New Game Plugin: Bubbles

[RotAtoR]

Originally Posted by savagenator

do the rocks for the ipod actually work ON the ipod?

There's no reason they shouldn't. Plugins run on the iPod port already.

[csh0021]

thanks, and yes, IE...i had tried to click 'save as' but it saved it as a text file...so i just changed that, thanks!

[Mike]

Strange, but when I try to play the bubbles.rock file (the version from the H120 link on the prior page) on my iHP-140, I get the message "Incompatible version" and it won't play. Am I supposed to be doing something other than placing the bubbles and levels files in the rock folder, and then highlighting the bubbles.rock file and clicking the joystick?

I can play other rocks . . . .

[RotAtoR]

Originally Posted by Mike

Strange, but when I try to play the bubbles.rock file (the version from the H120 link on the prior page) on my iHP-140, I get the message "Incompatible version" and it won't play. Am I supposed to be doing something other than placing the bubbles and levels files in the rock folder, and then highlighting the bubbles.rock file and clicking the joystick?

I can play other rocks . . . .

You need to update your rockbox build that's installed on your h140, it's an older version. All the rocks I've provided are compiled against the latest version of rockbox. Rockbox maintains an internal version number that's incremented each time certain changes are made (which is usually fairly infrequently). If the version the rock is compiled for differs from the version you're running, you get that message.

[Mike]

Thanks--and I feel so ollllld: I only last updated about 2 weeks ago . . . .

[saab_rider]

RoTaTor: This is a great game! I'm glad it has been ported for RB. I have 3 questions:

1. I know this has been mentioned before, but can something be done about the speed?
2. Can we have more levels, as I have already finished all 100 frozen bubble levels before already
3. Can we have a nice BMP background like in tetrox to make bubble look nicer?

[Paprica]

very nice game, thank you!

p.s
you can use rb->cpu_boost(true);
it take more battery but it make the game work quickly

[RotAtoR]

Originally Posted by saab_rider

I know this has been mentioned before, but can something be done about the speed?

Sure, I'll look at speeding it up a bit more.

Originally Posted by saab_rider

Can we have more levels, as I have already finished all 100 frozen bubble levels before already

Heh, if you want more you can take a look at the bubbles.levels file, the levels should be easy to design and you can send me any new ones to be included. I could probably even make an in-plugin level editor fairly easily.

Originally Posted by saab_rider

Can we have a nice BMP background like in tetrox to make bubble look nicer?

I'm no good with doing graphics design, if anyone has any suggestions please post them here or even make some mock-ups. Just a couple things to remember though, (1) bmps behind bubbles won't really work and (2) all text will have a white block around it.

[saab_rider]

Originally Posted by RotAtoR

Sure, I'll look at speeding it up a bit more.

Thanks, I think the suggestion Paprica made makes it smoother. It plays nicer when quick.

Originally Posted by RotAtoR

Heh, if you want more you can take a look at the bubbles.levels file, the levels should be easy to design and you can send me any new ones to be included. I could probably even make an in-plugin level editor fairly easily.

I tried to search for extra frozen bubbles levels. Won't be so great to play levels I made my self But I couldn't find any, I'm sure there are some somewhere.

Originally Posted by RotAtoR

I'm no good with doing graphics design, if anyone has any suggestions please post them here or even make some mock-ups. Just a couple things to remember though, (1) bmps behind bubbles won't really work and (2) all text will have a white block around it.

Here's the answer to your prayers (or mine). I hope you like this, it's from frozen bubble. There's a mock-up screen, and the actuall bmp for you to use. You're the programmer, so you should know what should be done!

Here's the mock-up screen:


And here's what the file you should use would look like (note this is a .png, the .bmp version is in the zip file, which I hope was uploaded properly):


What do you think?

[psycho_maniac]

edit: i should read the whole post before whining about it not working

[RotAtoR]

saab_rider: looks very nice, I'll be adding in these graphics soon. Also, would you happen to have the graphic without the white squares on the left side? I'll need to resize the background for the ipod nano and that means the white squares will be in different positions. Thanks!

[saab_rider]

Thanks RoTaToR. If you give me a screen dump maybe from the simulator of bubble running on the Nano, plus the resoloution of the screen, I can make you a new screen for the Nano. I can give you the background with no boxes as well if you need it.

[eli_sherer]

RotAtoR, maybe you want to join the plugbox community. it'll be our pleasure
to have you in our staff. plus it would be easier to add your changes
because people are already familier with our work and check our site every now and then...

[Denny]

I like the background bitmap but thought the white boxes should have some sort of border. So I made this:



Is it any good? Needs to be converted to a bitmap.

[RotAtoR]

Originally Posted by saab_rider

Thanks RoTaToR. If you give me a screen dump maybe from the simulator of bubble running on the Nano, plus the resoloution of the screen, I can make you a new screen for the Nano. I can give you the background with no boxes as well if you need it.

I think that in the end it would just be easier if I had the background without the boxes. I'm sure I'll run into situations where I'll need to tweak the background a little, like shifting things around by a pixel or two, so it would be much easier if I had the full background to work with as well. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Denny

I like the background bitmap but thought the white boxes should have some sort of border.

I was thinking that some sort of border or drop shadow would be nice, and this looks pretty good.

[saab_rider]

Here you go RoTaToR.

[3.14159265]

silly point, but does it need to be a white background, mayby an light blue (or any other colour) would make the screen less harsh and pleasing to the eye?

[RotAtoR]

Originally Posted by 3.14159265

silly point, but does it need to be a white background, mayby an light blue (or any other colour) would make the screen less harsh and pleasing to the eye?

Sure, the background can be any color, maybe I should just use "rockbox blue".

[3.14159265]

then again we might be getting a bit bored of that (unless using the color patch)

[1121]

Moved to Rockbox lounge/general stuff. That game looks really nice btw!

[Membrillo]

Terrific game, but do you think it would be possible to have the aimer thingo move faster? It takes a dang long time for you to go from aiming to the right to aiming to the left etc. Or it speeds up after half a second or something?

[AntiFlag187k]

Awesome game, I think the aiming and the shooting bubble should go faster though.
Thanks for making it!