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For those of you who remember Ubertube, recently I rewrote it from scratch. Its less buggy, and the gameplay is rather different (you jump instead of bouncing, its 3rd person, etc.).
Its written in C++ using SDL/OpenGL. You can download the EXEs and source code at
http://ubertube.tevlog.com/
I hope you enjoy it, and all comments and critism to both the gameplay and the code are welcome.
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Awesome game!
I haven't found anything strange so far, this game is really cool.
*Playing some more*
(Yay! I'm no1 on the highscore! 800618 points :) )
EDIT: One strange thing: don't make the text spin so fast - it's unreadable :/
Thanks. Wow, you pick up fast. I saw "Daniel" at the top of the list (my name too), and thought I had a high score for a minute. As a rule of thumb, I'm not good enough at my own games to do that though. I'll put the spinning text on the TODO list, and thanks for playing.
I seem to only be able to press 2 keys at the same time, might this because of my keyboard?
And I'm not good on my own games too ;)
EDIT: Try to be a bit insane, and jump a lot. That works for me ;)
Real nice, one little thing...you can't exit at the anme filling in stage.
Any way to turn off the music? :)
I'm having no issues with the two keys problem, on both a PS/2 and USB keyboard. It might be you, or else some obscure bug in my game. I'll work on fixing exiting where it isn't, and add a music toggle option. Expect this in a few days tho.
If you just hold up and keep pressing jump you are almost invincible as you get going really fast and are able to fly over most of the jumps. You can clear a level in a couple of seconds without dying that way. Eventually you hit a bad spot and die but you can just start doing this again once you respawn. I'd put a cap on the speed (though maybe there already is one and I couldn't tell) or come up with some way that this can't happen.
I got into the #2 high score slot using this technique on my second time into the game with 816452 points (I was on my last life, went suicidal, and instead of dying right away like I thought I was going to I made it through like 5 levels in 30 seconds).
I'm forcing a download of a new version. It has a few small fixes:
1. THE REASON ITS FORCED - Before, names with spaces would fail to appear on the score list, silently. Now, spaces are substituted with hyphens. Its the lazy solution, but its better than before.
2. You can mute the music by pressing 'm'
3. You can exit, on the enter your name screen.
Just goto the website and download
Did you make the music yourself? If it is your own then really nice work. Might I suggest that some Dragonforce would make it even more thrilling?
Slight Problem with unmuting music aswell.
I would suggest:
FREE EXTREME DOWNLOAD-CORE HERE!!!!Code:=============================================================
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-- free netlabel - noise - speedcore - breaks - chip tunes --
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Ballonsex - Tic Tac Dragonforce -----------------------------
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01- Black FIRE_! Damn That's So Metal! - 5.29
02- Evening Star_ Not So Metal, Guys. - 6.23
03- If I was REALLY Good, This Song Would Have Been A Breakcore Track Sampling Babylon Bwoy in the Dragonforce Song. - 6.49
04- My SOUL Will Go On, Celine. Not Heart, SOUL. Get It Right ..........! - 7.43
05- R-R-R-R-R-R-R-REVALATIONS! - 6.12
06- The Brave Don't Cry, They CRY! - 5.44
07- Valley Of The Damned Is This Years Must Do Vacation Spot! - 6.53
total playing time - 45:13 all tracks - 192 kbps
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a fantastic tribute to dragonforce!
-2006-
contact - sirmarksalot AT@AT gmail.com (remove both "AT")
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http://www.dramacore.com/012-Balloonsex-Dragonforce.zip
It is My Spirit Will Go On...not SOUL!
And the thing that would really go with the game is Through Fire And Flames, with the huge solo. Even better if you put in a Keytar solo using the nipples. (Oh yes that is what you get if yoyu see them live). Operation Ground and Pound would work aswell.
But the moral of the story is: Use Dragonforce for your game.
What's wrong with some Beethoven (Moonlight Sonata), huh? Nobody play Earthworm Jim on the sega? Does the new version just merely mute the music, or does it stop it altogether?
Also, a pause feature would not go amiss! I really had to pee during a recent game and couldn't bring myself to just die ... ended up having to die though. Felt so guilty :) still do I guess. Necessity is the mother of all creation. Either pause or toilet-chair. Your choice.
It would be cool if you could just download upgrades for the game. Lots of 10 MB downloads would not really encourage me to update regularly. I'm rather impatient. What's the realistic upper limit on the highest score?
For now, I don't own the rights to put DragonForce in my game, unless they ahve some type of policy. Plus, the kid who made this music really wanted me to use it.
Well jsut go on DragonForce's website www.dragonforce.com and find someone to ask, as all their music is made to be based on Old SNES Video Games, and they even have a sick SNES Guitar Jamming fight in the Operation Ground And Pound video.
I'm gonna shoot DragonForce an e-mail. Also, do you guys know if there are any companies that would be willing to sell in-game text ads? I'm trying google ads, but I get an insignificant number of views to the website really, and doubt that that will imrpove, and I want to pull in a little money so I can get a connection with a higher uplink.
Merry Christmas all.
I've found out that it's possible to press three keys, but for me it's not possible to press up, right and space at the same time. Up left and space works though.
And I don't think its necessary to limit the speed lower than 3000, that hold down up-trick gives you a decent score. But it's hard to get more than 900.000, to get that much you need to go slow and use your skills. Some good advice are to look a bit in front of you and plan your way through the holes as much as possible and to almost only use the regular jump - c is only for emergency ;)
ugh, logged in as root in MySql client, wanted to do a "SELECT * FROM tbl_scores WHERE version != 8", but was modifying an old command using history, and ran a "DELETE FROM tbl_scores WHERE version != 8"
The majority of all your scores are lost. I'm really sorry, but there is nothing I can do, except start backing up scores from daily or something. Sorry about that everyone.
