I have made a new boot animation for NRGZ28, it's still in its early stages, and can only hope I have time for more. I'm a huge fan with what he has done to my phone, and he has compelled me to give back to the community.
My goal here was simple. Sometimes I forget(as im sure some of you do to) what it was like owning a stock Rhodium, and i cant even remember what the GUI even looked like. NRGZ28's ROMS, although amazing, does not change dramatically enough for me to be mesmerized everytime i pick my phone up as it used to. Although I'm sure this wont entirely do it either, it will at least remind you of what you hold in your hand! Or something like that anyways, i was never really good at public speeches
This should work for any of his ROMS
P.S.~~if anyone could post some feedback on how far the animation goes on your devices that would be great! that means the leo, rhodium, Raphael... and any other devices that have a screen of that size, on both energyrom and stock roms.. or any roms for those devices. and if you know a way to change the length given for the animations let me know pronto!! I recieved a new warranty phone and the animation isnt playing the same length anymore. not sure if this is due to newer updated roms or the fact that the energyroms tp2 splash screen isnt on there anymore, just shows the ATT splash screen. thanks
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Updated July 8th!
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Additional Notes:
1) At least on my Rhodium, the last second or 2 wont play. (the fade out) It will simply hang on the image for a few seconds. (which works just as good) The orginal was 14 seconds long and i had to speed it up as i am unaware of a way to customize the time wm gives for the boot animation. So if anyone knows of a registry setting or a program that will do this. let me know ASAP!
2) I will also work on getting a sound file for it as well if this becomes popular enough.
Install
1) Download .cab
2) Installs it directly to windows
3) It will ask you to restart
Uninstall
1) Go to settings->system->remove programs
2) Will automatically put back the default animation
Please be patient as doing 3d animations takes a long time, as well as tweaking issues just to have more arise. And don't even get me started on getting a decent gif animator, and then trying to get it to do what its designed to do
Downloads
NRGZ28-Thinking outside the box
hotfile download
Video Preview
Screenshots taken at different intervals(for those of you on outdated phones)
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That looks really cool from the screenshots, the bouncing and then the electric explosion looking thing... haha. Cool work.
Any chance of having it just say HTC there instead of NRG? I think you would get quite a few more downloads/donations.
Also, a short video or gif would be cool so we can see what we're getting!
Idea for Startup Animation
Hi There,
I am a huge fan of energy Roms as well!
I thought the following would be cool!
X-mens wolverine blades comming through a screen shot making the famous-x and the at the bottom Energy ROM...
Wish I knew how to but maybe you can do this for us??
venomshot629 said:
That looks really cool from the screenshots, the bouncing and then the electric explosion looking thing... haha. Cool work.
Any chance of having it just say HTC there instead of NRG? I think you would get quite a few more downloads/donations.
Also, a short video or gif would be cool so we can see what we're getting!
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Hmm.. that sounds like a fantastic idea! so the problem is.. start up a new thread for more generic animations, or just change the name and make categories in this one?
Will most likely be uploading a youtube video of it today.
Bad Boi HTC said:
Hi There,
I am a huge fan of energy Roms as well!
I thought the following would be cool!
X-mens wolverine blades comming through a screen shot making the famous-x and the at the bottom Energy ROM...
Wish I knew how to but maybe you can do this for us??
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Yes, this was my first concept design.. but depending on where the X goes, it might require that i make hands and wrist at least(which is a little bit of work ) unless it slashes with the blades coming through the background..i forget.
i don't know the legality of putting the original wolverine slash in there, (and wheres the fun in that? ) but i will see what i can do
If anyone knows of some good x slash video's, post them up! as i seem to be having a ridiculously hard time finding any. people need to make tags better! you would think there would be hundreds popping up! but no, with the game out all i find is gameplays for origins-wolverine
i like it alot
i think its awsome. wish i had skill like that !
I agree, this is a stunning job!!
gplock said:
i think its awsome. wish i had skill like that !
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well i went to school for it.. its now my $30,000 hobby YAY ITT-Tech
GREAT work man, i installed it,and it turns out that the XBOX360 startup sound lines up nicely with the animation, thats what i use now, if anyone wants the sound i'll link it up
what course man
i want some ! get some Comp on the table. better then heating and AC
thesyntax said:
GREAT work man, i installed it,and it turns out that the XBOX360 startup sound lines up nicely with the animation, thats what i use now, if anyone wants the sound i'll link it up
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yea it sounds pretty good. maybe i could add a separate cab file that has both in it. its not copy write infringement if i dont sell it right? haha
gplock said:
i want some ! get some Comp on the table. better then heating and AC
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maybe its the lack of sleep.. but could you rephrase that? lol
i graduated in Information Technology-Multimedia
nice ..... i like jokes
just googled the closet one from me Bennsalem Pa not that bad.! how long did you go for ?
