Test my applet game: Mr. Hopwit and the Mysterious Maze

15 Message(s) by 6 Author(s) originally posted in java games

From: Christian Hvid

Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Hello groups.

In hope of getting feedback

<electronics> Part of a system output presented at its input.
	Feedback may be unintended.  When used as a design feature,
	the output is usually transformed by passive components which
	attenuate it in some manner; the result is then presented at
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	Feedback is positive or negative, depending on the sign with
	which a positive change in the original input reappears after
	transformation.  Negative feedback was invented by Black to
	stabilise {vacuum tube} amplifiers.  The behaviour becomes
	largely a function of the feedback transformation and only
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	Positive feedback can lead to instability; it finds wide
	application in the construction of oscillators.

	Feedback can be used to control a system, as in {feedback
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	(1996-01-02)

as useful as last time - here is my new game:
Mr. Hopwit and the Mysterious Maze.

http://vredungmand.dk/games

<games> "The time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted." --
	{Bertrand Russell}.

	Here are some games-related pages on the {Web}: {Imperial
	Nomic (http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/achmed/fascist/)},
	{Thoth's games and recreations page
	(http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~thoth/library/recreation.html)},
	{Games Domain (http://wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/GamesDomain)},
	{Zarf's	List of Games on the Web
	(http://www.leftfoot.com/games.html)},
	{Dave's list of pointers to games resources
	(http://wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/~djh/index.html)},
	{Collaborative Fiction
	(http://asylum.cid.com/fiction/fiction.html)}.

	See also {3DO}, {ADL}, {ADVENT}, {ADVSYS}, {alpha/beta
	pruning}, {Amiga}, {CHIP-8}, {Core Wars}, {DROOL}, {empire},
	{I see no X here.}, {Infocom}, {Inglish}, {initgame}, {life},
	{minimax}, {moria}, {mudhead}, {multi-user Dimension},
	{nethack}, {ogg}, {plugh}, {rogue}, {SPACEWAR}, {virtual
	reality}, {wizard mode}, {wumpus}, {xyzzy}, {ZIL}, {zorkmid}.

	See also {game theory}.

	(1996-03-03)

/hopwit/

It is an "arcade puzzle" remotely inspired by Pac Man and Lady Bug. It is
based upon my framework

In {object-oriented} systems, a set of {class}es that embodies
	an abstract design for solutions to a number of related
	problems.

	(1995-01-30)

for small JAVA games and features an early version

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	substantial increase in the function of the program or a
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	Statements about compatibility between different software
	components should always say which versions they apply to.

	See {change management}.

	(1997-12-07)

of my forthcoming synthesizer emulator

{Hardware} or {software} that performs {emulation}.

	(1995-05-12)

(which should work if you are running
JAVA 1.3+) (it is in superduperbeta so do not expect

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	language} for automating the operation of {interactive}
	applications such as {telnet}, {FTP}, {passwd}, {fsck},
	{rlogin}, {tip}, etc..  Expect can feed input to other
	programs and perform {pattern matching} on their output.  It
	is also useful for testing these applications.  By adding
	{Tk}, you can also wrap interactive applications in {X11}
	{GUIs}.

	{Home (http://expect.nist.gov/)}.

	["expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Tasks", Don
	Libes, Comp Sys 4(2), U Cal Press Journals, Nov 1991].

	(1997-06-09)

too much).

I'd like some feedback on my game design.

If you play the game a couple of times - then please tell:

- How far into the game did you get the first time you played it?
- How quickly (if you did) did you loose interest in the game? Did you get
stuck?

(These questions help me to get an idea of whether the game has good balance
and progression.)

Any ideas on improvement of the game?

From: amonroejj

Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004

wrote in message:

I'd like some feedback on my game design.
- How far into the game did you get the first time you played it?
Level 2

- How quickly (if you did) did you loose interest in the game? Did you get

>stuck?
Have not yet worked out which color

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	(1996-12-13)

doors open

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	the necessary authorisation to read or write it.  The result
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	passes back to the system in order to access the file without
	further checks and finally to close the file.

	2. Abbreviation for "open (or left) parenthesis" - used when
	necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.  To read aloud the LISP
	form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say: "Open defun
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	3. Non-proprietary.  An open {standard} is one which can be
	used without payment.

