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Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:28 pm
by jimmynewguy
Never made a map loader/saver so I did for a very simple game. Had some fun with this one, check it out and what not! :)

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:01 pm
by EvanBlack
how does it work? I didn't look at the source, just went straight to game mode

even looking through the source, still not sure what its suppose to be doing. I know saves blocks that you make appear on the screen, but what does it do?

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:09 pm
by jimmynewguy
oh, duh. Instructions. haha, you just drag the squares around (only left and right they have gravity so they will fall down if possible) with the mouse to try and fill the goals (slightly transparent blocks) for the map maker control l is load control s is save, type a name and hit enter. Same for custom levels in game.

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:33 pm
by lcl
Hey, that's a nice game! :D
Anyway, it took me a while to find out that one has to press spacebar for creating the transparent block in the map maker.. :D

But overall very nice game and a nice way of creating those levels!

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:33 pm
by SuperSonic
Wow, amazing game. I am officially addicted :lol:

+1 for you :wink:

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:41 am
by jimmynewguy
Addicted? Ha, well thanks. I figured all the puzzles would be too easy since I'm not that creative... oh well. Glad you liked it! :)

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:01 am
by SuperSonic
Ha, well thanks. I figured all the puzzles would be too easy since I'm not that creative

They are hard actually. It took me a while to figure out puzzle no. 13 haha :P

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:49 am
by jimmynewguy
Awesome! Originally I was going to have different colored blocks do different things, like only blue can go in water, orange "falls" up ect. but became too lazy with making this. I just wanted to see if I could make a map editor :lol:

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:17 am
by lcl
jimmynewguy wrote:Awesome! Originally I was going to have different colored blocks do different things, like only blue can go in water, orange "falls" up ect. but became too lazy with making this. I just wanted to see if I could make a map editor :lol:

Hey, do that what you was going to do! This game will be very great then!
Also you should add help section to the game and maybe make those transparent blocks to be more noticeable some way. :)

I like this! Also, how about adding reset level, because when you fail the level you have to close and start the game again for trying again..

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:00 pm
by jimmynewguy
R resets the level, man I need to not forget to explain how to use things next time I make something! :lol:

EDIT: I can always put making the better version for this on the "back burner" so to speak. My only problems with projects I want to do now is art. I can't draw at all so nothing will ever look as good as I imagine :(

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:08 pm
by SuperSonic
jimmynewguy wrote:Awesome! Originally I was going to have different colored blocks do different things, like only blue can go in water, orange "falls" up ect.

Dood, do that. That would make the game sooooo much funner (Yes I know that funner is not a word). But seriously, that would make the game much more challenging :D

jimmynewguy wrote:man I need to not forget to explain how to use things next time I make something!

You could make a readme file in the game folder. That would fix it probably :wink:

Oh and, there should be some way to easily add your levels to the main menu. Like once you finish making a level, it adds it to the list so that you can scroll to it and play it instead of typing the name of it in. You know :P

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:11 pm
by jimmynewguy
SuperSonic wrote:Oh and, there should be some way to easily add your levels to the main menu. Like once you finish making a level, it adds it to the list so that you can scroll to it and play it instead of typing the name of it in. You know :P

Originally was going to do that, once again just more of a "lazy" thing. I would just have another menu for player levels. Anyway, I will consider this later like I edited in my last post. Just need to collect my ideas and such.

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:59 pm
by jimmynewguy
lcl wrote:maybe make those transparent blocks to be more noticeable some way. :)

Anyone have a good way to do this? I can't think of a good way for these to look.. Everything I tried is either worse or looks bad.

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:40 pm
by skydereign
Have a slightly brighter dotted border rotating around it.

Re: Squares Puzzle Game With Map Maker

PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:39 pm
by jimmynewguy
@sky
Duhh, why couldn't I think of that? Anyway, it seems to have proven way less easy to have a 3d matrix with the first holding a level number and saving it all onto one file instead of having 50 level files (or whatever). I have other ideas though...I hope. :lol: