[Update 3/17/11 #2]
Finally ready to let this one loose! I've been changing the graphics of Sean McNulty Skateboarding from java to OpenGL, and the results are great, if you ask me. Now you can pinch-to-zoom, just like Angry Birds. Also this runs on phones from the HTC Touch (old 320x240 phone) to the Atrix 4G (big screen, my buddy just got one, 70 fps!).
Try it out now, the controls are the same as before, you can press menu to hide the controls or HUD.
Has 3 levels: street, big air, and bowls.
UPDATE: Supports Android 1.6 and up. It should work on all phones, hopefully. Found out how to remove extra images, so the file is smaller again!
BIG UPDATE: "Recycle" textures once they are loaded. This removes them from hogging up your phone's memory. This also cuts the loading time from 12 seconds to 4 on my Droid 1, and the amount of memory used in the game from around 30 mb to 10 mb! The game runs a few f.p.s. quicker too.
Download the apk from MediaFire:
Link taken down, you can find the beta on the Android Market now.
Here's a new YouTube video showing the new graphics off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq8WYlD6v84
I wrote this entire game using basic Java and some xml and Android knowledge. There aren't many good skateboarding games out for Android, so I decided to make my own! It took a long time to get started and make it actually look and play like a skateboarding game, but now it's running smoothly and the development is really speeding up.
So for all of you that will be giving my game a test, here are the controls:
Movement:
Begin a push by touching in front of the skateboard in the direction you want to travel. Then swipe horizontally across the screen and you will accelerate in the direction where the screen press began.
Brake by pressing behind the skateboard, on the bottom of the screen. If it is not working, release your finger and try again to press the brake button.
Tricks:
Begin a trick by pressing on the tail or the nose buttons near the skateboard. Perform a trick by moving your finger upwards in any direction and release above the board. You can ollie, kickflip, or shove-it. If you begin your flick in one direction and reverse the direction before you release your flick, you can do a 360 flip. Think of it as drawing a half-circle upwards from the nose or tail. Once you are in the air you can press anywhere on or below the board to grab. When you are in the air, tilting the phone will change the tilt angle of your skateboard. The farther you tilt, the faster the rotation is. Try to do a double backflip in the pipe!
Menu:
Clicking menu on your phone will bring up 4 options and pause the game. You can toggle the red control buttons, turn music on or off, toggle the heads-up-display, or choose between the 4 camera options. All your settings are saved for the next time you play the game.
Zoom:
This game can be pinch-to-zoom'ed. Using two fingers on the upper portion of the screen you can zoom out, or zoom in and the skateboarder slowly disappears, allowing you to get your skate on with only the board.
Have fun and post any feedback here!
Thanks,
Matt (MMK Programming)
http://mmkprogramming.blogspot.com
sorry bro, it just looks boring. But at least ur putting in effort
mikaeldalc said:
sorry bro, it just looks boring. But at least ur putting in effort
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Gee thanks. This is just a proof-of-concept right now. The final game will look nothing like this.
Sweet. What are your plans for improvements? Simpler the better, imho.
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This definitely has potential. Just from the video it looks fun, ive been waiting for some games like this either snowboarding bmx or skateboarding. I have a couple ideas if you want some suggestions and i can test on a vzw fascinate (galexy s) droid 2 and droid incredible, possible my old g1 too.
i cant pm for some reason but pm me if you want and ill send you my email.
Nice start... I would like to see the guy actually push with his foot... Also should make it that he goes faster/moves as you slide your finger from right to left under the board...
Also incorporate more finger gestures for tricks.. as if you were using one if those tech decks you control with your finger...
if you need a tester I'm on an evo.
Also I'm getting an hdmi cable soon... Any way too have game play out over hdmi and control with phone?
Sprint put the code out so you can use the hdmi out function with apps
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Sweet. What are your plans for improvements? Simpler the better, imho.
