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Program Announcements / Ragdoll Monkey Bowling v1.0 **NEW**

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walaber
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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 16:10 Edited at: 9th Aug 2004 00:42
Ragdoll Monkey Bowling
v1.1 release

by Walaber

Some of you may have tried the original tech-demo/mini game release... this is a completely updated / re-written version. it's now a complete game, with Bowling scoring, sound effects, etc.

GAME FEATURES
Amazing physics courtesy of the Newton Game Dynamics physics SDK (and my wrapper for it)
Fully lightmapped level
Adjustable resolution & color depth
Sound effects based on actual physics data
In-game music (you can specify your own directory)
a few secret characters!

But enough talk, let's get to the media:

SCREENSHOTS



BIGGER IMAGES:
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen01.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen02.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen03.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen04.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen05.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen06.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen07.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen08.jpg
http://walaber.com/rmb/screen09.jpg

VIDEOS:

http://walaber.com/rmb/video1.avi
http://walaber.com/rmb/video2.avi
http://walaber.com/rmb/video3.avi


DOWNLOAD LINK

http://walaber.com/rmb/rmb_v11.exe - self extracting archive, approx. 4.44MB

please post comments, suggestions, bugs, screenshots, etc!!


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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 17:52
Wow, its so well presented a a right laugh to play! Great work!


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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 18:10
I like the music.

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 19:31 Edited at: 17th Jul 2004 23:31
I love the music and the extra characters

Gotta run it on my other PC, as it's having the same issues on this one as Snow Ball fight did

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 20:02
If I remember correctly, you had trouble running my Snowball fight game too, right?

I think there must be something about your video card... you're the only one I know who's had these kind of errors with the menu system (i used the same system for both games).

I'm sorry, but I don't know any way to fix it from my end... what video card do yuo have?

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 20:04
Great game! It really is a lot of fun!

Sadly I found a bug:

'Memblock Position out of range at line 3288'

I had played one frame then went to the options and set the resolution to max and lowered the volume. When I tried to continue playing the program crashed with the above message.

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 20:27
hmmm.. that's an interesting one. that routine seems safe too me... what character name did you enter, and what are your system specs?

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 20:42

I have an NVidia TNT 2 32MB.

Give me half an hour, I'll try it on my Dev PC with a Geforce FX 5200 128MB.

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 23:30
All I can say is... Wow.

Running in 1024x768x32, it was as smooth as a babies butt.

The level and the graphics all-round look stunning, and the physics in it make it so realistic

Great work Walaber!

Can I suggest something?
Yes?
Ok then!
I suggest emailing Rich about this ( although he may already know ) and ask him to stick it up on the site somewhere, this is commercial quality stuff.

And, also, can't forget thanks to those at Newton who made the physics DLL, but on top of that, thanks to Walaber for wrapping it

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 23:40
I love the way you set out your post!!


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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 23:46
hahahaha thanks, now how about the game?

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 00:27
Man, that's cool. Great fun. I've been waiting for this, and man I wasn't disappointed.
It looks great, and it plays great too!!

I only have one suggestion, I know you've finished this now....but it is V1.....so if you ever do a sequel. (Please do), I would suggest that you spread the pins a little further apart. Because, all you have to do at the moment is slightely nudge the front pins to get a strike. The wins adds some problems, but I think if you made the pins a little more spaced you'd really have to hit accurately.


It's brilliant though. Thank you!!
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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 00:32
Quote: "what character name did you enter, and what are your system specs?"


If by Character name you mean player name, then I called myself Scraggle.

My system specs are:

Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
1.5 Gb DDR RAM
Gainward Geforce 4 Ti4600
6 x Hard Drives totaling 640Gb

I couldn't replicate the bug though. I tried several times but it has worked fine every time since.

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 00:36
KamaKase - I'll keep updating the game, fixing bugs, and changing it based on suggestions that people have. After a fair amount of people have played (and given comments like yours), I'll go back and make some adjustments to improve the game. so maybe sometime next week there will be a version 1.1 or something like that.

scraggle - glad the problem seems to have disappeared. I'll be on the lookout for anyone else who reports the same bug!

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 02:28
there is a bug in the current release, if you enter a capital m ("M") in your name, the game will crash.

the bug has been fixed, and will be in the next update to the game (I want to wait and hear about other bugs before re-releasing)

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 11:18
to those getting a "memblock position out of range" error... this happens when you try to run the game in 16-bit color mode. I discovered the problem, and am working on a fix to make the game run smoothly in both 32 and 16-bit modes.

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I can't figure out the secret characters names, could you release a list?

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 16:27
it's really, really easy... the monkey character might remind you of a certain character from children's books... enter his name. the other one is the name of a person on this forum.

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 17:56
Fun game! Should add the ability to set 'power' and 'aim' left/right. Very cool, polished, well presented game.

