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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI-Nspire => Topic started by: epic7 on December 15, 2012, 10:59:38 pm
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So, this game is a clone of Motherload (http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/motherload), mixed with a bit of minecraft. The minecraft aspect comes from the fact that it's a bit blockier than Motherload and I ripped the tile textures out of a 32x32 texture pack :P
Because in Motherload, you dig with a drill machine, and you use it to mine ores, the name is DrillMiner, because I'm just that creative
(name subject to change :P)
Most recent preview:
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wow, this is looking pretty good so far, the scrolling :D
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Thats an interesting game you got there!
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I see you're using a Minecraft texture pack....I just don't remember what it's called.....but I've been waiting for someone to port this and yay! I might be able to help with your level generator.
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That looks awesome! I used to play Motherload all the time
Edit: will this be open-source?
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I kinda fixed my map system and now there's bedrock (actually it's obsidian :P) at the bottom.
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/screenie2.gif)
And that also means pretty night sky and grass
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/screenie3.gif)
I see you're using a Minecraft texture pack....I just don't remember what it's called.....but I've been waiting for someone to port this and yay! I might be able to help with your level generator.
I used this texture pack (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/160450-hd-aw3s0m3-32x32-texture-pack/)
I'm open to help for level generation... I don't really know what would be the best way to generate :P
That looks awesome! I used to play Motherload all the time
Edit: will this be open-source?
I suppose so. I'm gonna make the code a bit more pretty first, though :P
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Cool, a new nspire game! And it's looking good so far.
At first I thought it was a computer project :P
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I love Motherload. Can't wait for this game :D
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(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/3-screenie.gif)
Huzzah! I made sprites and they actually look good! :P/me needs to attach a propeller
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(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/3-screenie.gif)
Huzzah! I made sprites and they actually look good! :P/me needs to attach a propeller
That looks awesome. It's nice to see another great Nspire program that makes use of the calc's full potential. I can't say enough how excited I am to see this when it's finished... Y'know, if you need a beta-tester, I can do it.
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Great to see another nspire game being developed. If you need any beta testing, I'm ready :D Love the fact that you can drill upwards too :P
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I would happily beta test this if you like.
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Anyone can test; doesn't really matter to me :P
I put a link to my site in the first post which contains the files (not much point of it yet :P) and source code (but outdated and messy).
I might also fuse Motherload and Minecraft together a bit more than I planned. I might have some Minecraft elements such as smelting/crafting instead of buying items in the store.
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I tried making nonlinear gravity and smooth movements... but i failed epicly /me facepalms
At least digging kinda works now, and I started making the flying sprite
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/4-screenie.gif)
But collision detection still hates me... I managed to hide most of the collision screwups in the screenshot, though... something i need to solve this christmas break.
Anybody know if any kind of pxl-test is possible in C? :P
On a more optimistic note, I kinda know what I might do for inventory/smelting/crafting.
Also custom texture packs won't be that hard to make :D
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Triple post, but I have a huge amount of stuff to post :P
I've decided to change the texture pack, which would make it easier for me too use some more ores, since the old one only had 5.
So I've changed the texturepack to Faithful 32x32 and I also made my own platinum ore. Here's how it looks
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/93019118/newtex.png)
And since the textures are stored externally, anybody could use modify the terrain file to make a custom texture pack.
