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It looks like they've taken the "Projects selected by CollabCamp" thing off the homepage.  Do you guys want to continue working on this (or maybe instead make a Xenon-affiliated thing using the platforming base we already have)?

EDIT: 11 pages!

Last edited by amcerbu (2012-04-24 23:10:36)

Thank you for moving this to Collaboration, anonymous moderator!

@Hardmath123: Could you work on this? You made the trailer, so it should be easiest for you to do it.

applejack wrote:

Um...
Because I haven't really had time to do the scenes yet, can we maybe adapt Hardmath123's trailer to show the storyline? Like have the words from the storyline appear insread of the features? We could have the powerups move along in the background. I think that I should work on the powerups in little circles, for now, and make them 20x20. Does that sound okay? Sorry, I have major testing this week. 

I think we decided to change the story a bit when we changed how the gameplay would work:  You're a note who has managed to escape from the music score of an evil composer.  You have to liberate all your fellow notes, and within a time limit.  Collecting powerups can extend time, make time slower, give you powers to collect notes, etc. 

Another thing I kind of forgot: We should also put in some hazards.  They can be implemented the same way as powerups, but make you restart the level.  For example: accents could be like bombs, sharps could be spikes (creative, haha), etc.

Made 3 more.

applejack wrote:

3 tasty and delicious powerups. Sorry they took so long to make.    You can see the problem I had in the notes.

Nice idea! I'll go make some spikey sharps now. 

amcerbu wrote:

Nice!  I was thinking that accent powerup might be a spring/jump block.

Interesting.  You're probably right.  I'm pretty sure game designers are pretty stingy when it comes to memory for portable devices.  No inefficient programming.

applejack wrote:

Yeah, you have to make sure you release anything you retain, and check very carefully for memory leaks.

Oh, you reminded me! I wanted to ask you a question. I want to make an array of views with sub views that are image views, so I can stick the tileset for my game into each one and position them to have the tile I want centered in the center of the view. I can figure out all the math n' stuff, but I would like to ask you if you could help me with the programatical addition of the view array n' stuff. Thanks!

Oh, and I'm always having to work around my calculators limitations of memory and speed. You have to have lots of room in order to make a game like Pokemon Blue, and include the overworld data.

Oh, another thing!!! I feel so special for figuring this out, but you can make a super-fast (for a calculator running interpreted code) scroller, where you can move around text! You just need to select segments of a really long string! If you need more of an explanation, please ask me. I've made a scroller on the homescreen, And could adapt to make a scroller for the graphing screen.

Good luck on your tests! School ends on next Wednesday for me, but then I go on vacation! D:

I broke your post up so I could respond to it. 

About the array stuff.  From what I can see, you want to make a list of tilesets, right?  So just make a class tileset + some other classes (apologies for C# syntax, I don't know Obj-C)...

class Tile
{
    // Constructor
    Tile(tileType Type)
    {
        loadContent(Type);
    }    

    // Stores different types of tiles
    public enum tileType
    {
        empty = 0,
        grass,
        earth,
        water,
        stone,
        spike,
        etc.
    }
    
    // Fetches appropriate image data, etc.
    private void loadContent(tileType Type)
    {
        // Code for fetching stuff
    }
}

// Stores tile data, and images of tiles to be sent to screen
class TileSet
{
    public static short WIDTH = 20;
    public static short HEIGHT = 15;
    
    public Tile[][] Level = new Tile[WIDTH][HEIGHT]();
    
    private const byte[][] LevelData = { /* Put level stuff here */ };

    void initialize()
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < this.WIDTH; ++i)
        {
            for(int j = 0; j < this.HEIGHT; ++j)
            {
                this.Level[i][j].loadContent((Tile.tileType)this.LevelData[i][j]);
            }
        }
    }
}

// Stores a bunch of TileSets
class GroupTileSets
{
    public static short NUMBER_LEVELS = 5;
    public TileSet[] GroupLevels = new TileSet[NUMBER_LEVELS]();
}

This code is probably full of mistakes, but hopefully you get the idea.

Yes, so am I.  I tried writing Tetris, and it failed.  Miserably.  Although I did learn that plots render very quickly. 

Let me guess... you use the sub(str, start, length) on an insanely long string, make length a constant representing the width of the screen, and change start with the x position of the player?  I love making apps for the graph screen.  I made an analog clock. 

Wow, long post.

--amcerbu

As far as I can tell, max string length is variable, and depends on the free memory of the calculator. Time to give you some sample code! 

:1->K
:
:While K/=45
:
:If getKey/=0
:Then
:
:If K=25
:
:If K=34
:
:If K=24
:
:If K=26
:
:
:For(I,1,8)
:Output(I,1,sub(Str1,X(R-3)+(C-7)+X(I-1),16
:End
:
:Output(4,8,"A"

X is the width of the big picture you're scrolling around in, that goes beyonnd the edges of the screen. R is the row of your character (in this case, an "A," because I usually use thetas, but those are going to be Poke-balls. A looks kinda like you have a head.  ) C is the columb of your character. I is just the increment. This is just a very light version of the engine. You will get a Dim error if you scroll too far. 

Oh darn, I forgot to add the moving code after all the ifs. Just know that they are in the order of up, down, left, and right! 

Last edited by applejack (2012-05-16 01:18:35)

Yay! New and improved.

:1->K
:
:While K/=45
:GetKey->K
:
:If K/=0
:Then
:
:If K=25 and sub(Str1,X(R-1)+C,1)=" "
:R-1->R
:If K=34 and sub(Str1,X(R+1)+C,1)=" "
:R+1->R
:If K=24 and sub(Str1,XR+C-1,1)=" "
:C-1->C
:If K=26 and sub(Str1,XR+C+1,1)=" "
:C+1->C
:
:For(I,1,8)
:Output(I,1,sub(Str1,X(R-3)+(C-7)+X(I-1),16
:End
:Output(4,8,"8"
:End

X is the width of the big picture you're scrolling around in, that goes beyonnd the edges of the screen. R is the row of your character (in this case, an "8" because I usually use thetas, but those are going to be Poke-balls. /= meand not equal to. If I am supposed to write it a different way, please tell me!    You only use the graph screen? D: How are you supposed to use input( and prompt? D: Menu(?

Yeah... *applejack can't wait until amcerbu's finals are over* *applejack has honors geometry final on tuesday*

Hello guys. I've seen music marathon, and it was truly amazing, especially the physics. Would any of you like to participate in this collab? You guys seem great at games and have substantial math, and graphics skills, all of which would be extremely useful. Thanks, Fun_Planet

As a BID (bump-in-disguise), I shall share an equasion to find the intercept of two lines, y=mx+b, and y=Mx+B (normally I would have subscripts, but I don't want to go to the trouble of copy/pasting them in):

((b-B)/(M-m),m(b-B)/(M-m)+b)

Yay, I like to make equasions. This equasion would come in handy if you wanted to, uh, find the intercept of two lines, maybe. I feel like making one to find the intercept of a ray and a plane now.