Plan for Craig Fortune
by Craig Fortune · 12/12/2004 (3:07 pm) · 23 comments
Well this weekends GiD was a tad different to most. Most of the regulars (especially the programmers) have either been busy with the typical christmas season hoohar or have had the flu. This has led to a couple of the artists deciding the put the programmers hat on... including me.
I'll make no excuses, I'm not a strong programmer, I'm a complete newb. In university we ahve started learning java programming and as such i thought I'd try doing this GiD by myself in Java... completely leaving out the art side of things. It was scary, but enjoyable ;)
Being new to programming a lot of runtime errors mean nothing to me (ie, i dont understand wth they are on about) and getting unknown errors during a GiD is never nice ;) Thankfully after some playing about I figured out it was my stupidity 100% (Apparently calling object methods is difficult when theres no object, whoever would have thought that ey? lol :D)
Without further ado I present to thee "Dodgy Java applet game." =D
Play Here!
If anyone has a clue why stuff draws a bit wonky when I included double buffering (had to learn how to do that during this GiD too, heh) then please let me know... Stuff is supposed to be circles, but I suppose it kinda gives extra feel to it, nah it just makes it look cack doesn't it? lol
I wanna see people's highscores! I would say about 100 is a midrange score.
I'll make no excuses, I'm not a strong programmer, I'm a complete newb. In university we ahve started learning java programming and as such i thought I'd try doing this GiD by myself in Java... completely leaving out the art side of things. It was scary, but enjoyable ;)
Being new to programming a lot of runtime errors mean nothing to me (ie, i dont understand wth they are on about) and getting unknown errors during a GiD is never nice ;) Thankfully after some playing about I figured out it was my stupidity 100% (Apparently calling object methods is difficult when theres no object, whoever would have thought that ey? lol :D)
Without further ado I present to thee "Dodgy Java applet game." =D
Play Here!
If anyone has a clue why stuff draws a bit wonky when I included double buffering (had to learn how to do that during this GiD too, heh) then please let me know... Stuff is supposed to be circles, but I suppose it kinda gives extra feel to it, nah it just makes it look cack doesn't it? lol
I wanna see people's highscores! I would say about 100 is a midrange score.
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#3
12/12/2004 (3:09 pm)
Dudes, you replied before my page even reloaded after posting :) Stuff fixed now. 
#4
12/12/2004 (3:12 pm)
I jsyt get java grey box of death
#5
A reply a minute to this .plan so far! ;)
12/12/2004 (3:14 pm)
Anthony, must be browser settings. As of yet no one else has complained of it not working (nor in the gameinaday chat channel)A reply a minute to this .plan so far! ;)
#7
Craig, very impressive for an artist! It has a good challenge to it and it is somewhat addicting... It amazes me to see how someone who's a newb can pick up Java quick enough to do a GiD with it.
Awesome Job!
As an extra added challenge:
You may want to make it spawn the red objects in line with the mouse's green collector thingy as the level progresses. Other than that, I give this an A+ for a job well done.
- Brett
12/12/2004 (4:41 pm)
Score: 179Craig, very impressive for an artist! It has a good challenge to it and it is somewhat addicting... It amazes me to see how someone who's a newb can pick up Java quick enough to do a GiD with it.
Awesome Job!
As an extra added challenge:
You may want to make it spawn the red objects in line with the mouse's green collector thingy as the level progresses. Other than that, I give this an A+ for a job well done.
- Brett
#8
@Brett: Thanks for the nice comments, when I have some time I might include that addition you suggested.
12/12/2004 (5:05 pm)
@Ted: Nice score! The best yet! ;)@Brett: Thanks for the nice comments, when I have some time I might include that addition you suggested.
#9
Nice game! Good job, for not being a wizard programmer!
One way in which your game is better than www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/squares2.php is that the bad dots don't get hidden behind the good dots sometimes. :) Squares2 has powerups, which are kinda fun, and the avatar dot grows as you collect things, which is also kinda fun.
12/12/2004 (6:00 pm)
Score: 137Nice game! Good job, for not being a wizard programmer!
One way in which your game is better than www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/squares2.php is that the bad dots don't get hidden behind the good dots sometimes. :) Squares2 has powerups, which are kinda fun, and the avatar dot grows as you collect things, which is also kinda fun.
#10
12/12/2004 (6:25 pm)
Aha! I was trying to find that game, I played it yonks ago. I kind of did this GiD thru a fuzzy memory of it :)
#11
Now wait till you get hold of pointer arithmetic and debugging :) hahahaha..
Ok, so we have this thing called a pointer.. its a variable that "points" :) hahahahahaha
Ok. flu taking hold again.
Bah.
12/12/2004 (6:30 pm)
Good to see Craig get in there and program this lil baby! it bodes well for next year!!! gooooo craig!Now wait till you get hold of pointer arithmetic and debugging :) hahahaha..
Ok, so we have this thing called a pointer.. its a variable that "points" :) hahahahahaha
Ok. flu taking hold again.
Bah.
#12
12/12/2004 (7:28 pm)
Well done craig, still cant reach the midrange score though! 
#13
12/12/2004 (9:39 pm)
Sweet stuff, congrats man :)
#14
This is a pretty neat little idea. Impressive to see what a non-expert coder can turn out in a day! Surprisingly fun, too - it doesn't try to be more than it is. You should try polishing it up a bit and putting it in your portfolio/resume... Maybe add some graphics and make it into a little browser ad-game or something along those lines to demonstrate your versatility?
12/12/2004 (10:30 pm)
My top score was 20, but I was playing on my laptop... :PThis is a pretty neat little idea. Impressive to see what a non-expert coder can turn out in a day! Surprisingly fun, too - it doesn't try to be more than it is. You should try polishing it up a bit and putting it in your portfolio/resume... Maybe add some graphics and make it into a little browser ad-game or something along those lines to demonstrate your versatility?
#15
Still haven't figured the weird wonkyness bought in with the double buffering tho :/
12/12/2004 (10:57 pm)
I think I might possibly work on this over christmas, get nice graphics in, difficulty levels etc etc basicly a big refinement job.Still haven't figured the weird wonkyness bought in with the double buffering tho :/
#16
Craig, you sure those little circles ain't made of crack? I can't stop... ;)
12/13/2004 (4:01 am)
Dammit!!! 875!!! Sooooooo close...Craig, you sure those little circles ain't made of crack? I can't stop... ;)
#17
12/13/2004 (4:02 am)
Oh, and check out www.Arkadium.com... If you convert it to a Flash game and make it head to head(not very hard to do with this), they're looking for simple and fun games... ;)
#18
12/13/2004 (4:48 am)
cack sounds very Afrikaans.... ?
#19
12/13/2004 (1:38 pm)
875! Jesus christ you weirdo! I wanna see screenshots of these :) (mind you I need to make it harder to mock it up tho ;)
#20
But still... pWned!
I'm not a weirdo(or even Jesus Christ for that matter), I'm just l33t ;)
@Burning: I said crack, not cack, haha...
12/13/2004 (3:54 pm)
Craig, the red pills are suspiciously faster this morning... ;)But still... pWned!
I'm not a weirdo(or even Jesus Christ for that matter), I'm just l33t ;)@Burning: I said crack, not cack, haha...
Torque Owner Jay Barnson
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Okay, you worked fast. All better now.
Score of 104 on my first try!