The terrain file for the game looks like this so far:
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/93019118/terrainv1.1.png)
I've also decided to do crafting instead of buying the upgrades
I don't know how fuel will work... maybe some kind of coal conversion or something
So here are the tentative crafting designs
Textures were taken from some site that had a bunch of Motherload pics
I'll probably change them since the values are kinda random :P
Ores:
Exchange rate:
Coal = --
Iron = 2 Coal (1:2)
Gold = 1.66 Iron (3:5)
Platinum = 2.5 Gold (2:5)
Sapphire = 3 Platinum (1:3)
Emerald = 2.66 Sapphire (3:8)
Ruby = 2.5 Emerald (2:5)
Diamond = 4 Ruby (1:4)
Drills:
Recipe:
O
OOO
OOOOO
OOO
O
Replace O with mineral
Stock drill = 100 frames per block of stone
Gold drill = 85 frames per block of stone
(http://motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/goldiumdrill.png)
Platinum drill = 70 frames per block of stone
(http://motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/silvidedrill.png)
Sapphire drill = 55 frames per block of stone
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/amazonitedrill.png)
Emerald drill = 40 frames per block of stone
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/emeralddrill.png)
Ruby drill = 30 frames per block of stone
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/rubydrill.png)
Diamond drill = 15 frames per block of stone
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/diamonddrill.png)
Hulls:
Recipe:
OOOO
O O
O O
OOOO
Replace O with mineral
Stock hull- 10 HP
Gold hull- 17 HP
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/bronziumhull.png)
Platinum hull- 30 HP
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/steelhull.png)
Sapphire hull- 50 HP
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/ironiumhull.png)
Ruby hull- 80 HP
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/93019118/rubyhull.png)
Emerald hull- 120 HP
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/einsteiniumhull.png)
Godlike hull – 256 HP
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/energy-shieldedhull.png)
Special Recipe:
DERED
DD DD
SR RS
DD DD
DERED
Fuel tanks:
Stock tank = 10 L
Medium tank = 15 L
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/mediumtank.png)
IIIII
I I
IIIII
Large tank = 25 L
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/hugetank.png)
IIIII
I I
IIIII
I I
IIIII
Huge tank = 40 L
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/gigantictank.png)
GGGGG
G G
GGGGG
G G
GGGGG
Gigantic tank = 60 L
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/titanictank.png)
IRGRI
I I
I I
I I
IRGRI
Titanic tank = 100 L
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/leviathentank.png)
EEEEE
E E
R R
E E
EEEEE
Multi-tank = 170 L
(http://www.motherloadkb.com/images/upgrades/liquidcompressiontank.png)
DDDDD
S D S
SSDSS
S D S
DDDDD
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/me lost
i like the textures :D
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I have been looking for this game to port, but i totally forgot the name..glad you took it up :)
i really hope this works out fine, because the original game is just wonderful, good luck!
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Haven't really gotten to do much development over the winter break, but I managed to get my inventory screen running. (haven't put it amount of blocks collected yet, though).
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/inv.png)
For the next month or so, development might be a bit slow due to both FRC build season and midterms :/
For fuel, I'll probably put in some station for coal liquefaction, as there will be no currency other than the ores you carry.
Might also make some randomly generating buildings underground too.
(and also make my ore generator not suck :P)
Anyone got any ideas for somewhat of a storyline, or a way that this game could end? Or perhaps I could actually just have no end and keep on generating maps until the whole screen is filled with diamonds and/or the user runs out of memory :P
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That are not how colors of traffic lights are: top red, center yellow and bottom green :P/me runs
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Lookin' mighty sweet there epic7!
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Are you gonna replace the images of the miner with images of hulls etc? Other than that, nice :) it really looks good, also I love the images of the ores, they show exactly what it is, there's no confusion possible
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That are not how colors of traffic lights are: top red, center yellow and bottom green :P/me runs
Totally agree :)
This has progressed quite a lot already, for the story I'd say mix infinity with some kind of story? After you're done you can happily mine what you want. No clue about what the story should be though :P
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Those colors were pretty arbitrary; I just made them different so it would be easier to read :P
If the game is infinite, maybe I'll add some absurdly powerful megaupgrades for people to attempt getting :P
Are you gonna replace the images of the miner with images of hulls etc? Other than that, nice :) it really looks good, also I love the images of the ores, they show exactly what it is, there's no confusion possible
Yeah, the terrain file has all the other texures (as shown on the previous page). I think I'll keep those for the stock parts, though.
Another question for you guys:
Should crafting be regular Minecraft style, or pocket edition (selecting from menu) style?
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I think that normal Minecraft style might be a little cumbersome for items using 2 or more types of ore, but an option to choose would be great. (As would multiple savegames... but if it's an external, user-accessible save we can manage that on our own)
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Yeah, I think I might just do the menu-based crafting.
I'll get to making the save games, but I have no idea how to read data from a file :P
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Can't you do like Java and just dump everything in a file? In Java you can just write the object to a file (.ser) and retrieve it later by reading that file.
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Woops, it came through twice apparently, sorry for the double post :)
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That is possible as well.
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I know how to throw it into a file, but I don't know how to read it/me researches
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Why not fread?
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Because I'm a noob that doesn't know this stuff :P
This is what I have for save and load, but the result is kinda ugly O.O
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/WAT.png)
SAVE CODE
FILE * f = fopen("/documents/miner/mapdata.tns", "w+");
for(j = 0; j < 10120; j++) //the map has 10120 blocks
fprintf(f, "%d ", map[j]);
fclose(f);
LOAD CODE
FILE *f = fopen("/documents/miner/mapdata.tns", "r");
fread(map, sizeof(int), 10120, f);
fclose(f);
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You can also use fwrite for saving and probably have to because fprintf stores the map as text and fread reads it as ints.
