Newbie wants to share his creation

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:05 am

Very nice! Smooth character animation, challenging in its growing difficulty. Congratulations on this game

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Post by **joshuadenmark** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:33 am

Wow

very fast and smooth movement.
I like this game, I will recommend a level counter? (oh just found it in lower right corner....silly mee)

Really fun with the banana peel slide, ha ha

Nice work Phil, keep up the good programming

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:08 pm

Any chance of some different keys?
QAGH doesn't seem to work.
I'm using a Microsoft natural keyboard which is split like so between the two hands, so YGHB is impossible to use!

RT YU
FG HJ
VB NM

For Blue Star, and this is copied from Imagine's Arcadia, I use:
the entire bottom letters row for left right, alternating left and right
the entire middle letters row A-L for down
the entire top letters row Q-P for up

Looking good!

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:13 pm

Well, I didn't think about "azerty" vs "qwerty". What about "ED" for up-down and "GH" for left-right, as well as my favorite "YGHB"?

Kweepa · Post by **Kweepa** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:29 pm

GH is still split between hands on my natural keyboard...

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:49 am

"UHJN" and "EHJD"?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:13 am

PhilRanger wrote:
Boray wrote:Nice! It would be even nicer if you could use a joystick though.
Sorry, this was really designed for the keyboard: at faster speeds, you need to be able to queue your commands through the keyboard buffer to allow you to change by just one row or column. It wouldn't be very playable with the joystick. I tried first with the actual key but quickly reversed to using the keyboard buffer.

You can use "QAGH" instead of "YBGH" if you prefer 2 hands style.

It should be possible to make a joystick routine that just copies the key codes into the keyboard buffer.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:26 am

Kweepa wrote:QAGH doesn't seem to work.

Because it's AZGH I discovered. Personally I vote for QAOP key wise...

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:30 pm

qwerty vs qzerty makes anything with QA or WS not great. I like to overlay my hands, left on YG and right on HB, but I can shiftleft or right to void the split personalityproblem of some people here

So left hand could be ED for up-down, and right hand could be HJ for horizontal control, on which I'd add YB for the centralisators like me OR

TFGV with added OP for horizontal

Or make it completely anti MAC/PC with F5-F7 for up-down and arrow-up and 1 for left-right.

Or I dive in and let the user assigh his keys? I still have a few byutes left...

PhilRanger · Post by **PhilRanger** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:31 pm

I think I'll shift this "keyboard preference" stuff to a new thread!