Ultrabreaker: My Awesome Breakout Game

[KristopherWindsor]

Here's some high quality screenshots (XGA, PNG24).  

http://freefile.kristopherw.us/uploads/kristopherwindsor/ultrabreaker/hq/coins.png
http://freefile.kristopherw.us/uploads/kristopherwindsor/ultrabreaker/hq/orb.png

[KristopherWindsor]

I've been working on the level editor, although it's not much to look at.

I had made this file by hand:

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Ultrabreaker (Tallys font!!??)
version 1
paddlesize 1
paddlesides bottom
// ycollapse
brickset 12 15 ycollapse
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][x42][x42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42]               [x42][x42][x42][x42]               [y42]
[w42]     [F82]     [x42][x42][x42][x42]     [F82]     [y42]
[w42]               [x42][x42][x42][x42]               [y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][x42][x42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][x42][x42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][B42][B42][B42][B42][B42][B42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[C42][C42][C42][C42][C42][742][642][C42][C42][C42][C42][C42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[z42][x42][z42][w42][z42][y42][w42][z42][y42][z42][x42][z42]
[w42][z42][y42][z42][x42][z42][z42][x42][z42][w42][z42][y42]
[142][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[142][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][H42][x42][z46][z42][440][442]
background 888888 turbines
minscore 8000000
ballspeed 1.4
ballsize 2
ballmultiplier 3
bonuslives 4
special shooter
mousegravity 1
timelimit 10 30
tip boom!

'item 100 100 bonusbutton
'item 50 50 bonusbutton 0
item 5 5 brickmachine 30
'item 50 50 portal_out 1
'item 0 100 portal 1

// note: change % for item and abrick to bricknumbers ie (7,7)
And when I opened it and saved it through the level editor, it produced this file:

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Ultrabreaker (Tallys font!!??)

// Generated with UB Leveler .2 (00:12:01 on 08-29-2008)
VERSION 1.0

// Introduce a new feature in the levelpack
TIP boom!

// Settings, part I

PADDLESIDES bottom

// Layer 1

BRICKSET 12 15 ycollapse
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][x42][x42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42]               [x42][x42][x42][x42]               [y42]
[w42]     [F82]     [x42][x42][x42][x42]     [F82]     [y42]
[w42]               [x42][x42][x42][x42]               [y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][x42][x42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][x42][x42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][B42][B42][B42][B42][B42][B42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[C42][C42][C42][C42][C42][742][642][C42][C42][C42][C42][C42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[z42][x42][z42][w42][z42][y42][w42][z42][y42][z42][x42][z42]
[w42][z42][y42][z42][x42][z42][z42][x42][z42][w42][z42][y42]
[142][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[142][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42]
[w42][x42][y42][w42][x42][y42][H42][x42][z46][z42][440][442]

ITEM 05.000 05.000 brickmachine 30

// Settings, part II

BACKGROUND 888888 turbines
BALLMULTIPLIER 3
BALLSIZE 2
BALLSPEED 1.4
BONUSLIVES 4
MINSCORE 8000000
MOUSEGRAVITY 01.000
PADDLESIZE 1
SPECIAL shooter
TIMELIMIT 10 30


[KristopherWindsor]

Here's some screenshots of my level editor.
It is almost finished!

The level editor allows multiple layers, so the pictures are:

1) Layer A
2) Layer B
3) Layer A and B shown together
4) The level played in UltraBreaker

[KristopherWindsor]

Lachie said I didn't have enough screenshots, so...:

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Perverse.

[KristopherWindsor]

I probably should have posted this 3 weeks ago since I haven't had time to work on the game in that long... but here's the belated first preview!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzBh56GM-O4

[codezer0]

Doesn't look like you can alter the course of the ball at all? By wrenching the mouse and imparting spin on the ball? Or some games do it by the position the ball hits the paddle (maybe not as good imo). Are these options?

[KristopherWindsor]

I answered that question here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/UltraBreaker/27216499420?ref=nf

[vdecampo]

I love the preview. BTW you may have answered this before, but are you using SDL or HGE as a gfx engine?

-Vince

[KristopherWindsor]

Just FBGFX.
I also use FBPNG (Yetifoot), ABFont (Leonheart), Multiput (DJ Peters), and my high quality image scaler.
The main trouble with FBGFX is getting speed with a large screen, so I allow different screen resolutions, with fonts for sizes 320 * 240 to 1024 * 768.
The slowest computer I have tested it on is 600MHz, and that can handle 320 * 240 very smoothly (and 640 * 480 is OK), so I'd imagine the game could be played on 400MHz just fine.

[KristopherWindsor]

The game now saves replays, which can be watched at any speed.
And when you are watching replays, you can save a video with avicapture (see the FB forum)!
I'm working on the server-side part now.
 

EDIT: Here's the game trying to get the level list, and getting a 404 instead.

[KristopherWindsor]

I made a picture to level converter!!!
The code is below.
Also, there is a new video posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7kWDrHyYNk

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' Convert a 800 * 480 bitmap (pic.bmp) to a brickset
' Is saved to the test pack, so open leveler after this is run
' By Kristopher Windsor

Const sx = 800, sy = 480, px = 48, py = 72
Const As Integer fx = sx / px, fy = sy / py
Const alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Dim As Integer c, r, g, b, total, brick

Screenres sx, sy, 32

Bload "pic.bmp"

Open "data/levelpacks/test/1.txt" For Output As #1
Print #1, "Untitled"
Print #1, "VERSION 1.0"
Print #1, "PADDLESIDES bottom"
Print #1, "BRICKSET " & px & " " & py & " ycollapse"

For y As Integer = 0 To py - 1
  For x As Integer = 0 To px - 1
   
    'get rgb color for this tile
    r = 0: g = 0: b = 0: total = 0
    For x2 As Integer = x * fx To (x + 1) * fx
      For y2 As Integer = y * fy To (y + 1) * fy
        total += 1
        c = Point(x2, y2)
        b += c And &HFF
        g += (c Shr 8) And &HFF
        r += (c Shr 16) And &HFF
      Next y2
    Next x2
   
    'find best matching tile / palette color
    r = Int((r / total) * (3 / 256))'*85
    g = Int((g / total) * (3 / 256))'*85
    b = Int((b / total) * (3 / 256))'*85
    brick = b + g * 3 + r * 9 + 1
    If brick = 27 Then
      Print #1, "     ";
    Else
      Print #1, "[" & Mid(alphabet, brick, 1) & "45]";
    End If
   
  Next x
  Print #1,
Next y

Print #1, "BACKGROUND FF888888 default"
Print #1, "BALLMULTIPLIER 1"
Print #1, "BALLSIZE 1"
Print #1, "BALLSPEED 1"
Print #1, "MINSCORE 1000000"
Print #1, "PADDLESIZE 1"
Print #1, "PADDLESTYLE normal"
Print #1, "TIMELIMIT 10 0"
Close #1

[BadMrBox]

Hah, awesome

[Lachie Dazdarian]

This is witchcraft.

[rolliebollocks]

Kris,

Are these pixel maps you're loading? And if so... Do you assign a color scheme to the map before you parse the pixmap or is that too coded within the file?

Anyway, this is really impressive.