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NVIDIA Competition 2008 / Timwillhack's Entry - Die Evil 1 (puzzle game believe it or not!)

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The combo effects were fine.
I have played the first three levels so far. I just didn't really like the colours/effects on the second two. Maybe it's just personal taste but I liked the way it looked on level one and would have liked to keep it like that with just the difficulty level increasing.

It's a very minor point though and I wouldn't worry about it. Most people will probably disagree with me anyway.



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Posted: 15th Feb 2007 21:02 Edited at: 15th Feb 2007 21:29
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Actually, in the compo, I was trying to put interesting levels in the beginning. Hippie Tie-Die is one of the hardest levels, and its level 3, I'll prolly move it to another spot.... You should check out Mercury 42 (Quick Run level 4) and Tokyo Hard Drive (Quick Run level 17) they are my favorite levels.

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The second level is called Vertere, its latin with style to mean inverted. I invert all of the colors of the whole screen, notice how the wipe line is black instead of white on that level!

Thanks for the feedback Scraggle!

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I ran out of tries how to I reset it. I wanted to see what demo mode was so I used them all up real fast lol. Now training is boring. It seemed fun though.
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Tim Will Hack
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Good job Valleyman86! I'll have to make a special something just for you....

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why is there a limit anyways? Are you planning on selling this game when the comp is over?
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Yeah, or getting it published. I didn't make it just for the competition!

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I posted this in the screenshots thread but maybe you wont see it there.

tim I tried downloading it again and its not unrestricted. Still in training mode which blows.
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hey man, I know its based on something else in the computer. I'd have to literally make something to revert that item. I will do it, I've been busy sorry. I'll probably get around to it tomorrow.

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Sweet your awesome. Is it a registry or a file? Just wondering.
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hmmm, might be both!

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OK valleyman,

download this:
http://www.madcents.com/5MoreTrys.zip

and run it. It will only allow you to reset it once, and then you have 5 more times to open the exe before it resets again.

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Hey guys, seems like the nvidia compo forum is pretty dead! Just wanted to post that the hexaxis site has been quickly updated: http://www.darksoft.net/hexaxis.php

Not much but its clean enough to feel comfortable with in case I place in the compo and get some traffic.


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Hey, wait a minute... www.darksoft.net? Are you the same Tim who attended the Holyoke DB convention several years ago?

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Yes I am!


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Heh, I worked with you on the 8 hour game challenge, I remember you were just getting started with your website, I believe. Good times.

Nice to see you're still working on this stuff, your game looks great! Makes me wish I had picked a smaller idea for the compo.. well that, and that my video card would stop failing.

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Is your name Sam? I think for a while I was trying to get in contact with you after that get together. I believe that challenge was a 24 hour challenge that we worked on throughout the night with lots of Redbull Do you remember the hex array we had to make up for the grid?

Send me an email so we can get into contact again and maybe work on something together!


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Yeah, you got me pegged. A night of Redbull and Amp. I don't have your e-mail, though, is it on your website?

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timwillhack /\t gmail.com


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Dang, this place is dead now.


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This game looks incredible, from what I've seen on the Youtube videos. However, the demo doesn't work on my computer--the game loads fine, but when the game gives me the demo text all I see on the screen is a large letter "y", and when I hit enter (attempting to start the game) the window turns white and the game begins (I know this because I can hit arrow keys and hear sound effects, but nothing changes on the now all-white game display area).

Oh, my system specs:

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: TriGem Computer, Inc.
System Model: Dublin
BIOS: Revision 2.00
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Memory: 510MB RAM
Page File: 415MB used, 833MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Card name: RADEON 9200 SERIES
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: RADEON 9250/9200 Series AGP (0x5961)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Display Memory: 128.0 MB

I realize this is an NVidia competition entry, but I was wanting to give this great-looking game a try.

Any help would be appreciated--I would love to try this game out.
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You have all the reason,
are you gong to continue with your game?
Are you going to post it in any way?
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@Chrono: That sounds odd. The game turning white to me suggests that you do not have Pixel Shader 2.0 support. I was planning on making some type of modification that would not require the support, but the levels utilize that feature.

@Alfa: I have a demo download on my website and purchase options, if that is what you mean:

http://www.hexaxis.com


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Hey guys,

Just wanted to pop in a quick update.

