Nugget - 2D platformer game - out now!

[Rings]

Are you have used an own written physics behavior or did you use an 'external' physics engine?

I wrote my own physics code from scratch. This is good because I had total control, knew all the quirks, and I could add whatever features I wanted. But it's bad because I spent a long time fixing collision bugs, and it's very limited -- only rectangles can interact!

You should switch to the Chipmunk4PB wrapper which port the Chipmunk 2D physics engine to PureBasic.

Chipmunk4PB supports much more primitives: Segments, Circles, Boxes and Polygons. Each of this 'Shape' can be a static object too.
I think I have to write an example game which look like yours

chipmunk wrapper is multiplattform (win/Linux/MAC) ????

[kenmo]

You pay 20-30% in most app stores, and AFAIK that's $0.00 if the game/app is free.

I thought Apple had a $99/year developer fee. I asked a friend yesterday and he thinks it only applies if you're selling your apps (non-free).

You can test it online: The Impossible Game and see some screenshots.

Actually I think I did play this a while ago. That's more of a fast pick-up-and-play arcade game, good for mobile. My game is slower paced, has a sort of "story", equally frustrating . Better suited for a keyboard or gamepad than a touchscreen.

You should switch to the Chipmunk4PB wrapper which port the Chipmunk 2D physics engine to PureBasic.

I will check it out, but it's far too late to switch physics engines for this project. Is C4PB cross-platform?

[IceSoft]

Is C4PB cross-platform?

Sorry no. Chipmunk4PB is windows only at the moment.
BTW: What are you belive: How much PureBasic user will write 2D physics games on linux and on Mac?

[wilbert]

I thought Apple had a $99/year developer fee. I asked a friend yesterday and he thinks it only applies if you're selling your apps (non-free).

It doesn't matter, free or paid. You always have to pay the developer fee.
Free games usually make money by advertisements or in-app purchases of additional things.

[IdeasVacuum]

Make a proper installer for it (search this forum for the free ones). Put it on your own website, put a price on it (PayPal) and announce it's availabilty everywhere you can - especially gamer's forums, websites etc. If your country has magazines on games, write a press release, with a small selection of screen shots. If you have a facebook 'like' icon, then we can all 'like' your website and that will also help to spread the word. You have created something that could easily gain a cult following, I think it could appeal to people of all age groups and interests.

[kenmo]

Make a proper installer for it (search this forum for the free ones). Put it on your own website, put a price on it (PayPal) and announce it's availabilty everywhere you can - especially gamer's forums, websites etc. If your country has magazines on games, write a press release, with a small selection of screen shots. If you have a facebook 'like' icon, then we can all 'like' your website and that will also help to spread the word. You have created something that could easily gain a cult following, I think it could appeal to people of all age groups and interests.

Installer: I will probably offer an installer or ZIP download, I prefer when websites offer both
Website: A simple website is in the making.
Payment: If I offer a paid version, it will be through fastspring.com or another service that accepts PayPal, credit card, and other options.
Magazines, Facebook, Cult Following: I think I will finish the game and let people try it before I worry about those.

[void]

Is C4PB cross-platform?

Sorry no. Chipmunk4PB is windows only at the moment.
BTW: What are you belive: How much PureBasic user will write 2D physics games on linux and on Mac?

I know I'm targeting both windows and mac, and if it remains trivial I'll create linux binaries while I'm at it.

[kenmo]

Finally an update about my game:

+ The actual "game" contents (levels, etc.) are done, I finished the last of it soon after posting this thread.

+ Thanks to Fred's hard work and the release of PB 5.00, the Mac port is 99% complete! There are just a couple UI tweaks to do and a music bug I posted here: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 24&t=52121 (can anyone confirm?)

+ I finally finished some ugly-but-useful documentation for the editor, which is hugely based on the CanvasGadget: see here

+ The full game will be free. You can also get the editor and the full game XML for $5 USD. The purchase page is set up... There might be a sale price for PB forum members

I hope to release it by the end of this month!

[IdeasVacuum]

The Editor is a good feature. What a fantastic job you have done kenmo, really excellent work.

[kenmo]

Hello again!

NUGGET is finally finished and publicly available! (See first post.)

It has been out for about 48 hours, I haven't announced it yet because I was patching some new bug reports as fast as I could!

Should be stable on Windows XP+ and OSX 10.5+ now.

Feedback is welcome!

[djes]

Impressive ! I post this info on the french forum...

[luis]

Looks very nice, congratulations. I love the facial expressions

[Fred]

Very good !

[Num3]

Nice work! Brilliant idea and game design.

RESPECT

[gnasen]

you have done a very great job, impressive!
I only have a single problem on my laptop, the performance sometimes drops down to very few FPS. Any Idea what it could be?