YOU KNOW WHAT?

Shurikane · Dim Panties As String Joined: 24 Sep 2002

I'm gonna remake Columns, using Visual Basic.

Wish me luck.

Silver Adept · Otaku Lord Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 20 May 2003

...Do I whine in pain now, or later?

Shino · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:17 am Post subject:

why? Columns was a good game.

Silver Adept · Otaku Lord Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 20 May 2003

The Visual Basic part was more what I was aiming for, not necessarily Columns.

Shurikane · Dim Panties As String Joined: 24 Sep 2002

NEW ALPHA! http://www.shurikane.com/b/Columns.rar

Controls: Arrows to move, up arrow to shuffle upwards, B/N/M to shuffle downwards.

THE LOG

Jewel elimination implemented.
Jewel consolidation implemented.
Multiple combos management complete!
Music now in MP3 format (not included in the release.)
Sound plays when jewels are eliminated.

COMING UP NEXT

Game-over detection.
General purpose animations - I honestly am not sure how to go about it at this point. First, I need a jewel elimination animation, a shuffle animation, and a consolidation animation. It's doable by using timers, but I'm afraid this could be a clunky and weighty way to go about it. More on this in the future...

Remember: You need DirectX 9.0 and the .NET Framework installed to run this.

FawkesFyre · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

Must be a lack of ability on my computer's part...and the fact that I'm at work...but I keep getting a single player exception that won't let it work.

Shurikane · Dim Panties As String Joined: 24 Sep 2002

THE LOG

Fixed the dynamic music. It now works seamlessly with OGG files!
Problems in Game Over detection. Disabled it until I can fix it.

This one took a while because I've been stuck on the dynamic music bugs. It took me two weeks of searching, trial and error, before I finally found a workable solution.

And now, a new alpha!

http://www.shurikane.com/b/Columns.rar

Arrow keys to move, B/N/M to shuffle (they all shuffle the same way)

Now, the game should be relatively bug free aside from game over detections and a few minor game mechanics I haven't been able to reproduce yet.

Make sure you have all the .NET Frameworks and DirectX 9.0c installed.

IF YOU GET AN ILLEGAL OPERATION ERROR OR "COLUMNS.EXE HAS ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO CLOSE", I most likely can't do anything about it at the moment.

IF YOU GET A JIT DEBUGGING ERROR, please tell me about it, because the report contains useful information about where in the code the error occured.

Minosheep · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

I'd prefer a key over near Z/X/C to shuffle. Just makes it more comfortable for me while using the arrow keys.