pbly nukes some event handlers [/wild_guess]

p01 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 01, 2007 »

I've implemented a proof of concept of Znax with a 2 clicks selection w. highlight.

It works like a charm in Opera, but for some reason it doesn't work in FF although FireBug doesn't bite me in the face.

mike_g · « **Reply #17 on:** April 01, 2007 »

I cant seem to select any of the tiles in your version using firefox. In IE I can only make selections by dragging the mouse, and it comes out looking wrong. Example Here.

Dunno maybe I should get Opera to test some stuff on. Browser incompatibilities are a pain in the arse $:-\$

p01 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 01, 2007 »

Sorry for the incovenience. But that do you expect from a quick done at 3am :p

Opera's GUI is 'different'. First thing I do on a build I'll use a few times is to change the skin to 'Tango cl', and remove that annoying start bar and move the useful buttons it has ( fit to width, zoom, image toggles, css toggles ) in the address toolbar ... and place my tabs toolbar and personnal toolbar on the right hand side.

mike_g · « **Reply #19 on:** April 01, 2007 »

Just tried your example out in opera and I like it

It cuts out a lot of clicking, and having to see if the tiles line up. If I find the time I'll change my version to something like that.

I also tried my version in Opera and yeah now I see what you meant. Its all screwed up. Guess I'll just put a message on there for the time being saying it wont work in Opera.

Cheers.