Post by: SHiZNO on April 29, 2003, 04:23:00 PM
Ill be working on this aswell as my fighting game...
Any updates/Info will be logged here....
Any suggestions welcome.
Post by: SHiZNO on April 29, 2003, 05:03:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on April 29, 2003, 07:02:00 PM
Sooo...i drew up this concept art of the game, its basically tetris, instead of blocks you place 'food' and animal heads, what you do is match the animal head with the food, and the animal head comes alive and starts eating the food (clears the line basically altho it doesnt have to be a line)...
heres a pic of it in concept roughly ms paint concept of it
it sure looks like crap there, but the game should be nice and colourful, and fun as hell if i do it properly (the original was pretty cool)...anyways, we'll see how it goes...
Hopefully the mass will now understand the concept of Baku Baku
Post by: SHiZNO on April 29, 2003, 07:04:00 PM
You also have bananas (monkey eats), carrots (bunny rabbit) and bones (dog eats).... see...its really easy and girls/kids will probably like it, and im sure 2-4 player would be awesome.
Post by: SHiZNO on April 30, 2003, 05:00:00 PM
*doesnt need to get in trouble right now*
Post by: SHiZNO on June 27, 2003, 05:47:00 PM
oh well.
ive pretty much run over everything on this game programming wise, will test it out and debug over next few days, then ship it off to wishi for tryout.
Post by: Ill187 on June 27, 2003, 07:17:00 PM
Is everything going to be animated? This makes me think of super bubble pop. Is it going to be something like that?
Post by: t_rex on June 28, 2003, 04:57:00 AM
BTW, Have you finished Shizno Fighter?
Post by: SHiZNO on June 28, 2003, 11:25:00 AM
Post by: Wishi on June 28, 2003, 01:33:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on September 25, 2003, 11:08:00 AM
Well, after a lot of delays (motivational problems, am i the only one who can never be bothered sitting down to work?) this game is back on track...
heres my update:
Okay: there was a major fuckup with the animals eating (due to poor planning (ofcourse)
) So anyway, I decided to [delete] the entire code, and start again from scratch.So heres where im at:
Main engine is practically finished....blocks fall, animals eat, blank holes are filled (drop)..blocks/animals/board will ALL be 2D now (why use 3d for this game anyway?)...controls are done.
Heres what i have to finish:
Menu
Scores
Finish animal eat animation
wait for wife to finish drawing the final animals..
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Oh, and Ill take a screenshot (ingame) of it tonight, to give you a first look at the game... its shaping up nicely, and im working on it like a steam train now!
I _SWEAR TO GOD_ I will have it finished and released() ASAP... Im think next week, but i dont want to make something certain then find out somethings fucked up again...
Sorry for delay for anyone waiting for this game..im trying to make it worth your while (images will be open format: you'll be able to draw your own silly animals/food if you please)
WISHI YOU WILL GET YOUR COPY FIRST!
Post by: jizzlobber on September 26, 2003, 07:41:00 AM
make sure there's cool SFX and cheezy music
the saturn version had 3d heads and it looked really cool, can't wait to see what your version looks like!
Post by: Wishi on September 26, 2003, 08:05:00 AM
Glad you've found the motivation to do it. Don't worry, you're certainly not the only one who experiences these type of problems!
Post by: SHiZNO on September 26, 2003, 08:40:00 AM
| QUOTE (jizzlobber @ Sep 26 2003, 03:41 PM) |
| man I loved this game on the saturn, it one of the better puzzle games that's for sure. make sure there's cool SFX and cheezy music the saturn version had 3d heads and it looked really cool, can't wait to see what your version looks like! |
I guess youll be glad to know that i managed to get my hands on the proper SFX for this game...eg the guy screaming 'OMATASE'...heh
Post by: SHiZNO on September 26, 2003, 07:37:00 PM
Okay, so heres a few in game rendered on xbox screenshots
NOTE: the backgrounds havent been drawn (aligned) to the blocks properly yet (the backgrounds will be Baku Baku type jungle backgrounds with score etc)..
