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Offline ahristov

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« on: 2007-01-13 12:48:54 »
Hi there!

Here is my first entry to the 4K contest.... It's a remake of the old Pipe Dreams... Any suggestions and criticisms are welcome. It includes a micro sound effect (but if audio initialization fails it will proceed without using it), but I preferred to invest bytecodes in the game mechanics and visuals rather than in sound.

This is the first 4K program I wrote, ever, and I came upon quite a few surprises. I hope to improve with my next entries, which will be more action oriented :-)

Webstart  : http://www.ahristov.com/tubedreams/tubedreams.jnlp
Instructions : http://www.ahristov.com/tubedreams/

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Offline nva225

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« Reply #1 on: 2007-01-13 14:35:42 »
Err it tried to make me download java 1.5.0_08 to run it... why is this necessary? I have 1.6, should be backwards compatible...
Offline ahristov

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« Reply #2 on: 2007-01-13 14:44:56 »
Oopps.. Must have messed the JNLP file. Seems I wrote 1.5.0 instead of 1.5+. I'll fix it in a moment.
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Offline toasten

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« Reply #3 on: 2007-01-13 16:48:47 »
Idea is fine, but u should really consider running it at less then "100%" CPU, as my PC got unusable when i played it.   Undecided
Something like Thread.sleep(1) should do.
Offline woogley

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« Reply #4 on: 2007-01-13 17:11:18 »
Thread.yield(), even

nice game, I'm not quite smart enough though (I faulter under time pressure Wink)
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« Reply #5 on: 2007-01-14 04:51:02 »
Ok, fixed it, although I had to remove an effect because of the increased bytecode size :-(  I  don't notice any difference in the computers I'm trying it, though (it gets at most about 45% of CPU usage on WinXP + Java 5)... Could you please test it again now? It's currently yielding for 30ms on each game iteration.
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Offline nullterm

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« Reply #6 on: 2007-01-14 07:51:17 »
It's still running at 50% on my machine WinXP.  Which means the thread is still running at full capacity given that my Pentium 4 has hyper-threading (dual hardware threads).

Maybe Thread.sleep(30); instead?

Cool game BTW.  My girlfriend suggested a pipedreams remake, but you already executed on it perfectly.
Offline toasten

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« Reply #7 on: 2007-01-14 12:22:59 »
Still Running at 100% CPU, but the Rest of my PC is still usable, so it works  Smiley

Maybe you could save some bytes, when removing the "link"-Text at the Bottom of the game  Grin
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