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I agree with the simple. I want it to be a game based on a solid physics engine. I just added accelerometer control, so when you are in the air you control his tilt. (this not added yet) If you land on a rail tilted forward, nose grind. If you land on the ground tilted backwards, manual. It's awesome. I made a sick halfpipe too, but right now you can go way way to high, its really fun but hard to see the landing coming down. And I need to put crashes in there. A grinding sound has been put in already. PM me and I can add you to the list of testers if you'd like, I've only got about 10 so far.
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Nice start... I would like to see the guy actually push with his foot... Also should make it that he goes faster/moves as you slide your finger from right to left under the board...
Also incorporate more finger gestures for tricks.. as if you were using one if those tech decks you control with your finger...
if you need a tester I'm on an evo.
Also I'm getting an hdmi cable soon... Any way too have game play out over hdmi and control with phone?
Sprint put the code out so you can use the hdmi out function with apps
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What do you mean by that first part? He does go faster when you slide from right to left, or left to right. A pushing animation will be in there eventually, I'm sort of working on all the basics first, then I'll add tricks and animations later. I just nabbed some photos of Sean, going to try to cartoonize him and put him in there. Oh and the trick system will be really similar to a certain popular skateboarding game, where if you flick the nose or tail straight left or right, it will shove-it in that direction, but if you flick up left or up right it will kickflip or heelflip, and if you go left first, then up, it should be a 360 flip or some variation. It's already super fun just riding around, but more tricks will make it much more rewarding.
I'll have to look into the HDMI. My roomie has a Droid X but no miniHDMI cable. That would be icing on the cake!
Oh, and I noticed when Sean and his buddies were playing they did the initial trick and were in the air for a while, so they wanted to flick at the board again. I'm thinking flick the initial trick, then touch the board to put your feet back on it/stop the trick and maybe even flick again from there.
PM me or email me at [email protected] if you want to be a tester.
Opps.. Just saw that about pushing by sliding from right to left.. Sorry watched vid on phone and was buffering so it looked like you just pressed in front and it made him move..
Def having hdmi would be icing on the cake.. Right now there is an app for the droid x that streams the phone to tv
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/08/30/hdmi-out-app-for-droid-x-unlocks-magic/
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If you need a tester with an underpowered phone i got a dream
bout to load on phone going to give it a shot
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Okay.. Not a bad start... I really think for tricks there needs to be more finger gestures to control tricks cause I was only able to do a shove it and kick flips..
Can't wait to see where this goes...
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It looks great dude, keep up the good work. Look forward to being able to do lots of tricks.
On a sidenote, how moddable/themable is the engine? I'm thinking that'd be a great base for an xmoto type biking game too.
Edit, link to xmoto: http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/
Hey man, I still have your original version on my phone and I was hoping for some updates? what's the progress on this?
Sorry to neglect this thread. I didn't work on the game for a while there, but I started to work on it again recently.
To the question about the engine: it's really basic but custom written for skateboarding, all by me. I could easily change the image to a snowboard or a bike and try something like that out. But first I am going to spend some time on this version until I'm satisfied. Also, I found this open source engine "AndEngine" and that has physics and openGL support, so it would be much easier to write a biking game with that engine.
And for controls, I just got a great idea as to how to make them easier and cooler. When you touch the bottom area of the screen (the control area) a shoe image will pop out where you press, directing you towards the type of tricks available or if you are pushing for speed or braking with an arrow image.
I will add some new info to the OP when I release a new version. The game is making a lot of improvement now that I've had a chance to go back over everything and tweak it. Still no 360 flips yet
i have a my touch 4g if you need a tester
Wierd... I went to high school with that kid. Good for him!
my suggestion is to make the actual phone the controller of the game. so if I flip my phone the board will flip too.
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Wierd... I went to high school with that kid. Good for him!
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In Clarkston? He's my brother-in-law's brother, so last time he was around here I just asked if I could use his name and image and he had no problem with it! Trust me there will be no big-time royalties headed his way lol.
Phone as a controller, eh? I thought about that, but I wouldn't want to be flinging my phone around like that and lose control of it accidentally. So what I did was just use the accelerometer tilt of the phone (left or right) to tilt your skateboard forward or backwards, thus landing on your front or rear trucks. I have yet to finish implementing that system, but when I do it can be used for manuals and 5-0 grinds, while ollie based tricks will still be touch-based.
lol just kidding. hope the final release comes. I love skateboard games.