The actual blocks are being worked on still, some images are still UGLY and the lady is drawing them as i type and improving all the time so...yeha...final blocks should look nice..
ANYWAY, you will be able to make your own, or revert to ORIGINAL baku baku blocks.
PS: player 2 is all skulls because it means player 2 is game over
my own little death touch.anyway, the pictures are JPG, geocities wont let me link JPG so click the links and if it wont show in IE just download them and swap them to JPG extension
Screenshot 1 monkey eating
Screenshot 2 Bunny eating
should be complete soon as you can see (backgrounds/score is all to do! and finish sound/AI i suppose but still! soon soon SOON!)
Post by: Wishi on September 28, 2003, 03:38:00 AM
If you need any help give me a mail or pop into #xfactor on EFnet.
Post by: chilin_dude on September 28, 2003, 04:28:00 AM
I'm amazed i've missed this project!
Sounds like it will be fun for everyone!
keep up the good work!
Post by: jizzlobber on September 28, 2003, 06:40:00 AM
I noticed there's a lot of animal blocks too, the majority (maybe 80%) are food blocks in the other versions... i'm guessing you know this and will worry about that stuff later.
it's great to see homebrew stuff like this, the xbox scene (yeah I know this is for PC) is pretty big now but there just isn't a lot of cool homebrew games... some good stuff for dreamcast.
Post by: SHiZNO on September 28, 2003, 07:56:00 PM
update:
Added CPU AI...watched the AI play itself and have one big rumble...
Added eat animation...
Added 'next' blocks (see next 5 upcoming blocks)
annnnnd added the score boxes (the score doesnt show up on screen capture tho)
Oh, added attack too (when animal eats 3+ food it 'attacks' the other player (dropping random blocks depending on ammount of food eaten)...
Ive decided to add a small particle engine that will release pixie dust from the flying animal heads...will add that tomorrow..
As for ratios, i think ill be adding everything customisable : eg choose food:animal ratio, change animal eat speed, default drop speed, computer AI speed etc...
I just want to try my hardest, im not the best programmer out there... im trying to make it as much like the authentic baku baku was (but i ONLY have the SMS version so bleh)...and i want to try make it as customisable as possible...
For example: I had the idea of a 'halloween' theme, where it was vampires and necks and the particle engine dropped 'blood' instead of 'pixie dust'.... dont want to get too far ahead of myself tho...
Oh, today i finally got the 'eat' function to be pretty good, it still screws up SOMETIMES (doesnt eat a block) but 99% of the time its great...definately playable..
heres some screenshots for you guys tho:
http://www.geocities...ud/baku1928.txt
http://www.geocities...ud/baku2928.txt
http://www.geocities...ud/baku3928.txt
if anyone wants me to add something, or wants to remindme of what made BB great, then tell me because i want to make this game fun, and not do a half ass job on it (it was such a good game)
Post by: SHiZNO on September 28, 2003, 07:58:00 PM
Post by: Xbox-Savage on September 28, 2003, 08:25:00 PM
oooh cool what the hell is it!!! 
dont make a kids game , make a good bloody shooting game , and make it online enabled , also if possible Headset enabled
Post by: Wishi on September 29, 2003, 08:09:00 AM
Post by: jizzlobber on September 29, 2003, 10:37:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on September 30, 2003, 08:05:00 AM
PS: i worked on the particle engine, it looks pretty good (now when you eat 3+ food the animal comes out and has particles (pixie dust?) trailing him...
Oh, added so the heads face which way they move...