I liKE it too
venomshot629 said:
That looks really cool from the screenshots, the bouncing and then the electric explosion looking thing... haha. Cool work.
Any chance of having it just say HTC there instead of NRG? I think you would get quite a few more downloads/donations.
Also, a short video or gif would be cool so we can see what we're getting!
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...But alas I am not using energy rom. Please consider making it for HTC.
gplock said:
just googled the closet one from me Bennsalem Pa not that bad.! how long did you go for ?
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I went for 2 years. I got 2 weeks off for winter break, and 1 week off for summer break. if you want your summer off you can have them add another 3 months for each summer. thats just for the associates degree. its another year for the bachelor degree and that gets you ready for making video games.
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...But alas I am not using energy rom. Please consider making it for HTC.
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I will work on it as soon as i get a chance. Hopefully tomorrow or the next day. I will also try and do this for every boot screen I make. There will of course be a few that are only for energyrom
Related
I'd like to nominate this app as the most annoying app ever
Let me know if you think it deserves this prize
Wow that is pretty god dam annoying .
My eyes are still trying to get back to normal wrinting this post
scotjen1 said:
Wow that is pretty god dam annoying .
My eyes are still trying to get back to normal wrinting this post
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I had trouble reading my own post too
One hint I can give anyone wanting to try it is: DO NOT LOOK INTO THE LIGHT
Did you make this software or just find it laying around somewhere
scotjen1 said:
Did you make this software or just find it laying around somewhere
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Wrote it myself
oh man, that's awesome!
could you do me a favor and remove the screen-strobe (so the flashlight only strobes) and upload?
Nice
i thought of another good use for it. When driving down a road and coming up to a speed camera if the car in front is sort of annoying you, you could flash it just to worry em and see if they respond.
The only thing u would need is a bigger button in the GUI and maybe pressed once to start and once to stop.
Sorry just my mind wandering again
Wicked app !
As mentioned, would be absolutely GRRREEEEEAAAATTTT if the screen strobe could be disabled, that way we can blind others without at the same time blinding ourselves lol !
I could disable the screen-strobe, but then the light-flashes would be less-bright.
Somehow if I tell the universal to use ultra-bright flash, it automatically turns off the LCD-backlight, presumably to reserve power to the flash.
When writing it I didn't really have any use in mind apart from annoying friends, but I'll look into the suggestions you guys posted and see if I can come up with anything better
haha minted mate
Could this be made to run when theres an incoming call?
I cant think why you'd ever want to, but there is a chance
JAmes
ps. there a big redish area in the middle of everything i look at now......
omg - if someone does this I will probably regret it
I have a (almost) 2 year old daughter - and she is alway trying to get a hold of my phone anyway.
It would be great to have something on it she could play with (me holding of course) - so my idea was this:
Display like 6 pictures and assign sounds to them.
Example: farm would be a cow, a pig, a rooster, ... and the corresponding sounds they make
another: family and friends with their own voices stating their names
For occupation in boring places like the doctors or whatever 'waiting-place' this would really be neat.
There would probably be many more ideas for kids - although it might not be to hot of an idea having them play with our Diamonds....
I'm no programmer - but this sounds to me like not too big of a deal right?
Anyone?
I've no problems taking this on for you, but you're right about letting your kids loose with your diamond...
What kind of things did you have in mind, like one of those things you get attatched to the side of those kids story books?
Would not take long to generate a simple re-usable interface, with a simple config file for assigning pictures and sounds to little picture boxes.
yeah - that was exactly what I had in mind!
And I am not planing on really 'giving it to her hands' - perhaps if it were to run on different resolution I might give her my charmer (looks like s*** anyway as I dropped it about a zillion times).
thx for posting - was not sure to get an answer since my idea does not include any sensor-functionality
hope to find some spare time tomorrow - I would check for some example pics/sounds
I'm interested too!
ME TOO... Please
I don't have any kids...
But it sound like fun ..