In my free time starting today I decided to give it a shot to write hexaxis from scratch on the PSP. I know its going to be hard, but I'm doing it on my personal fun time, so I'm primarily doing it to learn. Here are 2 screenshots from what I have completed so far direct from a screenshot dump of my PSP:





What do you all think (if anyone is here)?


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Looks like a good start... this game would be a great fit for a hand-held. Keep it up, and post some more screen when you have more.

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Thanks sam,

Here is another update for the night, I've uv'ed the dice correctly with 1 texture per block. I also made a bunch of the dice. Having a little trouble understanding the movement in 3d space for some reason though, seems to be sporatic and If I make an array of 10x10 dice, the textures get all 'digitized weirdness' at the bottom (see pic 3)

Heres are the 3 new ones:







think I'm done for tonight.


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NOPE, one more, figured out the weirdness for the most part

Heres the last screenie for tonight:




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Cool man! good to see some homebrew psp games coming from this community! Lol darkbasic should write a language so we can play our own games on psp

Looks great, psp got any shaders you can work with at all?

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Thanks DaZ!

Well I figured out how to fix the 'digitized weirdness' I had to allot more memory for the display list.

Here is the updated 10x10 array (as it is in hexaxis, though I'll prolly lower the y to 8 or so because the screen is wide) of dice fully textured (runs at 80fps right now):



DaZ, I doubt there are shaders, I'm using PSPSDK, but I haven't done enough playing and research to really say.



EDIT:
OK I SWEAR THIS IS IT FOR TONIGHT:



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woo hoo, I figured out the relative / absolute rotations / positions. You can reset the position to the camera after each draw and then treat things similar to darkbasic positioning. The rotations are in radians but no biggie. I also found out how to do blending (notice the grid)

here is the progress:






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Video of the compilation and running of the current build with mp3 playing of the PC versions level 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fZWr2yhxQY


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Man,
I'm amused with your work.
You are very professional.
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Sorry for double posting.
This is a mistake.
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Thank you very much Alfa x. Dangit I just found another contest for PSP homebrew that ends tomorrow... There is noway I can get it full by the!

I do have the current die moving now, the wipe line, an mp3 playing, and checks for going left right and down. It also adds the dice to the grid if it hits a point that you can't go down anymore.

Good progress but not good enough for a full game just yet.

I was going to stay up tonight and see what I can get done before tomorrow night! But i'm getting tired and would probably do better to sleep on it and start again tomorrow.


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Heres a new screenie:


added wipe, and sound fx. Also made the moving dice along with the controls for it. Adding it to the grid and properly rotating all the grid die accordingly.


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Ive played this game on my psp and it is actually amazing! its AS GOOD as its pc counterpart! If you have played the demo you will know how good it is!

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Here is the current version on the PSP (0.15) alpha

Controls:
Directional Pad: move dice left right and down (no up its like tetris)
Square, Circle, Cross, Triangle: rotate the grid
L and R Triggers: zoom in and out
Select: Exit Game

I have not done anything special for showing the score and multipliers, pretty much a pure text at the top left. I don't think I have the time before the end of tonight to code bitmap fonts. I also have no highscore table. That will come after the compo though.

Here are the latest screenshots:










Not bad for 2 days of work... You heard that right. Not to mention this is my first PSP coding project. 1 day to learn the PSPSDK, not too bad!

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Youtube vid1:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4fZWr2yhxQY

Youtube vid2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5XPkAeE72Q

Featured on Digg:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Hexaxis_Awesome_3D_PSP_Game

Featured on psp-news.dcemu.co.uk:
http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/awesome-3d-psp-homebrew-game-hexaxis-xxi-wip-news-56700.html
http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/hexaxis-xxi-56849.html

Featured on psp-hacks.com:
http://www.psp-hacks.com/2007/03/20/hexaxis-xxi-alpha-release/

Featured on QJ.net:
http://pspupdates.qj.net/NeoFlash-Spring-Coding-Competition-07-Hexaxis-XXI-update-4-/pg/49/aid/86856

Competition I just entered it into and latest download:
http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,3926.0.html


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Ah, I just found out that the competition is being judged by the public. If anyone would like to offer a vote for hexaxis, please vote at the following sites:

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=57100
http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,3981.0/
http://www.emuboards.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=28393

The voting closes on the 31st of this month.