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1995-01-31)

which other doors, but I
was not concentrating too hard. The robots can trap

1. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some
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	2. To cause a trap.  "These instructions trap to the monitor."
	Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the trap.
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	This term is associated with assembler programming
	("interrupt" or "exception" is more common among {HLL}
	programmers) and appears to be fading into history among
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	However, it is still important to computer architects and
	systems hackers (see {system}, sense 1), who use it to
	distinguish {deterministic}ally repeatable exceptions from
	timing-dependent ones (such as I/O interrupts).

	[{Jargon File}]

you in a dead

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	2. At {XEROX PARC}, software that is working but not
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end.

Any ideas on improvement of the game?

On my box

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	[{Jargon File}]

	(1994-11-29)

(a Windows

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	(1997-11-23)

XP laptop, and I was playing in Mozilla

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	[Derived from "{Mosaic} killer/Godzilla"?]

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Firefox

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	{Firefox Home (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox)}.

	(2005-01-26)

browser), some of the sound

1. {audio}.

	2. <logic> An {inference system} A is sound with respect to
	another system B if A can only reach conclusions which are
	true in B.  A {type inference} system is considered sound with
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	The dual to soundness is {complete}ness.

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s came out as mad earsplitting white noise

<communications> Any part of a signal that is not the true or
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	mechanism.

	A common example would be an electrical signal travelling down
	a wire to which noise is added by inductive and capacitive
	coupling with other nearby signals (this kind of noise is
	known as "{crosstalk}").

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	(2003-07-05)

.

Framerates could be better.

Alan

From: amonroejj

Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004

wrote in message:

Any ideas on improvement of the game?

Leaving the page, and even closing the tab in Mozilla Firefox, left
the background

1. <operating system> A task running in the background (a
	background task) is detached from the terminal where it was
	started (and often running at a lower priority); opposite of
	{foreground}.  This means that the task's input and output
	must be from/to files (or other processes).

	Nowadays this term is primarily associated with {Unix}, but it
	appears to have been first used in this sense on {OS/360}.

	Compare {amp off}, {batch}, {slopsucker}.

	2. <jargon> For a human to do a task "in the background" is to
	do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your
	undivided attention, and "to background" something means to
	relegate it to a lower priority.  "For now, we'll just print a
	list of nodes and links; I'm working on the graph-printing
	problem in the background."  Note that this implies ongoing
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	(1996-05-28)

sound playing endlessly. I had to close Firefox
altogether.

Alan

From: Will Billingsley

Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Fails with an exception

An error condition that changes the normal {flow of control}
	in a program.  An exception may be generated ("raised") by
	{hardware} or {software}.  Hardware exceptions include
	{reset}, {interrupt} or a signal from a {memory management
	unit}.  Exceptions may be generated by the {arithmetic logic
	unit} or {floating-point unit} for numerical errors such as
	divide by zero, {overflow} or {underflow} or {instruction
	decoding} errors such as privileged, reserved, {trap} or
	undefined instructions.  Software exceptions are even more
	varied and the term could be applied to any kind of error
	checking which alters the normal behaviour of the program.

	(1994-10-31)

because I don't have sound on this machine
(should catch the exception so it can be played on silent computers)

IllegalArgumentException: No line

1. <hardware> An electrical conductor.  For distances larger
	than a breadbox, a single line may consist of two electrical
	conductors in twisted, parallel, or concentric arrangement
	used to transport one logical signal.

	By extension, a (usually physical) medium such as an {optical
	fibre} which carries a signal.

	(1995-09-29)

matching interface

<jargon> A boundary across which two systems communicate.  An
	interface might be a hardware connector used to link to other
	devices, or it might be a convention used to allow
	communication between two software systems.  Often there is
	some intermediate component between the two systems which
	connects their interfaces together.  For example, two {EIA-232}
	interfaces connected via a serial cable.

	See also {graphical user interface}, {Application Program
	Interface}.

	(1996-05-22)

SourceDataLine
supporting format...

Hopwit.JAVA line 1014.

Will.

wrote in message:

Hello groups.
In hope of getting feedback as useful as last time - here is my new game:
Mr. Hopwit and the Mysterious Maze.
http://vredungmand.dk/games/hopwit/
It is an "arcade puzzle" remotely inspired by Pac Man and Lady Bug. It is
based upon my framework for small JAVA games and features an early version
of my forthcoming synthesizer emulator (which should work if you are
running JAVA 1.3+) (it is in superduperbeta so do not expect too much).
I'd like some feedback on my game design.
If you play the game a couple of times - then please tell:
- How far into the game did you get the first time you played it?
- How quickly (if you did) did you loose interest in the game? Did you get
stuck?
(These questions help me to get an idea of whether the game has good
balance and progression.)
Any ideas on improvement of the game?

