[Half OT - Mobile] Mind Storm!

[FNX]

Hello, after toying a bit with Midlet Pascal, tonight i coded my first
"real" game with it, Mind Storm!

Mind Storm! is a Mastermind clone where cpu choose 4 colours out of 6
and you have 10 try to guess them.

-You get a black dot for every color guessed in the right pos.
-You get a black "empty" square for each color guessed in the wrong pos.
-None if you wrong colors and position

Cpu sequence can be everything, it can also repeat colors (eg: Yellow,
Yellow, Red, Blue)

http://194.20.52.29/fnxgames/download/demos/midlet/mindstorm.gif

In game keys:

* - start play
# - exit
4 or left - move left
6 or right - move right
5 - select color or submit row or delete last color

Here is the package:

MindStorm.jar (http://194.20.52.29/fnxgames/download/demos/midlet/MindStorm.jar)

and for those with cables:

MindStorm.jad (http://194.20.52.29/fnxgames/download/demos/midlet/MindStorm.jad)

Tested on my Motorola V3 and it worked great!
Let me know what you think, compatibility and so on :)

PS: The game is coded quickly so it can be a bit buggy somewhere ;)

[cairnswm]

Will not load onto my phone - gives me an incvalid JAR file error. (Motorola MPX200).

Played a bit in the emulator and it looks really nice.

[cairnswm]

Ok - loaded the JAR to my web site and then instaleld to my phone. And it worked :) Not many JARs work on my motorola MPX200.

Questions - Why not use the Arrow kets and the Fire Button. To me it would make more sense. (Or do them as well.)

When I launch the midlet - I get a little screen saying Loading - did you add that or is it a phone function?

Not my favorite type of puzzle game so I didn't play much. However I think it has been done really really well!

[FNX]

Hi and thanx for the feedback :)

Actually you can use left or right arrows on phone to move the
cursor but the fire button isn't used. I'll improve it tonight maybe,
it was a 4 hours work (including gfx) so that is not pretty well coded ;)

The loading screen was added by me in the "doInit" procedure while
i load all the gfx stuff but it was soooo quick that i've added a delay(500)
to show it :roll:

The game is not my favourite too but it was my first target to code
something functional on the phone, updates will follow :)

Now it's better i do something for the compo, i have 0 lines of code and
one sprite done.... aaaaaarrggh! :twisted:

[savage]

Works and plays fine on my Motorolla V525. The only thing that drove me crazy was having to use "5" to select a colour etc. Please add GA_FIRE as an option to select and no one will complain :). Should take you all of 5 minutes to add, compile, test and upload.

[savage]

PS I think there might be a bug with the logic that tells you how close you are to getting the sequence right.

[FNX]

Hi savage,
I answer here and not on Midlet Pascal forum as I prefer PGD :)

First, thanx for the feedback.
Second, tonight I'll upload a newer version with all improovements, FIRE,
better logic and stuff.

As I said, it was coded very quickly so I didn't pay too much attention
to the debug phase. I've noticed the bug too and also i'm going to change
that the cpu cannot use 2 same color in the 4 to guess.

Expect the update for later today or early tomorrow, my gfx artist is also
working on better gfx :)

[FNX]

Hi all,

here is the final verision of Mind Storm free edition :)

-Added FIRE button handling for selecting color
-Bugfixed the row result algorithm
-Cpu always choose 4 different colors
-Circular menu
-Added official Gfx
-Misc text removed, now full gfx

Screenshots:
http://194.20.52.29/fnxgames/download/demos/midlet/mstitle.gif http://194.20.52.29/fnxgames/download/demos/midlet/msgame.gif

Packages:
MindStorm.jar (http://194.20.52.29/fnxgames/download/demos/midlet/MindStorm.jar)
MindStorm.jad (http://194.20.52.29/fnxgames/download/demos/midlet/MindStorm.jad)

Hope you like it :)

[Traveler]

Looks really great FNX, it makes me wish I had a proper cellphone to play it on :(

[technomage]

Thanks looks great :D

[savage]

Wow, I have to agree, that does look good!

[FNX]

Thanks to everybody, I'm glad you like it! :)

The amazing thing is that it's only a 2 screens games, no animations, no
highscores, one button gameplay! It tooks me about 4 hours of work to
code, test, debug + 1 hour for my gfx artist to complete. We are very
happy of it, we hope to produce some more of this stuff soon :)

We have 2 things now in mind:

1-produce some different versions to cover a bigger number of mobile
screens (custom gfx)

2-produce what should be a commercial version, maybe adding time,
different difficult level (eg: simple-4 colors, normal 5-colors, hard 6-colors)
different backgrounds, music and so on...

Stay tuned 8)

[EugenioEnko]

Very preaty graphics.
In what resolution it works?

[FNX]

Very preaty graphics.
In what resolution it works?

Yes, I love my gfx artist :)
It works in 176x144 resolution but we are going to have 2 or 3 standard
sizes for most common mobile phones