Asteroids of Fire

Summary:

Entry for the PCopy30 competition. Am I too late? ;)

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Asteroids of Fire

u9 15 Jul 2007 18:48

Asteroids of Fire is a the results of PCopy's issue 30's programming competition. The task was to create a game using the Asses of Fire sprite-sheet.

This is the result.

It is done in Brutus2D but there is both source code and an executable included in the archive, so feel free to try it. You are even encouraged to continue with it.

download.

Let me know what you think. Any bug-reports are also welcome.

/u9

P.s. People with ATI card may need to turn off particle effects in case the space ship is invisible. This is due to a bug in Brutus2D's particle system or the ATI graphics drivers.

Last edited on 13 Sep 2007 15:50 by u9 Show more

Re: Asteroids of Fire

Anonymous (211.28.241.x) 16 Jul 2007 06:02

I think for some reason my computer doesn't like B2D, or maybe the other way around. I couldn't run that Square's Life game and by the looks of it, nor this. I get: "This application has failed to start because DX8VB.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem."

Any idea how I could stop this from happening?

Re: Asteroids of Fire

u9 16 Jul 2007 09:57

It sounds like DirectX is missing. B2D requires DX8 i think. This should come with every windows xp installation, but maybe you are using win2k or older?

You should install the latest version of DirectX, or you can download the file here: http://media3.filewind.com/g.php?filepath=11133

You can try and unpack and copy that file into your windows system32 folder (on my computer that is c:\windows\system32) but it will most likely ask for another file also, so let me know if this is enough. Your best bet is to (re)install directx :)

Re: Asteroids of Fire

hartnell 17 Jul 2007 01:13

Thanks for posting this here. Unfortunately, I don't even have b2d installed, but that will change shortly. —hartnell

Re: Asteroids of Fire

Anonymous (211.28.241.x) 17 Jul 2007 06:08

Well, I'm using Vista… I'd think that would have what's needed. Unless maybe it's a compatability problem.

Re: Asteroids of Fire

Anonymous (130.225.192.x) 17 Jul 2007 12:05

There's an exe included, Hartnell ;)

Anyways, about Vista, i have no idea. I would be quite shocked if it was not backward compatible with DirectX8… I'm going to ask about that.

Re: Asteroids of Fire

Anonymous (130.225.192.x) 17 Jul 2007 12:11

Btw, can anyone with Vista run this game?

Re: Asteroids of Fire

hartnell 18 Jul 2007 03:14

I have DX installed up to the point of Win2k SP4, which means it's really old. I'll try it tonight anyway. —hartnell

Re: Asteroids of Fire

Anonymous (211.28.241.x) 18 Jul 2007 06:03

Yeah, I too would be surprised if Vista didn't already have DirectX 8 or greater. I wouldn't know about other Vista users, from what I know I'm the only person aruond here who has Vista.

Re: Asteroids of Fire

Anonymous (193.210.47.x) 19 Jul 2007 11:29

Cant test it, my work computer sucks :(
Anyway, plans of future about PCopy! are still pretty much open. Ideas and suggestions, well we have lots of them but seems like everyone is damn busy atm.

For sure, PCopy! wont disappear but does it form change? No one knows.

E.K.Virtanen

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