Dr. Dave Johnson PhD - puzzle game for RISC OS
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Hi, I’ve made another simple game for RISC OS, written in BASIC. It’s called ‘Dr. Dave Johnson PhD’. It’s a simple falling blocks puzzle game. The game is designed so that groups of four or more blocks of the same colour react with each other and disappear. The challenge is to build a wall out of the blocks while losing as few blocks as possible. Here’s a dropbox link to the game: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wl4w7g3n0yiquu/DaveJohnson.zip?dl=0 It seems to work, but I have a few concerns:
If you have the time, please try running the game and let me know if it works on your system, or if there are any problems. I’d appreciate any other comments too. - Patrick |
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Works OK with the ARMX6 |
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Thanks Kevin, I appreciate the information. |
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Launched and played for a bit on my Raspberry PI 2 :P Spent like 5 minutes on playing. A fun little game :p |
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Hi Patrick, I wonder if the games that you’re writing could be added to the PlingStore or somewhere? Its a shame if they get lost in the Forum as I think they’re cool games. Thanks, |
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Hi Tony, I’m glad that you have a positive opinion of the game.
Sure, that would be great, I’ll be interested in hearing what you come up with. I had been thinking that the game could do with sound effects. I considered adding some myself but I wasn’t sure how to go about it, or what sort of sounds to use, and so I didn’t get around to it.
That would be cool. How do you go about submitting software to the PlingStore? - Patrick |
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I think you need an account of some kind? |
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Hi, I’m off on holiday in the morning. However, I can send you both a URL tonight to register with Plingstore which Andrew emailed to me. I guess Andrew has not listed it publicly to avoid spurious accounts being created. Internally – you create a Supplier and then add applications against it. Any problems, please let me know. Regards, Tony |
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You do: Andrew should be able to supply this, assuming that your email reached him. |
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PackMan is another option for free software. It’s still a manual process to get the original setup done, but once you’re set up then you can add/update your software by yourself. |
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Hi Steve, The e-mail I sent should allow Rick and Patrick to create an account themselves (at least I believe so. Its been 2 years since I used it). It points to a registration page. Tony. |
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Ah, fair enough. My account was created manually a long time ago and the PlingStore registration link still led to an empty page, so I’d assumed that the process hadn’t been automated since. |
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Could you give me more info on PackMan and how to use it? I had a look with google but couldn’t seem to find easy answers to my questions about it. Would I need to create my own PackMan repository, or is there an existing repository I could submit my programs to? How would I submit my packages to that repository? |
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You don’t need to create your own repository; you can add to ROOL’s (although you do need access to a Web server). There are some details here and there’s an app called PackIt which assists with creating the actual package file. |
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If you are looking to find Dave Johnson details to go to – https://app.datagardener.com/search-companies?directorName=Dave%20Johnson |