Code a game comp - Virus - Feb 7th to Apr 18th 2021

Started by Qube, February 07, 2021, 02:16:50

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RemiD

#150
@Steve Elliott>> thanks for the test / comments. :)


i would have liked to add in-game help screens, i think this is very important to make it easy to understand how to play... you guys are more patient, because you are programmers...


what do you think of the sounds volume ? too low ? too high ? the volume can be quite different depending on the computer / speakers / headphones...
i plan to add a way to increase / decrease the volume in-game...


( btw, once enough KillerCells (KCells) have been created, and if you call them at different areas of the pipe, it is possible to kill all the viruses and win the game  :D )

Steve Elliott

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what do you think of the sounds volume ? too low ? too high ?

I certainly think the sound effects could do with some more volume (X3) and maybe some slight echo because of the tunnel-like environment.

Perhaps some background music for version 2 after the comp.
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RemiD

Quotethe sound effects could do with some more volume (X3)
noted. thanks


for the next version (after the competition) :
i have added a way to increase / decrease the volume in-game

now i am working on notifications in-game (when a KCell is available)

and then helps screens in-game

Scaremonger

Quote from: Steve Elliott on April 14, 2021, 20:41:40
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I've been meaning to publish it here for you guys to pull apart. ;)

Yeah go for it, the game certainly runs very smoothly.  The high frame rate approach is quite popular, I just think it takes a lot of resources to run the updates so hard.  But it's also very dependant on the game, for your game it's ideal.

I've just published (on a different thread) the new Game Loop I used in VIRUX. Hope you guys don't find any massive bugs!

Si...

Qube

Competition is now closed...

Well done to those who submitted their game for this competition. I will be upping the voting thread tonight ( Apr 26th ) with the relevant details.

Could those that have entered please post here a link to your latest version available now that bug fix week has ended, thanks.
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Until the next time.


RemiD

#156
VShooter
screenshot : http://rd-stuff.fr/blitz3d/VShooter-screenshot-20210418.png
latest download link : (fixed the bug of the millisecs() negative value on Windows10)
http://rd-stuff.fr/blitz3d/VShooter-20210419-1203-EXE.zip
http://rd-stuff.fr/blitz3d/VShooter-20210430-1323-EXE.zip

should work with Windows xp, vista, 7, 8, 10
you need a keyboard + a mouse to play

more details : https://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php/topic,8347.msg347049622.html#msg347049622



Scaremonger


I'm having a bit of an issue with Wuhan Gang.

I cannot get it to run in Wine; but on my Windows laptop, Windows Defender is flagging it as a "Win32/Zpevdo.B" Trojan and sticking it into quarantine. It also has a problem with McAfee which reports it as "Artemis!08E5B51F6812".

I know this competition was called Virus, but...  ;D

Is anyone else having issues with it?

RemiD

#160
@Scaremonger>>no detection with microsoft virus essentials, and with malwarebytes.

in doubt, there is the website virustotal.com, where you can upload an executable.

i am going to check again on my side...

indeed Wuhan gang (blitz3d executable) is detected as malware by 6 companies
virustotal.com/gui/file/e78760447f2f15d43a839c13e5eb0b414fde1454cc084a9a267ade0ae33f7e28/detection

whereas Vshooter (blitz3d executable) is  not detected as malware...
virustotal.com/gui/file/97c2c7c7d9b525d4fb6459bdf0dddceacfb3b559b6ff24844463c10b804901fc/detection

strange...


@Stevie G>> are you doing something special in your game ? writing / reading external files ? writing / reading in memory ?

STEVIE G

Nothing dodgy going on I promise. It uses the dx7 dll but the dplay one is there to prevent win10 users being asked to install it. I do read and write to an options file in the data folder, local to the game, but that is all.  I do the same with all my games. Maybe as there's some text in the splash which mentions 'virus' its picking this up as something dodgy?

Its been downloaded more than 200 times and no one has mentioned this issue.

Scaremonger

I added it as an exclusion and it ran fine (Probably too fine as I've been playing it for ages this morning).

VirusTotal.com gave loads of information about what the file was doing and the registry keys it is using but I cannot see anything that would warrant a quarantine. Its a useful resource that I didn't know about but it is a bit weird why this file was treated in this way.

Awesome game...

Going to go play it again before the wife gets up and wants me to take her shopping!

3DzForMe

Well, my entry never quite made it passed the concept art stage - ah well, voting's nearly over (I think.....)

Played all the games and my votes are in - good luck folks!

Some excellent work worthy of software houses!

Heres how far my effort got anyway.... some may recognise the base 'effort' that got infected by some virus sprites......
BLitz3D, IDEal, AGK Studio, BMax, Java Code, Cerberus
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Oldest Hardware: Commodore Amiga 1200 with 1084S Monitor & Blitz Basic 2.1