Chain reaction game with source for all :)

Here's my upcoming chain reaction game.

It's very early in development, so there's only placeholder graphics for the most part.

I also supply the .capx here, for everyone to use - feel free to use the embedded graphics too (not that there's much to use, but I won't mind if you do). ^_^

Link:

jakobdam.dk/0-GAME-DEV/ZooFlu

Target platforms

• HTML 5-compatible browsers (preferrable WebGL enabled)
• Mobile devices (preferrable WebGL enabled, but Canvas must work satisfyingly on current generation midend-highend hardware)

Performance

• Runs smooth right now, even with particles being spawned so much
• Even better performance can be archieved by limiting the particles seeds
• MUCH better performance can be archieved by removing the rotation (but this has a huge visual impact)

Known bugs

• The score is not updated correctly; something is wrong, and I haven't quite figured out yet what it is. 90 bubbles are spawned at launch, so if you clear the level, you should have score 90. This is not the case; what happens is, if 2 or more are triggered at the exact same time, the score is only added once. Or so I think... I need to investigate this.

To do

• A lot. Levels, game over conditions, level completed conditions etc... there's a lot of preparations for these things in place already, so it shouldn't be too tough a job to do.
• Graphics, sounds and other resources (maybe change the font)
• Game/level balancing, story etc...

Good start, maybe chain 1 colour at a time. also maybe reconsider particals spawning more partical to improve speed

Have you looked at my capx...?

Because I do chain (and spawn for that matter) one color at a time, in the event sheet - but I'm not entirely sure that what I've done, is what you mean...?

About particles spawing; what would you suggest as an alternative to spawn/destroy them...? Or did you mean to decrease the number of particles seeded/spawned for each "explosion" (this I wrote a little about under my section "Performance" in OT...)

thank for share your app look great, but i found something more interesting and usefull ... your container... from the ball bounces cause i cannot make that effect in my game xD... check my preview game and u will notice that

here the link:::::http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/monstar-pez/34481/

hneuman - you can download my capx and see how, but here's the short version:

On your ball, simply add the Bullet behavior. Then set "Bounche off solids" to "Yes".

Now create 4 walls (you can import graphics of a square and define it as a sprite 4 times); then give each wall sprite the Solid behavior.

That's it - without adding any events, your ball can now bounce off of things

Btw., are you Brazilian...? Am I mistaken or is your game in portuguese...?

Thank's for sharing the capx, you can put the logo and the menu in one layout and add Persist behavior to the logo so it will show only one time.

A0Nasser >

Thanks for the tip!

Have you looked at my capx...?

Because I do chain (and spawn for that matter) one color at a time, in the event sheet - but I'm not entirely sure that what I've done, is what you mean...?

About particles spawing; what would you suggest as an alternative to spawn/destroy them...? Or did you mean to decrease the number of particles seeded/spawned for each "explosion" (this I wrote a little about under my section "Performance" in OT...)

I know its not a complete game yet, but i guess 1 click shouldn't destroy them all, so limiting by clicking on a red only destroy chained reds, could give the game more dimension. Maybe another option is to make the circles smaller

Yep I saw that performance section. it looks cool to use a particle that spawns a particle object itself but it probably sacrifices too much performance.

Only suggestions nice work!

IndieKiwi -

It's not particles that I use for collision - I use an old trick; I spawn an invisible circle (sprite). Along with this circle is also spawned the particles.

In runtime; the circle expands its diameter, and the circle is used for collision detection.

This is the exact same way I made an actionscript 3 (flash) game of the same type, a few years ago - and back then, performance was dazzlingly good, even on weaker computers and with many objects. Thus, the great performance stealer is not the particles - but the £$! rotation.... ^_^

As this is kind of a "tech demo", more for showing the performance and game mechanics, I haven't made any load balancing.

I want to make this game different than the majority of chain reaction games; typically, you only have 1 click; I want to work on ideas with power ups to enable more clicks.

Thanks for feedback!

Update - now in the first revision of version 1.

Lots of updates;

The collissions misbehaved a lot, and the particles for the bursts didn't match the boundary circle sprite, of which I made the collissions. This is fixed now, by means of math, which I had the time to figure out this weekend.

Also - nicer and more rich graphics all over.

Still a lot to do, but now, it's somewhat playable.

I've tested on Chrome for Windows 7, iPhone 5 and iPad 4th gen - nice fluent experience on across these platforms.

Multitouch seeds planting works for iPhone and iPad also; pretty cool effect on level 8 and onwards...

Here's the link to the update: