UberTube

[CrazyNorman]

Latest Version: Alpha 0.4
Changelog:

Initial to Alpha 0.3
  * Now shows version number (huge change, I know)
  * You now get an extra life every two levels
  * The big change: Some segments now rotate
Alpha 0.3 to Alpha 0.4
 *  A bug with level size was fixed.
* Fixed missing faces, so that all the tiles are actually cubes. Although I thought it wouldn't make a huge difference, everything looks way way better now.
  * Warp Tiles have been added, really cool
  *  Now shows a warning if your graphics card is too slow (or you are running software GL)
  * Turning speed is now limited, so that fixes one of BMJ's problems
  * The Window title is now UberTube
  *  Thanks to Bubba (your z-buffer suggestion was indeed correct), the background now displays.

I made a game called ubertube, which I consider pretty cool. You basically fly down a tunnel, which you spin and try to bounce your way along. Its OpenGL/SDL based, and I include an EXE with required DLL's, along with the sourcecode, a Dev-Cpp project, and a script which builds it under Linux. It runs on Linux and Windows. Anyway, I'm just wondering if I can get some C&C on the game itself, or the code within it?

Download the Game (Alpha 0.4)

A screenshot is attached to this post.

The screenshot is out of date, and things have improved since, such as the missing polys.

NOTE: The post was edited by a moderator as requested by the poster.

[cboard_member]

My top score: 85796
That's possibly the hardest arcade game I've played this year. Tis awesome.

[CrazyNorman]

Ya, it is challenging.
Also, if there are any OpenGL experts out there? I'm having trouble figuring out why the background doesn't seem to show up on Windows boxes (works under Linux tho). If any of you guys are running windows and could help me figure it out, it would be great.

[VirtualAce]

Yeah no background here. Good game.

[BobMcGee123]

I managed to get over 70,000 points just by holding down the right arrow and not trying.

It looks good overall otherwise though.

[MadCow257]

230,176 is my high

After 100,000 it gets really hard

You awesome jokes signature doesn't seem to work

[CrazyNorman]

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll fix my signature. It is fairly easy to get to 100,000. My record is like 206 thousand something. I've got some improvements I'll put up in a minute.

[CrazyNorman]

OK, Version Alpha 0.3 is now up. It includes a pretty big change: Some sections of the cylinder rotate relative to others.
Anyway, two things:
A. Hopefully, I'll be able to fix the background bug. Can anyone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? If it helps, when I run the executable under Linux using wine, the background shows up. Am I doing something OpenGL 2.0 specific or something?

B. I'm thinking of adding an online high score board. Does anyone have any idea how to go about this securely, or am I just stuck with using the honor system?

Glad people are having fun w/ my game.

[joeprogrammer]

I don't know if you know, but your signature still doesn't work.

[CrazyNorman]

OK, I finally fixed it. Anyway, tommorow I'll put up a few more updates. So far, I've got the following working (but not access to a Windows box to compile until tommorow..)

* Limited turning rate to 360 deg/sec
One Medium One:
 * I found a bug.  Originally, each level was supposed to last for the same amount of time, which obviously wasn't happening.  I fixed this, so each level is 15 seconds flat.  Of course, you get going faster, and you will get to a higher level, but your score might be lower.
Two Big Ones:
  * Fixed missing faces, so that all the tiles are actually cubes.  Although I thought it wouldn't make a huge difference, everything looks way way better now.
  * Added a warp tile, the warp effect is wicked awesome.  I think you guys will enjoy this

[Brian]

Cool game. What causes you to get owned though?

[CrazyNorman]

Thx, The pink tiles do. If your not looking for them, they might blend in.

[aroticoz]

I hit 300 000
It's realy cool, but I'd add more tiles and faster speeds, so that you can reahc higher and higher speeds. also, you should rename the window in WIN cause right now it says "SDL_app"

My 2 cents

[VirtualAce]

Perhaps the background is not showing due to zbuffer. NVidia's are on by default. Depending on how you are rendering the background this might cause some issues. Render the background with no Z and then render the tube.

Or use a skybox for the background, but this is overkill since you only move in one direction throughout the game.

[BMJ]

OK, my 2¢:

If you hold down an arrow key for long enough the game crashes.
This would be more fun if you could use a mouse instead of a keyboard.
Don't say "You got OWNED!"