Super Swap

[mwarner]

Hello Everyone, this is my first post, but I have read a lot on here.

This is a game I have been working on for a little bit recently, there is still lots to add, but I hope you enjoy it.

Controls: WASD or Arrow keys to move. At random intervals the keys will swap, so W will go forward, but after swapping will go back. Red tiles kill you, purple are stars and the gold is the finish.
When you finish a level, press escape to go to the next one.

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5a6xy0agig782a/super-swap-0-0-3.jar



Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas / improvements.

Thanks, Max

[Gjallar]

Hey, solid game you have there! Worked flawlessly, just took me a while to find out that "Escape" gets the game to start

Time: 0:41
Stars: 3
Deaths: 0
Score: 7180
 

[mwarner]

Thanks! I will add a notice on it now, great score!

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[mwarner]

Also just added 2 more levels. When you finish a level, click escape and it will take you to the next one!

[kpars]

Are you going to add some basic textures soon, or is the look intended to be minimalistic.

Also, what library are you making this in?

[mwarner]

Are you going to add some basic textures soon, or is the look intended to be minimalistic.

Also, what library are you making this in?

I am using LibGDX to make it.
I am planning on adding better textures, but 1) I am not very good at art and 2) I am not sure how to make them better, while still keeping it quite simple.

[Troncoso]

If you have photoshop (or some other image editor more advanced than paint (GIMP is free)) you can easily do a bevel/emboss effect like this:



That took me all of like one minute.

[mwarner]

If you have photoshop (or some other image editor more advanced than paint (GIMP is free)) you can easily do a bevel/emboss effect like this:



That took me all of like one minute.

Okay thanks, at the moment I am using Paint.NET, but I will download Gimp and have a look. Thanks!

[kpars]

If you decide to do a more low-res game, you don't even have to add a filter.

Just do something similar to this:


I know it's hard to see, just paste it into Paint.NET and zoom in. If I resized it using JGO's resize-thingy, it would add anti-aliasing and make it blurry.

[Troncoso]

Haha. Yes, you could do your own bevel effect if you want to go more low res. Even if you don't, I believe Paint.net supports plugins to do different effects.

EDIT: A youtube tutorial on beveling text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4GaIYD88DQ

The same technique could be used for things besides text.

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[kpars]

Too bad us Pinta users don't have good plugin support

Pinta is an incredibly unstable Paint.NET port for Linux.

[mwarner]

Thanks for all your help! I have tried to do what you said, and it looks loads better. Thanks! I updated the download with the better graphics.

[kpars]

Are you setting the colors of the images in the code, or are you making separate images?

[mwarner]

Are you setting the colors of the images in the code, or are you making separate images?

I am using an external tilesheet.

[Troncoso]

That looks pretty good. Now you just need a background. And maybe make the stars...you know....stars? Haha.

[mwarner]

That looks pretty good. Now you just need a background. And maybe make the stars...you know....stars? Haha.

Hahaha, the stars aren't very 'starsy' I will do that now!

[kpars]

There's a basic concrete floor texture

EDIT: EEEK! Sorry, I accidentally made that 17x17 and not 16x16.
Fixed.

[mwarner]

Added a star. And updated download

Thanks for all your help!

[Drenius]

Cant start the game now...

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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(JarRsrcLoa der.java:58) Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: Method org.lwjgl.openal.ALC10.nalcGetStr ing(JI)Ljava/lang/String; name or signature does not match         at org.lwjgl.openal.ALC10.initNativeStubs(Native Method)         at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.init(AL.java:157)         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: 70)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.<init>(LwjglApplicat ion.java:82)         at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.<init>(LwjglApplicat ion.java:64)         at com.thocro.swap.Main.main(Main.java:15)         ... 5 more

[mwarner]

I added my own floor texture, what do you think?

There's a basic concrete floor texture

EDIT: EEEK! Sorry, I accidentally made that 17x17 and not 16x16.
Fixed.

I also added yours, however it doesn't tile great, but Thanks!

Which do you prefer?

[Drenius]

Second one, or the first, but much darker.

[mwarner]

Cant start the game now...

Okay sorry, I am not sure what is causing that, it works fine on my windows 7 machine. I will have a google

EDIT: It looks like it is a problem in the LibGDX LWJGL backends

[kpars]

The beveling on yours make it stand out too much.
It's a floor texture, it should go unnoticed.

I flipped the bevel over and made it darker a bit. Here's the result:

[mwarner]

Been messing about with it, how about this?

[Drenius]

Yeah, thats ok.

[kpars]

That works. Try flipping the image vertically, I kinda want to see the result

[mwarner]

That works. Try flipping the image vertically, I kinda want to see the result

There you are

[Drenius]

Er... is there a big difference?

[mwarner]

Er... is there a big difference?

Not really, but it kinda looks like it is going in now, instead of coming out? I am not sure why kpars wanted to see?

[kpars]

Great! You should also try flipping it horizontally too.

Because it isn't a 3D game you have to come up with a good way to show depth. If you imagine this same game in 3D space, the Y of the floor is lower than the Y of the walls. If there was lighting you would see a bit of shadow on the floor. That's why the bevel is a bit important. The floor is supposed to have what looks like a shadow from the wall.

^Sorry if that was a bit difficult to understand.