Implemented a bit of sound (will be redone for music tho, since the beat needs to pick up when your almost dead)
Post by: SHiZNO on September 30, 2003, 04:45:00 PM
put in the lion eating the gameboard when you die...not bad i guess...
this game is basically finished....all i have to do is work in the music engine (so the music stops playing, and plays other things)...custom sound tracks etc...
i dont know what to do about single player...i cant be bothered putting in baku bakus 'story' (it was pretty stupid)...and 2 player is where the game is 'fun' anyway, maybe ill just make it so single player is never ending, gets harder...and maybe have a high score list...??
i guess ill pop into your IRC channel wishi, and DCC you the latest build so you can see what you think, and what could improve on...i think its pretty much as good as itll get...im pretty eager to finish the game and start working on shizno fighter or a new game...so...yeah...ill pop in and see if your online during the next few days....
Post by: jizzlobber on September 30, 2003, 10:23:00 PM
would you consider adding a fancy skin to make things a little more interesting/colourful?
I'd be happy to give it a bash if you like!?
Post by: Wishi on October 01, 2003, 08:10:00 AM
You can come on IRC and give it me or email it, I don't mind.
Post by: SHiZNO on October 01, 2003, 04:40:00 PM
Post by: t_rex on October 02, 2003, 12:39:00 AM
Post by: t_rex on October 02, 2003, 12:43:00 AM
I'm really looking foward to see them
Post by: t_rex on October 02, 2003, 12:47:00 AM
Back to IE to view pics
lol
Post by: SHiZNO on October 02, 2003, 08:44:00 PM
im trying not to just 'rush' thru to get it out...but like i said...if theres something you want different/better go ahead and rip up the code any way you want...just leave my cool little SHiZNO/SEGA logo on boot
Post by: jizzlobber on October 02, 2003, 09:03:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 02, 2003, 09:12:00 PM
http://www.geocities.../enterscore.txt
is the main background for when entering score...
the top box is where the name is entered
middle big box is the icon
bottom box is score
http://www.geocities...goud/scores.txt
is the same thing, except displayed when looking at the score...not when entering the score itself
http://www.geocities...goud/goexit.txt
is displayed next to the icon in that big blank space... RGB(255,0,255) (PINK) is the alpha colour (transparent)
http://www.geocities...goud/goicon.txt is displayed when you are selecting the icon to use
http://www.geocities...goud/goname.txt is displayed when entering name
im pretty sure thats how itll remain...if you have a better idea, draw up anything and i can accomodate to whatever template (as long as it has big enough spaces to insert the text .. (its as tall as those boxes!)
Post by: SHiZNO on October 02, 2003, 09:13:00 PM
Post by: chilin_dude on October 03, 2003, 07:49:00 AM
| QUOTE (SHiZNO @ Oct 3 2003, 06:12 AM) |
| Sure...here it is.. http://www.geocities.../enterscore.txt is the main background for when entering score... the top box is where the name is entered middle big box is the icon bottom box is score http://www.geocities...goud/scores.txt is the same thing, except displayed when looking at the score...not when entering the score itself http://www.geocities...goud/goexit.txt is displayed next to the icon in that big blank space... RGB(255,0,255) (PINK) is the alpha colour (transparent) http://www.geocities...goud/goicon.txt is displayed when you are selecting the icon to use http://www.geocities...goud/goname.txt is displayed when entering name im pretty sure thats how itll remain...if you have a better idea, draw up anything and i can accomodate to whatever template (as long as it has big enough spaces to insert the text .. (its as tall as those boxes!) |
Well i'll be willing to have a shot at it... what size (in pixels does it have to be?
Edit: Damn youjr bandwith is exceeded...please will u send me all the pix in zipped up form to [email protected]
Thanks!
Post by: jizzlobber on October 03, 2003, 08:02:00 AM
maybe a tropical theme or something just to make it a little more interesting.
I just knocked something up, it's very dodgy but I think I could make something cool with a bit more time (it's 2am here in australia).
anyway this is just to show what a background can add to your current template.
http://gnforums.plan...=&postid=220212
Post by: SHiZNO on October 03, 2003, 11:35:00 AM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 03, 2003, 09:13:00 PM
I'll muck around a bit now, not a lot of time cause there's a big Halo LAN tonight.
