BOUNCE - 2D Platformer w/ destructable terrain

[supercapacitor]

A simple Minecraft-esque 2D platform game.
The storyline (if I had to give it one) centers on you, a circle, lost in an alien world of squares.
In order to escape you must make your way through 30 levels fighting bosses and hardcore parkouring along the way.


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZgczX-jmM6I?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ZgczX-jmM6I?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>
Download in Vid Description
 

Download (Newest Version - As of 14 March 2013) :
(Java 6) https://sites.google.com/site/bouncethegame/downloads/BOUNCE_LW.jar?attredirects=0&d=1






Rate. Comment. Post your own levels. Suggestions?

[sproingie]

Can't play it right now, but that is truly awesome looking.  Looks like a triumph of gameplay over graphics

[supercapacitor]

Haha, yeah thanks. I wanted to keep it simple (everything - even the bosses - made entirely out of blocks).
No OpenGL or LWJGL or anything.


By the way, I can't seem to figure out how to upload/browse for images  and embedding the YouTube video doesn't seem to work either. 

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[sproingie]

Should just be [ youtube ]SW6qslz3bok[ /youtube ] without the spaces.

[supercapacitor]

Oh ok thanks   

How do you upload images?

[Riven]

How do you upload images?

Use [My Files] in the header of the site.

[supercapacitor]

So I've uploaded an image to My Files. How do I include that in the post?
Sorry for being such a noob 

[Riven]

So I've uploaded an image to My Files. How do I include that in the post?

Click on the image link, copy the URL from the address bar, then do:

1	[img]http://............/my-image.jpg[/img]

Edit: oh, my upload feature is currently restriced to JARs
Please upload the images somewhere else, until I 'fix' it.

[The Cure]

The game idea is cool, i really liked the youtube vídeo. Anyway, I had a problem, sometimes when i'm stuck between the blocks, if i hold UP+LEFT or UP+RIGHT the ball pass through the blocks and go insane through the level (in level 1 it happened). Another thing, i think it's consuming too much CPU for a "simple" game,  in level 1 for example is about 25% on my core i5 2.6 GHZ. Maybe a problem with the gameloop.

[supercapacitor]

Yeah I have to work on the collision detection.

Did you have particles on? They do cause a lot of game lag.
I should probably include some sort of efficiency algorithm so that only certain blocks get updated each loop.

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[The Cure]

EDIT:

Yes and No. I first tried with particles, sound and textures ON and after i tried setting all OFF. I've got the same problem. Another thing, i don't know if it is purposeful, but if i fall and die in level 1 level 0, the game let me go to the level 2 level 1.

[supercapacitor]

The level you start out on is a randomly generated terrain (level 0). It doesn't really matter if you die or not.
I'll probably take it out.

[supercapacitor]

For some reason the image I posted isn't showing up as the screenshot 

[Jimmt]

Epic graphics, awesome particle effects. Great game!
Just shows that you don't (necessarily) need amazing graphics for it to be a good game. This actually reminds me of Mario as well as a cell phone(old) game also called bounce.
Very nice overall.

[supercapacitor]

Thanks, I am really proud of the particle effects code. I'll definitely reuse the classes in the future.

So, does anyone know how to add a thumbnail image to this topic?

[supercapacitor]

Does it? I can't see it on my screen...

[Jimmt]

nvm, i can't see it either...
try a .png maybe?

[supercapacitor]

Still nothing...

[Jimmt]

that's still a jpg

[supercapacitor]

Finally got it to work. Needed to be http not https 

[supercapacitor]

200 views and 20 posts w00t 

[sjk]

I'm only getting this:
"Could not find main class: gametemplate.Main. Program will exit."

[supercapacitor]

I've made a few changes and fixes. I'm uploading a new, light-weight version that does not include textures.
The new version has a more efficient algorithm for updating blocks so large level sizes can be supported.
Basically, I just divided the world into columns (chunks). Only those columns that are onscreen or affected by certain events get updated.
After a world (ArrayList<Block>) is loaded from a level file, the following method is called to process the world into columns (ArrayList<Block>[]):

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@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")    public static ArrayList<Block>[] createColumns(ArrayList<Block> world, int numberColumns) {       ArrayList<Block>[] columns;       columns = (ArrayList<Block>[])new ArrayList[numberColumns];       for(int i = 0; i < numberColumns; i++) {          columns[i] = new ArrayList<Block>();       }       for(int i = 0; i < world.size(); i++) {          Block block = world.get(i);          ArrayList<Block> column = columns[block.xPos / 20];          column.add(block);          columns[block.xPos / 20] = column;       }       return columns;    }

As a result, the game runs much faster.

Download for the new, light-weight version https://sites.google.com/site/bouncethegame/downloads/BOUNCE_LW.jar?attredirects=0

[supercapacitor]

Working on more particle effects and maybe a multiplayer mode.

[Jimmt]

If you're gonna make multiplayer, make coop!

[supercapacitor]

New Version! Lots of changes, fixes, and additions.


- Collisions have been fixed  (you don't glitch into blocks and fly off screen).

- New particles, block/other "textures", player now has hands and feet (no purpose besides appearance).

- Some edits to the menu.


Overall, graphics and game physics are a lot better. No multiplayer (coop) yet though.

Download (see first post)

[supercapacitor]

Added Lava.

[supercapacitor]

Decided to pick this up again:
-Added spreadable fire (it's a pretty nice effect in my opinion, check it out  https://sites.google.com/site/bouncethegame/downloads/BOUNCE_LW.jar?attredirects=0&d=1)
-Implementing lightning soon 

[supercapacitor]

Doing a complete overhaul of the current code (Almost done, just a few bugs to fix).
Hoping the new version will be more fast-paced and epic!

[TheGDeveloper]

really addictive