Fall And Blocks

[asphaltgalaxy]

Hello!

Just created my second game, it's a 3billionth Tetris clone: 'Fall And Blocks'.



Applet is here:
http://asphaltgalaxy.com/test2/fallandblocks.html

Features:

• Global score
• 4 sizes of board
• 3 next shape view modes

Few words about me:

I am new to Java, but not so new to programming (working mostly with Oracle databases/forms/reports). I am reading this forum for several months, and found it very useful. Just do little more searching and your problem is solved

I got problems with graphics (mean artwork), since I cannot draw. Thanks to modern drawing programs and their tutorials, I can do some very basic art.

[ra4king]

Nice! I loved the effects and the smooth transitions, makes for an overall polished feel. Actually quite amazing for a graphics beginner! Keep up the great work

[ReBirth]

The applet has earphones on it so it doesn't listen to my keyevent.

hint: I clicked the applet.

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[asphaltgalaxy]

Nice! I loved the effects and the smooth transitions, makes for an overall polished feel. Actually quite amazing for a graphics beginner! Keep up the great work

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[asphaltgalaxy]

The applet has earphones on it so it doesn't listen to my keyevent.

hint: I clicked the applet.

Hmmm. What OS r u using? I noticed some problems on some (tested on 2 actually ) Linux distros. On one of them I just refreshed webpage with applet and everything went ok (without additional click on applet).

So, where to start?

Class where listener is looks like:

1	public class Board extends JPanel implements ActionListener, Runnable {

And the listener itself in this class is:

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private class TAdapter extends KeyAdapter {                     public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {             int key = e.getKeyCode();             switch (gamestate) {                 case RUNNING: {                     switch (key) {                         case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT: {                             shape.MoveDirection(blockboard, BlockShape.Direction.LEFT);                             break;                         }                         ...

Where could be a problem?

[ReBirth]

Well your code seems fine especially other user could try it (although I usually extends Applet instead container). I use win7 with firefox 9. I have noscript installed but already whitelisted your site. If I have to find the culprit, will blame jre7 or my browser

[asphaltgalaxy]

And what about other applets? Is it ok with them on your machine?

[Grunnt]

It looks good: the artwork is very colorful, and the animations are good-looking too. However, it stuttered a bit on my (admittedly not so recent) laptop. Perhaps it's generating a bit of "garbage"? Dunno, but the stuttering seems to happen like every second.

[Mads]

Nice game! I had a little bit of problems wi/ the speed at which blocks drop when pressing down - I'd like it just a little bit faster.
Also, there might be a problem with the timing of this.. Maybe it's just me.

I beat the highscore by one point, by the way. 

[ReBirth]

@OP
other applet work fine, all game on java4k, ludum dare and my own. I cleared my browser cache and it works. Weird that it has something to do

@Mads
Ienvy for your free time

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[Shazer2]

Very well done! I'm impressed. This is inspirational for a beginner like me!

~Shazer2

[asphaltgalaxy]

Thanks all of you! Really appreciate every response! It's so motivating.

@Mads

I beat the highscore by one point, by the way.  persecutioncomplex

Hmm... I also noticed hi score with max integer value and your name by side. How did you do that, what were your steps? I mean is it so easy and natural to insert fake score? Sure, I did nothing to prevent that, but there wasn't form like 'input your name and desired high score', anyway someone should at least know, what page to call. I read some threads here about this topic and all I understood, it is close to impossible to make 100% secure functionality. I really need your opinion.

@Grunnt

However, it stuttered a bit on my (admittedly not so recent) laptop. Perhaps it's generating a bit of "garbage"?

Tested on Celeron 1.4 single core old notebook with Win XP and there was less than 25% cpu usage and memory usage was like constant. So, how could I check whats wrong?

[Grunnt]

@Grunnt

However, it stuttered a bit on my (admittedly not so recent) laptop. Perhaps it's generating a bit of "garbage"?

Tested on Celeron 1.4 single core old notebook with Win XP and there was less than 25% cpu usage and memory usage was like constant. So, how could I check whats wrong?

I guess I was mistaken because I just tried it again and it went pretty smooth. Perhaps something on the background was causing the stuttering. Normally you can check for garbage generation using a profiler such as Oracle's VisualVM (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/visualvm/profiler.html).

[ReBirth]

Hi OP, you said that you took tutorial to draw the graphics. Mind to share any good one?

[asphaltgalaxy]

Since I used Inkscape for game board background, so sharing here links to some Inkscape tutorials:

http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/suggest-a-tutorial/tutorial-list/
http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/

And exactly that one I used when was creating background for Fall And Blocks:
http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-fun-with-gradients.html

Hope it helps!

[ReBirth]

Bookmarked! thanks for the links I never use Inkscape, hope it'll no hard to pratice them on Paint.NET.

[Grunnt]

Actually, it's quite easy to combine InkScape and Paint.Net. For example, use InkScape to make a general outline, export it to a bitmap, and do the finishing touch in Paint.Net.

[ReBirth]

I downloaded the inkscape to make life easier

[asphaltgalaxy]

That's cool! Now, waiting for results