Thank you very much!


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Hey guys,

Here is the updated Hexaxis XXI V017.

Download Here:
[URL="http://www.darksoft.net/HexaxisXXIupdate5.zip"]http://www.darksoft.net/HexaxisXXIupdate5.zip[/URL]

1. Changed background
2. Added Preview Line
3. Added HUD Score
4. Added Multiplier HUD
5. Cleaned up a "Game Over" bug
6. Fixed a weird texture disappearing bug.
7. Played with Blending a little more and got the Wipe line to look correct as well as the score.

Controls:
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Left Right & Down: Move the dice
Up: Move the Dice down fast!
Circle,Square,Triangle, Cross: Rotate the Grid
L & R: Zoom In and Out
Select: Exit Game
Start: Show/Hide Preview Line <--New

Screenshots:







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Awesome! I voted for the game. Only 2 more to get into the lead. COME ON PEOPLE! ONLY 2 MORE!

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seriously guys vote for this game! the soundtrack alone is worth it seriously tho its amazing! plz vote for him

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Thanks guys! Today I'm updating the game to V019. I'm adding in a level, fixing a bunch of bugs, adding in 'Pause' 'Game Over' both drawn to the screen with bitmap font rather than debug text. I was also going to try to setup the highscore table and maybe the main menu if I can get it up fast enough. I would really like to be able to setup shaders, but it just isn't possible on the PSP. On that note, I'll prolly have to fade out to black or white between levels, load the dice colors and background and then fade back in. I think that would be fun anyway, and an interesting break between levels.


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Another update, I'll let the images do the talking. Once again these are untouched dumps of the backbuffer:








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Looks great!

It's a crying shame that you didn't even get a mention in the results. I thought you and I were going to be close rivals but obviously the judges aren't fans of puzzle games

Anyway ... could you shed some light onto PSP homebrew? Many of my games would work well on a PSP but I have no clue how to convert them. My google results just tell me what homebrew is, not how to create it.

Thanks



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Blimey Scraggle,

If I'm to believe the time stamp on your post, i.e. 5th Apr 2007 08:37, you're up and about while normal mortals are still asleep (or on their way to work).

Quote: "I thought you and I were going to be close rivals but obviously the judges aren't fans of puzzle games"


Don't worry, you have a possibly small and idiosyncratic fan club waiting for the final published version - my wife and I loved it before it crashed approx 10 seconds after starting ...

P.S. Perhaps I should add - normal mortals don't work.
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Ahoy there. Cap'n 1time of DCemu here. We are pleased to announce to those of you that don't already know that this game Placed 1st in the PSP Game devision of the Neo Flash competition! DarkSoft, be sure to claim your prize at neoflash.com and be sure to drop by dcemu.co.uk to receive all kinds of praise for your excellent work!
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Hey Scraggle,

Yeah I hear ya on that one! I was very surprised myself and I also thought we would be competing with each other. Apparently though like you say, the judges don't care to much for a good ol' puzzle extravaganza.

Homebrew on the PSP is basically written in C/C++ using something called PSPSDK. It was a bit of a pain to setup the environment (Cygwin etc) but I have it running on my linux machine and my windows machine now.

Heres a link to get you started:
http://www.psp-programming.com/tutorials/c/lesson01.htm

Let me know if you have any more questions, I may be able to help you. Feel free to email me too.

BTW,
I just released Update #7 of the PSP version now with 3 levels and more effects than the PC version, and its running 60-100FPS!

Here is a screenshot:



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hey very nice wrk!! i've a psp too and i always wanted to program game for psp but i don't know how to do it...

can you explain me with your owns words how do you did it? (if you used some downgraders or else and the pspsdk,etc... I would know too if using a downgrader for the psp disable some features or not... ^^)

and i heard that to use and make homebrews, i must have GTA III....

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wow.
I will now start working in PSP!!!.
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Hey guys,

Just a little update!

I've submitted my game Hexaxis to the Intel Game Demo Contest 2007, so if you think it should win feel free to vote for it (I would really really appreciate it!):

Voting Page:
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/gamecontest/EntryDetails.aspx?entryID=242


Hexaxis XXI Main Page (with screenshots and a video):
http://www.darksoft.net/hexaxis.php

I'm not sure when the voting closes. Please feel free to pass this on to your friends!

Thank you very much!


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