[GAME] Polygons

[Symbroson Development]

Hi it's me again and I have developed anorher game demo
I tried to comment the code well but if there was other questions/tips/bugs please tell me :)

It is the sort of games where you have to put three objects with the same skin in a row to destroy them (has it a general name like tictactoe or pong has?)

Please test it out and give a report how you find the game (and the animations ;)

Thanks to my friend R. who gave me a hint how to make an interrupted sine-graph

Best regards,
Symbroson

[Symbroson Development]

1.sry I forgot to attach the spk 😅
2. I've a problem: I made the apk of my game and when I tried to start it it was extreme laggy and the game needed very long to load. Does someone know why that could happen?
The apk was in my dropbox if you want to try it out:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s3t4mb4vbyftkvo/AADOKNRudnJ_lD6x6unZuOWva
thanks for help

[Robbie Kendall]

Awesome game alex! Works great for me.

[Robbie Kendall]

I tried the apk and it gets stuck on the splash screen for me, never loads the game

[Symbroson Development]

Thats the problem :/

[Chris]

Are you using a FadeOut on a animate call? I just recently ran in to this problem on 5.1 android devices. The callback never fires.

I didn't look at the code, just know this problem exists.

[Manuel Lopes]

very cool alex thanks for share

[Chris]

function hideSplash(){laySplash.Animate("FadeOut",showGame,1000)}

Try:

function hideSplash(){
laySplash.Animate("FadeOut",null,1000);
setTimeout("showGame",1010);
}

It is a hack, but was a work around for my 5.1 droid problems. Seems FadeOut is the only problem, but not for sure.

[Symbroson Development]

Thank you I'll try it out :)

[Chris]

Alex, checking my hack, I also had to hide my splash... so...

function hideSplash(){
laySplash.Animate("FadeOut",null,1000);

setTimeout("laySplash.SetVisibility('Hide');showGame",1010);

Chris

[Chris]

Sorry... why I should always try code, the showGame needs ()

function hideSplash(){
laySplash.Animate("FadeOut",null,1000);

setTimeout("laySplash.SetVisibility('Hide');showGame();",1010);

[Chris]

Wow. I'm having a difficult morning. Don't forget the final } on the function.

I know you wouldn't but, I hate mistakes. :-)

function hideSplash(){
laySplash.Animate("FadeOut",null,1000);
setTimeout("laySplash.SetVisibility('Hide');showGame();",1010);
}

Chris

[Symbroson Development]

Think I got it now
In my current spk I changed Steves and your tips and the apk works now - a bit long BUT it loads. And if it has loaded and remove a row you'll see that the app freezes for a short time when it adds a new row on the top.
so the mistake or what causes the long loading time is the 'newRow()' function
It just does that:

function newRow() {
var a=[]
for(var i=0; i<sizX; i++) a.push({"value":ranInt(app.ListFolder("Objects").length),"touched":false,
"rotc":30*Math.random(),"dx":0,"dy":0,"siz":0.9,"die":false,"v":0})
return a
}

[Symbroson Development]

I added two popups - one before and one after the loop and in the apk it prooves that this loop causes the lags and long loading time. But I dont understand why this loop needs so long?

[Symbroson Development]

I think listFolder() is the problem...

[Symbroson Development]

Yes it was. Thanks for your help Steve and Chris - finally I found it ^^
I haven't thaught that listFolder() needs that long...

[Symbroson Development]

I made a second version of Polygons with a bit different destroying rule: you have to connect more than three objects in a row to destroy them.
So here are the folders with spk and apk of both versions:

Polygons 1 (changing):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s3t4mb4vbyftkvo/AADOKNRudnJ_lD6x6unZuOWva

Polygons 2 (connecting):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6cz5jpzcih353ej/AACW4dK0S1cPtcZ1SJrs-Qxea

Thank you for testing and reporting them :)
Best regards,
Symbroson

[Robbie Kendall]

Doesn't have to be more than 3, had to be 3 or more. Also I don't know if you intended but you can also connect with shapes diagonally so it allows connecting of really large numbers of shapes. Will try apk and let you know how it goes.

[Symbroson Development]

Sorry it was an expression mistake ^^
And yes you can connect diagonal - that was right - no bug ^^

[Robbie Kendall]

Cool man it definitely makes for some larger breaking. Hadn't tried the apk yet in the new one. Did you ever get it working right on your end?

[Ca3m0n 0_0]

Hey symbroson, I'm just curious what device you are using to run this application?

[Symbroson Development]

The working files are those on my DropBox. Heres the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0i6c7w50elnu1s6/AABo5e4n_EMkmadcg-NAL5S5a

Look at /Games/Polygons or /Games/Polygons 2