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Game Maker's Garage => Announcements => Topic started by: Silverwind on May 12, 2008, 01:51:11 PM
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I've completely rewritten Gridz with a modded V6 in place of the ridiculously time consuming nav system I used last time. It's taking awhile to design levels, but programming them only takes a minute. The game will also include a level editor. I expect to release it tonight, but by the latest tomorrow. :)
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This is not a new grid system, instead it is actually a game :P
Mist
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Ooops, I should've classified that a little better..... there we go, topic title fixed. ;)
Like Mist said, Gridz is a game rather than a nav system. It involves navigating a red ball through a grid of obstacles to reach the "win" space. It's very simple, but the engine is a clever mod of V6.
Would the new Grid be easier to MOD to our needs?
Are you having trouble with V6? If you need a hand with anything or would like a specific aspect of the system explained to you, I'm always here to help. :)
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Cool your working on it again. A while back before I could post (which I still can't on the GM forums) I played gridz and developed a working code and made about 7 levels for it.
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You..... whua? How did you make levels within the game? ???
I'm just fixing up the level editor now for the new version, I'll be able to post it straight after. :)
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Here's the complete beta: link removed
There's a glitch that makes the game crash every time an non-function button is pressed, but I'm working on fixing it.
EDIT:
Ooops, I just noticed a mistake in the readme. The last sentence in the second last paragraph should read "When you've finished, open the text file "Startingy" (not "StartingX") and write the number of the Y space you want the player to start on. After that your level should be good to go.
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I can't figure out what's going on...I see there's a sprite named player.gif, but when I play the game that sprite doesn't show up. :P
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Curses! I think that pathfinder glitch in compiled games is resurfacing again. I'll have to look into it tomorrow. Thanks for reporting it Charlo.
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Ok, here's the updated version:
link removed
The crash glitch is fixed and the sprite should appear this time. It turned out I had compiled it with an old version of GM that couldn't handle sprites above 10. ::) My best time for completing the game is 28 seconds.
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Great game! A simple concept, but I never thought I would see it in GM.
(my time was 7:36, but I wasn't paying attention) :D
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Thanks Charlo, glad you liked it. Anything you thought it needed?
New record: 23 seconds! ;D
EDIT:
19 seconds.
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Gridz 1.0.0 has been released. You can download it from www.roguesoft.co.uk
Hey Ghost, can I submit this to the GMG game downloads?
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Done.
Ghost
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I saw early versions of this game before. This turned out really nice. I'm going to put it on the GameMaker site.
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Thanks! :D Yeah, a few more simple games like this would be cool. I'm gonna try to bring out a few more before I begin work on the next all-time-consumming RPG, hehe. ::)
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or put them in the rpg as minigames ::)
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You..... whua? How did you make levels within the game? ???
I'm just fixing up the level editor now for the new version, I'll be able to post it straight after. :)
Well you see when you made gridz and posted it on the gm forums talking about how the repeat wasn't working. I developed a code that made it so when you encountered a wall you stopped rather than saying how far you can move from a certain square it was very effective if I were to use V6 for gridz i wouldn't of been able to make 1 way walls. Unless I made a different grid for each direction. That would be a terrible pain tho. Well if you want to see the levels I made here's the link.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9tjxoj39mw2
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I developed a code that made it so when you encountered a wall you stopped rather than saying how far you can move from a certain square
That's the kind of engine I originally tried to write funny enough, but I wasn't experienced enough at the time. The engine I have now can handle all sorts of things that I didn't put into the game. Such as one way walls, arrows that push you in a different direction, sticky spaces, (like walls that you stand on rather than bump into) teleporters, door triggers and so on.
In fact, if anyone wanted to be a level designer I'd program all of the above properties into the game. They'd get full affiliation rights and credit of course.
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Well if you want to see the levels I made here's the link.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9tjxoj39mw2
Wow! Those levels were really awesome! :D Not only that, but they contained many of the extra tile properties I spoke of above.