Rugby League grand final on tomorrow too... might not get another chance for a day to 2
Post by: jizzlobber on October 03, 2003, 09:48:00 PM
would tropical hi-score screens look out of place? this one is made up from a photo but I could easily draw something up to give it that cartooney look.
http://members.dodo..../entername3.jpg
Post by: SHiZNO on October 04, 2003, 12:40:00 AM
ill try put important comments/explain shit in the main parts tho...(of the source)
ummm...oh yeah wishi i used your input class, the green button was set to Red tho, but i fixed that easily (that class is very nice btw)...im temporarily using your sound class too, but ill have to end up ditching that as i need to play CS's and change music alot (stages, and when tyou almost die the music needs to stop and play the upbeat tempo...not sure how ill do this AND use CS tho (ill just only use upbeat when not running CS's i guess)...still havent really decided much on the sound shit tho..ill be working on that tomorrow i guess...
so umm...yeah...ill see what gets done tomorrow, if things look good i guess whoever wants to test can help test for various shit...then you can tell me what should be added/changed...then release the source to the public and everyone can edip/rip whatever they want..
im going to sleep() now
Post by: Wishi on October 05, 2003, 02:56:00 AM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 07, 2003, 06:49:00 AM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 07, 2003, 05:40:00 PM
i also made a slight change to the dump code, where it dumps blocks on the other player...its working pretty good now...
i just want to get this game 'working' fine, so i can give out the source of this version, let people fuck with it, and move onto bigger things...i really learned to plan everything from this, its not bad tho for my first so..
as for whats next, ill probably end up on the fighter game, but as for Baku Baku ill almost definately work on a part 2, that will be everything i planned for this game, and more...i just really wana get this off my chest...
soo...yeah...im gona tidy some stuff up, and just dump out everything i have THIS friday (unless something horrible happens)...if its not 'good enough'' on friday, ill give out 'alpha' build ill call it, and spend the weekend working on what needs to be done to make it 'good enough'...
right now its completely playable, its definately better than the SMS version, altho im not sure about the Arcade/saturn version as i have nothing to compare to (and dont know how it 'played' on those....BUT, anyone is free to touch up the code and improve...
as for customisation, i think itll only be as good as 'editing' the placeholders this time, instead of making skins to switch thru (unless someone wants to add that (probably an hour job maybe?)...altho everything is 'open' and bitmap format, so you can customise everything... (hell, open source is about as customisable as you can get, but not so user friendly)...
anywya, i think we can all just think of this as the prologue to 'Baku Baku 2'...which will be planned better, and will include everything i aimed for with this one.
Post by: SHiZNO on October 07, 2003, 05:43:00 PM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 07, 2003, 08:49:00 PM
so you don't need any backgrounds done?
Post by: SHiZNO on October 07, 2003, 09:52:00 PM
after a bit of tinkering, ive decided reverting back to falling one square at a time will have to do for now, since i want to get some form out this friday, reverting now will allow me to fix other things (like maybe adding a 'real' AI, instad of the traditional left,center,right baku baku AI ...)
its not that falling a square at a time was 'bad', its just it seemed smoother slowly falling, but its nothing special ATM, when all is ssaid and done, i can go back and release updates, or anyone of you can easily hack some new routines(youll NEED to HACK away the code (with a long knife), its horrible lol!)
Post by: SHiZNO on October 08, 2003, 01:53:00 PM
however, source code will be there and anyone could add their own mods for it. (story/online etc)
Post by: Bolch on October 09, 2003, 03:11:00 AM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 09, 2003, 04:17:00 PM
right now everything 'fits' for my tv ( on other homebrew apps i always have to resize shit)...
anyway, if you want to add support for whatever resolution or what-not go ahead.