There was a bug, where by holding the window title, time would build up, and you could fly ahead insane distances, getting scores in the 30 millions, etc. THats now fixed, and a forced update has been released, which also has a highly requested, should-have-been-obvious feature:
pressing m will now unmute music if it was muted.
A Pause and also Restart button would be useful.
New version. A pause button has been added (a restart button didn't seem worth it, considering the Esc+Space combo, and it would clutter things). Scores are also higher, so old scores will be beaten somewhat easily, but this should differentiate because of the new gameplay.
The pause button is very nice, but I have some suggestions about improvements:
-Remove the spinning bricks. They just make the whole thing very random, not so much skill anymore - at least not in my opinion.
-Make an invincibility timer on respawn (made one in the source, can post it here if you want - I hope it works). Once I died 4 times in the same place.
-Make the steering to right/left be more responsive. Maybe get rid of the acceleration completely and just move the ship to the right/left.
-Don't give higher points if the player goes faster, or at least lower the difference. This just encourages the "press up, jump and pray" method, my highscores at the moment are made like this.
I like your game a lot though :)
EDIT: I've found a strange thing. I can't press up right and jump, but I can press up left and jump at the same time. When I tried it at my friend, he couldn't press up left and jump but up right and jump at the same time. Probably something in the keyboards or windows, but it is indeed very strange ;)
I think you should also incorporate the c jump button into the oace bar, as it would just make things easier.
First off, thanks for all your thoughts.
I see your point. I'd rather not remove them completely, as I like the graphical effect of spinning bricks, but I Think I'll cut the number of them in half, and make them spin slower.Quote:
-Remove the spinning bricks. They just make the whole thing very random, not so much skill anymore - at least not in my opinion.
YES! This is the perfect solution, as I have been trying to think of a way to solve the stupid dying and dying again problem. I don't think I'll use your code, as the source code available on the site is from an older version (nothing personal, I just haven't gotten around to updating the file), plus, it shouldn't be too hard to add.Quote:
-Make an invincibility timer on respawn (made one in the source, can post it here if you want - I hope it works). Once I died 4 times in the same place.
I think that increasing the power of left/right won't hurt anyone, but taking acceleration away would change the game too much IMHO.Quote:
-Make the steering to right/left be more responsive. Maybe get rid of the acceleration completely and just move the ship to the right/left.
I think the high points is alright, but I just thought of a solution. I will add a "gas can", which gets refilled at the beginning of each level, and only allows, say 5-10 seconds of acceleration before running out.Quote:
-Don't give higher points if the player goes faster, or at least lower the difference. This just encourages the "press up, jump and pray" method, my highscores at the moment are made like this.
As for the keyboard, sorry, I really have no idea what to do about that. Its been working fine for me, and my guess is it has something to do w/ Windows keyboard handling.
As for the space bar/c key integration, here is the problem: many people I've shown this too get confused by the c key concept in itself, and never think to atleast try letting go, or reading the instructions. Plus, you often need the reactionness of a jump to occur on keydown and not keyup, so keeping these two functions seperate is really critical.
I don't think the rotating things should start until a few levels into the game really...
New version out. A lot less rotating thingies, and it seems to be fairly balanced. All of the things in my post above have been added. It feels much more like a game of skill again
Its a lot better although could you make the steering more responsive in the sense that you stop spinning when you release as that would make it easier to steer. Also you should rename the Gas to something like Photondrive (something space agey like that) and alsomake it recharge as you go along.
Just noticed a new version is out :O
Warp tiles and kill tiles are awesome.
But you should really reduce the number of warp tiles greatly and make them travel you a bit shorter. I just got 47 million points and got to level ~150-200, was a bit boring in the end ;)
Version 5 is really good and the gas tank is a very clever idea :)
I don't like new version, warp and kill tiles destroyed everything what was good in Ubertube2.
Previous version rox
I tried downloading it, and I get frozen when I press spacebar and try to start playing. It just freezes, I let it go for awhile but it was definitely frozen.
I'll tone down the warp tiles so they are less powerful, and maybe just one ever level or two.
Good news all. I got rid of the stupid warp tiles (sorry, should've realized they completely ruined the game). I turned them into "Gas station" tiles which fill your tank. That way, you won't be bored on the early levels slowly going through them, but you can't just hold down the accelerator 24/7. Also, I deleted all the scores from the warp tile version (sorry to those of you in the top 10, it was just too insane)
I just added a real intense graphical effect in which the tube twists/turns. Enjoy
My opinion is get rid of the kill squares as you die anyway if you fall through a hole. Maybe replace them with a shield square so you get 5 seconds of safe, but then reduce the number. Seriously change the name from Gas to something else, it really isn't space age.
I like the new tube design but it is a lot harder.
>> Seriously change the name from Gas to something else, it really isn't space age.
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Here's another idea, replace all of the gas tanktiles a kill tiles with a pickup tile, like with the boxes out of mario kart, it selects a random thing for you, like speed boost or mega size tank, or path of god (where all the holes are filled in for a certain amount of time), or shield. Something like that would make it interesting.
In your latest version there is also a problem with the joining of the old leve and the grey level ends, where I have fallen down a couple of times when I have been on perfectly solid floor. You will notice it as you come up to the grey part.
Great jobe done, but like bumfluff said it is a lot harder then in previous versions. Maybe if view would be a little bit far away so you could spot holes sooner, because right now they are sneaky.