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Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing :P
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Are you using nSDL ? If so, I can provide you a getPixel routine I wrote :) else, you can find in the file utils.c of the Ndless sample "particles" a getPixel function which deals directly with the screen.
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I'm using nRGBlib. I guess I'll go check that file out, although I don't think I'll need it that much anymore.
Anyways, I've been trying to make the ore generator less crappy, and I have one now that's working a bit better. For a visual representation of the generator so far, here's a stacked graph of ore abundance:
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/ore%20chart.png)
The map was 40*600, so 24000 blocks. It seems that there's only 26 diamonds in the whole map :P
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I think that more diamonds would be better, because if you only find 25 or so of the most valuable block in the whole map with no chance of getting more, it'd be kinda frustrating.
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Perhaps make a way to have (almost) infinite maps?
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I could do maps that are pretty infinite, but would the ore abundance keep changing after diamonds start spawning?
Or I could even just avoid that problem by making it only infinite in the x dimension
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Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing :P
Have you tried fgetc for reading bytes? It may be confusing since it returns an int, but it's really only reading a character.
int fgetc ( FILE * stream );
Get character from stream.
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Or you could randomly inflate/deflate the ore spawn rate every time it generates
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Maybe you could try to make like intersection parts, where e.g. coal and iron are all scrambled, but other than that, it's looking nice :D
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Update:
Working collisions!
It's about time!
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/5-screenie.gif)
Also, horizontal movement is now smooth.
Gravity is still linear; it's giving me more trouble than horizontal scrolling.
I think it's time for an alpha release.
Download is below, and if anyone downloads, please tell me if you find any bugs!
I think I got rid of them, but the most persistent bugs were probably the vehicle overlapping the blocks
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/err.png)
and floating over openings
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/err2.PNG)
Edit: Just noticed how slow it is on the actual calculator
Framerate is still high, but just rather slow :P
I'll should fix that :P
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It is very nice, but as you said: slow on calc.
- It's kinda dark when you start it up. Maybe make the sky blue when you start for the first time?
- some kind of animation while digging. Now I didn't know if i was actually digging or just standing still.
- you're probably working on that: show how many items you have etc.
wonderful game, epic7 (-7), very nice job!
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I might make digging animation and/or particle effects.
I already have something that keeps track of inventory; it's just a matter of putting it on the screen.
As far daytime, I don't know how to do masking for the sprite, so that wouldn't work at the moment.
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If you know how to display a sprite, do a function that tests if for every pixel the colour is different of the mask you inputted. If so, it displays it, else it does nothing.
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I use nRGBlib, and the vehicle is just a tile being displayed.
I guess I'll check out the source and modify that
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A tile is a sprite, basically. And you can still ask the author of nRGBlib (I forgot his name :P) to add this feature.
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I just doubled the speed of the program, and now it runs at a good speed and is still quite smooth
After midterms, I'm going to improve scrolling and add nonlinear gravity, completing the movement engine.
Then, there will be a crafting building, probably some ore trading station, and some kind of coal liquefaction building for fuel. In addition, some buildings (for I don't know what) will probably spawn underground.
Any other features that you all think should be added?
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I just doubled the speed of the program, and now it runs at a good speed and is still quite smooth
What optimization strategies did you implement to double the speed?
Update:
Working collisions!
It's about time!
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/5-screenie.gif)
Also, horizontal movement is now smooth.
Gravity is still linear; it's giving me more trouble than horizontal scrolling.
I'm loving it!!! :)
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Gotta love how the sprites are all ripped from minecraft and motherload. Still, this looks pretty cool. Are you planning on making blocks replaceable ala minecraft, or permanently destroyed like motherload?
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I didn't really optimize, I just doubled all the movement speeds :P
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MOAR MEWVMANT UPDAETS!
Smooth vertical movement added, collisions improved, and now scrolling doesn't look bad :P
So aside from some tweaking, movement is done. One thing I need to fix is that whenever the user is flying, the car always faces right.
And here's how the game runs on the actual calculator.
Coming up next (after tweaking movement), crafting and fuel.
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Looks nice ! :D I think that the digging speed is a bit low though.
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Agreed. It's looking awesome, however. It's very fluid.
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Wow, that does look great! I'd have to agree with Matrefeytontias though. Digging speed could definitely be increased.
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I had an idea today: if you're not happy with the propellor animation, why don't you add little rockets underneath it? That way it looks better I think.