Will keep me occupied for hours!!
you guys might want to check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424081
i think this is what your lookin for
Keland44 said:
you guys might want to check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424081
i think this is what your lookin for
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I`ve already got that but what i think schmeichler is after is something with pretty colourful pictures on that when pressed play childrens sounds. Not lazer guns and i fart in your general direction!!
me too.... sign me up....
x 2 girls 4 years (twins)
x 1 boy 5 months
Yeah, this is a great idea!
Also interested
intrested as well what about won with mickey mouse club house? my Johnny is crazy over this
johnboywilson said:
I`ve already got that but what i think schmeichler is after is something with pretty colourful pictures on that when pressed play childrens sounds. Not lazer guns and i fart in your general direction!!
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yea i figured this was a start since it does basically what you guys are looking for and it uses flash if you get the ok from the creator you could use a flash decomipler and change the works so instead of accepting text it accepts images because you can add whatever sounds you want
looks like this might be a solution i asked the developer and he said it will load an image so it just takes the user playin around with it to get it the way they want it to be
Bubble Breaker and Teeter work great for my 7 year old twins!
I'm just gonna go have some tea, and feed the dogs, then i'll start on this little project for you. I should be able to make it simple enough to modify, by restricting the config to a single file.
It will most likely have 6 buttons taking up the whole of the screen, which could be mapped to different images and sounds (Any more, and they'd be hard for little fingers to see and press, especially on non-VGA screens). For example:
Cow,./Farm/Cow.png,./Farm/Cow.wav
Chicken,./Farm/Chicken.png,./Farm/Chicken.wav
Hopefully it should be reasonably simple to get the structure in such a way that you could make a new folder for a theme, which had the ini file, along with a collection of sounds and pictures.
Any objections to this kind of layout before I begin coding (In about 30 mins)?
Games for kids
yeh I also have a two & half year age son, who wana do something with HTC
brins0 said:
I'm just gonna go have some tea, and feed the dogs, then i'll start on this little project for you. I should be able to make it simple enough to modify, by restricting the config to a single file.
It will most likely have 6 buttons taking up the whole of the screen, which could be mapped to different images and sounds (Any more, and they'd be hard for little fingers to see and press, especially on non-VGA screens). For example:
Cow,./Farm/Cow.png,./Farm/Cow.wav
Chicken,./Farm/Chicken.png,./Farm/Chicken.wav
Hopefully it should be reasonably simple to get the structure in such a way that you could make a new folder for a theme, which had the ini file, along with a collection of sounds and pictures.
Any objections to this kind of layout before I begin coding (In about 30 mins)?
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Nope that sounds fine to me, just wish i could stuff like this myself instead of waiting for other people doing for me...
johnboywilson said:
Nope that sounds fine to me, just wish i could stuff like this myself instead of waiting for other people doing for me...
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It's quite alright, gives me something to bored, coz i'm bored out of my tiny mind...
Here you go
That should do the job for yu, although it was built quickly. If you need it to do more, than ask, but that does all you originally wanted. Instructions are on the page.
This sounds awsome.
I have a...
9 week old girl
2 Yr old girl
3 yr old girl
This would be awsome. any sort of an idea of time?
jacob.loynes said:
I have a...
9 week old girl
2 Yr old girl
3 yr old girl
This would be awsome. any sort of an idea of time?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428053
Well.... I am for once happy with my titan.... It reminds me of a phone now.... No more typing messages and waiting for the characters to catch up.... No more horrific waiting of the screen to turn from portrait to landscape.... It's almost as if.... I upgraded the ram on my phone.. but i didnt.... All i did was install nuechems 6152-3pre3....and put it in the high mem mode... I was kinda sad about the high mem mode turning off the camera....but wow.... it was well worth it... Ephing amazing.... The best of the best.... but then i thought... it's too bland... so installed Manilla 2D..... WOW!!!! once again.... AMAZING.. and i'm not a lier... it's just as smooth as an IPHONE..... i'm talking about super smooth.. It's pretty much like butter....
No one asked me to write this.... But i wanted to give the people that made this possible, a big thank you.... I no longer want to throw my titan at a wall... I am no longer jealous of the IPHONE (though the text app on the iphone is still much cleaner looking) but wow.... thanks
NO2CHEM (Guys donate to this guy, amazing work he does for all of us)
Herg62123 (i'm not sure if it was all him for Manilla 2D, but i know he put a lot of work in, DONATE!)
Well stop reading, and do what i did, and be happy...