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Just started playing this. Found it by accident in the market. Give it a lookup. Works great on my Magic. Really addictive and fun. Stuck on those Friggin' Frogs. Any tips from fellow S&Mers. (UCWIDT?) ;-)
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Love it, great game, recommended
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This is a great game, played it in the pub the other night.
I got past the frog by building a structure to the left of him and then over balencing it to fall over his head, just be careful of where you place those marshmellows on the tower coz he will eat them if you place them when it falls on his head.
Great added features would be if you could use the GSensor to affect gravity on the levels and also to be able to delete a mellow placed in the wrong place.
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I got past the frog by building a structure to the left of him and then over balencing it to fall over his head, just be careful of where you place those marshmellows on the tower coz he will eat them if you place them when it falls on his head.
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I got round it by building two structures, one either side and slightly balanced into the centre of the screen, then when they start falling I quickly linked them together, then added a spire to reach the circle in the middle.
Most likely many easier ways to get round it though... just keep trying
I saw this game recently and figured it would be to frustrating so I never tried it. right now Im hook on Angry Birds. I just hate that I started playing it so late.
thanks for recommended , i'm downloading it :x
Cheers for the tips. Didn't get anywhere with the single tower. Kept having it fall over and losing my marshmallows.
The two towers style worked for me though.
Onward and Upwards!!!!
I bought the full version of marshmallows. It's pretty sweet I just wish they would include an optional lower frame rate limit instead of running it at 60fps since it does drain the battery quite fast.
Does anyone know how that black box works???
Im stuck on "bounce back" because i dont know how to activate it it happened by luck in previous levels...
I love this game, I hope the dev adds more levels.
On the frogs, they only eat the marshmallows, so if you extend a spaghetti down to rest on the ground next to it you can support a structure right over the frog. you can beat this level with no marshmallows touching the ground if you drop a marshmallow from the air and quickly prop it up with spaghetti.
For the black boxes, suspend a marshmallow from spaghetti so it covers the triangle at the top. A candy will drop out of the bottom.
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Does anyone know how that black box works???
Im stuck on "bounce back" because i dont know how to activate it it happened by luck in previous levels...
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you have to place a marshmallow in front of it. I usually have a piece of spaghetti up to it and place a marshmallow on the end so it is in the black box area to activate it.
Here is a an easy base for friggin frogs and bounce back.
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you have to place a marshmallow in front of it. I usually have a piece of spaghetti up to it and place a marshmallow on the end so it is in the black box area to activate it.
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Ahh right, thanks!
Im done with that level... im now stuck on the level with 2 black boxes! Think its level 21 or summin.
I get the candy from the first box to roll down the slope and over the other box and nothing happens, it just drops past. Sometimes another candy will pop out from the second box... probably from a marshmallow being too close to it.
Any1 know how to beat this level?
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Here is a an easy base for friggin frogs and bounce back.
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Thanks!
its a fun game a little hard though!
Very fun and addictive game.
thanks for the post, i like it!
I adore this game. Bought it right away. I keep looking for a port of the The Incredible Machine series, but this will keep me busy. I'm on Cliffhanger now and can't help laughing every time it comes crumbling down.
Just finished it this morning
came across the lite version a couple days ago, couldn't stop playing it so frustrating but addicting. Passed the lite, so I bought the full version just finished it and I do have screen shots. Man do the levels get hard. Just wait till you get to Airborn and Starship levels there's..... OK OK I'm not gonna give it away, but be patient and try to stabilize your structures as much as possible.
can wait for new levels.... in the mean time going to start from the beginning
Great game. I like going back to level 1, quickly finishing and then going into Build-More mode. From there I see how high of a structure I can build before it falls to pieces.
Good ideas for the frog level. I ended up building two off-balance towers on ether side of them and as they fell pinning them together. The structure held just long enough for me to get the target...then they ate it
very fun... gameplay vid for anyone who wants to see what it looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQjYpD_DpI