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That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 2:14 am
by Kingdaro
sounds generic doesn't it? ^^
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note that this isn't normal gameplay, but an image of some of the multiple in-game powerups in effect.

in the game, you have the ability to do the following:
  • pick up blocks
  • throw blocks
  • destroy players and the environment with said blocks
  • use powerups to do various mind-screwy things.
but you also have to avoid the following:
  • blocks falling from the sky
  • blocks thrown at you
  • some douchebag with the melee powerup
the profile menu is where you can change your name and color. the settings menu is where you can change other miscellaneous things like screen resolution.

Controls:
arrow keys - move
grab a block in front of you - hold z
release a held block - release z

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 3:12 am
by AlgidPlasma
I knew I recognized that song from somewhere :awesome: This day Aria :P . Anyways awesome game in general well polished and pretty fun.
Also lol at Plot.

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 5:18 am
by AaronWizard
Well, that was different. :megagrin:
And of course I completely suck at it, but then again it is past 2 AM here.

I notice you put the settings in my home directory. Any chance of putting those in one of the user application data directories Löve can write to?

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 11:39 am
by Kingdaro
AaronWizard wrote:Well, that was different. :megagrin:
And of course I completely suck at it, but then again it is past 2 AM here.

I notice you put the settings in my home directory. Any chance of putting those in one of the user application data directories Löve can write to?
would you prefer it in the appdata directory?

i thought it'd be more convenient for players if I put it in the home directory. :/

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 2:56 pm
by AaronWizard
Kingdaro wrote:i thought it'd be more convenient for players if I put it in the home directory. :/
I thought putting it in the appdata directory would mean less clutter in my home directory, since I'm not likely to move my profile files around that much.

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 6:37 pm
by Kingdaro
i thought that too, but the kind of people i know don't even know what appdata is :/

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 7:05 pm
by Kadoba
Appdata is just what it sounds like - It's a place that your operating system reserves so applications have a location to store their data, like saved games and user settings. If every application saved its information to the profile root then it would get messy really fast.

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 7:13 pm
by AaronWizard
Kadoba wrote:Appdata is just what it sounds like - It's a place that your operating system reserves so applications have a location to store their data, like saved games and user settings. If every application saved its information to the profile root then it would get messy really fast.
Sadly, precious few commercial games remember this and don't just dump their user files in My Documents or equivalent again.

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 2:52 am
by kesac
That was rather addicting : ), played it until I managed to win a game. Thanks for the fun!

Re: That Falling Box Game

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 11:05 am
by Robin
Yeah, I'm really not comfortable with games messing with my ~. It's an error in SELÖVE, by the way.