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Personally, I think the digging speed is fine. In the actual game, digging takes nigh-on forever, so this is a nice little reminder that we can't get what we want all the time ^^
I think what really needs improvement, however, is the digging/disappearing blocks thing - I don't know how the CX works, but is it possible to have an animation instead where the block slowly disappears from the top down or left/right or whatever?
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The digging time was originally twice as long, actually O.O
This also is the stock drill, so it'll be pretty slow.
For digging I might do minecraft style were the blocks slowly crack and add particles coming from the drill
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Ah, ok. Makes sense. :)
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Nice to see a TI-Nspire clone of this. SirCmpwn was working on a TI-83+ one but I don't know what ever happened to it.
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Some progress on crafting
(the player can't go this fast in the actual game :P)
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/crafting.gif)
The shop is, of course, ripped from Motherload :P
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/station.PNG)
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WOOOO, wonderful! you did a great job epic7 :)
this looks amazing, i love the interface (maybe the color is somehow flashy), but it's clear and simple.
the only thing i can say is that your 'shop' is the repair shop in the real game.
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Looks nice :D Maybe (later on) you can divide the shop into sub menus for hull, drill etc.? That would reduce the list size a bit (not that it's a huge issue :P) I couldn't help but notice the best hull is called "Godlike Tank" and the biggest tank is called "Multi Drill" :P
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Wow, looks very nice!
I would probably change the font, though (if you can find one).
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I think the font is kinda hideous too, but I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to change that
I also thought that the repair building looked prettier than the original game's upgrade shop :P
Looks nice :D Maybe (later on) you can divide the shop into sub menus for hull, drill etc.? That would reduce the list size a bit (not that it's a huge issue :P) I couldn't help but notice the best hull is called "Godlike Tank" and the biggest tank is called "Multi Drill" :P
Gosh, darnit. I thought I fixed that :P
Edit: Fixed
I just had the upgrade types shifted over by 1 :P
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Crafting pretty much is done.
Items' text turn green if not bought, red if they are bought and equipped, and turn yellow if they are bought but not equipped.
If you see a bunch of blocks spontaneously disappear, its because this gif is weird :P
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/buy.gif)
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I like the way the tank flies :D
So yeah, nice work so far :P
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Looks very nice as always and glad you added some gravity when digging.
Suggestion: Would it be possible to add dynamic tiles support, so that when digging around, the tunnel corners/edges aren't flat horizontally/vertically? That's unless of course you're going for Minecraft style, but it would make digging more realistic.
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Aww, there's an upper height limit? But I loved flying several km up, and then letting myself fall :(
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/me wishes he had an nSpire...
epic7, I want dis program
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THEN BUY AN NSPIRE RIET NAO!!
Lol, I guess I could add infinite height; it wouldn't need any extra map data :P
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This app that you made is really awesome :) It brings back lots o' old memories :) thanks a lot :D Is it still being updated?
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I haven't done any work on it in a while, but once school is over, I might pick up the project again
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great game :) i want it on my nspire :)
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Can't wait to see Motherload on the Nspire, keep up the good work!
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i cant wait for an update, i spent about an hour going through this topic looking for the download button so maybe edit your first post any ways looks like a fun game :D
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His last post on this topic brings back to June, please avoid necroposting, okay? ;)
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Status update:
Well, I haven't been too motivated to work on it, especially since my nspire is no longer working.
I could pick the project back up in the future, but I dunno how likely that is.
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Sorry to hear about the project and the calc. D:
(That said, maybe it would be an occasion to try an HP version since there are less risks of bricking the calc it seems :P)
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Knowing epic7 (and chatting with him via Facebook and collaborating with him on a Java project), he's lost a lot of his interest in this project. RIP DrillMiner.
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I wish he would have sticked around, though? D:
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He comes on IRC from time to time and barely posts. From what I gather, he's lost most of his calc programming interest.
/me is trying to bring it back.
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My calculator programming interest has gone up and down at random times.
Maybe my interest will be revived again sometime.
If not calculator programming, I at least plan on doing some android/computer stuffs.
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Great work! :D
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http://put.nu/files/4QcgFAK.txt
just got this...
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So what is that? Is that the source code? It looks pretty small if it is...
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It is, in fact, the source code. If there's more, epic7 never gave it to me.
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Ah, ok. I just thought he got more done on this. Still pretty cool I guess. :)
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Well, the source code posted by pimathbrainiac appears to work. I've just put together a ndless project file for you.
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I can't see the vidéo. It say the vidéo is not disponible :-[
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I can't see the vidéo. It say the vidéo is not disponible :-[
@neuronix: Well, you can always download the .zip. Look at its Readme.txt and play the game. Is pretty easy.
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Thank you very much