Balls, free game on the play store, developed in Processing, would love feedback!

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Balls, free game on the play store, developed in Processing, would love feedback!

in Share your Work • 2 months ago

I've just completed and published my first game for Android built predominately in Processing with the final tweaks in Eclipse.

It's loosely based on the Dots game for iPhone, although Balls is obviously much better!

If you want to have a play it's available on Google Play for Android here: http://goo.gl/xoep6j

Any comments/feedback/questions welcome!

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dimkir

Re: Balls, a game. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

why does it require so many permissions, if it is just a ball game?

mfmc.dev

Re: Re: Balls, a game. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

Legit question, I think it's due to the slightly annoying way Google lists its permission in the play store. End of the day those are all to handle highscores locally and global. Have a look at most top free games in the play store, they appear to have the same permissions, which is why I left it.

The permissions the app uses:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

mfmc.dev

Re: Re: Balls, a game. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

actually only just noticed the "test access to protected storage", going to check where that comes from..

edit: looks like that is the result of using PrintWriter

dimkir

Re: Balls, a game for Android. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/PrintWriter.html says that it is just a wrapper for OutputStream or Writer, which means that this is just a convenience class Wherease OutputStream may be writing to different streams, maybe if you write to android storage (not SD card) this may be the case???

Class Overview

Wraps either an existing OutputStream or an existing Writer and provides convenience methods for printing common data types in a human readable format. No IOException is thrown by this class. Instead, callers should use checkError() to see if a problem has occurred in this writer.

mfmc.dev

Re: Re: Balls, a game for Android. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

Cool! I was under the impression PrintWriter could only write to external storage, but I guess that is only because that was the only way I could make it work when running sketches from processing.

I've updated the apk now, it will take a little while to update on the Play store, but I've gotten rid of some annoying permissions, thanks for your help!

dimkir

Re: Balls, a game for Android. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

Also this is how I see your game page. Dunno if this is only my problem. Other pages on google play look ok.

mfmc.dev

Re: Re: Balls, a game for Android. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

Not sure about this..looks ok on my screen. Have re-uploaded the images in png io jpg, maybe that fixes it? Thanks for letting me know!

mfmc.dev

Re: Balls, a game for Android. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

Also, just realised I can't set my content maturity rating to "everyone", because the game is called Balls..slightly immature at Google?

dimkir

Re: Balls, a game for Android. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

Yeah... what can I say...

Balls!

By the way, I can give you insight from the standpoint of user who never played similar game (which I am). I tried it on the bus, and once I got to this grid of colored balls, I didn't get the objective of what I was supposed to do. So I was just trying touching circles but with no effect. IMHO you need some clearer exlpanations of what needs to be done.

mfmc.dev

Re: Re: Balls, a game for Android. Inspired by Dots

2 months ago

Thanks again, good point. I tried to add a short tutorial when you play your first game, but can probably do with more clear instructions. Maybe I'll add in some tips/instructions during the actual game itself, like pointing at which balls to connect.

The general concept of the game is to connect numbers of the same value up to their own value. So you would connect three 3's that are neighbours on the grid by swiping over the three 3's. They'll be highlighted and then drop off the screen and you get 3 points. The same for the other numbers, apart from 1's which, as their value is 1, you just tap to drop them off the screen.

If you go fast (as in connect a set of balls every second for at least 10 seconds running) your scores get squared, so you get 3*3 points when you connect three 3's. If you go fast enough for another 10 connections your scores go up to the power of 3, i.e. 3*3*3.

Does that make it clearer? lol, finding it hard to explain!

mfmc.dev

Re: Balls, free game on the play store, developed in Processing, would love feedback!

2 months ago

So after a week of gathering feedback I've uploaded a big updated addressing some performance issues and generally trying to make things a bit clearer!

Anyone else who'd like to give it a try, would love your feedback! Available to download on the play store here: http://goo.gl/xoep6j

Balls, free game on the play store, developed in Processing, would love feedback!

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