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 19:54 Edited at: 9th Aug 2004 00:42
VERSION 1.1 RELEASED

I've made some major bug fixes, and some other minor tweaks to the game. a list of all fixes is in the README.txt

if you've already downloaded version 1.0, you can get a patch here:
http://walaber.com/rmb/rmb_v11patch.exe - self extracting archive, approx. 1.78MB

or you can download the full version 1.1 here:
http://walaber.com/rmb/rmb_v11.exe


Dennuz666 - you can "aim" the monkey with the left/right arrow keys, and control the swing (to a small extent) with the up/down keys. it's explained in the README

general - try it now...

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I never use readme files. I guess i have to sometimes

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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 19:59 Edited at: 18th Jul 2004 20:12
Your scoring is now messed up, you get a 0 for every 'bowl'. Other then that, it's very professional and quite a bit of fun.

I'm guessing you're calculating the score (said) time after releasing the monkey but because it runs slower on my computer it's essentially calculating the score before it's even hit the pins. An easy solution is to just calculate the score when the user presses 'enter'.


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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 20:28 Edited at: 18th Jul 2004 21:09
Exeat - crap you were right!! this has been fixed, please download the patch again!!

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I think this is a commercial quality game....

There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS.
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Posted: 18th Jul 2004 22:46
Avhast does not find a virus in the original version 1.0 exe.

Good game Walaber. and very creative.

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Posted: 19th Jul 2004 00:02 Edited at: 19th Jul 2004 00:02
Quote: "Exeat - crap you were right!! this has been fixed, please download the patch again!!"


It's 95% fixed now. There's still cases where a pin is wobbling, it would calculate the score and then the pin would fall over. This wouldn't be too much of a problem except when you're next bowl for the frame comes, that pin that fell over afer the score was calculated has disappeared making it impossible to score a spare for that frame! This only occurs on rare occasions though but I guess it's still a 'bug'.

Great game though, it's a fun way to waste time.


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Posted: 19th Jul 2004 00:04
general,

Noone else's downloads of Walabers exe's are corrupt or contain a virus.

I recomend doing a full-system scan using a DIFFERENT virus scanner than the one you are using, and see if it detects anything. I am betting the results will be negative.

There is not a virus with Walaber's exe's, neither on his PC, on the server, or on anyone's PC other than yours.

I have removed your posts bar the last one.

Walaber,
The bug that Exeat reported was the same as one of the ones I reported to start with... Oh well.

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JessTicular - thanks for clearing up the virus thing.

yeah, once you mentioned the bug, I realized the problem, and fixed it right away (or so I thought). then I decided to release v1.1, but after I released it I realized I hadn't fixed it properly (as Exeat pointed out). so then I fixed again, and re-uploaded v1.1

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Whoops I missed one of his posts, and it looked extremely out of place

Walaber,
Haha, ok then
Also, I like your new sig ( if it is new that is )

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walaber ! I am sorry! .. virus was false alarm. I wrote to antivir center.

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no problem general, I hope you got your PC fixed up! did you get a chance to play the game?

Mister Mold Rat - I don't have A/C either, and it's FRICKIN HOT and humid here in tokyo!!!!!! I programmed a lot of this game with a fan pointed directly at my face

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i played your game .. very nice, very funny

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Oddly, it's hardly ever hot here.


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Ragdoll Monkey Bowling has been featured and is available for download from the official Newton website!



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Great work Walaber, congrats

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this is great - more addictive than the original

round of applause for walaber

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Error 0 = no error - how is this an error the???
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NOOOO!!! i cant stop playing it. its too addictive.

i cant figure out the names for the secrect charecters tho.

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what do you make of this :-P



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game wiz - the secrets are pretty simple... you're probably thinking too hard. the easiest way is to take a look into the media directory...

dark coder - ouch!

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Quote: "what do you make of this :-P"


You're a bad bowler. You know the arrow keys control the movement, right? The reason I say that is because you've got a hell of a lot of 0's there, with the arrow keys you get strikes 90% of the time lol.


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@ dark coder: whats happening there then? *scared look on face*

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Error 0 = no error - how is this an error the???
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hehe, I wonder how long dark coder took setting that up

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that was my 1st game lol, and when i got the 0,0 i tried to get him in the gutter :-P, see if it would say gutter monkey

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When I try playing it it says "This application has failed to start because d3d9.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." I tried re-installing, but it still wouldn't work.

Watson you idiot!
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Ragdoll Monkey Bowling is now the features game on The Game Creators website

it's also available on FilePlanet now, but they put op version 1.0, I've sent them version 1.1, hopefully they will update it soon

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nice game walaber! its a great achievment how do you feel when you make such a great game like this which u enjoy urself and you see other people enjoying?

very fun game!

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over 400 downloads from this site... about 1300 from my own site, and now it's featured on another site:

Click here

my first successful game

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Nice work man

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