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Cool. You guys should combine it all into one game. put the Silverwind levels first and then the extra levels. Then make a new level editing tutorial to show how to add the new features. That would be a really cool game.
Or you can just rename the new one Gridz Plus.
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Or make unlockable level tiers!
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Well there is one problem. The problem is that I made my gridz levels with a completely different code, and the only way I see of making 1 way walls with the V6 engine is to make a different grid for each direction. I'd be willing to give a shot at making levels in gridz like that but it would be a pain to set up a different gridlayout variable for each direction.
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Front paged.
Ghost
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Cool. You guys should combine it all into one game. put the Silverwind levels first and then the extra levels. Then make a new level editing tutorial to show how to add the new features. That would be a really cool game.
I think that's a great idea. If allot of designers make maps then the designer's name could be on the right side of the screen under the level number.
Or make unlockable level tiers!
Sounds good to me. :) Would tiers of 5 be about right? Or more?
Well there is one problem. The problem is that I made my gridz levels with a completely different code, and the only way I see of making 1 way walls with the V6 engine is to make a different grid for each direction.
Actually, I'm using a modded version of V6 and the code for nearly every property you can think of is really easy. :) Here's the code for one way walls:
IF newtile$ = "one way wall left" THEN
newtile$ = "empty"
IF direction$ = "right" THEN newtile$ = "wall"
END IF
That space would act as a wall if the player came from the right, otherwise it would be an empty space. I'll post up the source when I get back from bowling, and anyone who wants to design levels can edit it. We can rearrange what order the levels are played in later, in terms of difficulty.
Oh, one more thing: post ideas on all the tile properties you guys want in the game and I'll try to implement them before I release the code.
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I forgot, I don't have bowling today due to some competition that's on, so I'm working on the tile properties now. Should door switches be walls, or should the player pass over them?
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Here's the tile types I've programmed into the game so far, there's 18 of them: (which is a big jump from 3, what 1.0.0 had ;D )
0 = Empty: The player slides over these.
1 = Wall: The player can't slide over these spaces.
2 = Win: The player wins the level when he lands on this space.
3 = Sticky: The player stops sliding when he lands on this space.
4 = Door: Acts like a Wall.
5 = Door Key: Turns the Door space into an Empty space.
6 = Up Arrow: Pushes the player up.
7 = Down Arrow: Pushes the player down.
8 = Left Arrow: Pushes the player left.
9 = Right Arrow: Pushes the player right.
a = One WayWall-up: Acts like a Wall when the player is moving down. Acts like an Empty space otherwise.
b = One WayWall-down: Acts like a Wall when the player is moving up. Acts like an Empty space otherwise.
c = One WayWall-left: Acts like a Wall when the player is moving right. Acts like an Empty space otherwise.
d = One WayWall-right: Acts like a Wall when the player is moving left. Acts like an Empty space otherwise.
e = Teleporter 1: Teleports the player to Teleporter 2.
f = Teleporter 2: Teleports the player to Teleporter 1.
g = Mirror: Pushes the player in the opposite direction.
h = Spin: Pushes the player in a random direction.
Anything else I should add? I haven't drawn graphics for the spaces yet, but I'm starting that now.
btw, people don't have to worry about coding their levels if they don't know how or don't want to. They could just design the grid picture and I'll code it.
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I'd say tiers of increasing levels, like:
Tier 1: 4 Levels
Tier 2: 6 Levels
Tier 3: 8 Levels
Tier 4: 10 Levels
Unlockable: 2 Levels
Adds up to 30 Levels. Each Tier introduces a new component to the puzzle action, as you mentioned with your "teleporters" and such. :D
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I'll release the source tomorrow, as I still have one or two things to implement. I had a few unexplainable problems where GM didn't like my code too, but I fixed all of them.
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Here's the source:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9w2i31kedf0
Card 18 handles level progression, and card 19 handles the "Reset" button. I've included a sample level on card 248 which includes all the tile types so you can see what they do.
Here's the grid editor:
(http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/9312/newgridgg6.jpg)
Check the readme for tile properties.
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