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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Dec 2010 11:44 Edited at: 9th Jan 2011 18:08
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This is for the competition, thought I'd share a sneak preview of my current work.







I plan on using XML for reading questions into the game, still debating if I'll use an XML plugin or see if my previous XML project is ready for a real life test.

Jan. 9, 2011
Download 3.48MB (requires Cloggy's D3D library if running from source)

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Posted: 26th Dec 2010 15:27
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Looks great, Phaelax! I like the style of the graphics. Are the questions sorted by category, or is it a general questions quiz?
Good luck with this!

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Posted: 26th Dec 2010 20:17
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There will be categories. How many depends on how much homework I feel like doing

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Posted: 30th Dec 2010 02:08
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naaah! fraps watermark is in the middle of the questions!!

very nice quiz game.

do you plan to translate it also in Italian?



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Posted: 30th Dec 2010 22:30
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If you want to write the questions in Italian!

You just gave me an idea for the multiplayer, but i'll need a networking plugin.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2011 09:27
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Added a new video. I should have something fully playable within the next day or so.

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2011 15:26
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I'm just about ready to show a playable beta version of the game, today will mostly be about gathering questions and implementing an XML parser. Unfortunately, the DBXML plugin doesn't work for me (makes it unable to compile ANY code when the plugin is loaded) so I'll be going with my own XML parser I wrote awhile back in native DBP code. My goal is to get 10-15 questions for each difficulty in at least 4 different categories.

If anyone would like to help, here's how the questions in the XML are formatted:



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Posted: 4th Jan 2011 18:04
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I've completed the modifications to my XML parser, which I'll post separately in the code-snippets board, and it should be pretty simple to implement in the game.

Still writing questions. A friend helped write a bunch, but unfortunately her computer isn't working with the internet right now and she wrote everything out by hand on paper anyway.

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Posted: 7th Jan 2011 22:30
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This is why you should always plan your game out in advance with fancy charts and stuff. I've changed and added too many things since I started this project that the code has become a headache to manage. At this point it'll be quicker for me to restructure all the code from scratch than trying to figure out how to make the necessary changes.
Most of the original code will still be used of course, just organized in a different manner.

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Posted: 9th Jan 2011 17:47
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Download now available, see first post.

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Posted: 9th Jan 2011 18:04
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I am definately gonna try this out, Phaelax! Downloading.

Nice vids BTW.

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Posted: 10th Jan 2011 15:52
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Hum, I have a good feeling about this, but also a bad one.
First, the good news...the overall impression of the graphics and the mechanics of the menus is really top! I like it very much!
The bad news however, is that whenever I click on the 'New Game' option, the program terminates saying 'DarkBasic Pro Project has stopped working'.
It's really weird. I'm so sad that I can't play this.
Any ideas, Phaelax?

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Posted: 10th Jan 2011 16:37
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I'll assume you're running Windows 7 (or vista perhaps)? This issue was raised yesterday on the competition board, I'm attempting to track down the problem. It has something to do with parsing the XML. BillR has helped me narrow the problem down, and as soon as I get the chance to look the line he mentioned I should hopefully be able to fix it.

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Posted: 10th Jan 2011 16:42
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Quote: "(or vista perhaps)?"

Yep, that's the one.

Quote: "as soon as I get the chance to look the line he mentioned I should hopefully be able to fix it."

Great! I hope you can!

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Posted: 10th Jan 2011 20:13
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I fixed the problem, it was a tiny bug related to returning a string literal from a function rather than a variable. So now that it no longer crashes, I have to figure out why several things don't show up or work on Win7. I feel like I'm building a website and tracking random IE display issues. It's weird so many little things work different on Win7.

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Posted: 11th Jan 2011 20:59 Edited at: 11th Jan 2011 21:07
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Odd, what wasn't working yesterday now works for me. Only issue I have now with Win7 is it crashing when the timer reaches 0.

Ok fixed that. It was another issue of returning literal string from a function. The new version has been uploaded and should work on Windows 7 now.

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