Pixel Towers - Android / Desktop Game

[bach]

meh, new error:

Not a directory: ../pixeltower-android/assets/gfx
Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" java.lang.NullPointerException
   at com.thegreystudios.pixeltower.screen.SplashScreen.present(SplashScreen.java:86)
   at com.thegreystudios.pixeltower.Game.render(Game.java:38)
   at com.thegreystudios.pixeltower.PixelTower.render(PixelTower.java:26)
   at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:163)
   at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:113)

Sorry you're having troubles 

What kind of gfx card you got in there? The game needs shader support, so if it's a really old card / some intel onboard it might struggle with this. The point the code fails is when it tries to get a handle on the gl context. Should this be handled better in code? Yes absolutely

Sorry, I haven't had much time yet so far to polish up the desktop version.. It was just quickly packed up so that more people can have a look at the game. I'll hope to clean things up a bit more very soon.

Cheers,
Stefan

[gbeebe]

It's an onboard video card in my linux machine     I installed in on my Acer A500 tablet, it works great on it.  My 5yo son likes it.  A few questions though:  When the people move, the appear to be "animated" so they aren't 1x3 pixel sprites are they?  What does it mean when it says "slow down"?  Did I manage to get a power up, or is it telling me I'm going too fast?

[bach]

It's an onboard video card in my linux machine     I installed in on my Acer A500 tablet, it works great on it.  My 5yo son likes it.  A few questions though:  When the people move, the appear to be "animated" so they aren't 1x3 pixel sprites are they?  What does it mean when it says "slow down"?  Did I manage to get a power up, or is it telling me I'm going too fast?

Hey,

Thanks so much for checking it out!

The little people are actually only 3 pixels, but the bottom "leg" pixel is changing colours slightly which might give it the appearance of actually being animated.

All the power ups are colour coded. So if you get a coloured block it means you get a power up. The purple one is the "Slow Down" which means the crane slows down and doesn't move as fast.

Cheers,
Bach

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[bach]

Just a quick post to let you know that the Pixel Tower's tune is now also available for purchase from Gavin Harrison's Bandcamp. This is a great opportunity to support Indie Games Music!

In style of the rest of Pixel Towers it's completely up to you how much and if you'd like to pay for the track.

Here's the link: http://gavinharrisonsounds.bandcamp.com/track/pixel-towers

Cheers,
Bach

[Eli Delventhal]

Looks very awesome. Smart mechanic.

[bach]

Looks very awesome. Smart mechanic.

Thank you

[c0smic]

Just got this for my Droid X running CyanogenMod, and it's great.  Like everyone else has said, great style, sound and keeps you interested!  It's great to see something using libgdx, I want to be using that myself very soon

[Danny02]

seems as if libgdx is bugged
I' running on ubuntu 64bit and it fails when it trys to load

/tmp/libgdx/848365368/liblwjgl.so

when it of course only had unpacked

/tmp/libgdx/848365368/liblwjgl64.so

[ra4king]

Seems like you're using libgdx stable, try the nightlies.

[davidllanos22]

It works fine on my Galaxy Ace , android 2.3.3 I've played a lot today, it's addictive! And I just looove how it looks! Good work!

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[jammas615]

Crashes on my htc legend... its a terrible phone.

[R.D.]

Works on a Samsung Galaxy S Plus. Nice game, but I don't like the choppy camera

[CaptainJester]

Good game. I like the graphics. It works on my son's Coby tablet (Android 2.3).

[bach]

Wow, thanks for the love guys!

Crashes on my htc legend... its a terrible phone.

Yea sorry that phone is probably a tad too old for the game. Though I didn't expect it to just crash..

[charlieg]

Fun little game, although not sure whether the little peeps are supposed to regularly clean their windows!

[RaverGames]

The game dont start on my PC.

Windows 7 Enterprice x64
ATI HD 5770
4x2.9 ghz amd cpu
4 gb Ram

Java 7 runtime 64 bit and Java 6 32 bit installed.

