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AppGameKit Classic Chat / 2D Pinball WIP (Concave collision) [Source]

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ando
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Posted: 10th Mar 2022 20:30 Edited at: 25th Oct 2022 10:18
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My first attempt at 2D pinball, early WIP.
I started out trying to make something else 2D for my android phone but got side tracked with concave collision.
After testing on my phone I see it works really good. Phone is an old galaxy J3 (2016).
After I get all the game mechanics done then I'll try to make it look pretty.

I added a lot of comments in the code for anyone that may be interested.
BASIC appeared in May 1964. Lightning flashed, the wind roared and the Earth moved.
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Virtual Nomad
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Posted: 12th Mar 2022 00:51
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gave it a quick run and it plays solid. no tunneling noticed (which i obviously expected) and everything felt good.

thanks for sharing, ando. now, make it purdy
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Posted: 12th Mar 2022 11:33
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Cheers Virtual Nomad and thanks for the feedback.
And yes, when the time comes, I'll put a lot of effort in to the purdy stuff.
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Barry Pythagoras
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It's great I like it! I always wanted to make a Pinball Game!

It just needs the graphics!
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Posted: 1st Oct 2022 21:25
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This is excellent! Well done
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ando
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Posted: 25th Oct 2022 10:39
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Cheers guys.
The latest version you can download from my first post.
I added extra ball and multiball.
If you have 5x multiplier, every time you get the BONUS letters again will keep the multiball alive.
If that's too hard then just tap key B (for testing).

I made test version 3 earlier in the year but had to stop for a while to get surgery to remove an ulser (a gastrojejunostomy).
Feeling much better now that I can eat and drink again. LOL.
Looking forward to getting in to coding again.

Sharing the code for anyone that wants to make a pinball game. There might be one or two things in there that can help.
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Posted: 25th Oct 2022 11:14 Edited at: 25th Oct 2022 11:14
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Here is a little program I was playing with to test concave collision ideas and got me started on pinball.
BASIC appeared in May 1964. Lightning flashed, the wind roared and the Earth moved.
And nine months later I was born.
So here I am.
I am Basic.
Code is in my genes.

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Virtual Nomad
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Posted: 25th Oct 2022 21:57
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nice update, ando. and, glad you're feeling better.

it's still playing smoothly and the graphics/sounds helps pull it all together.

i've skimmed the code and see room for optimization that i hope to take a stab at some day. for now, it's all solid and appreciated!

thanks again

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Quote: "Here is a little program I was playing with to test concave collision ideas and got me started on pinball."

Exceptional work!! Writing a table editor for this is on my 5 year plan, as well as some graphics.
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Thanks for the feedback guys.
With the little test program, I was thinking of making a simple game for mobile devices where the player would
place some objects like ramps and bouncers that would apply a force to the ball, avoid some obstacles and
with one shot get the ball to some kind of target.

With a built in level editor, it would be quicker to make all the levels and then save them to a folder.
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Worked pretty well for me. Looking at the help I think you probably went about this the same way I would've, a bunch of line intersection tests. The ball moved very fast though, some times it shot back down the entry so fast it propelled itself back out of it like a rocket.
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Fantastic 'ando' plays really well, allot better and more complete than the pinball attempt I had for android
would love to see this go further, perhaps with your pinball design and attributes it mightn't be too hard at
a later stage to also make a pinball construction set. The reason I say this allot of the time, all the construction
work that goes into a program like 'Aquarius pinbal' a construction set is often half designed in the process.
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Posted: 24th Nov 2022 17:18
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Nice work @ando, it looks so promising. Couldn't get that "b"o"n"u"s" yet.
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Posted: 24th Nov 2022 23:25
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@ando

That's one hell of a pinball engine you've got there.
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Hey, thanks to all of you for giving it a spin.

@fubarpk, I like the idea of a construction set. I wonder if a modular tile set would be the easy way to go???
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