Videogame I've made - please take a look - Eternal Allegiance

Chewie · 10-24-2002, 11:24 PM

Alright, finally I've finished this game I've been working on in my spare time for the past couple of months - I'm going to send it to a couple of games development companies soon as part of a job application. So I'm looking for as many people as possible to have a go of it and tell me what you think - and hey hopefully it should be fun too!

The game is similar to those snake games on mobile phones or the old 'nibbles' game but with extra features like snazzy backgrounds, a timer, points, lives and powerups. It's got 4 difficulty levels too and if anyone can beat it on guru level I'll be extremely impressed.

I originally wanted to make it playable online but it was taking too long and becoming a major pain so you have to download the program first to play it. I recommend most people here download the 5.5 MB file.

Screenshot of the game :

Website address is : snakedeluxe.cjb.net

If you could, I'm looking for feedback on the following things :
- basically how good you think the game is
- how long you played it for
- was it too easy or hard (and what difficulty level you were on)
- was it hard to work out how to install/play it
- any bugs, problems in the game
- any suggestions to make it better

Mind you I don't have a lot of time for the last two, heh. Anyway, enjoy!

Søren · 10-24-2002, 11:47 PM

Gonna go download it, and try it out a little later on...

Ahh... 20 Kb download only

André_ea · 10-25-2002, 12:14 AM

If you could, I'm looking for feedback on the following things :
- basically how good you think the game is I would say its ood and due to the fact that i also know some stuff about Java i know that it wasnt easy to get all that done. i think it is really good work.
- how long you played it for to be honest i am not so into such games, i just tried it for some time but i am sure i will try it more often cuz i am sure its possible to get it done with the highest difficulty level

- was it too easy or hard (and what difficulty level you were on) i tried all difficulty levels to see the difference between em...i think there is a good balance between em although it will take me some time o get the hardest one done
- was it hard to work out how to install/play it NOPE
- any bugs, problems in the game i couldnt see any, maybe i will find em with the time, i dunno
- any suggestions to make it better other backgrounds

Søren · 10-25-2002, 02:03 AM

Played it a little (gonna take a look at it from time to time

),
and result of the screenshot, which I've linked to below, is pro-
bably more due to the JDK than your programming (at least
that is what I usually tell myself, when stuff doesn't work like I
want it to... blaming the JDK

) :

^ how the screen looks after having crashed and continuing
the game.

Going to take some more looks at it later on as well...

Chewie · 10-25-2002, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by britneyspearsdk
Played it a little (gonna take a look at it from time to time ),
and result of the screenshot, which I've linked to below, is pro-
bably more due to the JDK than your programming (at least
that is what I usually tell myself, when stuff doesn't work like I
want it to... blaming the JDK ) :

^ how the screen looks after having crashed and continuing
the game.

Going to take some more looks at it later on as well...

lol - whoops - yeah I don't like it when that happens

- nah that is my fault although I can't figure out why... basically during the game I only refresh the part of the screen the snake moves over rather than the whole screen - were you switching windows when that happened? Because I get that error a lot when switching between the game and another window - not sure how to detect/fix it.

Chewie · 10-25-2002, 02:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Andrew
If you could, I'm looking for feedback on the following things :
- basically how good you think the game is I would say its ood and due to the fact that i also know some stuff about Java i know that it wasnt easy to get all that done. i think it is really good work.
- how long you played it for to be honest i am not so into such games, i just tried it for some time but i am sure i will try it more often cuz i am sure its possible to get it done with the highest difficulty level
- was it too easy or hard (and what difficulty level you were on) i tried all difficulty levels to see the difference between em...i think there is a good balance between em although it will take me some time o get the hardest one done
- was it hard to work out how to install/play it NOPE
- any bugs, problems in the game i couldnt see any, maybe i will find em with the time, i dunno
- any suggestions to make it better other backgrounds

Cool - thanks for the help there.

Yeah it did take a while - I'd say about 60-70 hours or so, and there's some pretty tricky stuff in there. The game on hardest level is very hard! Hehe, I've only beat it a few times myself on 'guru' level.

Did you mean more backgrounds or to replace the existing ones there? Cos I've got a different for each level atm. Actually I stole the backgrounds off an old Commodore 64 game but shhh...

Søren · 10-25-2002, 03:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chewie
lol - whoops - yeah I don't like it when that happens - nah that is my fault although I can't figure out why... basically during the game I only refresh the part of the screen the snake moves over rather than the whole screen - were you switching windows when that happened? Because I get that error a lot when switching between the game and another window - not sure how to detect/fix it.

Yea, when I switched windows to paste the screenshot into
PSP and came back... it messed up as well... not showing the
background - unless the 'snake' walked over it... then it would
get drawn. Had same problem when I initially loaded the game.

But the screenshot, not switching of windows took place.
Happened after closing the dialog box after crashing into a wall.

Havn't messed around with graphics and Java too much myself
(close to nothing... umm... ok, it is nothing... closest to grap-
hics I've worked with in Java is GUI (AWT/Swing)), so unfortu-
nately I won't be of much help there...

Chewie · 10-25-2002, 03:04 AM

No problems.

*scratches head* Yeah, it's rather frustrating because sometimes it works completely fine then there seems to be a random time where the screen won't refresh properly - did it give you that kind of error all the time or was it only once?

Søren · 10-25-2002, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chewie
No problems.

*scratches head* Yeah, it's rather frustrating because sometimes it works completely fine then there seems to be a random time where the screen won't refresh properly - did it give you that kind of error all the time or was it only once?

Umm... it generated that particular error every time I crashed,
and closed the dialog box to continue playing.

Dunno about any console printouts... if there is any... I've got
my console disabled... slows down the comp. slightly

.

Chewie · 10-25-2002, 03:12 AM

Alright I added in so that it would refresh the background twice at the start of every level - the 20kb version is updated now - it works fine on mine so far. I also fixed the problem with the restarting of a game when you die - yes (edit: as in it actually restarts the game) actually means yes now!

How do you disable the console? I've been wondering that... oh and no, there's no console output anyway - I deleted it all before making the 'final' version.