I Fully Second That
I too was amazed at how fast and smooth my titan now runs, well worth the donate button getting sum luv. Big thanks to all the hard work that went into giving me pure bliss...at least until they update ...LOL
So what are you saying? That Manilla 2D is second to none?
where can we get it?
I too am very, very interested in this release. But, all i've ever done is add cab's or plugins. i want to be as happy with my 6800 as you are with yours.
Is there a how to??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tiEji2sTyA
oh my god !!!!! I hope it is NOT a fake !!!!!!!!!
Yes, same comment from me...
How the hell did he it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=435131
I reccomend to rename this thread hoping the solution - explanation how to use the camera view as background on TF3D can be accomplished.
Can not be else than some reg tweaks - but which ones...THAT is the question
Wow, thats a battery saver
But cool is that the top and bottom menu are trasparent!
My guess is that it is a picture theme and the theme is the tf3d screen, so you probably couldn'y actaully use the phone from there.
Thats what I reckon anyway
guys- look carefully at the clip.
it is not recorded - it is the camera showing live stream as you would record or take a picture.
Certainly not a battery saver as it uses the autofocus function which is mechanic and consumes more.
However, it is really cool.
ahhh... the possibilities
think this, and the beer app!! get it... see through beer glass!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412667
sorry it's friday... and I'm looking forward for some beers at the pub
NisseDILLIGAF said:
ahhh... the possibilities
think this, and the beer app!! get it... see through beer glass!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412667
sorry it's friday... and I'm looking forward for some beers at the pub
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hahahaha same here I love friday beers at the pub
Will be sure to drink one in name of XDA Developers.
Greetings to all.
looks awesome BUT, thats a CDMA diamond with 256 MB of ram and its running so slow to his gesture commands. i have a feeling that it would make your GSM diamonds puke and it would be bailrly useable for the CDMA users. HOWEVER it is very sweet!
So...it is or it isn't a fake !?
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So...it is or it isn't a fake !?
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has anyone had any speculation that it is fake? it looks real to me,
just my 2 cents.
could be fake
if not... let us know how
UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE!!!!
I Want it!!!!!!
This is the T-Mobile version of the HTC Diamond....!?
This phone is release yet??
Maybe it's standard?
It's ****ing hot to show off but useless ass hell
hdzsound said:
This is the T-Mobile version of the HTC Diamond....!?
This phone is release yet??
Maybe it's standard?
It's ****ing hot to show off but useless ass hell
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T-Mobile version is a Victor by design, not that it matters
it isnt standard anyway; ive got one. the standard rom is as slow as it gets.
ceevee369 said:
guys- look carefully at the clip.
it is not recorded - it is the camera showing live stream as you would record or take a picture.
Certainly not a battery saver as it uses the autofocus function which is mechanic and consumes more.
However, it is really cool.
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At 16secs when taking the phone towards the camera he should have took the camera towards the phone: the phone's image dont change.
I believe it is really a fake. The image just doesnt look right. That swinging left/right is very unnatural.
So I vote for fake
I don't understand what the big deal is? I don't have that creative of a mind though so maybe I'm not thinking of something cool that could be done with this...
looks fake given the display angle on the screen doesn't match the angle of the camera on the subject.
i suspect it's a mirror that's used to reflect the object image onto the shinny reflective screen on the diamond. But I could be wrong.
regardless, very creative!
I'd say he just used chroma keying
UPDATE v1.2 Just released onto the market
Thanks for all of the feedback. Please keep it coming. I think it's coming along nicely, next stage is to lay more in-game features.
More importantly - what do you think? The link is in my signature.
I've also started up a blog - if anyone is interested in writing their own app - it's how I've found the process.
::1.2
+ Redesigned graphics engine
+ Support for multi-sized devices including 320x480 up to tablets
+ Enhanced levelling system
+ Persisted scores and progress
+ Mute music/fx added to front screen and gameplay screens
+ Added new creep
+ Fixed FC issues on game leaving/re-entering
+ Redesigned splash screens
+ General bug fixes and graphical tweaks
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I've just released Livestock Vs The Undead Lite v1.1 (free strategy game) onto Android Market and Amazon. (See screenshots attached)
I've tried to resolve all issues that had been raised and feel the game presents much more of a challenge. I've rewritten a large chunk of the graphics engine to handle a more involved playing environment. Added new characters, sounds and more features than I can list.
If you had tried it before and thought it too basic, or haven't tried it - please check out the new version and let me know if I'm it's starting to show any potential. If you liked it before, please let me know if you think any ways to improve it?