From: Andre E. Eide

Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004

På Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:56:56 +0200, skrev Christian Hvid <chvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hello groups.
In hope of getting feedback as useful as last time - here is my new game:
Mr. Hopwit and the Mysterious Maze.
http://vredungmand.dk/games/hopwit/

Great idéa! I loved the doors opening and closing.
The music did not work.

Played in JAVA1.3.1 Opera 7.23.

Looking forward

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	{home directory}.

	A {mailing list} server (or "{mail exploder}") is designed to
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	{Unix manual page}: aliases(5).

	(2000-03-22)

to try the final version.

--
Andre E. Eide

From: Christian Hvid

Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Sorry about this - what is your platform

Specific computer hardware, as in the phrase
	"platform-independent".  It may also refer to a specific
	combination of hardware and {operating system} and/or
	{compiler}, as in "this program has been ported to several
	platforms".  It is also used to refer to support software for
	a particular activity, as in "This program provides a platform
	for research into routing protocols".

	(1994-12-07)

(JAVA version and OS)?

In article <4085567d$0$5966$d40e179e@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Christian
wrote in message:
>Any ideas on improvement of the game?
Leaving the page, and even closing the tab in Mozilla Firefox, left
the background sound playing endlessly. I had to close Firefox
altogether.

> Alan

From: =?UTF-8?b?TMSByrtpZSBUZWNoaWU=?=

Date: Friday, April 23, 2004

wrote in message:

On my box (a Windows XP laptop, and I was playing in Mozilla Firefox
browser), some of the sounds came out as mad earsplitting white noise.

I've experienced that when applying filters in my own code. If
manipulating the sounds, verify the frameSize(), sampleSize(), byte order,
and signedness of the samples. My mistake was assuming it was unsigned.

HTH,
La'ie Techie

From: Christian Hvid

Date: Friday, April 23, 2004

Hi Alan.

I cannot copy your problem running Firefox 0.8 on a Win2K

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	It is available in four flavours:

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	- Server: "entry-level" server, designed for small
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	- Terminal services for displaying application interfaces on
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	- Improved hardware support, including {Plug-and-Play}, {DVD},
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	- Improved user interface, including a single point to control
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	{Sun} {Solaris}, {IBM} {AIX}, {Hewlett-Packard} {HP-UX}, {SGI}
	{Irix}.  Novell's NDS also provides a service similar to
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	Windows 2000 will be followed by {Windows XP} Professional and
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	{Home (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/)}.

	{Usenet} newsgroups: {(news:microsoft.public.windows2000)},
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box.

Can I get you to play the game again - does the problem persist? I've
rewritten the sound engine

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	2. An analogous piece of software; notionally, one that does a
	lot of noisy {crunching}, such as a "database engine", or
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	The hackish senses of "engine" are actually close to its
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	[{Jargon File}]

	(1996-05-31)

completely.

In article <4085567d$0$5966$d40e179e@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Christian
wrote in message:
>I'd like some feedback on my game design.
>- How far into the game did you get the first time you played it?
Level 2
>- How quickly (if you did) did you loose interest in the game? Did you
get
>stuck?
Have not yet worked out which color doors open which other doors, but I
was not concentrating too hard. The robots can trap you in a dead end.
>Any ideas on improvement of the game?
On my box (a Windows XP laptop, and I was playing in Mozilla Firefox
browser), some of the sounds came out as mad earsplitting white noise.
Framerates could be better.

> Alan

From: amonroejj

Date: Sunday, April 25, 2004

wrote in message:

Hi Alan.
I cannot copy your problem running Firefox 0.8 on a Win2K box.
Can I get you to play the game again - does the problem persist? I've
rewritten the sound engine completely.

It seems to work now, no more noise blasts. There is a quiet clicking
sound about every .75 to 1 seconds, though.

JAVA(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.1
Using JRE

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	required to run Java programs.  The JRE consists of the {Java
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	or other tools present in the JDK.  The JRE is the smallest
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	(1998-11-30)

version 1.4.1 JAVA HotSpot(TM) Client VM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206
Firefox/0.8

Alan

From: Christian Hvid

Date: Monday, April 26, 2004

Ok. That is good.

The clicking noise is probably due to a buffer

1. An area of memory used for storing messages.  Typically, a
	buffer will have other attributes such as an input pointer
	(where new data will be written into the buffer), and output
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	of the space used or free.  Buffers are used to decouple
	processes so that the reader and writer may operate at
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	There are many different algorithms for using buffers, e.g.
	first-in first-out (FIFO or shelf), last-in first-out (LIFO or
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	2. An electronic device to provide compatibility between two
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size that is being set too
low. The problem shows up on MacOSX as well. It is something that I am
working on.