I just added custom sound tracks today, i decided to scrap the original music (for this release _atleast_) due to file sizes and just because it was getting annoying...
to flip thru tracks ingame white button goes prev track black next track (loads every custom soundtrack on xbox and makes one long playlist)...kind of like DOAX i guess
Post by: SHiZNO on October 09, 2003, 04:18:00 PM
Post by: BigGanja on October 10, 2003, 06:43:00 PM
Cant wait 2 give it a try !!
Post by: SHiZNO on October 10, 2003, 10:26:00 PM
So now, all i do is wait for ~10 backgrounds ill post the template for it, anyone can make their own, i suck at graphics so its up to the elites out there now.
Wishi im going to try find you tomorrow in IRC and send you the game, you tell me what needs changing, ill try change it....then public release...
here is the template for you graphics artists
note: itll have to be in BMP format, and WILL be sketch/skewed by 50/50 (ms paint)...however if a background is really awesome and the half sizing screws it, i guess it wont matter and can stay that size...
http://www.geocities.../background.txt
Post by: SHiZNO on October 11, 2003, 12:30:00 AM
the game was actually for my -sister- to start with (she loved that game and it was kind of a 'hey look what i can do' project but i decided why not share the wealth with the world? the down side of this was id have to add a bunch of 'user friendly' menus...high score, etc...
the menus are in, and they work decently, but they sure as hell arent going to win any awards...
making sure it works on everyones tv/console is beyond me, hell...im not even sure it wont crash if you have no custom soundtracks! lol...(im not about to erase all my CST data)...
...which is one of the main reasons this is open source....obviously every area is going to have room for improvement, and until i can sit down, plan every detail and work on what was wrong with this game and build on the good things, everyone who wants it will just have to contribute to the source code (theres a lot of potential for fixes)
if you are wondering what im talking about, its the 'small' things i just couldnt get in on time, like 'selecting' what songs to play and what not to (itll play ALL songs on the HDD, tho you can easily FF and RW them)...
anyway: as soon as i get a few backgrounds in, and i find wishi, this will all be public... i guess the place to post 'bugs' or what could be done 'better' will be this forum....if you are a programmer you could PM me code, if you arent you could just say what you want done and ill (or someone else!) will see about implementing it...
(preferably someone else, i want to give a RTS (DUNE/C&C clone) a try (altho ill still have a bit of time for maintaining baku baku. and eventually undertaking BB2)
anyway, the game is pretty good i think, its not a HALO or even a $50 game (but i have seen Breakout clones for $10)...the games obviously free, will need everyone out there to contribute their own magic, and no doubt will be as good, and eventually exceed the original Baku Baku--
Post by: SHiZNO on October 12, 2003, 09:56:00 AM
wishi tell me when youll be on irc, like what time (zone) and day this week and ill find you..
Post by: Wishi on October 12, 2003, 01:25:00 PM
It's GMT here. So really any time 6 onwards I'm usually on each night you should be able to find me unless something comes up.
Post by: jizzlobber on October 12, 2003, 10:42:00 PM
640 x 480 bitmaps right?
Post by: SHiZNO on October 12, 2003, 11:18:00 PM
here is an example my wife did on what you should do (the score/next block needs to be black so you can see easily)
http://www.geocities.../bgpawsblue.txt
feel free to do whatever (you might not want to keep the 'outlining on the score, or have all the blocks outlined etc)...whats important is to note where the things will be
heres another example that i made
http://www.geocities...shizno/shiz.txt
just remember to use the template below!
http://www.geocities.../background.txt
Post by: SHiZNO on October 12, 2003, 11:20:00 PM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 12, 2003, 11:26:00 PM
Post by: BigGanja on October 13, 2003, 04:01:00 AM
you may or may not know that i have been doing MSDash modding recently ?
i have a little idea for you hows this sound?
ok well as i have been working with xbx files, i can say images Look MUCH MUCH sharper than bmp and jpg, ALSO they are MUCH MUCH smaller in size, hows 256k for a 1024 x 512 image ??
anyways a little something for you to think about.
also how can i use this as a template to make a background for you ?? its in .txt file format, i convert it and it wont display
Post by: jizzlobber on October 13, 2003, 06:02:00 AM
BG, if you have time you should make up some nice backgrounds!
