Well, I was first to announce my start so I guess its fitting that Im first to announce my success.
As I noted in my first post I took the week off of work and so I took the opportunity to really push myself. 12 hours a day, and last night no sleep, a full 30 hours infront of the computer trying to get it done on time. Now Im too tired to continue playtesting but it all seems to be good. There is a problem with the AI occasionally spiking the time it takes to work, and I think its because if AStar is running with no solution it fills out. Occasionally you will take a turn and the game will lag a bit. I had to do a lot of optimisations all over the board because there are so many creatures all moving at once. The larger levels that are available run quite slow, but the smaller ones are fine. Post challenge balancing and bug updates and further optimisations are likely, but its polished enough as is and I dont think there are any serious problems.
Anyway I think my result is an unprecedented success, hopefully its a bit of a showstopper ;)
There is no help screen or scoreboard that i wanted in but the important keys are displayed on the interface, and you can live without knowing how many kills everyone has made...
Domination Empires: Long past are the days of minor internal squabbles that were the tribulations of the coloured blobs fighting over small rooms as in last years 7drl, Domination. The fighting has spilled out into the lands and your goal is to take your horde of whatever they are and paint the lands the colour of your choice. Capture areas next to yours by standing on the flag at the centre of that area. First capture all of the enemy base points wins. You can schedule buildings to be constructed in areas and once youve seleced a place and building via the menu you can see how long before it will appear by looking on the world map. Buildings mostly upgrade the army native to the area they are built in, but some - like the graveyard allow you to respawn there if its closer than your home base. Each area has defenders which can be distinguished by the shield symbol they display, attackers which display the letter of the area they are from, and a leader which wears a crown. Attackers will for the most part follow their leader.
Started: 12:30pm Sat 06-Mar-2009 (GMT+9:30) Ended: 08:00pm Fri 12-Mar-2009 (GMT+9:30)
Get it here! A couple of screenshots available, Im too tired to make more! Proper help text some other time!
On my system, it hangs on the 'Numeron Reactor' loading screen. I'm on a Windows 7 x64 machine with Java 1.6.
I'm not sure why it's complaining it's out of memory, I'm running it on my work machine, which has 12Gb of RAM (10Gb free).
The console reports the following:
c:\Users\Wyvern\Desktop\DominationEmpires>java -jar DominationEmpires.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Unknown Source) at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(Unknow n Source) at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.<init>(Unknown Source) at ImageLoader.rotateImage(ImageLoader.java:41) at Main.<init>(Main.java:45) at Main.main(Main.java:9)
Numeron wrote: > Well, I was first to announce my start so I guess its fitting that Im > first to announce my success.
> As I noted in my first post I took the week off of work and so I took > the opportunity to really push myself. 12 hours a day, and last night > no sleep, a full 30 hours infront of the computer trying to get it > done on time. Now Im too tired to continue playtesting but it all > seems to be good. There is a problem with the AI occasionally spiking > the time it takes to work, and I think its because if AStar is running > with no solution it fills out. Occasionally you will take a turn and > the game will lag a bit. I had to do a lot of optimisations all over > the board because there are so many creatures all moving at once. The > larger levels that are available run quite slow, but the smaller ones > are fine. Post challenge balancing and bug updates and further > optimisations are likely, but its polished enough as is and I dont > think there are any serious problems.
> Anyway I think my result is an unprecedented success, hopefully its a > bit of a showstopper ;)
> There is no help screen or scoreboard that i wanted in but the > important keys are displayed on the interface, and you can live > without knowing how many kills everyone has made...
> Domination Empires: > Long past are the days of minor internal squabbles that were the > tribulations of the coloured blobs fighting over small rooms as in > last years 7drl, Domination. The fighting has spilled out into the > lands and your goal is to take your horde of whatever they are and > paint the lands the colour of your choice. Capture areas next to yours > by standing on the flag at the centre of that area. First capture all > of the enemy base points wins. You can schedule buildings to be > constructed in areas and once youve seleced a place and building via > the menu you can see how long before it will appear by looking on the > world map. Buildings mostly upgrade the army native to the area they > are built in, but some - like the graveyard allow you to respawn there > if its closer than your home base. Each area has defenders which can > be distinguished by the shield symbol they display, attackers which > display the letter of the area they are from, and a leader which wears > a crown. Attackers will for the most part follow their leader.
