Xoppy Bird

Off-Topic
#1

That Flappy Bird game looked so simple I tried to see how fast I can recreate it. This took 4 or 5 days, playable but a lot left out, like sounds and fancy scene/collision management. Instead I just built it adhoc style all in MainWindow (only 5 methods needed) along with 3 very simple classes to hold geometries (XBPoint, XBRay, XBGap (the pipes)). Also my OpenGL framework and images pulled from the Happy Flappy Bird clone https://github.com/Hipo/happy-flappy-bird.

Maybe you build Flappy Bird too. It’s the 101 of physics games: 1 input, a block, an array of blocks, floor, gravity, collision and drawing. How much and long can that take?

http://home.comcast.net/~trochoid/code/XoppyBird.zip press up to go, down to reset. ymmv

#2

I got 29!. Very cool, Will. My kids will love it! I’ll highlight this in a post on our blog this week.

#3

Really cool. Consider yourself beaten Paul, got 34 :wink:
Update: Aaaaand I WON! :smiley:

#4

Played the game to the end on first attempt: 40 :slight_smile:

Nice code.

#5

Great game… well done!

Just one thing, to get it to run on Windows, you need to enable “Use GDI Plus” in the Windows build settings.

#6

Greatly done!

It would be a great addition for the example folder code in Xojo!

#7

On Windows 8.1 the images are not visible. Its kind of very faint background.

#8

[quote=65785:@Alwyn Bester]Great game… well done!

Just one thing, to get it to run on Windows, you need to enable “Use GDI Plus” in the Windows build settings.[/quote]
Why is this defaulted to OFF (disabled) ?

#9

With RS2012 I ran into an error on EZfont.NewFormattedPic:
On the first line: PlatformNotSupportedException

#10

I also think GDI Plus should be ON by default.

#11

I’ve updated all my project templates with GDI+ true so my future posts shouldn’t have this problem :slight_smile:

#12

[quote=67128:@Mathias Maes]With RS2012 I ran into an error on EZfont.NewFormattedPic:
On the first line: PlatformNotSupportedException[/quote]
That first line creates an alpha style Picture which isn’t supported for all platforms (I think only Carbon isn’t). Instead you’ll need to create a mask style Picture by simply adding “, 32”.

dim p As new Picture(width, height, 32)

I’ll see what I can do to update my code.

#13

I’m not sure. Is this the GDI+ issue? Or maybe its a graphics card thing my OpenGL code doesn’t account for. I work only on Mac and don’t have a way to investigate or know about Windows and Linux differences. If there was a crash I could guess but otherwise I can’t think of what’s wrong :frowning:

#14

http://www.xojo.com/blog/en/2014/03/flappy-bird-in-xojo.php

#15

Great stuff - My best was 9 :frowning: never mind.

#16

this link not working…

#17

Also available here: http://developer.xojo.com/webinar-making-games

#18

thanks…

#19

Found the blog post, watched the webinar but both links are not working.

#20

I kinda need to see this code for a project I am working on, anyone have XoppyBird.zip?

Thanks Eric