Sincerely - this project is being driven by feedback - so any is most welcome. All suggestions will be considered.
Many thanks,
Paul
Hi,
** EDIT : 04/06/2011 : Livestock Vs The Undead Lite is now completely free and available in the Android Market! Please check it out! **
I thought it'd be great to give and receive thoughts and feelings for my first ever attempt at an android tower defence type game. (Currently available on the android market.)
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A brief description:
"Only you can save the planet. Again. 'Cos you are good at it!
"The farm is under attack! It's an all out invasion from hordes of gruesomely reanimated dead and the animals aren't going to take it lying down.
"Fight wave after wave of increasing challenging life-challenged assailants.
Utilise each of the unique skills on offer from the livestock that are fighting your cause.
"This is a taste of an imminent future release."
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I am very new to all this and am keen to learn. The biggest question is : what do you think?
Cheers,
Paul
pphillips001 said:
Hi,
I thought it'd be great to give and receive thoughts and feelings for my first ever attempt at an android tower defence type game. (Currently available on the android market.)
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A brief description:
"Only you can save the planet. Again. 'Cos you are good at it!
"The farm is under attack! It's an all out invasion from hordes of gruesomely reanimated dead and the animals aren't going to take it lying down.
"Fight wave after wave of increasing challenging life-challenged assailants.
Utilise each of the unique skills on offer from the livestock that are fighting your cause.
"This is a taste of an imminent future release."
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I am very new to all this and am keen to learn. The biggest question is : what do you think?
Cheers,
Paul
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Here's what i think!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14104107&postcount=4
Potter1984 - I've responded here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093941
Hi!
Under the superb advice given from these very forums I have released the game freely into the market.
Just search for 'Livestock vs the Undead Lite'.
Please check it out and I would appreciate any feedback.
Many thanks,
Paul
Hi,
Very nice for your first game. Is this an original game concept by you or did you 'copy' it from another game? (I know it's based on tower defense games, but never saw a 'top down' one like this)
Played it one time now till I got to level 3, then I died
some remarks
- why is the screen shifting when I move the phone around?
- tutorial screens are not very clear plus they dont stay on screen long enough. It's like: "1 pig is 1 rocket, 1 hay is 1 shield, wait a minute.. what?" and then the screen is already gone
- also, it wasn't obvious that the chickens and stuff cost 'cash'. At first I thought they only 'cost' time. And I couldnt figure out why I couldnt build any pigs, thats when I realised I needed to build up cash.
- there's also no clear way to tell how much each animal costs in cash
- level 1 is kinda boring, I think level 1 is necessary, because you should give people the time too learn the game, but it's too long. When you reach level 2 things get a lot more interesting, zombies are coming at you in higher numbers and at higher speed (i think).
- I also think zombies get more health as you progress through the levels? But there's no way to tell, so I didnt know how many chickens to place
- Last remark: When a zombie reaches the first of your 'last defense' chickens, your basicly screwed. There's nothing you can do. Maybe you should introduce a bomb or something to push the zombies back?
- And also introduce some animals that don't just shoot up. (or maybe there are some in later levels?)
Anyway, it's pretty nice for your first game. I even enjoyed it a bit, but tower defense type games can't hold my interest for very long i'm afraid.
Hope this was of some help to you.
Grtz
Hi swimon,
First of all: many thanks for your feedback.
"Very nice for your first game. Is this an original game concept by you or did you 'copy' it from another game? (I know it's based on tower defense games, but never saw a 'top down' one like this)"
It has elements of several tower defence games - I thought the vertical layout would set it out from the rest. I haven't seen any other quite like this.
"Played it one time now till I got to level 3, then I died "
Not bad for your first go!
"some remarks
- why is the screen shifting when I move the phone around? "
It allows the player to see a larger playing area that the phone's screen. I was hoping it would make the game more involving and a bit more interesting to watch.
"- tutorial screens are not very clear plus they dont stay on screen long enough. It's like: "1 pig is 1 rocket, 1 hay is 1 shield, wait a minute.. what?" and then the screen is already gone "
I agree. I think I shall add a 'tutorial' section that incorporates levels one to three. Players new to the game will then get a gentle intro to the game and repeat players could then skips these easier levels to get straight into the action.
"- also, it wasn't obvious that the chickens and stuff cost 'cash'. At first I thought they only 'cost' time. And I couldnt figure out why I couldnt build any pigs, thats when I realised I needed to build up cash. "
As above.