On Mar 13, 5:21 am, Ysgard <ysg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On my system, it hangs on the 'Numeron Reactor' loading screen. I'm on > a Windows 7 x64 machine with Java 1.6.
> I'm not sure why it's complaining it's out of memory, I'm running it on > my work machine, which has 12Gb of RAM (10Gb free).
I was afraid that might happen, Its not your memory its the amount allocated to the java virtual machine. The reason that it blows there is because I preload, cut up, and pre-rotate all the images internally so that displaying them is faster. It takes in total more than the meagre amount given initially.
I have included a bat file that contains the command for running the game, increasing the heap size. In windows this file can be run directly, unix and mac im out of my knowledge zone, someone might have to help me...
> Well, I was first to announce my start so I guess its fitting that Im > first to announce my success.
> As I noted in my first post I took the week off of work and so I took > the opportunity to really push myself. 12 hours a day, and last night > no sleep, a full 30 hours infront of the computer trying to get it > done on time. Now Im too tired to continue playtesting but it all > seems to be good. There is a problem with the AI occasionally spiking > the time it takes to work, and I think its because if AStar is running > with no solution it fills out. Occasionally you will take a turn and > the game will lag a bit. I had to do a lot of optimisations all over > the board because there are so many creatures all moving at once. The > larger levels that are available run quite slow, but the smaller ones > are fine. Post challenge balancing and bug updates and further > optimisations are likely, but its polished enough as is and I dont > think there are any serious problems.
> Anyway I think my result is an unprecedented success, hopefully its a > bit of a showstopper ;)
> There is no help screen or scoreboard that i wanted in but the > important keys are displayed on the interface, and you can live > without knowing how many kills everyone has made...
> Domination Empires: > Long past are the days of minor internal squabbles that were the > tribulations of the coloured blobs fighting over small rooms as in > last years 7drl, Domination. The fighting has spilled out into the > lands and your goal is to take your horde of whatever they are and > paint the lands the colour of your choice. Capture areas next to yours > by standing on the flag at the centre of that area. First capture all > of the enemy base points wins. You can schedule buildings to be > constructed in areas and once youve seleced a place and building via > the menu you can see how long before it will appear by looking on the > world map. Buildings mostly upgrade the army native to the area they > are built in, but some - like the graveyard allow you to respawn there > if its closer than your home base. Each area has defenders which can > be distinguished by the shield symbol they display, attackers which > display the letter of the area they are from, and a leader which wears > a crown. Attackers will for the most part follow their leader.
> Well, I was first to announce my start so I guess its fitting that Im > first to announce my success.
> As I noted in my first post I took the week off of work and so I took > the opportunity to really push myself. 12 hours a day, and last night > no sleep, a full 30 hours infront of the computer trying to get it > done on time. Now Im too tired to continue playtesting but it all > seems to be good. There is a problem with the AI occasionally spiking > the time it takes to work, and I think its because if AStar is running > with no solution it fills out. Occasionally you will take a turn and > the game will lag a bit. I had to do a lot of optimisations all over > the board because there are so many creatures all moving at once. The > larger levels that are available run quite slow, but the smaller ones > are fine. Post challenge balancing and bug updates and further > optimisations are likely, but its polished enough as is and I dont > think there are any serious problems.
> Anyway I think my result is an unprecedented success, hopefully its a > bit of a showstopper ;)
> There is no help screen or scoreboard that i wanted in but the > important keys are displayed on the interface, and you can live > without knowing how many kills everyone has made...
