AYU (As Yet Unnamed) - WIP

[citystate]

dropbox download link

Hi guys,

I've been coding a little game during my free time, thought some people might like to try it out.

it's a colour matching game, much like Bejewelled and the like. Click and drag the balls to make a row of three or more - a match of four in a row will clear the row, and a row of 5 or a cross (or a 'L' shape) of 5 or more of the same color will give a multicoloured ball which will match with any ball - pretty basic right?

well in order to make it more interesting, as soon as you start scoring, the timer starts - slowly eroding your score (at first), but speeding up as you play until it's a blur.Once your score is eroded to zero, it's game over and you'll be awarded your final score so you can brag to your friends.

All coded in PB, of course - though, the source is part of a larger project, so I'll keep that under wraps for the moment
feedback would be appreciated

[Edit for screenshots]



Thanks,
citystate

[Zach]

I felt bad no one had given you feedback, so I downloaded it to try it.


But there are no instructions given, and it doesn't seem to respond to any kind of input.. keypresses, mouse clicks, joypad buttons..
I don't even know how to start a game!

I open the program, and the mouse icon turns from a pointer to a busy circle, while the program draws a screen full of colored balls. Then it just sits there with the scores at 0.
I hate to be harsh, but how do you expect people to give feedback on something with no instructions? I can't even tell if the program is working properly..

[IdeasVacuum]

The instructions are given in the post......
However, I can't drag the balls!

[glomph]

This is Nice!
Works fine with Win 8.1

[citystate]

thanks for the feedback guys

no problem Zach, as IdeasVacuum said, the game instructions were in the original post (it's a work in progress, in-game instructions didn't make it into this version) - the game will start as soon as you make your first match of 3 or more balls of the same colour.

not too sure why you can't drag the balls, Ideas; I'm currently rewriting most of the GUI, so hopefully I can nip that in the bud.

awesome glomph, glad it works on 8.1 (I just upgraded my system, it's nice to know it'll work on it too)

[Zach]

I wasn't referring to game rules instructions, but program interaction. Usually you have to hit a key or do something to actually start a game, etc. And since I can't get the program to work, I was assuming there was some trick I was oblivious to.

However I just tried again randomly dragging the mouse over the game surface and clicking wildly and it does appear to respond. However it appears very laggy with the drawing updates and its hard to tell exactly when I have something activated and where/how I should drag it. It appears I need to drag the ones with the hand icons, to try and make matches but that's about as much as I can understand

[citystate]

yeah... that's kinda what I meant about working on the GUI, there's a lack of player feedback - trying to fix that