Post by: SHiZNO on October 13, 2003, 11:18:00 AM
they should be saved as BMP in the end tho (i went with BMP for this release, so ANYONE could edit/create their own backgrounds)
Post by: SHiZNO on October 13, 2003, 11:24:00 AM
As of now it saves to "D:\" so it -HAS- to be played on the HDD...
I -really- dont want to deal with the 'official' xbox save mechanics right now, and trying to access another partition such as E:\ ended in an error opening the file so...im not sure if this is the fact i was running it on a debug BIOS, or that you cant just access the E parition for some fucked up reason? I noticed XPORT saves are on E: tho, so someone tell me what to do about this!
Post by: Wishi on October 13, 2003, 01:01:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 13, 2003, 02:58:00 PM
http://www.geocities...hizno/score.txt
Post by: SHiZNO on October 13, 2003, 07:33:00 PM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 13, 2003, 10:54:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 13, 2003, 11:33:00 PM
(and use the same box positions too (exactly in the same position)
Post by: SHiZNO on October 15, 2003, 10:36:00 PM
All im waiting for now is for jizz to get me that last background (Champ), if you dont want to do it jizz, can you tell me where you got that photo, and the text? i can do it myself if you want
Well, i decided to revamp the menu, and did it all over, its decent (not as good as the emu-skins IMO, but its pretty good for a cheap homebrew game)
i took 3 new screenshots just for historical purposes..]
one showing off the final menu
http://www.geocities...otgoud/menu.txt
one gameover
http://www.geocities...goud/oct16p.txt
one ingame
http://www.geocities...tgoud/oct16.txt
Post by: Bolch on October 16, 2003, 04:07:00 AM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 16, 2003, 07:13:00 AM
mate it's 1am now and I just got home from the pub, about to hit the sack.
I have tomorrow free so i'll get stuck into it then, sorry for the delay mate!
Post by: Wishi on October 16, 2003, 08:31:00 AM
Post by: BenJeremy on October 16, 2003, 09:15:00 AM
| QUOTE (Wishi @ Oct 16 2003, 12:31 PM) |
| Here's a quick hint for lowering the size. Convert your bmps to tgas. You can load them exactly the same way and they're a fraction of the size but still good quality. |
Actually, JPGs work too.
TGAs are nice, though, because they support transparency.
Post by: SHiZNO on October 16, 2003, 02:28:00 PM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 17, 2003, 02:09:00 AM
- http://members.dodo..../entername4.bmpthese bitmaps are unecessarily large IMO, I think a simple jpeg looks fine on a tv.
anyway it's up to you mate
Post by: Wishi on October 17, 2003, 03:12:00 AM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 17, 2003, 01:01:00 PM
wishi i came on irc last night but you werent on-- il lcome on again tonight and give you the latest release, then if everything plays/works nice on your machine i guess someone needs to tell me how to upload to the xbins FTP or who to give it to or whatever..?!?
Post by: Rohaq on October 18, 2003, 03:34:00 PM
| QUOTE (Bolch @ Oct 16 2003, 01:07 PM) |
| On the last screenshot picture you've posted the green area inside the playing field looks a bit too overloaded. Could I suggest making it a little darker (more in line with the dark green at the top of the screen? At the moment it looks like it could hurt your eyes after a while. |
The background definitely needs a colour change, but a pale light green may do the job better than a dark one, since this is a happy game.
| QUOTE |
| I'm really looking forward to this |
As am I! I loved the original!
Post by: SHiZNO on October 18, 2003, 04:56:00 PM
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Post by: Wishi on October 19, 2003, 04:04:00 AM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 19, 2003, 06:00:00 AM
It's ren and stimpy font incase you would like to try it.