> Domination Empires: > Long past are the days of minor internal squabbles that were the > tribulations of the coloured blobs fighting over small rooms as in > last years 7drl, Domination. The fighting has spilled out into the > lands and your goal is to take your horde of whatever they are and > paint the lands the colour of your choice. Capture areas next to yours > by standing on the flag at the centre of that area. First capture all > of the enemy base points wins. You can schedule buildings to be > constructed in areas and once youve seleced a place and building via > the menu you can see how long before it will appear by looking on the > world map. Buildings mostly upgrade the army native to the area they > are built in, but some - like the graveyard allow you to respawn there > if its closer than your home base. Each area has defenders which can > be distinguished by the shield symbol they display, attackers which > display the letter of the area they are from, and a leader which wears > a crown. Attackers will for the most part follow their leader.
I think I found another bug, and I know how to reproduce it.
First, mass build farms. Then, build weapon/armor factories. When I tried to press 'd' to distribute, I got this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 10 at UI.showDistribute(UI.java:663) at Player.run(Player.java:41) at World.run(World.java:129) at UI.run(UI.java:457) at Main.<init>(Main.java:71) at Main.main(Main.java:9)
Have just released a version containing fixes for the two crashes noted here, and did a fix so that the keypad works with numlock both on or off.
Havent had any time to do any balancing or anything else. At the moment I think the game is too easy to hold an area and too hard to gain ground. With a bit of tactics this can be overcome - using the strategy screen to set up a diversion for the defenders while you sneak in from a different direction seems a neat way, but the AI is not intelligent enough to do anything like that back yet, so even though its not easy to win its pretty hard to lose. So it will take more than balancing the numbers of attackers/defenders, it will actually need improvements to the AI. This will come over the following couple of weeks, hopefully along with optimisations that allow the larger levels to play well, then Ill probably leave the game as is...
> On Mar 13, 5:21 am, Ysgard <ysg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On my system, it hangs on the 'Numeron Reactor' loading screen. I'm on > > a Windows 7 x64 machine with Java 1.6.
> > I'm not sure why it's complaining it's out of memory, I'm running it on > > my work machine, which has 12Gb of RAM (10Gb free).
> I was afraid that might happen, Its not your memory its the amount > allocated to the java virtual machine. The reason that it blows there > is because I preload, cut up, and pre-rotate all the images internally > so that displaying them is faster. It takes in total more than the > meagre amount given initially.
> I have included a bat file that contains the command for running the > game, increasing the heap size. In windows this file can be run > directly, unix and mac im out of my knowledge zone, someone might have > to help me...
> Hopefully that fixes it :)
Running the bat file gives me the message "'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".
> On Mar 12, 10:00 pm, Numeron <irunsofastineedafinonmyh...@hotmail.com> > wrote:
> > On Mar 13, 5:21 am, Ysgard <ysg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On my system, it hangs on the 'Numeron Reactor' loading screen. I'm on > > > a Windows 7 x64 machine with Java 1.6.
> > > I'm not sure why it's complaining it's out of memory, I'm running it on > > > my work machine, which has 12Gb of RAM (10Gb free).
> > I was afraid that might happen, Its not your memory its the amount > > allocated to the java virtual machine. The reason that it blows there > > is because I preload, cut up, and pre-rotate all the images internally > > so that displaying them is faster. It takes in total more than the > > meagre amount given initially.
> > I have included a bat file that contains the command for running the > > game, increasing the heap size. In windows this file can be run > > directly, unix and mac im out of my knowledge zone, someone might have > > to help me...
> > Hopefully that fixes it :)
> Running the bat file gives me the message "'java' is not recognized as > an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".
> Any solution?
> -- > Darren Grey
Do you have java installed? go to www.java.com and make sure. The site will advise you if you already have it, otherwise provide helpful easy links if you dont. If the problem persists then you must not have your environment path set up, which is unusual and Im not going to help you fix it via usenet. Instead, I've wrapped the jar file into a windows executable which the 3rd party program I used to do so assures me will do a good job of hunting for your java runtime environment for you.
Please let me know how this goes.
Java has a serious problem with producing user friendly runnables.
Fixed a build location bug. Fixed the 1 sec delay when an area changes hands. Improved your (and all leaders) attack teams, they should stick closer by, and get spell boxes as they walk past them rather than wander off by themselves.