Console:

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C:\Users\RaverGames\Desktop>java -jar PixelTowers1.0.4.jar Not a directory: ..\pixeltower-android\assets\gfx Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)         at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58) Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: Method org.lwjgl.openal.AL10.nalGetIntegerv(IJ)V name or signature does not match         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL10.initNativeStubs(Native Method)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.init(AL.java:156)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:138)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:102)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:201)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.openal.OpenALAudio.<init>(OpenALAudio.java:80)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.openal.OpenALAudio.<init>(OpenALAudio.java:68)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.<init>(LwjglApplication.java:78)         at com.thegreystudios.pixeltower.PixelTowerDesktop.main(PixelTowerDesktop.java:31)         ... 5 more

[bach]

Fun little game, although not sure whether the little peeps are supposed to regularly clean their windows!

Hehe, of course they are!

[bach]

The game dont start on my PC.

Windows 7 Enterprice x64
ATI HD 5770
4x2.9 ghz amd cpu
4 gb Ram

Java 7 runtime 64 bit and Java 6 32 bit installed.

Console:

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C:\Users\RaverGames\Desktop>java -jar PixelTowers1.0.4.jar Not a directory: ..\pixeltower-android\assets\gfx Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)         at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58) Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: Method org.lwjgl.openal.AL10.nalGetIntegerv(IJ)V name or signature does not match         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL10.initNativeStubs(Native Method)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.init(AL.java:156)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:138)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:102)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:201)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.openal.OpenALAudio.<init>(OpenALAudio.java:80)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.openal.OpenALAudio.<init>(OpenALAudio.java:68)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.<init>(LwjglApplication.java:78)         at com.thegreystudios.pixeltower.PixelTowerDesktop.main(PixelTowerDesktop.java:31)         ... 5 more

I'm not sure what would cause this, hmm. Strange indeed

[Mordan]

Hello,

Downloaded. Extracted on my PC desktop. Run it. Played it!

Great game with nice music.

There is an annoying problem though. When you double click the mouse during play, the game ends and goes straight back the the menu. really sucks when in the heat of the game because of a mis double-click.

happens to me most of the time. and you lose your highscore screen..

I would also like a Up and Down scrolling of my tower during the highscore and why not an export to JPG

[AidanHallahan]

This game is awesome and super fun! I got great joy out of this game, and I like it so much im going to keep it in my Applications folder, this one is awesome!

[Braddas]

For some reason I was expecting this to be some sort of tower management sim, but this is way more fun. What made you get rid of the paid version?

[bach]

For some reason I was expecting this to be some sort of tower management sim, but this is way more fun. What made you get rid of the paid version?

Hey,

we got rid of the paid version because of tax reasons .. There are some internal company changes happening, so unfortunately we had to do it.

Thanks for checking it out!

Cheers,
Bach

[ReBirth]

Tax? Tax for beer?!! for donate?!!!!!

[masteryoom]

This is actually a really addictive game! Good job!

[bach]

Tax? Tax for beer?!! for donate?!!!!!

Haha, yea - well unfortunately this wasn't done by choice

Bach

[bach]

This is actually a really addictive game! Good job!

Thank you 

[java_dude]

Hi,

I've just tried your game and I like it! Great visual style!

Actually, I was wondering how you coded the -lovely- little sprites.
Are they real 2D sprites done in a graphic software, or are they Java-coded using colors and pixels?

Thanks!

[bach]

Hi,

I've just tried your game and I like it! Great visual style!

Actually, I was wondering how you coded the -lovely- little sprites.
Are they real 2D sprites done in a graphic software, or are they Java-coded using colors and pixels?

Thanks!

Thanks

Yea everything is pixeled in Photoshop/GraphicsGale. Thanks for checking it out!

Cheers,
Bach

[java_dude]

Thank you for your reply.
Really cool game/concept

[JackOfHearts]

How did you manage to pack all the java data into a single .jar file? I'm trying to do that with my Java applet game, but I'm having some trouble.