A game written in VB!

Here's a switch: I'm not asking a question about how to make a game, I'm giving you one that's already finished.

http://www.delanet.com/~drendall/gen.html .

Tell me what ya think!

-Zero the Inestimable

Nice job! Thats really addicting! Kind of like Snood! You should try to make it with BitBlt though, the animation is kind of choppy. But otherwise I love it! The interface is awesome! :D

Good job, I´m a bit disappointed I didn´t break your highscore though :p

It got a bit too fast for me in the end...

I had a huge score, but since I pressed OPEN FROM LOCATION, there was nowhere to save I high score to...oh well, maybe tomorrow I can beat it! (Thanks! now you're going to have me addicted to this for a while)

Really nice game! :) But you should be able to remove more than 2 blocks together I think, looks weird if only 2 combines....

However, it's funny!

Yeah like if you get 3 in a row, you're still stuck with 1 left over. It may be easier to win this way. :)

Yeah, but if you line up three 1's, you'd get a 3, and I'd have to draw another sprite for it... Besides, they're all powers of two, and that's symbolic and stuff. You'll just have to change your stragegy a litte to get rid of the third piece.

One of these days I'll publish an in-depth strategy guide. Once I figure out all the little quirks of my own game...

-Zero the Inestimable

Hey this game rocks!!1 I thought this type of games were outdated but this actually is something totally new! And it's addicting :)

Great job! e-mail me and see what you think of my first game attempt.

[email protected]

Hows about sticking your mail on the high score page, then I can mail you my unfeasably high score heh ;)

After hours of playing you made a big score right? (note: played with hexeditor ;))

*hehe*

hex editor?? hex editor? you sully my reputation you imputant oik. I shall summon forth an army of lawyers and.. erm... do something. Besides, hes been clever enough to bit shift all the high scores ;) Lol ****ing excellent game by the way :) you considered selling it? I work in the game industry, I might be able to "hook you up" as it were.

great game, very addictive.
my score is about 8600

but i found a bug.
sometimes after entering my name to the hiscore another block comes to the game and can have some reactions. I can't influence the game anymore, but the score is added and i get another entry to the highscore! (higher than I made it!)
byw my 8600 were regular!

Wish I could create a game like that
Very impressive!

Good luck!

Regards

hey Zero, i got that highscore about 10000, but you haven't put that on the page yet? Yeah, next i'm going to beat your highscore too, hehe :D

there is another bug with the game I just spotted, the exact second the blocks your moving hit the left hand side, you lose the ability to move them up and down, yet all the way up to the left hand wall, you can move them up and down....

This game is... um... addictive to say the least! Great job, Zero!

WOW!!!! nice game. On my first try I got 12000 points I'm the seconds highest on the scoreboard. yaaaaaaa. No really that is a great game.

Yes even though there seems to be a bug or two, IT IS JUST A GREAT GAME!! when I see a game like this I always think man that sux! I could have done this game, but I haven't had the IDEA!!!!

It is really addictive, it keeps me from programming.

Wohoo!! Kicked you butt, Zero :):):)
Score: 18980
Level: 66
Reactions: 662
Max. Chains: 15

damn, about a week ago I was in second, now im almost last!

Aaah! I gotta get better! BTW Zero, do you just put up the best scores for each player instead of leaving all scores?

Only the best score goes on the list. Things get crowded otherwise...

-Zero the Inestimable

btw... it was my first time playing :)

How in the hell did DigitalError do that? :)

Skills.

By the way, I had to finally give-up that game is so boring after the first 192 levels.

Oh Zero, I was playing it again. Should I send my new score file? Or do I only get one spot on the score-board? Otherwise It'd be all me!

One last thing, you need to take out the timer. I noticed the animation speeds up as the levels go on. Someone mentioned this before, when the 'things' hit the right side you can't move them up/down any more. Can you fix this? K, Good.

[Edited by DiGiTaIErRoR on 10-16-2000 at 03:48 AM]

Lol, The numbers were just a blur at level 60 somethin! I wish I could have seen them at your level! well... ;) I know a way I can get that high...

The game doesn't use timers. The reaction animations are always the same speed (200 ms/frame) no matter what level you're on. So it's all in your imagination.

That's not a bug. It's... um.... A strategic feature! Yeah, that's the ticket...

-Zero the Inestimable

what? you're saying it doesn't speed up? It sure does!

Hey, wait...did you use getTickcount to make it go the same speed on every computer? Maybe DigitalError has a slower computer than zero, so he has more time...

Um... the blocks sped up for me... a lot!

The pieces fall faster at higher levels, of course, but the animation (The little swirly thing when thay react) is always the same speed.

I used the Sleep API call. It runs the same on my nephews 900 Mhz Athlon as it does on my Pentium 166...

Is the Sleep call affected by processor speed, like timers are?

-Zero the Inestimable

Heyyy! Can anyone beat my max-chain! Hehehee ;)

What the..?
72400, that's way too much, how fast did it go?

I sent him the file, he hasn't updated his page yet.

I think he is using Cheat 'o' Matic

Believe me, you do not want the solution.

He mixed with kernel and replace Sleep api, with a function that sleeps 10 times longer

Solution to what??

To get a very high score.