Arthur

hgy29 · January 2018

Hi,

I've finally released Arthur publicly today on google play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hieroglyphe.arthur

Video trailer:

Thanks for all your advices which helped me reach this point!

oleg · January 2018

error

nexus 7 :

- opens the map
- Pressing the red dot does not work
- click the menu icon - it does not work

hgy29 · January 2018

yes, sorry I released too fast! I rushed to push a fix on the store, it shall be available in a few minutes

keszegh · January 2018

its strange that i did not even play yet i already have to wait 5 mins to get a life to play.

hgy29 · January 2018

Strange indeed, it never occurred to me.

oleg · January 2018

in the desert my tablet is running very slowly

hgy29 · January 2018

Thanks for reporting @oleg, I am not that surprised it happens on some devices. i use a computation intensive shader in desert levels for sand storm effect, it is probably what slows down the game on your device. i will try to find a more efficient way.

totebo · January 2018

Nice update! Also having slow performance in the desert. On a Pixel XL!

hgy29 · January 2018

I pushed version 1.0.3 on store half an hour ago, let me know if desert is still slow!

oleg · January 2018

@hgy29

hgy29 · January 2018

@oleg, do you really have version 1.0.3 ? Either it isn't yet fully available on store or I didn't send the right package!

oleg · January 2018

Oh sorry,
checked this version 1.0

checked 1.0.3 - works fast

hgy29 · January 2018

great news! Thanks for trying!

totebo · January 2018

Fast and smooth for me too now. Nice!

SinisterSoft · January 2018

What did you do to speed it up/why was it so slow?

hgy29 · January 2018

It was slow due to a fullscreen shader used to add a sand storm effect to the whole scene. I initially made this shader from a 3D noise and turbulence routine (based on povray code), and tuned parameters until it was smooth/fast on all my devices (Nvidia Shield 2017 and Samsung S7, the latter being technically not mine).

To make it faster, I replaced 3D noise with 2D noise (faster), and reduced turbulence iterations, which should have divided by two the shader execution time.

hgy29 · January 2018

And here it is on the app store:
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/arthur-aziliz/id1330653665

john26 · January 2018

Great game, really enjoying playing it!

hgy29 · January 2018

Thanks John and thanks for your remarks on slack

jdbc · January 2018

Good game!

Did you use bump for collison detection or box2d?

I guess you can improve dead animation, may be some blood explosion or similar and may be walking animation could be have more sprites.

Graphics are ok and camera is moving smooth.

oleg · January 2018

@jdbc blood does not need to be added - because googlplay will set limits for some countries

hgy29 · January 2018

Thanks @jdbc. I used bump, following an advice from @antix

And this led me to write the native C version of bump to improve responsiveness.
As @oleg says, adding blood would probably degrade age rating. In fact it is already graded 7 or 9 just because it shows 'violence', although the game is overall fit for a 5yo child IMO.

SinisterSoft · January 2018

imho you either have to have no blood or go completely OTT (over the top!) and have bucket loads of it.

Games that add loads of blood often get loads of downloads, I personally think it could work really well with this game as it would be pretty surreal - a nice cute game and OTT blood would be great!

Maybe add a second build - the 'unrated' edition ?

hgy29 · January 2018

Interesting idea @SinisterSoft!

SinisterSoft · January 2018

In Superhero (an Amiga game I made with @Favfly ), you could hit someone so hard that sometimes their head would fly off! Other times they would split in two.

Eventually I'm going to recode the game using Gideros (if @Favfly doesn't beat me to it) !

With modern machines I'll be able to add bucket loads of blood and still keep the game at 60hz, on the Amiga I couldn't add that much as the hardware was pretty slow compared to modern machines - it did run at 60hz though...

jdbc · January 2018

hgy29 said:
Thanks @jdbc. I used bump, following an advice from @antix And this led me to write the native C version of bump to improve responsiveness.
As @oleg says, adding blood would probably degrade age rating. In fact it is already graded 7 or 9 just because it shows 'violence', although the game is overall fit for a 5yo child IMO.

I always miss the lack of native collision and math libraries in Gideros to be almost perfect for 2d games.

I suggested to improve the dead animation because it seemed so strange when you die and just disappeared.

SinisterSoft · January 2018

@jdbc what math library functions are missing? I've added a few native operators to Lua (faster than regular math functions) but if you think we have missed any then I'll look into adding them if possible.

jdbc · January 2018

SinisterSoft said:
@jdbc what math library functions are missing? I've added a few native operators to Lua (faster than regular math functions) but if you think we have missed any then I'll look into adding them if possible.

Is there any place (documentation web or forum thread) where I can find an example of those native math functions?

jdbc · January 2018

I have seen native operators

http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/enhancement

SinisterSoft · January 2018

You found the docs.

In there you should find some examples under each operator where they can be used to be faster than calling the math function.

eg:

http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/enhancement/bigsmall

See that it's faster than math.abs, math.min and math.max

antix · January 2018

Maybe @jdbc means interesting math functions like vector length, pointing to one vector from another, those mathsy things that most games use

for me a native pathfinding class (like jumper lua library) and a native steering class (ala open steering) would be pretty good to have built into Gideros

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