Iceplug

Here's a simple little strategy/board game that I wrote last week for .NET 2003. (Hopefully to stir up the .NET Game Programming section a little)

I've included thirty levels in the game and also some tricky computer AI.
Let me know what you think.

Edit: Scroll down to Post #4

Faith

Too addictive *twitch* *twitch*
Looks as if it is based on fuzzy logic.
Cool!
I intend not to check the code anyhow, it'd take me 10 hours to get some reason outta it. How'd you make the different level presets? Did you code them???
Addictive as hell...

Faith

Got an error message in Level 23 (Tic tac toe), when moving my green guy one down over the stone block.
The red block AI makes some sort of error:
The function is #InjectTileHere#, in which the error occurs. You probably can get the error by trying to do what I did a couple of times... Move your dude down one block over the stoneblock. (Don't think this is relevant)

(Additonal info)
XTile = -1
YTile = -1
Owner = This apparently can be any of the 3 (Got it with 3&2)

The Error message is like this:
Index was outside the bounds of the array.

Looks like a very aggravating thing to debug...
VERY ADDICTIVE A GAME, ****!!!

Iceplug

The levels are all hardcoded within the
Private Sub At_LevelClick()
event handler, which is like the third to last subroutine.

You might have a bit easier time following the subroutines if you do Ctrl+M, Ctrl+O to collapse all of the subroutines to one-line headers. Then, the comments above each subroutine lie just over each subroutine.

The error message is a very classic one that I'm used to... what it is is a move that has clearly been invalidated making it through the MoveSelection process.

Try this version and see if you get the same error.

Faith

Can't get the same error anymore
The game is too catchy *click click*
I'll sew you or something


*click*
*click*

*click*
*click*


*click
ARR!!

Mike Rosenblum

Hmmm... I can't seem to get the *click* of it.

Looks great, I just feel clueless as usual. What are the rules? I guess the objective is to get across or form a link across?? But I don't really understand how to move.

Any tips?

BlackStone

I think the point of the game is to reproduce and "assimilate" all of the opposing thingees. You move or reproduce by clicking on the thingee you want to move and the circle(button?) you want to move to. When you come in contact with another color, you assimilate them to your color.

It is a little addictive.

PS: Are you supposed to win just by surrounding the opposing team??

Iceplug

Rules:
Win by claiming 100 pegs first. If no one can reach 100 pegs, the person who has the most pegs when no one can move is the winner.

If you move a peg one square, the original peg retains its position, but if you move two squares, the original peg is lost.
First, click on the peg that you want to move, and then click on the space where you want it to move.
If you move to a place with pegs in the adjacent squares, then they will be 'captured' and turned to your color. Use this to increase your peg count and to lower the other teams peg count.

The gameplay itself was based on two or three other games that I've played with similar rules.

Mike Rosenblum

Huh, neat... a bit like muli-player Go.

And a pretty sophisticated implementation!

VB_Alien

This is a cool game. The bad news is my mouse finger caught a cramp
and i had to quit.

noi_max

Hey cool!
Cool Spot? (hehe.)

I think my mouse is broken. (click click click)

I ran this on the .NET 2005 express beta so I could check it out. (Don't have .NET yet)
Found the computer easy to beat.. until I cranked the AI up of course.

Edit: Ooops! Sorry to dig up this old thread. I don't know how I miss these cool game posts. Found out about it from your sig.

elnerdo

I had a problem in level 23. I still had a move that I could do but it was continuously skipping my turn until I lost. ( the tic tac toe level ) I had all my pegs in the top middle part and the top left corner was open but my turn was being skipped.

Other than that, this is one of the most fun games I've ever played in vb.net


edit: i got an index is outside of the bounds of the array error when i lost and red won. and when i had 0.

edit again: oo another one, I exited in the middle of the computer's turn and i got a generic error in gdi+ (I'm not pointing these out to be annoying, just to be helpful )

by_m

Yeah, I got some 'Index Out of Range' Errors as well, it seems the variables passed have a value of -1. I'll probably look into that and see. Other than that, I just spent my entire day passing all the levels (which I did), along with trying different combinations of opponents and beat them all (including 6 people on hardest), but I'm having a pretty rough time beating 1 on 1 with the opponent on hardest, haven't done it yet. It's way too addicting... Iceplug, this game will be outlawed.

by_m

I found what was making the error I had...
To get the error go to level 1 (it doesn't actually have to be that level), make a move, and before the others can finish moving, click on level 1 again from the menu.
From what I saw the move gets invalidated (set to point -1,-1) so that you can't move while the others are moving. Then when you restart the level, it's still invalidated, and when you pass it that data it draws an error.

Iceplug

Thanks. Now it should be fixed.

by_m

Cool, it works.
On another note, I have been trying to find .Net games for a while now, this has been very cool. Are you planning on a Quadrill 4, possibly in VB.net? I saw the threads for the first 3 and it sounded pretty cool, sadly I can't run VB6 code.

elnerdo

I agree with by_m. I'm very happy that you're making games in .net. Not many people are (yet)

Also, This game is one of the most fun games I've ever played.

herilane

I'd missed the original post... thanks for resurrecting this thread, I loved the game!

My favourites were the "landscaped" levels with various sorts of walls, where capturing certain areas early gave you an advantage. I liked them better than the levels with special balls (the black and white and other ones). They took away some of the cleanness and simplicity of the basic idea.

Now can we get more levels please?

italkid

I really should install my .Net once (in May I'll have it a full year without ever been installed... )

Downloaded the game though...that's a good start...

elnerdo

Iceplug, I think adding a map editor ( that the user can use ) would be awesome for this game.