Supa Pong

[Silverwind]

Here's my GMG contest entry: http://www.mediafire.com/?4grqkj7xt8f

Well, at long last it's finished. Overall I'm quite pleased with the music, (which consumed most of my time) though there's one or two tracks that I'd like to improve in 1.0.1. There's a total of 8 catchy tracks, which is a great accomplishment for me. Please check out the readme for controls.

As always, enjoy!

[Silverwind]

OH NO! There's some kind of horrible glitch that's never occurred before, even though I've been testing the compiled app all morning! The sprites are somehow pasting themselves flat on the canvas everytime they move! And the ball sprite doesn't load at all!

I can't understand why this is happening, or why it only started after I uploaded it on the internet, but I'll get right on fixing it. :-/

EDIT:

Solved it! Either Stuffit or Mediafire mustn't have liked the Ball.gif file, because it didn't include it in the package. I'm still not sure why not having the ball sprite would cause such eradicate behavior in GM, but I've just tested it now and it does. I'll reupload it and make sure the .gif file is included this time...

[Gan]

This sounds amazing.

Though, I'm on a pc. Won't be able to test it out till 7-8 hours from now.



-Gandolf

[Silverwind]

Ok, sorry for triple posting, but here's the deal. Stuffit is corrupting the Ball 1.gif file every time I compress it. That is so annoying! I'll try messing with the settings and hope that fixes it. Sorry about this guys.

[Silverwind]

Well, an hour and a half spent tinkering with both Photoshop and Stuffit and I finally fixed it. I've updated the link.

Enjoy, and sorry for the inconvenience.

[Mystor]

I'll check it out...

Mist

EDIT: The Alais doesn't work, looking for the game file

EDIT2: I can't beat the first guy
He ketches every return

How do you do it?

[Silverwind]

As always the readme includes alias fixing related info. It's really annoying that they keep breaking though.

[Tireas Dragon]

To Mist: Press Spacebar I'm not sure what this does but it seems to help
To Silverwind: I think the alias doesn't work because the alias isn't to the one in the folder it probably to the one in your computer.

[Silverwind]

Yeah, although it sometimes works, but usually not. I had it working earlier today funny enough.

As for spacebar, it affects how many pixels the ball will move up or down the next time you repel it. You need DP (Deflection Points) in order to use it though, and the more you spend the more you'll distort the Y axis of the ball. (your DP is displayed in the title bar of the game window)

You get 4 DP each time you repel the ball, and each level has a different "max DP spend cap". For example, in level 1 you can only spend up to 14 DP worth of deflection at a time, and in level 3 you can spend up to 18. A simple twist to regular Pong to make it more challenging.

[Teruri]

This game is fun. Are the characters from your previous games? I laughed at the frog. I remember playing the game with that frog. Don't know the other 3 (I only payed stage 1,2,3 and at 4 I wanted to do something else).

The game seems to autosave, really cool.

[Silverwind]

Thanks Teruri, glad you liked it. Yeah, stage 4's opponent is none other than the infamous Roguefrog! I've been drawing him and the character from stage 2 for years. They were originally spin offs of Muppet characters, but due to my art style's continuous development their appearances changed drastically over the years to the point now where some of them hardly resemble their original molds. So now they're characters of my own. There's 2 other characters that usually accompany them in my paper RPGs, but I couldn't include them in Supa Pong because they look way too similar to their muppet counterparts.

EDIT:

Funny enough, stage 4 is the only one with a hidden character in the current version. I intended to include more, but my family and friends who agreed to draw them haven't finished yet, so they'll be included in 1.0.1. My sister drew level 4's alternate character.

Oh yeah, you can play against alternate characters by typing "zzz" on the stage select screen in Freeplay. You'll hear a beep to confirm that you entered the code correctly. Once activated, clicking on a stage will bring you its alternate form.

[Mystor]

Can't... Beat... Stage... 5.....

he is hard...

Mist

[Silverwind]

You're doing well to have gotten to stage 5. There's 7 stages of difficulty to accommodate for the skills of the whole world, which means you're pretty high up in the rankings.

I've just set the world time record for completing arcade mode with a time of 9 and a half minutes. None of my testers completed it all the way through.

[Tireas Dragon]

I got to the Alien then lost.

[Silverwind]

Wow, nice going!