no errors
you could remove the static stars and move them at different speed to make it more spacy

Ran very smooth, very clean, no problems, glitches or annoyances. Keep it up.

OS X 10.3.1 Java 1.4.2 DP1

Ran ok, felt mighty slow though.

Worked very well for me, there was an occasional white flash, but appart from that, looking good!

System:

java RTE 1.4.1_01

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cool, thanks!

Yeah, one of my first thoughts was to have the ship destination set by mouse click, but I haven't gone as far as working out the "when to rotate, when to move forward" and any other physics.  WOuld be nice to have it completely mouse driven, with the occasional trip to the keyboard to enter numbers for trades/purchases/etc...

It is now an executable jar!

I know it is not your fault, blame windows but when hitting the shift key in rapid succession 5 times brings up the "sticky keys" alert in Windows.

This dumps you back to the desktop and it seems that you cannnot get back to the game

It may be necessary to get some jini to disable this 'feature'.

thanks moogie and kev...the shift key, right now, switchs from regular speed to high speed.  This will be changed to another type of control(nums across top maybe) when I complete the startshipcomponent and starshipengine classes.


thanks again!

M

Rotation is done with Graphics2D's AffineTransform...



The actual rotation calc may end up in the server later on.


Actually there was a Galaxy Traders 5, it was a 640*480 applet with a 400*400 canvas with very simple 2d graphics.  It is no longer up and running, though it did have a decent player base, or at least what I thought was one.  600+ players in the database with an average of 10-12 online at a time with peaks at 15+ and lows of 1-2.

Galaxy Traders 4 was a Browser based game(like a lot of the space trade comabt clones out there). It was originally titled Starship Traders 4, but at release time the guy hosting it for me discovered someone was already using the name.

Startship Traders 3 was a text mud.(attmpeted to make this a BBS game on The Underground BBS)

Startship Traders 2 was a C64 slightly graphical single player game done in qbasic.

Startship Traders 1 was a table top game, using D&D's d20 system.

I have the server started, and would like any feedback you can provide.  Chat is real-time/multi, ship movement is server based but you can only see yourself.
Instuctions: http://www22.brinkster.com/mbowles/gt6/

Game jar: (should work :-/) http://www22.brinkster.com/mbowles/gt6/gt6.jar

Thanks a ton!

I get this message after a few seconds and then the game shuts down.

I have posted a new client. I apologize to those who signed up yesterday the 21st. My format file was overwritten so you guys will have to click the register button. Again this is not a huge update. Better network code, rotation of remote players now used locally(you should see others rotate as well as move in the x and y dirs), and an improved "docking" screen to show what is coming up.

Client version control is in place that notifies you when your client is out of date( I have not set up an auto download as of yet).

Again, just connecting, moving around a bit, clicking some of the control buttons and logging out is a great help on my end, thanks!!

Is there a schedule as to when the servers are up? I'd like to try your game, but recieve the "All known internet servers are offline" message.

Trade code nearly complete.  You can now buy and sell products at space stations and when you log out, any product/cargo you still have is saved.  You can pick up where you left off when you return.

Next stuffs:
-flesh out player skills and ship parts.
-add multiple sectors and flesh out some other stations so trade is a little more fun.
-work on weapons and shields...leading to limited combat
-gadgets...little things to add to your ship like scanners, cloaks, etc.
-begin planet development

Webstart link is in above post.

ouch.....uhmmm, I quit!

Points well takin on the non-mouse/keyboard only issues.  I decided to go with a keyboard only game so you could sit with your hands on the keyboard to play and they would never have to leave the keyboard.  Apparantly not the best solution.  :-/

BTW, I did post an instructions page on my website, which is available at the beginning of this thread.

As for the network code, its a byte array packet type thing that I borrowed through GNU and have spoken with the author.  His implementation allowed for some very neat usage that I liked and would take a while to circumvent.  It may very well be true that I am not implementing it well.  Many things seem instantaneous when the packet is created and sent immediatle when you fire off a command, but movement packets are sent once every frame.
The server takes these, which are speed and direction, and is continually computing your location.  Then, at an attempt to match framerate, the server sends a packet to each player for each player(in the same sector) with there location info.  I have not implemnted any dead reconing...it is purely, here is where things are from the server.  ANY tips would be greatly appreciated.

With the exception of the network issues below, I could revert back to my old login, which was its own Frame with textfields and buttons(very easy and intuitive) and I could add mouse usage (it already exists, just does a system println of x y location of cursor) will a small effort.  I may do this and get back with you guys.  I would love to have kevglasses networl smoothness in his miniadventure!

Thanks

That would be great! thanks!

My packets are going about 30 times a second!  And, as you saw from blahblahblah, it was a half second wait until his ship actually started moving.  

Client sends his move to client 30 times a second and server, calcs all moves, gets locations, then sends those to each client in the sector only if he can see him as well.

I have reverted to my old login frame so login/register should be a little easier and more intuitive.  No other mods to gui have been made yet.

I also noticed the "white screen."  I must have some class loaded graphics messed up.  When I run my jar that is in the webstart directory, I get the login, then a white screen, then my space screen.  When I run my local jar,  I get my "grpahics loading, please wait" screen and never get a white screen. hmmmmm