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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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                                      • RincewindR
                                        Rincewind @Jono
                                        last edited by

                                        @Jono @robertvb83 @pjft I have thought about a high score table before and think it would be a good idea. To implement the high score table, I might need to reset your current high scores. Would that be alright?

                                        I could include instructions on how to edit the save file on the command line to restore your high score with your name?

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                                        • RincewindR
                                          Rincewind @robertvb83
                                          last edited by

                                          @robertvb83
                                          scraper_logo.png
                                          scraper_cover.png
                                          scraper_side.png

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                                          • robertvb83R
                                            robertvb83 @Rincewind
                                            last edited by

                                            @Rincewind sure highscore reset would be no issue... I can do that again :-)

                                            thanks for the png files. Awesome!

                                            My full size arcade cabinet Robotron vs. Octolyzer

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