"- there's also no clear way to tell how much each animal costs in cash"
That was the next thing on my list to do!
"- level 1 is kinda boring, I think level 1 is necessary, because you should give people the time too learn the game, but it's too long. When you reach level 2 things get a lot more interesting, zombies are coming at you in higher numbers and at higher speed (i think)."
This should be addressed in the tutorial as mentioned above.
"- I also think zombies get more health as you progress through the levels? But there's no way to tell, so I didnt know how many chickens to place "
You are correct - the creeps (I take it you haven't gotten past the zombies yet?) do get harder each level. I did this so you'll never reach a stalemate which would take all interest out of the game. My intention is to make some shooters more powerful against some creeps than others, which should add to the strategy element.
"- Last remark: When a zombie reaches the first of your 'last defense' chickens, your basicly screwed. There's nothing you can do. Maybe you should introduce a bomb or something to push the zombies back?"
Yep. I have a number of attack methods to add.
"- And also introduce some animals that don't just shoot up. (or maybe there are some in later levels?)"
As above.
"Anyway, it's pretty nice for your first game. I even enjoyed it a bit, but tower defense type games can't hold my interest for very long i'm afraid. "
Many thanks. I know tower defence isn't everyone's flavour of game but I do appreciate you taking the time to try it out and even more so for giving me this feedback.
"Hope this was of some help to you."
Absolutely!
Cheers
Paul
pphillips001 said:
"some remarks
- why is the screen shifting when I move the phone around? "
It allows the player to see a larger playing area that the phone's screen. I was hoping it would make the game more involving and a bit more interesting to watch.
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Just be careful with sensor controls. It's not everyone's cup of tea first of all, a lot of people don't like it. And secondly it's very difficult to implement well (imo).
You could also easily control the camera by swyping your fingers on the screen? Maybe make it a user defined setting.
Thirdly (is that a word?): I don't really see the point of it? I don't know at what resolution you tested it, but on my Desire, I can already see every row/column so there's no need to shift?
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"- I also think zombies get more health as you progress through the levels? But there's no way to tell, so I didnt know how many chickens to place "
You are correct - the creeps (I take it you haven't gotten past the zombies yet?) do get harder each level. I did this so you'll never reach a stalemate which would take all interest out of the game. My intention is to make some shooters more powerful against some creeps than others, which should add to the strategy element.
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Maybe you should change the color of the shirts of the zombies as they grow stronger, so the player knows he's facing a stronger opponent.
pphillips001 said:
"- Last remark: When a zombie reaches the first of your 'last defense' chickens, your basicly screwed. There's nothing you can do. Maybe you should introduce a bomb or something to push the zombies back?"
Yep. I have a number of attack methods to add.
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You could maybe also add an option to retreat your animals. When you see your defenses are going to be breached, you can quickly change one of your chickens in for a pig or a hay stack. (or something like that)
pphillips001 said:
"- And also introduce some animals that don't just shoot up. (or maybe there are some in later levels?)"
As above.
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introduce one animal that shoots sideways, the player could then first place a hay stack and beneath it a sideways shooting animal!
Also lastly: This game asked me for root priveleges? that's a big no no! so please fix that.
You can always PM me if you update to a newer version!
Grtz
swimon said:
Just be careful with sensor controls. It's not everyone's cup of tea first of all, a lot of people don't like it. And secondly it's very difficult to implement well (imo).
You could also easily control the camera by swyping your fingers on the screen? Maybe make it a user defined setting.
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I'm ripping out the tilt code for the next release. It's not really needed and I found it a bit distracting.
swimon said:
Thirdly (is that a word?): I don't really see the point of it? I don't know at what resolution you tested it, but on my Desire, I can already see every row/column so there's no need to shift?
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As above. I'm a fellow Desireian. (Desirables?) We rock!
swimon said:
Maybe you should change the color of the shirts of the zombies as they grow stronger, so the player knows he's facing a stronger opponent.
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Good suggestion.
swimon said:
You could maybe also add an option to retreat your animals. When you see your defenses are going to be breached, you can quickly change one of your chickens in for a pig or a hay stack. (or something like that)
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I have something cunning in mind for this.
swimon said:
introduce one animal that shoots sideways, the player could then first place a hay stack and beneath it a sideways shooting animal!
