Drift Driver 4K

[kevglass]

Game is totally cool!

Unfortunately the HTML5 locked up Firefox for me - thats not unusual tho

Cheers,

Kev

[ra4king]

Applet = 4K, Javascript = 50K....Java wins

Both run fine for me in Google Chrome. However, I could never beat level 6 :S

[Mickelukas]

Level 6 was doable after I stopped always pushing down the gas pedal when drifting, level 7 with 1000 points needed and driving on ice got a bit too ridiculous.

One comment, it seems like the area you're allowed to drive on before losing your points when drifting always is the same even though the track gets smaller. That causes confusion as you don't know exactly when to stop drifting due to getting to close to the secret border.

Mike

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[theagentd]

Stuck at level 10 here... >_<

[jojoh]

Great game as always from you.

Really nice feel, pretty much like last years contribution, but much more fun gameplay!
Unfortunately I can not start level 4 because of this:

Exception in thread "Thread-16" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
   at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(DataBufferInt.java:41)
   at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Raster.java:458)
   at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(DirectColorModel.java:1015)
   at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.<init>(BufferedImage.java:315)
   at A.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)


This is on OS X Lion, Java 1.6   

Couldn't use handbreak either on OS X. HTML5 seems to work fine though.

Will play that now! 

[Azulon]

Pretty fun! Got to level 5 and tried it about 3 times and gave up.

I am always bad at driving games.

[Ranger]

One comment, it seems like the area you're allowed to drive on before losing your points when drifting always is the same even though the track gets smaller. That causes confusion as you don't know exactly when to stop drifting due to getting to close to the secret border.

Mike

No secret border.  If all 4 wheels go off the track, then your score for that drift is lost.  So you have to be more precise when the track gets narrow.

[Ranger]

Great game as always from you.

Really nice feel, pretty much like last years contribution, but much more fun gameplay!
Unfortunately I can not start level 4 because of this:

Exception in thread "Thread-16" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
   at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(DataBufferInt.java:41)
   at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Raster.java:458)
   at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(DirectColorModel.java:1015)
   at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.<init>(BufferedImage.java:315)
   at A.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)


This is on OS X Lion, Java 1.6   

The game does use a lot of memory (I create 2 2200x2200 RGB BufferedImages), however, it creates them on every level and throws away the old ones, so I'm at a loss as to why it would make it all the way to level 4 and then crash.  Might look at putting in some memory flags on the Java4K sites applet code if needed.

Couldn't use handbreak either on OS X. HTML5 seems to work fine though.

Now changed the handbreak to use the Shift key.

[Ranger]

I made levels 9 and 10 a little easier.  Game is now submitted!

http://www.java4k.com/index.php?action=games&method=view&gid=354

Thank you all so much for the excellent feedback.    And good luck everyone in the competition!  I always really enjoy programming for the Java4K comp.  

[StephR]

Good and quite original driving game. The gameplay improved a lot since the first version it was possible to test. It is now a real pleasure to control the car.

On level 5, I scored exactly 600/600, and it was not enough to finish the level. At least 601 seemed to be necessary.

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[Ranger]

Great game as always from you.

Really nice feel, pretty much like last years contribution, but much more fun gameplay!
Unfortunately I can not start level 4 because of this:

Exception in thread "Thread-16" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
   at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(DataBufferInt.java:41)
   at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Raster.java:458)
   at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(DirectColorModel.java:1015)
   at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.<init>(BufferedImage.java:315)
   at A.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)


This is on OS X Lion, Java 1.6  

Couldn't use handbreak either on OS X. HTML5 seems to work fine though.

Will play that now!  

Mac OutOfMemoryError should now be fixed.  I now make my buffered images global and reuse them - no clue why the Mac Java garbage collector didn't reclaim the memory.  

http://www.java4k.com/index.php?action=games&method=view&gid=354

Cheers.