Panda-Go

azurebyte 2017-08-02 08:53

I had fun delivering the space pizza! Took me a few tries, but finally no one was hungry!

I like the cute theme you have going, unfortunately even on my 1080 display, the panda logo on the ship was hard to see in game. The random placement of the various customers can vary the difficulty a great deal. So having this as an 'endless' mode might be an idea. Maybe look into 'seeding' your random class so you'll still have infinite levels but with fixed placement in each of those levels. Good luck on your next adventure!

emery 2017-08-04 22:25

This was a fun and cool idea. The overall gameplay was really fun, and the graphics were cool. I had fun playing this, you should keep working on this to make it even better. Good Job!!

earthexe 2017-08-05 01:03

This is the first java game I've seen on the site. Unfortunately, it also doesn't run properly on my machine; the only thing I can rate you on is the title sceen music, which is pretty good. Otherwise, I just have a white window and can't really do anything. It's a shame, though, you have a really attractive name and cover art!

thygrrr 2017-08-05 02:12

Space Dog approves of Panda Go.

Likes: - neat idea with some fun game play moments happening - Java is way underrepresented and needs love :heart:

Try differently: - some customers are disproportionately challenging to reach Overall: - very cute game, pandas for the win!

vasco-rodrigues 2017-08-08 11:23

Very different and fun approach to the theme, and the gameplay was fun. Just felt that the fuel goes away too fast, but still I managed to win :p Congratulations :)

badly-drawn-rod 2017-08-08 19:31

And there I was thinking that pandas was something to do with data science. This is a fun little game. The hand-drawn graphics are (to quote my wife) "adorable". I liked that you made a mini-map too.

Can you provide more details on the "true story" that this game is based on. Enquiring minds want to know.

jaimuepe 2017-08-08 21:50

The idea of the game is pretty original :) The ship acceleration is too low i think, if you are going too fast it takes a while to counteract the speed. The music / sound effects where good, i liked the sound when you delivered a pizza!

rialgar 2017-08-08 23:18

Get an exception running

``` java -jar .\Panda-Go.jar ```

``` Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.awt.image.DataBufferByte.(Unknown Source) at java.awt.image.ComponentSampleModel.createDataBuffer(Unknown Source) at java.awt.image.Raster.createWritableRaster(Unknown Source) at javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier.createBufferedImage(Unknown Source) at javax.imageio.ImageReader.getDestination(Unknown Source) at com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageReader.readImage(Unknown Source) at com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageReader.read(Unknown Source) at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source) at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source) at com.fwazle.game.Assets.(Assets.java:41) at com.fwazle.game.LD39.(LD39.java:29) at com.fwazle.game.LD39.(LD39.java:18) ```

I tried

``` java -jar -Xmx1g .\Panda-Go.jar ```

but that just takes longer until the same exception occurs.

``` java -version

java version "1.8.0_144" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_144-b01) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.144-b01, mixed mode) ```

I am on Windows 10

fwazle 2017-08-09 00:12

@rialgar Thank you for the error messages! I think the problem is that the image files are too large. (We swapped from having a single map to a tiled map near the end of the 72 hours). Sadly we didn't have the time to resolve this problem :(. This is also the error that causes the game not to work on Mac.

EDIT! I uploaded a crash fix, See above for links!

tmpxyz 2017-08-09 04:23

Good cover image and BGM;

:worried: there's no way to replenish power and attack.

afendar 2017-08-09 12:01

Very great game. not too difficult and great fun. Just an idea. It would be interesting if we could kill the enemies and save fuel. In any case, very good game base.

rialgar 2017-08-09 12:36

Got the fixed version running with -Xmx1g

Very enjoyable quick game.

Are enemies damaged when they fly through the fire of your rocket? If so, you should tell that to the player.