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This is also going on the list.
swimon said:
Also lastly: This game asked me for root priveleges? that's a big no no! so please fix that.
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I'm a bit confused by this? It hooks into the wakelock and vibration permissions (both of which I have taken out of the next release) - other than that it shouldn't ask for anything else?
swimon said:
You can always PM me if you update to a newer version!
Grtz
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Will do, and thanks again. You are a star!
Great feedback.
Cheers,
Paul
heya,
yeah, don't know why it asks for root permission. I clicked deny and remember and the game still runs fine. So dunno...
The game is actually pretty addicting, but it's also really hard (maybe thats what makes it addicting...)
I already found a way to cheat though
When you see one of your shields (hay stack) is about to go down, quickly replace it with another at the moment it get's destroyed
You could also introduce downward shooting animals to kill off the last zombies of the wave who are still attacking your hay stacks
Looking forward to the new version, 'cause I'm a little confused by the cash/time system
Glad to see your taking on board all the advice and critique on board, THAT is what makes a dev a GOOD dev.
Thanks for listening and keep at it!
Got to level 5 yesterday,
even managed to place one cat and one cow
but i'm not sure the cash system is in balance, I wasn't generating enough cash to build the more powerful animals/defenses to hold back to numerous (!) zombies and vampires
potter1984 said:
Glad to see your taking on board all the advice and critique on board, THAT is what makes a dev a GOOD dev.
Thanks for listening and keep at it!
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Thanks. I am trying. I'll keep developing/tweaking for as long as I'm getting feedback (I may have doomed myself there).
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heya,
yeah, don't know why it asks for root permission. I clicked deny and remember and the game still runs fine. So dunno...
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It's still puzzling me that one. I've not heard anyone else being asked for it.
swimon said:
The game is actually pretty addicting, but it's also really hard (maybe thats what makes it addicting...)
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It should be even more so (on both counts) in the next rel.
swimon said:
I already found a way to cheat though
When you see one of your shields (hay stack) is about to go down, quickly replace it with another at the moment it get's destroyed
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Kind of - you'll eventually run out of money, so it's only a temporary 'feature'.
swimon said:
You could also introduce downward shooting animals to kill off the last zombies of the wave who are still attacking your hay stacks
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I've just updated the bullet code to handle 360 degree firing. It should start to get more interesting now.
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Looking forward to the new version, 'cause I'm a little confused by the cash/time system
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At the moment there is a slow cash over time increase - in case you put your first animal down in the wrong column on the first turn.
You get additional cash from shooting baddies - the more so the harder the creep.
The cooldown time is more for the hardier animal (apart from haystacks which I've kept quick cooldowns).
All this will be revealed in the tutorial.
swimon said:
Got to level 5 yesterday,
even managed to place one cat and one cow
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Yay - well done! I can see I've made it too easy - I can easily fix that!
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but i'm not sure the cash system is in balance, I wasn't generating enough cash to build the more powerful animals/defenses to hold back to numerous (!) zombies and vampires
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Perhaps more frugal animal spending may help? On it's current settings I have completed level 12 (only once though ).
Thanks again,
Paul
v1.1 Released to the market. Please see original post for details.
Regards,
Paul
nice, i'll check it out one of these days
(messing around with some roms atm...)
Grtz
swimon said:
nice, i'll check it out one of these days
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Cheers, I'd appreciate it.
swimon said:
(messing around with some roms atm...)
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Good luck! I've spent way too much time checking out new roms - my poor Desire is starting to have an identity crisis! XJs MIUI is my personal fave at the moment. Or is your 'messing' at a lower level?
Cheers,
Paul
I've had reports of memory issues and have tracked it down in the code.
I'll release a fix for this later today.
Regards,
Paul
v1.1a has just been released onto the market.
Please let me know if there are any further issues and I'll jump straight on them.
Regards,
Paul
v1.1b has been uploaded with further memory optimizations.
This should fix some of the issues a small number of you have reported.
Cheers,
Paul
New screenshots have been posted on the original post.
For the next release I am looking to persist current level - so when you come back to play you start at the selection screen of the last level you had reached (with the option to start from the beginning again).
I have also raised the bullets to the top level - as they were looking a little strange flying through friendlies!
I have tracked down a bug that was causing force closes when the game had be paused and the user returned.
I am also looking to add some more variety to the creeps, bullets and towers.
Any suggestions on what you'd like to see adding?
Cheers,
Paul
New version (1.2) released onto the market.
Please check it out and let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Paul