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Offline ra4king

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« Reply #90 on: 2011-12-13 15:19:59 »
18 minutes?! Shocked It's only a 4MB jar file and I have an upload speed of 1-4Mbps :/
On the slow internet at my school, it downloads in ~2-3 minutes. I'll try to shrink the jar, maybe it's my usage of WAV sound files.....
I have received a lot of complaints about sounds not working in Linux, so I'll end up using OGG over WAV and that might reduce the size of the jar A LOT.

The freezing is unexplainable. It has worked for me on Windows and all the Macs that I have tried at the Apple Store. Maybe you get an exception?

For presentation, I agree. My choice of font/color might not be best so I'll try to improve those Smiley

The game is mainly for people who want an almost exact experience of Doodle Jump but on their computers, plus I suck at art Tongue

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« Reply #91 on: 2011-12-13 15:55:28 »
Maybe try using Paul Lamb Sound Library with one of its OpenAL plugin or the simple line mixer to work around your sound problems on Linux.

I get this:
java.io.IOException: Error loading clip: jar:http://ra4king.is-a-geek.net/games/JDoodleJump/JDoodleJump.jar!/res/sounds/jump.wav: javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException: line with format PCM_SIGNED 44100.0 Hz, 16 bit, stereo, 4 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported.
   at a.v.b(Sound.java:26)
   at a.v.a(Sound.java:1)
   at a.b.a(Assets.java:25)
   at a.c.run(Assets.java:126)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
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« Reply #92 on: 2011-12-13 17:13:21 »
Yep that's the error a lot of people get. I don't want to sign my jar files so I'll use an OGG plugin for JavaSound.

By the way, I looked and my images are 2MB and sound files are 3MB! Converting the WAV files to OGG shrinked them all to 1MB. Yay Smiley
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« Reply #93 on: 2011-12-13 17:13:55 »
Quote from: ra4king on 2011-12-13 15:19:59
18 minutes?! Shocked It's only a 4MB jar file and I have an upload speed of 1-4Mbps :/
On the slow internet at my school, it downloads in ~2-3 minutes. I'll try to shrink the jar, maybe it's my usage of WAV sound files.....
I have received a lot of complaints about sounds not working in Linux, so I'll end up using OGG over WAV and that might reduce the size of the jar A LOT.

The freezing is unexplainable. It has worked for me on Windows and all the Macs that I have tried at the Apple Store. Maybe you get an exception?

For presentation, I agree. My choice of font/color might not be best so I'll try to improve those Smiley

The game is mainly for people who want an almost exact experience of Doodle Jump but on their computers, plus I suck at art Tongue

Thanks!!
Yeah that is a very long time. If another judge has a better experience I don't mind them changing that 0 to a 1 and bumping you to featured.
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« Reply #94 on: 2011-12-13 17:15:24 »
Hm every time I try again it stays paused permanently on Mac OS X with Chrome (no clicking or button presses will fix it), I must reload.
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« Reply #95 on: 2011-12-13 17:59:16 »
4MB sounds really large for a game of this size.  It looks like by far, most of your jar is images and sounds.  For sounds, switching to ogg will help a lot, and/or load the sounds off the server will reduce the initial jar's size.  You could also shrink your sound quality, as 44Khz stereo audio is probably overkill for this game.  For the images, do they really need to be 32-bit color?

You could also lazy load the themes when the user presses 'S' to shrink the game jar.

All that said, the game itself looks great, just slow to load (about 2 minutes of spinning Java logo here).
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« Reply #96 on: 2011-12-13 18:14:11 »
Lazy loading of themes is genius!! Thanks a ton for that idea! Smiley

EDIT: Default theme + OGG sound files = 1.3MB Cheesy
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« Reply #97 on: 2011-12-13 18:32:54 »
Have you compressed the images with pngcrush, or some kind of online service like smush.it?
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« Reply #98 on: 2011-12-13 18:36:33 »
No I have never heard of those, thanks for the link.
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« Reply #99 on: 2011-12-13 18:53:29 »
Just a reminder, as an alternative to storing sound files, you can generate the music on the fly.

http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/ogg-vorbis-is-a-red-herring/25105/msg/215412/view.html#msg215412

FM has tremendous possibilities, imho. The above is one of the most compact implementations I've ever seen. Sound effects like the "ray guns" in my WarOfWorlds audio mixer sound demo are very lightweight, and low latency.
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« Reply #100 on: 2011-12-13 19:19:25 »
Thanks for the link, I already have that page bookmarked for future references Tongue
However, those sound files are the closest to the actual Doodle Jump sounds. Using PNGCRUSH and lazy loading, Default theme + OGG files are now 1.2MB instead of the previous total 5MB!! Thanks a ton guys!
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« Reply #101 on: 2011-12-13 19:51:24 »
Now for last, write the code in four kay style Tongue
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