Smash and Crash

This may or may not be expanded on, but here we go:
Smash & Crash!
Dodge meteors!
Jump around!
See how long you've lasted!

Download

Added in Arrows and a second platform.
Crouching is also a thing now, but it will be refined soon.

- Updated graphics a bit
- Made a logo
- Changed "Back to Title Screen" into "Change Game"
- Made the meteors a bit slower
- Added "Press B" to death screen

Anyone got any suggestions?

Woah! I haven't worked on this in a month? Jeez. :?

Changes:

• Crouching is fixed
• Custom Title Screen has been added
• Boundaries have been added
• Changed some wording

Two things:
1. Is this good enough to go onto the Games page?
2. Anyone know what to do for jumping? Right now it just adds to his Y position.

Anyone know what to do for jumping?

This is a late reply but if you are still stuck on this question:

Make another variable for vertical inertia. When the jump button is pressed, set the variable to a negative number. When the player touches the ground, set the variable to zero. Every frame, add 1 to the variable, and add the variable to the player's Y position.

For example:

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if(gb.buttons.pressed(BTN_A)) player_y_inertia = -4;
player_y += player_y_inertia;
player_y_inertia += 1;
// Do some collision checking
if(player_is_touching_ground) player_y_inertia = 0; // Just for example


Thanks to Atomic, I've made the Jumping smoother!
I've also added a frame counter.
And changed the sprite of the character a little, but does that really matter?

If anyone is wondering where I've been for 3 months, I've been getting a better computer!
Also, I kinda sorta forgot about the forums (I forget a lot of things, sorry!).
But, now I'm back, I guess.

please do put it on the game page looks awesome!!! :lol: :lol:

I don't feel it's good enough to be called a game.
If you've tried out the game, it's not very playable.

EDIT: Made an Update!

-Added Disaster switching.
-Added Flooding.

Well its your choice :)

Hooray! Another update!

• There is a pause menu!
• Removed Multiplayer(Would've been a Nightmare to make.)
• I thought the Flooding was impossible to dodge, so I changed it to a Ball disaster!
• Running is probably important, so I've added that.
• Added controls to get rid of confusion.
• (Tried to add) more randomization.
• Made things a little harder.

I think that I should get more maps in sometime. :lol:

This looks and sounds great! I should go play it soon. :D
A way you could incorporate the flooding idea is to have the player being constantly pushed to the right left (the stream of water!) and have him/her to avoid logs, ect.

Perhaps that, but you've given me an idea!
Black hole disaster!
It sucks you in, along with some other stuff!
Not only would you have to dodge the stuff, but you'd also have to stay away from the black hole.

EDIT:
Whoops, I didn't know you had to sync stuff to Github!
Well now it is, and you get a brand new update because of that!

• Brand New Black Hole Disaster!
• Changed Framerate from 20 to 30, for 50% more panic!
• Added custom sounds(should've used patterns, but those are confusing)
• Classed up the death screen (You're going to see it a lot anyways).

EDIT #2:
Another update! Maps are good for variety, so 3 maps and a map system were added!

(It probably wouldn't fit into the last post... sorry!)
Here's an explanation of how the map system works, because I don't know how Tiles can collide with Sprites (I should probably look at Super Crate Buino's code).

mapscroll is used for the selection menu.

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//Drawing
          gb.display.drawBitmap(0,44,platform);
          gb.display.drawBitmap(30,28,platform2);


First, we draw the terrain. I just used the two platforms I already had(I'm lazy, okay? :oops: ).

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if(gb.collideBitmapBitmap(playerx, playery, player, 0, 44, platform) == true){
            playery = 38;
            playergrav = 0;
            playerjump = true;
          }
          else if(gb.collideBitmapBitmap(playerx, playery, player, 30, 28, platform2) == true){
            playery = 22;
            playergrav = 0;
            playerjump = true;
          }
          else {
            playergrav = playergrav + 1;
            playerjump = false;
          };

The "If" statement is where I put the collision data for the first platform. When I collide with the platform, it pushes me above the platform and sets my gravity to 0, allowing me to jump. Do "else if" for any other platforms. the "else" statement covers falling.

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if((gb.collideBitmapBitmap(meteorx, meteory, meteor, 0, 44, platform)) || (gb.collideBitmapBitmap(meteorx, meteory, meteor, 30, 28, platform2)) == true){
            gb.display.drawBitmap(meteorx, meteory + 4, blow);
            meteory = -6;
            meteorx = random(0,76);
          };

I put in Meteor collision code for certain scenarios (like a roof in Tower). When the meteor hits the platforms specified above, It will make another in a random area.

It's basically the same for the Arrow, but you can ignore the base platform.

I recommend the "Lonely" map if you want to start making maps. :D

Another update!
I would say that I'm finished with this, but I could do more, I dunno.

• added a .INF file, for the latest loader!
• Changed the Title Screen.
• Fixed a few bugs.

This game is now on the Game list! :o

i installed the inf and hex file on my gamebuino but it does not show up in the game loader. i also had this problem with some other games.

Do you have the latest loader and Bootloader?
If not, see the Getting Started page on the Wiki.

Well i can just look at my gamebuino and see the new loader so that's not the problem. But what do you mean by the bootloader ?
Everything works fine on my Gamebuino exept for like 3 games sooooo.

Does anyone else have problems related to Smash and Crash?
It would be great if I could know whether or not this would work on actual hardware.

i fixed it :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
and the game works fine. only in my opinion the player jumps a little bit to super high. :lol:

Yeah, you're right, he does jump a little high.
Fixed now.

Happy to help you.
BUG report:
sometimes when you load a map, there is to the right a wall. And you get pulled towards it and there is nothing you can do. :cry:
i believe its the black hole you where talking about but it immediately sucks you up.

Oh yeah, that.
You gotta run, but I guess I could turn down the sucking speed.

Oh you run :?

i fixed it :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
and the game works fine. only in my opinion the player jumps a little bit to super high. :lol:

How did you fix it? I have the same problem. I also noticed that this is not an isolated case; I looked closely at the files on the sd card, and there is a game there that doesn't show up on the bootloader. Also, pong singleplayer hex file is there, but the gamebuino only finds the inf. file for that, and when I enter the game, it is just multiplayer. I don't really care about pong and 'wormz', but I do want smash and crash. Do I just need to wipe the sd and reload all the games?

That's the only thing I can think of.
It really doesn't find the .HEX? Strange....

Well I tried wiping the card and starting over (all my scores lost... :( ) It didn't do anything. Smash and Crash still won't work. I do just need the .inf and .hex files, right? Not the .elf? Perhaps I even need to just put the full master zip file on.

[EDIT] Apparently Gamebuino is really picky about whether a file ends like .hex or like .HEX. It works fine once you rename it to SMSHCRSH.HEX. By the way, the black hole is almost impossible to see and escape before you're dead. You might want to make it a little slower.