my new JavaScript game

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:29 am

Hi,

I haven't spent too much time to develop Irrlicht stuff recently because my attention was dragged into HTML5 canvas and JavaScript (sort of). I want to get a *real* game finished with the JavaScript port of Box2d, and I still need to do some work on it, but I though I'd share a first version. It can be played here:

http://www.bulletbyte.de/products.php?s ... ow=gravity

It's a simple game "inspired by Thrust" from the C-64. You control your spaceship with the cursor keys and activate the tractorbeam with space. The test level does also include a little "physical puzzle", but I think I'll add more (complex) of those when I'm done with the actual gameplay.

Currently the gaming does not end. The goal is to grab the green balls (let's call them "energy spheres") and drop them in the blue area right beside the starting point.

Hope you have fun with it.

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:03 am

Ho ho!
I remember good old Thrust from C-64.
You must add joystick support to your game!

btw, I also have no time for Irrlicht projects.
Must work as webdesigner/webdeveloper to make money, parents don't have work, so I, 18yo guy must pay most of bills

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:58 am

Hi!

You made any progress with game?
I like it

Btw, you must check this:
http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:03 am

Just some minor additions, e.g. the ship can now explode. I want to create some more levels and add an end to those levels as soon as I find time to do so.

Btw: that lemmings version is great. I loved the original, but I should stop playing now as I'm at work

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:47 am

Nice. I really liked this game on C-64 ( I propably can have it even somewhere on tape ). I am waiting for more additions

Yes, that lemmings version is great. Looks exactly same like version from Amiga. And same addictive, like version from Amiga

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:26 pm

Cursor keys don't appear to do anything on Chromium in Linux

Armen138 · Post by **Armen138** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:12 pm

bitplane wrote:Cursor keys don't appear to do anything on Chromium in Linux

works for me though!

Chromium 8.0.552.224 (0)

Linux dusk 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 10 20:01:53 UTC 2010 i686 AMD Phenom(tm) 9500 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:37 pm

OK, now I released the game "officially". It can be found under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_%28video_game%29. After you played a level and use the button that's shown under the game screen you can even enter the hiscore table of the game. Have fun with it.

Oh ... I didn't find any solution for the "Cursor keys don't work" issue. Sorry.

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:18 pm

Yeah!

I love it.

Good job, Brainsaw!

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:04 pm

You should fix the link given in the first post since it points to ?non existant page?

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The document name you requested (/jsbox2d/JSGravity.html) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.
Available documents:

/jsbox2d/JSGravity.php (common basename)
Please consider informing the owner of the referring page about the broken link.

the correct link, as I found out, is: http://bulletbyte.de/jsbox2d/

Also, is there any way to restart level without having to reload page, my spaceship sometimes got stuck when flipped on side on the ground.

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:44 am

OK, updated the link in the initial post.

I also added a button to the game where you can restart the level, and you can blow up the ship with the "ESC" key if you get stuck. Might be the better choice if you (almost) finished the level.

More levels to come

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:11 am

Heh I beated your record at 2nd level, this game is fun

*Goes back to coding

*

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:55 am

Yea, I've seen that. Played the level like 4 or 5 times right afterwards, just to get back to top

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:57 am

I added 2 more levels yesterday. One is a bit annoying, not much space to fly, the other one is just a small training level. Waiting for hiscores for these levels

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:36 pm

Nice

I am so sad that i don't have any working joysticks.
Today I found nice plugin for web browsers that allow to use joystick through javascript level.

Imagine this game on analog joystick... beutiful