Post by: SHiZNO on October 19, 2003, 12:30:00 PM
ill try fix that menu, my delay input is probably too long (it was pissing me off when it was super fast and itd repeat actions by accident)
and as for the get ready, i know it doesnt fit in huh...lol...how do you think itd be if it was like the 'GREAT' text?
Post by: SHiZNO on October 19, 2003, 01:55:00 PM
-Fixed animal chewing (because i sped up animal move speed,
it set this off and ruined it...now it works nicely.
-attempted to fix no-soundtrack crash...should work now?
-changed a few graphics 'get ready' and a fee info boxes...
-sped up menu move speed...maybe a little too fast !?
sending you new copy wishi...
Post by: Wishi on October 20, 2003, 01:30:00 AM
The black writing is much better replaced by that graphic. The text keeping score at the bottom-centre still seems a little dim however.
The menu speed before was fine, what I meant was that on pressing A sometimes it's obviously not checking the input at the correct time or being slowed somewhere so it doesn't get it. It just takes a couple of times to press to get into a menu.
Since you've put analog control in game, it should be easy enough to place it into a menu just so it's easier and people can have the choice of how to play without needing to keep switching.
There's just one other thing, while loading some people may think it's crashed so you might want to display a loading screen then do the rest of your loading. Otherwise it could look like it's hanging for the 3/4 secs.
Apart from that, it's fine, and certainly seems release worthy.
Post by: SHiZNO on October 20, 2003, 12:06:00 PM
(and add analog support)
and what do you mean about loading? before the game starts? (before shiz logo?) if thats the case, i guess i could remove the sleep during logo code, and just quickly render that screen after DX is initialised (without all the textures etc)...
if it something else i dont know what you mean, it doesnt really load for me any other time...
well i guess ill fix these and send it to you, if everything works fine we can put it on xbins (i dont know who owns it or who to contact etc)...
Post by: Wishi on October 20, 2003, 12:16:00 PM
I can stick it on xbins for you if this next build works ok.
Post by: SHiZNO on October 20, 2003, 01:59:00 PM
Post by: Wishi on October 20, 2003, 03:21:00 PM
Post by: jizzlobber on October 20, 2003, 07:55:00 PM
off to get it now
Post by: jizzlobber on October 20, 2003, 08:40:00 PM
love it!
feedback... I think I noticed sometimes the animals leave a block they should eat.
slow blocks would be good, hopefully you can do this for part 2.
I think you have a pretty good animal to food ratio, sometimes it takes an eternity for the right animal to show which makes things challenging
finally maybe you should consider adding default music, a good mate of mine is VERY good at making music and i'm sure he's make a great little tune for this game... happy game music with an animal flavour?
I suggest this because my HDD is full of metal and punk rock, doesn't work at all
cheers for the cool game mate!
Post by: jizzlobber on October 20, 2003, 09:18:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 20, 2003, 09:24:00 PM
Post by: BigGanja on October 21, 2003, 02:45:00 AM
im off to get this now, il let ya know how it goes, hehe
Post by: BigGanja on October 21, 2003, 04:08:00 AM
as for animals not eating the certain blocks, it seems fine here, ?? maybe i will find out what you guys mean, after playing it a bit more in-depth
:: EdiT - I See what you was talking about now, but it dont make the game any less playable, in my opinion but yea, im looking forward to future updates of this one, thats for sure, also i would just like to say, even if i goto options, and select random music, the tunes ALWAYS seem to play sequentially, but again it dont bother me, but you wanted feedback right ??
:: End of Edit ::
only thing i can think of at the moment is to add new sound fx, it would be cool to have like a clunk sound or something when u push down and the blocks hit the floor ?
also i was half expecting 1 block to fall at a time, i was well impressed when i saw it was 2 just like the proper game hehe
YES MATE Keep UP this Level of work, 2 Thumbs up here, if i can think of any other ideas, i chuck them down for you to read in here m8. Thankyou for bringing another classic favourite of mine to the XBOX.