Thank you for your help.

In article <4089428a$0$8659$d40e179e@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Christian
wrote in message:
>Hi Alan.
>
>I cannot copy your problem running Firefox 0.8 on a Win2K box.
>
>Can I get you to play the game again - does the problem persist? I've
>rewritten the sound engine completely.
>
It seems to work now, no more noise blasts. There is a quiet clicking
sound about every .75 to 1 seconds, though.
JAVA(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.1
Using JRE version 1.4.1 JAVA HotSpot(TM) Client VM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206
Firefox/0.8

> Alan

From: SA

Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2004

- How far into the game did you get the first time you played it?

Level 2

- How quickly (if you did) did you loose interest in the game? Did you get
stuck?

Level 2 is very difficult compared to 1

Any ideas on improvement of the game?

The increase in difficulty needs to be quite slight between levels.

How about some sound effects?

From: Christian Hvid

Date: Thursday, April 29, 2004

wrote in message

> - How far into the game did you get the first time you played it?
Level 2
> - How quickly (if you did) did you loose interest in the game? Did you
get
stuck?
Level 2 is very difficult compared to 1

Yeah. I know. I think this game is a bit

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	(2002-01-22)

too hard too. Maybe I should throw
in an extra level between level 1 and 2.

> Any ideas on improvement of the game?
The increase in difficulty needs to be quite slight between levels.
How about some sound effects?

There is plenty of sound - just upgrade

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	Often used in {marketroid}-speak to mean "{bug fix}".

	2. The act of developing or installing a new version.

	(1995-03-14)

to JAVA 1.4:

http://www.JAVA.com/en/download/

And make sure Sun's VM is enabled in internet explorer.

-- Christian

From: SA

Date: Thursday, April 29, 2004

How many levels are there?

Have you thought of minimising the screen

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	(2005-07-28)

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size so that people can download
the JAR to their mobile phones?

From: Christian Hvid

Date: Friday, April 30, 2004

10 but the number is growing.

Yeah - I am going to do some J2ME

<language, programming> (J2ME) {Sun}'s {Java} platform for
	consumer devices.

	J2ME defines Configurations and Profiles for different classes
	of small memory device, from {smart cards} to {pagers} to
	{set-top boxes}.  It can run on various {Java virtual
	machines} including {KVM}.

	Related products include {PersonalJava} and {EmbeddedJava}.

	See also the Standard edition {J2SE} and the Enterprise
	edition {J2EE}.

	(Home (http://www.javasoft.com/j2me/)}.

	(2000-04-20)

soon.

How many levels are there?
Have you thought of minimising the screen size so that people can download
the JAR to their mobile phones?

From: SA

Date: Friday, April 30, 2004

Just got to level 4

I would not bother with scrolling

<chat, games> To flood a {chat room} or {Internet game} with
	text or {macros} in an attempt to annoy the occupants.  This
	can often cause the chat room to be "uninhabitable" due to the
	"noise" created by the scroller.  Compare {spam}.

	(2001-03-27)

the screen ... confuses matters. The style
of game is usually within the standard

<standard> Standards are necessary for {interworking},
	{portability}, and {reusability}.  They may be {de facto
	standards} for various communities, or officially recognised
	national or international standards.

	{Andrew Tanenbaum}, in his Computer Networks book, once said,
	"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of
	them to choose from", a reference to the fact that competing
	standards become a source of confusion, division,
	obsolescence, and duplication of effort instead of an
	enhancement to the usefulness of products.

	Some bodies concerned in one way or another with computing
	standards are {IAB} ({RFC} and {STD}), {ISO}, {ANSI}, {DoD},
	{ECMA}, {IEEE}, {IETF}, {OSF}, {W3C}.

	(1999-07-06)

boudary of a screen, rather than
rolling.

And I think that you could distinguish the player character

<character> An {atom} in a {character repertoire}.

	Compare with {glyph}.

	(1998-10-18)

a little more
... you lose

<jargon> ({MIT}) 1. To fail.  A program loses when it
	encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the
	expected manner.

	2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky.

	3. Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed
	to ignorant).

	4. Refers to something that is {losing}, especially in the
	phrases "That's a lose!" and "What a lose!"

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1995-04-19)

afew seconds at the start of a level, working out where you
start from.

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