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please help beta test my new game "SliderZ"

Damocles · 2003-07-11T10:28:01

I'm nearing completion of my first game (woo!) and am looking to release it as shareware, but before I do I would like your help. Could you guys please download it (it's less then 500k) and give the beta version some play testing. I need to know how well it runs on other computers. Linky: Download Sliders (zipper executable windows setup program) It runs on Windows machines and is made using OpenGL only. There is currently no sound so there should be no real problems with compatability, only potential for older computers choking a little. (press the 'f' key to toggle FPS on/off) The game is simple to play, you have a grid of tiles of varying colours and one space. Move tiles into the space to match two coloured tiles together - these tiles then die and are replaced by two others. Here's the rub - each tile you move will cost you movement points. Each pair you match will gain you movement points. If you match one pair, then another, then another etc you create chains and the movement points/score you get increases with each match in the chain. The goal of the game is to get the special Lock and Key tiles next to each other to complete the level. Special tiles appear on later levels - match two of these tiles together to release the special ability they contain: shuffle - looks like two arrows circling two blocks. This will randomly shuffle the coloured tiles on the level. move bonus - looks like little feet. Matching these gives a large movement points bonus. bomb - looks like, well, a bomb. Match these and the surrounding tiles are destroyed and replaced. Only bombs can remove wall tiles. walls - looks like dry-wall tiles. Immovable and must be blown up to get beyond them. The beta version is lacking some functionality - you can't save high scores (or even get on the board), there are no options to speak of and no sound effects. Special effects for the bomb tiles are not in place yet, but they do work. The graphics need general spit and polish before final release, but other than that most things are in place. KNOWN BUGS: There is one serious bug where occasionally a tile becomes kind of a 'dud' and refuses to match to any other tiles. A cheat is still in place where pressing the 'l' key will advance one level, but you wouldn't use that, would you? Please let me know of any bugs or issues you find, or if you find it runs slowly on your setup. Also, if you have any suggestions, let me know. Either reply here, or mail me on Dave88@ntlworld.com Thanks for your help and support.

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Started by Damocles July 08, 2003 11:39 AM

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Greg K

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July 11, 2003 09:27 AM

I get that too, except opening it again works fine for me (still the messed up graphics though). The problem may be that I do not have anywhere near a recent version of DX installed. I just formatted and my current game uses OpenGL so I have not installed it yet. You may want to add a dialog box warning of this problem if indeed that is the source of the error.
-Greg

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Damocles

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July 11, 2003 10:28 AM

This game uses openGL as well, but it also uses DXTC5 compression. I have no idea if you require DirectX installed to use that compression though - I may simply remove the compression altogether just in case. The game doesn''t need it, I just had it left in because I borrowed the renderer from another project I''m working on.

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