2D Physics

I made this game for the beginner-contest from George many months ago, but I feld like to keep it up, so I made it better. Have fun!

Features

- 40 Levels
- All 10 Levels a new music
- A tutorial
- You can change the style from the objects

Downloadlink

Critic requested!
(I made the pictures with paint, so I hope the graphic is not too horrible)

Really nice Physics Puzzle game! With a nice User Interface it can be a seller.

tree marks:
-the player has to press the left mousebutton and use the wheel
at the same time for rotation. That too complicated and bad to handle.
Try to let the object rotate directly when the player
hovers over it and uses the wheel, or let it get constantly selected with the right Mousebutton.

-let the user skip the tutorial, or make a special seperate tutorial level.

-dont use such an unzip extractor.

Either use a classic installer, or just a zip
(use a zip archive, not rar or 7zip, lots of casual users cant extract them, and they dont save much more space
than a normal zip.)

Really nice entry I have to say.
Spend some additional time (or help from an Artist) to pimp
up the panel grafix. Then its a really good casual game.

You might also think about implementing an Editor for new levels.
So Users can set up levels, save them (in a textfile or so)
and upload them to your server.

Very nice, but what bugs me a little bit is that the ball is too "jumpey" and the "basket" is too small and narrow, i have to adjust the pieces pixel by pixel sometimes so it jumps right inside or it just jumps off the edges and flies all over the place

like it. i test all levels and its really funny

I went to level 22 or so... Like it as well

You should really get some nice graphics for it though... Ask some friends who are into image manipulation maybe?

Thank you for your good comments!
I'm working on it, it has an editor, the interface is better to handle and it has more music now. But I can't upload it, because I'm away from home, so I can't upload it at my server and I don't want it upload on ifile, so I'm going to upload it next sunday

But I have no idea, how to fix that with the ingame upload and download from the levels on the server. Has anyone a tip for me?

well, the first thing is to create a format to save levels.
(for example, storing a list of objects
-type, position, rotation
as a list.

Then maybe write an exporter/importer into a pure textfile.
This way people can at least exchange the textfiles.

To upload it to a server I would try to set up a php (+mySql) solution.
In the JewelDrop Demo Threat I have also posted my simple php
code. Which can upload and download textbased data.
This could be used for levels.
(needs also things like selection of the level to install etc..
but its a beginning)
Good about php is, that you can let it run on a free
online server.


The easiest is though to just let users be able to upload
the level directly as textfiles to your server, and manually
downloading and installing them.
(The most primitive would be to just use a forum, insert
the text-content, and downloaders copy-paste this back to
a levelfile. Its a bit very simple thoug. Better is to set up
a normal file-upload solution.)

You could also put user-level into a level-pack, so people
can download them as a whole pack.

The loader and saver is just finished, so I only need to code the online part
I downloaded your JewelDrop, but I didn't think, that it works with text-files. I need a tool for that, right?
I'll have a look at your code and try to understand it

Es its a bit try.
You probably need to either send the object-parameters as one long
string.
The php needs to store this info (Sql or textfile) as a
specific entry.

When doenloading you need to send a list of entries.
The player selects one, and the php then sends back this
string with object entries.

To make it work offline, you need to save these new files
then locally.

A bunch of work for you

Or you go with saving new level locally into files firt.
Make a little forum to upload the new levelpacks.

Hmm... I made a little test-script to experiment with this tool, but it doesn't work, because it's for A6, but I have A7 :S
Is there such a tool for A7 too? Maybe with fdp-support?
(I found anet, but that's too expensive for me and I don't need all functions)

So, I updated 2D Physics; better interface, Editor, you can save up to 100 files and more music (for the editor too).

You can edit the files manually, if you want. Comments were added, so you know, what you're changing ^^

I'm looking forward to fix uploading on the server; I look for a not too expensive tool with http (maybe fdp) for uploading and downloading data with 3dgs.
If anyone know one for A7 (cheaper than Anet), please post

Check out the functions of GSNet.

If you need some special functions, you might have luck
when contacting the autor (nfs42).

Hello Hopfel.
I would like to try your game but I cannot unzip the file without errors, tried 7zip and winace to unzip and downloaded the file three times, no success.

the demo was packed with a self-executing unpacker.
(dont use such things, allways use the classic zip, or a normal intaller)

No, I packed it in a zip-file, but I used LZMA as method, so, I don't know why, it gives an error
Now, with Bzip2, it should work (tested ;)).

About the level up-/downloading:

I'll create an external program (in c-skript), who uploads all levels on the server and then downloads all from the server. So I can use GSHTTP
But I must know, which user I must give the rights on the server to create textfiles. Can anyone help me?

The new version of ANet (that is currently in beta phase) will offer you a new edition called ANet Web. It's cheaper than the full version and has the ftp, http and udp features included.
This new edition will be released with the new ANet version (the new version will go in public beta later this week).

Cool
That will sort out all problems
I'll buy it after release ^^

i completed it- after nearly 3 hours of trying. it is a great game. if you go on to sell this, i dont see why it can't make a profit.

It's a long time ago, but I finished a new version of 2D Physics.
I bought Anet Web, and now, you're able to upload and download levels from 2D Physics.

New Features:

-You can choose the level you want to upload with the "Upload" button
-You can download all Levels from the Server with the "Download" button
-Bug fixed: Objects don't fall through other objects anymore.

some images (I missed them in the first Post):


I hope it works at your computers, at my one it works perfectly.

Please tell me, if it doesn't work or if there are some bugs.

Have fun!

I downloaded the zip file, extracted its contents and then double clicked the 2d_physics.exe. It gave me an error message saying "Unable To Locate Component". "This application has failed to start because d3dx9_30.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." Any ideas?

Ill be honest... I opened audacity and deleted all the information in your .ogg files because there is no mute button and I like my media player or youtube music better. that being said, very sold game you got