Pop the balloon

[Traveler]

Hehe,.. this is a peaceful game Alimonster :lol:

[Traveler]

I have placed a new version of the game at my website.

New things in this version:
- brand new graphics
- a new explosion system
- a new timer system: now timebased instead of framebased
- a nuke option which can be used to pop all balloons at the screen (1x).
- speed optimizations, it should run a lot smoother now...
- a different mouse pointer
- a menu
- a bigger screen 800x600
- an extra lift off place. 7 instead of 6
- various bug fixes

This is turning out to be a very interesting project. Especially because, up until now, I never had a project (they usually don't get to this stage )which is beeing tested by so many people.

The bugs and ideas you are all providing show many interesting points. Things I would have never thought of if I was doing this (production+testing) all by myself. I thank you all... :!:

[Alimonster]

Make the people swear if you shoot them. It may not be a clean headshot with a railgun but I bet it would sting for a while! (Here's the direct link to the game).

Don't mind me - I'm just used to excessive violence in my games.

[lithander]

you don't have a siemens cellphone in you pocket have you?

but I've to admit that your game is cooler.... controlling a curser with numkeys is a pain!

-lith

[Useless Hacker]

Cool game.

I found a 'feature', where if you click outside the window it pauses the game, giving you time to manoeuvre the cursor to the next balloon before it goes off the screen.

[Traveler]

Thanks for the coments

Alimonster: I'll think of something nice for you

lithander: hehe, I don't even have a cellphone, let alone a siemens

Useless Hacker: This 'feature' as you are describing it is new to me, and which (again) I cannot reproduce. I can only pause the game by hitting F3. To be honest, I don't have a clue on how to solve this thing :cry:

The next version of the game is going to be released a bit later as I'm giving priority to the platform tutorial I was also making.
I really need to finish this thing now :?

[Useless Hacker]

Useless Hacker: This 'feature' as you are describing it is new to me, and which (again) I cannot reproduce. I can only pause the game by hitting F3. To be honest, I don't have a clue on how to solve this thing :cry:

The version I downloaded was the original one, maybe in the newer version it is fixed.

[Traveler]

The version I downloaded was the original one, maybe in the newer version it is fixed

Pfew, I was kinda hoping you were going to write that. I checked the older version and I did have that bug. It's been fixed in the 0.9 version. (Still need to do something about the F3(pause) matter, though)

[Alimonster]

The pausing is most likely caused by a timer with ActiveOnly set to true. This behaviour is a very good thing, though, and not a problem .

(I think the DelphiX timer has this behaviour, although I've only ever used what appears to be a modified version of it, so I can't be sure.)

EDIT: or maybe not, judging from the post immediately above this one :roll:

[Traveler]

The pausing is most likely caused by a timer with ActiveOnly set to true.

True, but the new 0.9 version of PtB doesn't use a timer anymore. So I was a bit worried when Useless Hacker mentioned the pausing thing...