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1	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: How I judged:	on: 2006-03-14 09:25:21
nonnus29 -> Can I just ask you something W4K : "I didn find this game fun at all... It has too many problems." May I know what was wrong... I'd like to learn from my mistakes

2	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: And the winner is ...	on: 2006-03-13 12:06:06
Quote from: Markus_Persson on 2006-03-13 11:41:58 Ah, I see what you mean. I thought you meant to just hide the comments. Not at all... The idea was to keep everything in place (have full access to the scores/comments given by the judges), just remove the highest and lowest scores (ex : for miners4K : remove 100 & 76 -> a final score of 97, for Xero -> 94.6)

3	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: And the winner is ...	on: 2006-03-13 11:37:30
Quote from: Markus_Persson on 2006-03-13 11:26:10 Why? Those were the most interesting entries. That's just an idea... When an artistic part is involved (I think this is the case here), you may have a love/hate meaning to the vote... It may be fairer to remove the extremes (I don't think it would have changed anything for Miners4k ) in the final count. Maybe just a stupid idea

4	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: And the winner is ...	on: 2006-03-13 11:19:05
Quote from: Markus_Persson on 2006-03-13 09:34:16 I won! Yay! :-D Congratulations! Miners4k was in my own personnal top 3 (with 'A spring in the air' and 'gravitator 4k') Woogley -> Would it be possible next year to remove the best and worst note for each entry?

5	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: A spring is in the air	on: 2006-03-11 17:28:52
Height 2586, score 2765 with "Stairway"... This one is a lot easier than the other ones, isn't it?

6	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: big brother is watching	on: 2006-03-10 16:16:53
Quote from: woogley on 2006-03-10 15:50:26 wow. I'm... not sure how to respond to a pun of such magnitude. o_o I must admit that I really need sleep...

7	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: big brother is watching	on: 2006-03-10 10:27:55
Quote from: nonnus29 on 2006-03-07 14:16:12 Those other judges need to get too work... You're now officially 'faster than light'

8	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: Whats Going On With The Downloads?	on: 2006-03-03 09:06:51
Quote from: Sandor on 2006-03-03 02:04:09 Well, I found out about the contest through Slashdot in the first place, so I thought it was appropriate. And you were right (I should have made 2 posts... The two lines were NOT related). I discovered this contest with /. too It should be a good idea to post something right after the results (maybe Woogley has already planned this?)

9	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: Whats Going On With The Downloads?	on: 2006-03-02 20:54:17
Seems to be a /. post from David Levine... Most /. users download games in alphabetic order... Not good for me

10	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: Worms 4K!!	on: 2006-02-19 10:27:53
Quote from: x30ice on 2006-02-13 20:18:13 If you could make some space a little improvement on cpu's IA would make it more challenging so on large distances they keep shooting at the same place, missing every shot. Updated AI + screenshots (javaunlimited and jws) + web site Source code should be released soon (GPL licence) Have fun Edit : Source is now available

11	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: JUDGES!	on: 2006-02-17 20:42:25
Quote from: woogley on 2006-02-17 19:47:50 just a quick note, judges cannot have a game in the contest. Even if they don't vote for themself?

12	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: proguard issues	on: 2006-02-16 21:06:52
I had another kind of problem with proguard -worms4K-, as it seems to increase CPU consumption. Markus_persson -dachon4K- had the same problem. By the way, I must recognize that a 4K program -at least mine- does not respect all java coding rules, this may be the problem

13	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: Worms 4K!!	on: 2006-02-12 23:38:16
Updated... No sound, but improved gameplay -see x30ice & darkprophet remarks -

Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: Worms 4K!!

on: 2006-02-11 23:01:52

Quote from: jbanes on 2006-02-09 23:07:55

The quintessential example of sampled sound in a 4K game is Defender 4000. The key parts of the source code are as follows:

The code above will produce very "electronic" sounds, but it's SMALL. You can make the sounds more natural by computing them in a sine wave (I assume you're probably doing this already), but it does cost something in code size. The other limitation is that only one sound can be played at a given time. Any new sounds wait up to a quarter of a second to play and may be supplanted by other sounds.

Hope this helps!

Here is what I've done :

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byte[] audioData = new byte[10000];
                        
boolean silence = true;      
for (int i=0 ; i<8000 ; i++) {
    while(rand.nextInt() % 10 != 0) {
        audioData[i] = silence ? 0 : (byte)Math.abs(rand.nextInt() % (int)(1. + 63. * (1. + Math.cos(((double)i) * Math.PI / 8000.))));
        i++;            
    }
    silence = !silence;
}

AudioFormat audioFormat = new AudioFormat(8000f, 8, 1, false, false);
Clip clip = (Clip)AudioSystem.getLine(new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, audioFormat));
clip.open(new AudioInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(audioData), audioFormat, 10000));
clip.start();

And the result (with JoGa + 7zip)
Without sound : 3697 bytes
With sound : 4260 bytes

I won't use it in the final version, but it should be useful for someone else...

By the way, I encountered a strange problem with proGuard... My 'proguarded' code seems to use a lot more CPU than the normal version (5/10% >> 100%)... Is it a common problem?

15	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: Worms 4K!!	on: 2006-02-09 22:42:23
Quote from: Anon666 on 2006-02-09 19:45:14 Sound doesn't work properly here anyway (Java1.5_04, Win2K) The first time it plays, it sounds fine. 2nd time there is a little static, but no audible sfx, Every time after that you just get silence. Arghhh... I tried it on several computers, and it worked fine each time (except that there is a little static after each explosion), I personally use 1.5.0_06-b05 under XP... I'll try to add some notes about sound in the javaunlimited.net wiki as soon as I'll be able to find how to reduce its size (Silence gave me 500 more bytes )

16	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2006 / Re: Worms 4K!!	on: 2006-02-09 09:25:25
I finally found back my password (Last post in 2003?)... Seems that W4K needs still need some work... I made a stupid mistake (used jdk5.0 to compile with a -source/target 1.4), and I used a function that does not exist in JDK1.4 -AudioSystem.getClip()-. The reflective method needed to get a Clip in JDK1.4 is way too costy (+200 bytes) and I don't want to use sun.audio package as it's not a standard package, so I'll probably have to remove explosion sound That will give me some bytes for further gameplay improvment Short answers : - Frozen Bubble is not my game, I just made the J2SE port and the J2ME port (microFB) - Red cross is harder to see than a white one... I'll try to make it blink (As I said, I now have some spare bytes The version -without sound- should be available next Monday -- Glenn

17	Games Center / Archived Projects / Frozen Bubble	on: 2003-04-18 08:18:43
An applet (java 1.1) version of Frozen Bubble is now available at : http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/ original Perl/SDL version is still available at : http://www.frozen-bubble.org Have fun

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