Unless there are any further serious bugs though I think I'll be halting development from here :( I have other projects to work on ;)
> On Mar 19, 2:00 am, Darren Grey <darrenjohng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 12, 10:00 pm, Numeron <irunsofastineedafinonmyh...@hotmail.com> > > wrote:
> > > On Mar 13, 5:21 am, Ysgard <ysg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On my system, it hangs on the 'Numeron Reactor' loading screen. I'm on > > > > a Windows 7 x64 machine with Java 1.6.
> > > > I'm not sure why it's complaining it's out of memory, I'm running it on > > > > my work machine, which has 12Gb of RAM (10Gb free).
> > > I was afraid that might happen, Its not your memory its the amount > > > allocated to the java virtual machine. The reason that it blows there > > > is because I preload, cut up, and pre-rotate all the images internally > > > so that displaying them is faster. It takes in total more than the > > > meagre amount given initially.
> > > I have included a bat file that contains the command for running the > > > game, increasing the heap size. In windows this file can be run > > > directly, unix and mac im out of my knowledge zone, someone might have > > > to help me...
> > > Hopefully that fixes it :)
> > Running the bat file gives me the message "'java' is not recognized as > > an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".
> > Any solution?
> > -- > > Darren Grey
> Do you have java installed? go towww.java.comand make sure. The site > will advise you if you already have it, otherwise provide helpful easy > links if you dont. If the problem persists then you must not have your > environment path set up, which is unusual and Im not going to help you > fix it via usenet. Instead, I've wrapped the jar file into a windows > executable which the 3rd party program I used to do so assures me will > do a good job of hunting for your java runtime environment for you.
> Please let me know how this goes.
> Java has a serious problem with producing user friendly runnables.
Heh, of course I have Java installed (I know, I know, some people *are* that stupid...) All the other java-based 7drls have run fine. I've googled the error message and there seem to be some allusions to a fix - will try and sort it out.
> On Mar 18, 11:28 pm, Numeron <irunsofastineedafinonmyh...@hotmail.com> > wrote:
> > On Mar 19, 2:00 am, Darren Grey <darrenjohng...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mar 12, 10:00 pm, Numeron <irunsofastineedafinonmyh...@hotmail.com> > > > wrote:
> > > > On Mar 13, 5:21 am, Ysgard <ysg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On my system, it hangs on the 'Numeron Reactor' loading screen. I'm on > > > > > a Windows 7 x64 machine with Java 1.6.
> > > > > I'm not sure why it's complaining it's out of memory, I'm running it on > > > > > my work machine, which has 12Gb of RAM (10Gb free).
> > > > I was afraid that might happen, Its not your memory its the amount > > > > allocated to the java virtual machine. The reason that it blows there > > > > is because I preload, cut up, and pre-rotate all the images internally > > > > so that displaying them is faster. It takes in total more than the > > > > meagre amount given initially.
> > > > I have included a bat file that contains the command for running the > > > > game, increasing the heap size. In windows this file can be run > > > > directly, unix and mac im out of my knowledge zone, someone might have > > > > to help me...
> > > > Hopefully that fixes it :)
> > > Running the bat file gives me the message "'java' is not recognized as > > > an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".
> > > Any solution?
> > > -- > > > Darren Grey
> > Do you have java installed? go towww.java.comandmake sure. The site > > will advise you if you already have it, otherwise provide helpful easy > > links if you dont. If the problem persists then you must not have your > > environment path set up, which is unusual and Im not going to help you > > fix it via usenet. Instead, I've wrapped the jar file into a windows > > executable which the 3rd party program I used to do so assures me will > > do a good job of hunting for your java runtime environment for you.
> > Please let me know how this goes.
> > Java has a serious problem with producing user friendly runnables.
> Heh, of course I have Java installed (I know, I know, some people > *are* that stupid...) All the other java-based 7drls have run fine. > I've googled the error message and there seem to be some allusions to > a fix - will try and sort it out.
Turns out it needed the Java Development Kit installed (not just the run-time environment). Got it running now.... Wow, looks very pretty, but also quite overwhelming. Any documentation for this?
