Game beta test: DrillSergeant

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elendilch

Game beta test: DrillSergeant

in Android Processing • 2 years ago

Hi guys!

I'm about to release my first android game (hopefully soon).
It's called DrillSergeant.

Facebook page

You can download it at android market

Thanks for testing an reporting bugs here.
Praise and criticism are welcome. I need improvement suggestions.
Work in progress.

Instructions:
controls: accelerometer
menu button --> upgrade menu
back button --> main menu

"Like" on facebook would be great =)
(need 25 likes to make a username url)

TODO:
- balancing
- story
- better menu layout
- god mode (indestructible) will be removed (just for testing)
- ingame tutorial
- better feedback
...

Known Issues:
- large memory usage? Topic
- clicking admob ads doesn't work. Edit: It's due to apwidgets.
- black line between two textures

Greetings
ElendilCH

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Jesse Sco..

Re: Game beta test: DrillSergeant

2 years ago

I gave it a run, ran fine with no major issues on Nexus One, 2.3.4

It was rather large though... but not that big of a deal.

I guess from a game play pov, I didn't understand why selling the ores etc put me back to the start once i hit resume...

Looks really nice though, nice menu ui, etc.

I did see a line of black pixels where the terrain mapped together as I continued downwards...

elendilch

Re: Game beta test: DrillSergeant

2 years ago

thx Jesse

when your drill becomes too hot (bar on the right side) it reduces your hull and when it's zero, it breaks down your engine.
So you can sell some materials, press resume than push the menu button and upgrade your drill.

Maybe I should implement a ingame tutorial and give more feedback what happened (like a text saying "Too much heat" etc.)

That black line is the boundary of a background image. The game repeats the same texture a several times (a tiled png).
I don't know why the image function produces such lines.

elendilch

Re: Game beta test: DrillSergeant

2 years ago

I just managed to remove these black lines.
I was a rather simple problem.

The solution was to add 1 to the height of every background. Now they overlap for one pixel.
The coordinates of the background images are float, and when they are displayed they are rounded.
So in fact it's not a back line, it's rater a gap and you can see the black background behind the pictures.

The ads are still not working (not clickable),
however now I know it's a problem of apwidget (without widgets it works): issue

EDIT: admob is now working, see ("issue" link)

I just released it in andoid market.

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