Post by: Rohaq on October 21, 2003, 09:25:00 AM
I can't wait to play this, just got to get my Xbit working ;_;
Post by: t_rex on October 22, 2003, 03:34:00 AM
I've never actuallly played Baku before, but this is awesome 
Any plans on adding a network feature once you finish it
?
Post by: Bolch on October 22, 2003, 11:57:00 AM
Pal xbox v1.0
Running XBMP 2.4 as the Dashboard.
When I run the game just get a blank screen nothing else. Any suggestions?
EDIT :: Forgot to mention running off the HD
EDIT 2 :: Just ftp'd Stepmania & Scumm and both of those do the same thing when loading so it must be something else.
Post by: Gmc on October 22, 2003, 01:44:00 PM
| QUOTE (Bolch @ Oct 22 2003, 08:57 PM) |
| It doesn't work for me Pal xbox v1.0 Running XBMP 2.4 as the Dashboard. When I run the game just get a blank screen nothing else. Any suggestions? EDIT :: Forgot to mention running off the HD EDIT 2 :: Just ftp'd Stepmania & Scumm and both of those do the same thing when loading so it must be something else. |
Go to the MS Dashboard, and look at the time/date. I bet your Xbox is set to 8907. Set it to a real date and then try...
Post by: Bolch on October 22, 2003, 11:53:00 PM
| QUOTE (Gmc @ Oct 22 2003, 10:44 PM) |
| Go to the MS Dashboard, and look at the time/date. I bet your Xbox is set to 8907. Set it to a real date and then try... |
Cheers, will try that tonight.
Post by: jizzlobber on October 24, 2003, 09:32:00 AM
I'm just trying to help with this little problem here
If you're having a prob try patching it to retail incase SHiZNO forgot.
Post by: Wishi on October 24, 2003, 11:34:00 AM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 24, 2003, 05:09:00 PM
Post by: SHiZNO on October 24, 2003, 05:19:00 PM
...oh...are you guys running from CD or HDD? ive only run it off the HDD-- so...
Post by: Wishi on October 25, 2003, 10:34:00 AM
| QUOTE |
| yeah,..didnt i say it wasnt patched yet? hmmm? |
Maybe in a dream or something
Post by: SHiZNO on October 25, 2003, 05:13:00 PM
Post by: Rohaq on October 26, 2003, 09:36:00 AM
Brings back a lot of youthful memories I used to make freeware games using a simple package a few years back, and although it was no-where near C++, it usually meant a lot of complicated logic being used to perform tasks to get past the program's own limitations. Basically, here's a way I would have used in order to make a Baku Baku style engine that ate ALL of the blocks
Perhaps you could, when an animal block hits the bottom/another block, have it fire four invisible tracer objects in the four directions (up, down, left and right, of course
). If a tracer collides with a food block that doesn't match the animal it came from, it does nothing and the tracer is destroyed, but if it collides with a food block that matches the animal, it marks the block by creating a unique value associated with the block (created perhaps by its X and Y coordinates) and sets it to 1, then the marked blocks fires off tracers of its own, which move on to mark similar blocks, or be destroyed by different ones. In order to stop blocks being marked multiple times, have tracers destroyed by marked, similar blocks.Once all of the blocks are marked (once all of the tracers are gone), expand a circle around the animal block as a detector. If it collides with a marked block, the animal sprite moves over it and the block is destroyed, and the circle is reset and expanded again (whether its from the original point of where the animal block was, or where the last block was destroyed is your choice, but the former is probably the best choice, as the animal should eat the blocks in a more logical order
Anyhow, this process is repeated until all of the marked blocks have been eaten Anyhow, that's the method I probably would have used. It's probably a slow and wasteful method of doing it, but like I said, I wasn't working with C++. Workarounds were often used to do anything more advanced than a bouncing ball
Post by: SamSam on December 24, 2003, 11:04:00 AM
Hope you will answer this.
Post by: SHiZNO on December 24, 2003, 12:32:00 PM