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As good as it gets

[raw] LD12LD #12 - The Tower - 2008 10. Aug 2008 路 22:35 UTC · 2 days after compo start by gjuggler · 0

I’m at a pretty happy stopping point with this now. The UI for interacting with the blocks is pretty stable, I’ve got all the visual elements I was looking for, and although the memory footprint is (much) higher than it ought to be, it’s not overflowing Java’s heap space like it was a couple hours ago :)

The game is called Blokks, and it’s split up into a free-form practice mode (which comes highly recommended) and a slightly more structured “challenge” mode. I didn’t have time to implement the logic for the challenge mode, however, so I’m relying on the honor system to believe that you successfully made it through the (four measley) challenges 馃槢

Oh, yeah — you can play it online here: http://www.andrewberman.org/projects/pulpfizz/blokks/

Now, it’s time to get some sleep and move on to some “real” work tomorrow — it’s been fun!

Tags: final

Comments

wjordan
11. Aug 2008 路 04:13 UTC
Congrats on finishing! I really like the overall aesthetic, and the title screen is sweet~
Morre
11. Aug 2008 路 07:56 UTC
Tried “practice”, didn’t understand much, thought to go back to challenge to see if I could understand and *wham* – java heap space error :)
kai
11. Aug 2008 路 10:58 UTC
I did the practice, and then went back to challenge, but got a negative array size exception, then I reloaded a few times and kept getting a NPE:

NewWorld.creatBody(NewWorld.java:109)

called by BodyUtils.java:424
gjuggler
11. Aug 2008 路 20:58 UTC
Moree and kai: Thanks for letting me know about the bugs… I shouldn’t have trusted myself to debug this thing at 3am Sunday night / Monday morning! Anyway, most of the problems should be fixed now, so feel free to give it another go :)
gjuggler
11. Aug 2008 路 20:59 UTC
Also — I forgot to mention: you can turn the hand left and right with either A/D or Left/Right, and the sideways “8” is actually an infinity symbol — in practice mode, you never run out of blokks!