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    I made an original game for RetroPie

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    • pjftP
      pjft @Rincewind
      last edited by

      @Rincewind Well, this is awesome - congrats and thank you for sharing! What a fun way to learn the libretro framework and develop your own game engine!

      I'll install it today. It's always great to have simple party games, both for the kids as well as for the non-gamer audiences. :) And it's also a great arcade-like game for the rest of us, so thank you!

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      • RincewindR
        Rincewind @herb_fargus
        last edited by Rincewind

        @herb_fargus I was thinking about making the game skin-able with texture packs. So maybe someone could make a Crappy Flappy game ;)

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        • pjftP
          pjft
          last edited by

          I scraped it in screenscraper and nothing showed up, as expected. Hope it counts towards the number you're trying to get to :)

          Any chance you'd share the metadata somewhere so I can edit mine manually? I'm kind of OCD around that.

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          • RincewindR
            Rincewind @pjft
            last edited by Rincewind

            @pjft I am exacly the same way :)

            This is what I intend to add to screenscraper.fr:
            Developer: Courtney Pitcher
            Publisher: Courtney Pitcher
            Release date: 5 February 2019
            Genre: Arcade
            Players: 8
            Description: Super Flappy Birds is a multiplayer clone of the game Flappy Bird by Dong Nguyen. The goal is to fly through more pipes, without crashing, than your friends.
            Box Cover Image: gimp file
            Box Side Image: gimp file
            Logo Image: gimp file
            Screenshot: png

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            • pjftP
              pjft
              last edited by

              @Rincewind I played a few rounds, it's quite fun, and it stores high-scores which is great!

              I can imagine that, if you'd be thinking of investing in it further, there'd be fun things to try out with a Flappy Birds-like game turned into party game.

              Thanks for sharing the metadata - would you have a video in mind to upload as well? If not, I'll work around it, no worries :)

              Thanks.

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              • RincewindR
                Rincewind
                last edited by

                @pjft If you can think of any gameplay suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.

                I don't have a video, sorry. I tried using OBS to record it on my desktop, but it came out quite badly. If you want to record gameplay, I will happily upload your video to screenscraper once I am allowed to.

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                • pjftP
                  pjft @Rincewind
                  last edited by

                  @Rincewind I was thinking of @herb_fargus 's method:

                  https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10772/take-and-scrape-your-own-videos

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                    hhromic
                    last edited by

                    @Rincewind congratulations!
                    Super Flappy Birds is now officially in RetroPie in the experimental packages!

                    Hope you keep improving the game ;) Cheers!

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                    • RincewindR
                      Rincewind @hhromic
                      last edited by

                      @hhromic I saw that, I am quite excited.

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                      • pjftP
                        pjft @Rincewind
                        last edited by

                        @Rincewind just to let you know, today's build is broken - the game crashes after selecting the number of players. Yesterday's binary was fine :)

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                        • robertvb83R
                          robertvb83 @pjft
                          last edited by

                          @pjft said in I made an original game for RetroPie:

                          @Rincewind just to let you know, today's build is broken - the game crashes after selecting the number of players. Yesterday's binary was fine :)

                          I am glad to find thats not me... same here

                          My full size arcade cabinet Robotron vs. Octolyzer

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                          • RincewindR
                            Rincewind
                            last edited by

                            @pjft @robertvb83 I have undone my changes and tested, the game now works.

                            I am sorry I uploaded a change that broke the game, but the change I made was not to the code so I didn't bother testing it. This is a very strange bug.

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                            • robertvb83R
                              robertvb83 @Rincewind
                              last edited by

                              @Rincewind now its working.

                              I think everyone has played this game or a clone. I played such games a thousand times. Now i just tested this with my wife and it was simply just fun. Never had this fun factor with any other clone of this.

                              I think multiplayer is really making a huge difference plus its a total no brainer. Everyone can join without learning, especially kids.

                              This is a gem, thanks a lot! I will scrape this later today.

                              My full size arcade cabinet Robotron vs. Octolyzer

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                              • RincewindR
                                Rincewind @robertvb83
                                last edited by

                                @robertvb83 Thanks so much :) I am quite happy that the feedback has been so positive.

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                                • pjftP
                                  pjft @Rincewind
                                  last edited by

                                  @Rincewind It's super. I did not forget in any way your comment for me to share ideas for the game.

                                  I'll gladly write them down in the coming days - feel free to dismiss them at will, really. Ideas are a dime a dozen, and I respect that. :) But yes, I'll send some thoughts your way. I'll probably put together a Google doc with it, just for ease of updating and sharing.

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                                  • robertvb83R
                                    robertvb83
                                    last edited by robertvb83

                                    @Rincewind I like highscores and also an attract mode with a highscore table. And this game is an absolute highscore hunting thing and i think it would be cool if you could implement a sophisticated highscore system where players can enter their initials and a highscore table displayed after a round or as attract mode.

                                    I have no idea what this means coding wise and what effort this means, just an idea really

                                    My full size arcade cabinet Robotron vs. Octolyzer

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                                      hhromic @Rincewind
                                      last edited by

                                      @Rincewind said in I made an original game for RetroPie:

                                      @pjft @robertvb83 I have undone my changes and tested, the game now works.

                                      I am sorry I uploaded a change that broke the game, but the change I made was not to the code so I didn't bother testing it. This is a very strange bug.

                                      I suggest you to start using git branches in your development workflow. When you want to work on a new feature, simply create a new branch for it and do/undo all you need. It won't affect current installations. When you are happy with your new features (and tested!), you can merge it all back to master in one operation. Also, as a goodie, it is relatively easy to instruct users to test particular branches before they go live (a one-line temporary change to the scriptmodule).

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                                      • robertvb83R
                                        robertvb83 @Rincewind
                                        last edited by

                                        @Rincewind said in I made an original game for RetroPie:

                                        @pjft I am exacly the same way :)

                                        This is what I intend to add to screenscraper.fr:
                                        Developer: Courtney Pitcher
                                        Publisher: Courtney Pitcher
                                        Release date: 5 February 2019
                                        Genre: Arcade
                                        Players: 8
                                        Description: Super Flappy Birds is a multiplayer clone of the game Flappy Bird by Dong Nguyen. The goal is fly through more pipes, without crashing, than your friends.
                                        Box Cover Image: gimp file
                                        Box Side Image: gimp file
                                        Logo Image: gimp file
                                        Screenshot: png

                                        i am not able to access the gimp file data... could you make the png files available?

                                        My full size arcade cabinet Robotron vs. Octolyzer

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                                        • JonoJ
                                          Jono
                                          last edited by

                                          I want to say thank you, this is brilliant, a great game when the lads are round. The high score table with initials would be a marvellous thing if you could. But for now I just want to say thank you for the contribution :)

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                                          • RincewindR
                                            Rincewind @hhromic
                                            last edited by

                                            @hhromic I usually test on my RPi before pushing, but I thought it would be such a small change that I didn't bother to. I will not be so reckless in the future.

                                            Thanks for the advice on getting users to test development branches, that might work well.

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