Dudes with bombs (party game)

[0x72]

Hi!

I made a game, it's still work in progress but already playable

It's a game for 2-4 players about destroying others property with bombs.

Requires you to have a couple (3 preferably) friends with controllers.

If you don't have a friend around and you want to check the game out anyway you can add a bot:
- click shift+; on keybord
- type game.bots.add()
- hit enter
- hit escape
But they just stay idle and do nothing for now

Feedback appreciated

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[Hydrogen Maniac]

I think you might be onto something good here. The game has great music, some pretty appealing pixel art and it has a good feel to it. However selecting stuff in the menu with 'x' is a bit awkward, maybe giving pepole the option to press 'enter' or 'space' would be a bit more intuitive.

[0x72]

A.d. music - it's CC0 from Juhani Junkala (found on opengameart).

A.d. pixel art - thank you, I'm glad you like it.

A.d. your suggestion about menu - makes sense, I'll fix that.

[ertt]

Hey.
Thanks for your game. I enjoy it! But, how do i add the bots? Do i have to press "shift+;" in the join-menu? It seems that it didnt work for me. By now i add the bots directly in the code.

Anyway! Good job. I Like the art and the music.

ertt

[0x72]

You can add them in join menu, but they will try to join after at least one player joins. You cannot add them during the play, sorry I wasn't clear enough.

Also: they are not really finished or anything, not sure it they ever will anything but a debug tool.

I'm glad you figured anyway sorry for the messy code you had to read through

[ertt]

Ah, ok. I found a solution for my keyboard "shift+;"-problem:
I'm from germany, so i use a german keyboard. To get a ";" i have to press "shift+,". On the us-keyboard, you only press the button right of the "l"?! (Fun Fact: on a german keyboard there is a "ö" )

So, it is not possible for me to get a keypress-event with ";". It will always be ",", so the console will never open.

thx

ertt

[sandygk]

I like the game, I like the style

you could try moving the characters a little bit faster and maybe shorten the time for the explosions. and I didn't understand what was the meaning/purpose of the tiles with each character color on the corners.

It may need some tuning, but the game is good

sorry for my English, it's pretty bad

[bahamut]

Nice game, waiting news updates. I notice a glitch that sometimes appears a white vertical line next to the bomb or the char, and occur this error while i'm playing:

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Try add something to export the errors to a .txt, is very usefull.
Good luck!

[0x72]

I minor update 0.0.3 - some bugfixes + a small tutorial when you begin the game.

@ertt - I'm glad you've figured this out, I must admit I've never seen a german in my life but I've added a small `or` or it works with both shift-; and shift-,

@sandygk - Thanks, I've added a small tutorial screen and you were right about the pace as well, although in the other hand the bombs cannot explode too soon because the other player need to have the chance to throw it back to you. You need not to apologise for your English, it's good

@bahamut - Thanks, I haven't noticed the glitch but I'll keep an eye on it, in the meanwhile I fixed the bug. Currently errors are printed to stdout (default LÖVE behaviour) so they should be easily copyable if you run from console. I understand that being able to copy form the error page might be convenient but I'm not sure how to implement atm, I'll give it a shot next week. (Btw maybe this should be a feature of the default error screen?)

[bahamut]

I minor update 0.0.3 - some bugfixes + a small tutorial when you begin the game.

@ertt - I'm glad you've figured this out, I must admit I've never seen a german in my life but I've added a small `or` or it works with both shift-; and shift-,

@sandygk - Thanks, I've added a small tutorial screen and you were right about the pace as well, although in the other hand the bombs cannot explode too soon because the other player need to have the chance to throw it back to you. You need not to apologise for your English, it's good

@bahamut - Thanks, I haven't noticed the glitch but I'll keep an eye on it, in the meanwhile I fixed the bug. Currently errors are printed to stdout (default LÖVE behaviour) so they should be easily copyable if you run from console. I understand that being able to copy form the error page might be convenient but I'm not sure how to implement atm, I'll give it a shot next week. (Btw maybe this should be a feature of the default error screen?)

Copy and paste this where you want:

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local function error_printer(msg, layer)
	print((debug.traceback("Error: " .. tostring(msg), 1+(layer or 1)):gsub("\n[^\n]+$", "")))
end
 
function love.errhand(msg)
	msg = tostring(msg)
	local path = love.filesystem.getSourceBaseDirectory()
	local file, err = io.open(path .. "/error_log.txt", "wb")
	file:write((debug.traceback("Error: " .. msg, 3):gsub("\n[^\n]+$", "")))
	file:close()
	error_printer(msg, 2)
	if not love.window or not love.graphics or not love.event then
		return
	end
	if not love.graphics.isCreated() or not love.window.isOpen() then
		local success, status = pcall(love.window.setMode, 800, 600)
		if not success or not status then
			return
		end
	end
	-- Reset state.
	if love.mouse then
		love.mouse.setVisible(true)
		love.mouse.setGrabbed(false)
		love.mouse.setRelativeMode(false)
	end
	if love.joystick then
		-- Stop all joystick vibrations.
		for i,v in ipairs(love.joystick.getJoysticks()) do
			v:setVibration()
		end
	end
	if love.audio then love.audio.stop() end
	love.graphics.reset()
	local font = love.graphics.setNewFont(math.floor(love.window.toPixels(14)))
	love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(89, 157, 220)
	love.graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255, 255)
	local trace = debug.traceback()
	love.graphics.clear(love.graphics.getBackgroundColor())
	love.graphics.origin()
	local err = {}
	table.insert(err, "Error\n")
	table.insert(err, msg.."\n\n")
	for l in string.gmatch(trace, "(.-)\n") do
		if not string.match(l, "boot.lua") then
			l = string.gsub(l, "stack traceback:", "Traceback\n")
			table.insert(err, l)
		end
	end
	local p = table.concat(err, "\n")
	p = string.gsub(p, "\t", "")
	p = string.gsub(p, "%[string \"(.-)\"%]", "%1")
	local function draw()
		local pos = love.window.toPixels(70)
		love.graphics.clear(love.graphics.getBackgroundColor())
		love.graphics.printf(p, pos, pos, love.graphics.getWidth() - pos)
		love.graphics.present()
	end
	while true do
		love.event.pump()
		for e, a, b, c in love.event.poll() do
			if e == "quit" then
				return
			elseif e == "keypressed" and a == "escape" then
				return
			elseif e == "touchpressed" then
				local name = love.window.getTitle()
				if #name == 0 or name == "Untitled" then name = "Game" end
				local buttons = {"OK", "Cancel"}
				local pressed = love.window.showMessageBox("Quit "..name.."?", "", buttons)
				if pressed == 1 then
					return
				end
			end
		end
		draw()
 		if love.timer then love.timer.sleep(0.1) end
	end
end

When you get an error, this will create a file (error_log.txt) in the love.exe (or lovec.exe) directory. Works with .love and .exe file too. I dont know in Android, but is better do tests in PC xD