Plasma Pong

lazlow · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 6

God, give Steve strength to finish 1.2!

Bigfoot TI · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 6:45 am Post subject:

Amen!
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Spanjed · Guest

Allthough i like to have 1.2 this minute , take your time to make this an awesome game. Still playing the "old" one and it's great to do!

Keep it up Exclamation

DJ-E · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 7:57 am Post subject:

SteveTaylor · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 240

Hey guys, thanks for your patience! I want this out as much as you do.

After hours of stress testing I actually found the memory leak, and it wasn't as little as I thought it would be. Apparently, my ball collision code wasn't as air tight as I had hoped it would be. All I have to do left is rewrite that function, test again for any other memory leaks, and fix a couple very minor bugs.

In other news, I've implemented a new feature (well it was a bug, but I turned it into a feature) called hyper-elasticity. Ya, I just made that term up because it sounded cool. What it does is it turns the fluid into a giant tub of jello, and everything bounces around elastically as you slosh the fluid around. Verrry trippy!

Back to work, I'll keep you guys updated!

DJ-E · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

Don't forget to get some sleep now and then LOL Wink

Great work!
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xpss2001 · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 109

Mogzilla · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Milky Way Galaxy

Could just call it jell-o mode. Hyper-elasticity is not like what would be in an action game. Action games usually have short, catchy names for powerups/ functions.

Your choice to ignore me, though! Laughing

SteveTaylor · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 240

Haha not at all, I'll definitely consider it. Jello mode has a nice ring to it. Right now I've just finished wrapping up the polish on the game and I'm proud to say that 1.2 is COMPLETE. I'd like nothing better to do than release it right now, but its 8 am, I haven't gotten any sleep, and I still have to write documentation for the new version. The last thing I just finished up on was tweaking the coloring on the new plasma shader. I think the new shader really makes everything much more intense, here's a couple screen grabs:

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Sorry for the size of these screens haha, but I'm pretty happy with the results. Everyone thanks for all the patience and support! Time for me to take a catnap before my afternoon class, and then I'm uploading 1.2 to the server!

-Steve

xpss2001 · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 109

woohoo

viva la plasmapong

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lazlow · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 6

Bigfoot TI · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:40 am Post subject:

now, how would you know what trippy is like? Wink

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Florian · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1

Woot!

I cant wait. When i show this to my class they will never learn for their exams Very Happy

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SteveTaylor · Site Admin Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 240

Version 1.2 is released, you can download on the main page.

Cheers,
Steve

Flame0001 · Guest

Let me be the first to say...

YES! WOOT! OMG <3 Steve.