Omg omg I wanna play o:

Then download it!

you could do research into lasers and include things that would apply to real lasers in the game, make the tech geeks happy you got it right :P

Well, it's not supposed to be "real", just fun. :)

O: I haven't known you are a games programmer...
That's my dream/hobby as well :)

Your game is nice for it's state, though, I wonder, can't you get the current setting of the users screen and just use that?

Ive noted only two little bugs besides what you said:
The windowed mode isn't actually in a window (on my widescreen with WinXP at least). It seems just to stick the game at an odd size on the left
upper side...
When kliicking on the next level check, it always sets a tile in the next level...

Two suggestions:
When the constellation of the pieces is right, the lazer should blink a few times or so, not just skip to the next level.
The field moving should better not be managed by the middle mouse button, it moves oddly and on bigger screens far too fast... just let the screen scroll when the mouse hits the side or so, and let it stop when it hit's the border...

That was it, hope it helps a little... in every case you should add some more items and maybe also some traps in the game... or make a time challenge...

Would be curious in what language or with which programm you do this :3


T_T grad gesehen das du aus Deutschland bist... hätte das ganze auch auf Deustch schreiben können >__<

Ja, diese kleinen Details kommen alle noch, ich wollte nur das Spiel als ersten Schritt soweit aufbauen das man es "Spiel" nennen kann, und es dann verfeinern.

Der Fenstermodus wirkt wohl so groß weil er fest als 1440x900 programmiert war, ich wollte es eigentlich bei 1024x768 lassen. :X

Portal 2 has a variant on it as part of the game!

I knew everyone would tell me that when I realized they had lasers in there. XD

Hey, not bad. ^_^ Coded with blitz?

My only real gripes have to do with scrolling. Tried playing this without looking at controls, and middle-click is rather... counter-intuitive. Why not the arrow keys? Also, the playing field appears infinite -- might wanna put boundaries on it. I scrolled off to check for that and... umm... literally lost the level (as in couldn't find it again. ;p )

Personally, I dig middleclick scrolling, but I suppose not everyone does. XD I'll put cursor key and edge scrolling and boundaries in.

All I want...are fricking SHARKS with FRICKING LASER BEAMS.......

No Sharks, I'm afraid.

Ooh, I love games like that! :}

Me too!

You covered the situation when the laser crosses over itself?
I did one of these once and that situation was a bitch. I never did solve it perfectly.

Hmm, the laser shouldn't really interfere much with itself, in fact, I don't think a real laser would give a damn either.

I mean having the laser cross over itself and the game knows how to handle and display it.
I was using a tile-based system, so it acted funny (the cross-over tile, rather than displaying properly, flickered between the two states: horizontal beam and vertical beam).

Ohh, now I see. The code that draws the laser doesn't use the tile engine to draw, it's just drawing the laser and effects on top of the tiles.

Fair, I was unable to tell what method you were using to draw the laser. My project (must have been almost a decade ago now) I didn't know how to just "draw" a line, so I was using a tile system.
It worked flawlessly, except for the cross-over flicker (and only the one tile flickered, in the underlying mechanics it was perfect, the tile was accepting both inputs and supplying both outputs simultaneously, it just wasn't displaying it properly).

Whoa, big time nostalgia trip! I play the hell out of an old DOS game that was very similar to this when I was growing up.

I'm gonna check it out :D

Twas fun so far. My only complaint would be that the laser sound wears on my ears very quickly, but otherwise this seems to be shaping up to be a nice game. :3

Aye yes i agree on that. I had to mute my sound.

Hmmm, maybe I'll have to defuse that one then, or just make it very silent by default, hmmmm. Glad you liked it. :)

What'd you write it in?

BlitzMax, a sort of object oriented basic. Not hardcore coder, I am afraid. :P

http://www.blitzbasic.com/

If you wanna make your own games and find that you can't quiiiite do something, you should seriously consider brushing up on those skills. Very handy to have!

looks promising, i like games like that.

downloading ^.=.^

Thanks. :)

awesome. looks like Lumen for the iPhone.

Thanks, and I didn't know that one yet. There's a lot more of them than I thought. XD

Ok, i tried it (twice :P ) and here is my comment (i just need to add that i know nothing about engine of this game and its limitations, so ignore my ideas if they are not possible to implement )

Video settings:
It's a bit strange that i have to move the slider to select "screen mode" instead of clicking, but the slider works great for selecting resolution.
I have no idea what "Delta timing" is.

Sounds:
Music is OK, reminds me "Ufo:ET" game :-P, laser sound is also good, just a bit too loud.
I guess you will add audio options in later versions.

Gameplay:
- first of all, scrolling works totally crazy but i guess you know about it.
- Placing/removing mirrors works good and it actually gives a lot of fun.
- I just don't know what is the function of different wall types, probably only to look nice, but maybe you will add more types of walls later.
- I think that "level complete" window should appear above the level, so i will still be able to see it (or it should appear with delay, after some animation)
- I don't know how complicated the game engine is, but you can think about adding walls that can be destroyed by laser, or "sensors" that will open some door when hit by laser beam (to get access to the "final sensor" or how it's called). Also you can add tiles that are transparent for laser, but you can't put mirror on them.
- you can think about more optic parts, for example something that will spit laser into two beams to hit 2 targets and things like that.
- You are right, at the end of level 4 i have big lag and hear something that sounds like tractor engine starting up

Anyway, game is really nice and i would like to see more levels, so i hope you will continue developing it.

My PC specs: AMD Phenom II X4 955, running at 3,7GHz, Windows 7 64-bit, 8GB Ram. Game works smooth (until that tractor :-P )

Thanks for the big amount of info. :) And it will definitively get more gameplay elements, this is just a very early version.

I beat it. What programe did ye make this in?

BlitzMax, http://www.blitzbasic.com/