New beta: Pinguine Panic

[Deluxeware Team]

Beta version of puzzle game
www.deluxeware.com/beta/PenguinPanic_010_beta.zip

please let me know what you think about it.

[Pdaman]

oh no... not that word again; puzzle? we have just too many puzzle games for palm os. i suppose that you deluxeware dudes could write something a lot better games instead of that. It just seems that you guys seems to know how to make good looking graphics. So please concentrate to try program always better what competiors have not what have been programmed many years ago. Sorry for hard comments but please try to understand. Anyway that game is quite cool looking, idea is ok, works well on my th55 on 320x480 resolution and so on but still it is a puzzle game. And yes, I'm not big fan of puzzle games. Sorry

[Deluxeware Team]

Pdaman what a game you want have at your PDA? Sport? Arcade? RTS?

[snark]

Nice game. But each time I drop a piece, I have the game menu that pops up (Resume, Game Settings, Restart, Abandon, Quit). Looks like the stroke to drop the piece to the board is interpreted as a Graffiti stroke (the / that opens the command bar).

[snark]

I solved this by switching my TX to landscape mode.

Level 11, 30800, in Medium Level. I like the game. It was getting really fast at levels 10+, especially level 11 when I lost. Interesting pieces appearing when you go up in the levels.

There should me more "disappearing color" bonuses.

[Drunkard]

Nice game. Works just fine on my Tungsten|E. One suggestion: Perhaps when pieces at the bottom are moved into the board, the pieces that fill the spots at the bottom could appear without having to tap there. Might make it too easy, I don't know.

[Deluxeware Team]

thanks for suggest and report.
we fixed bugs and add new tupe of game.
new version comming soon

[lesliefranke]

A couple of thoughts. Very nice game. I have played it several times, on my T3, and enjoyed it.

1. I think Drunkard is right. You should probably just automatically fill the pieces in. You start to do that anyway once you reach a round in the high teens somewhere.

2. On the expert level the high scores are not being kept in the correct order. My high score should have been number one but it was placed number five. The next time I played the score should have been number three but it was not included at the score was lower than my number one, fifth place score.

3. I would probably space out how the new pieces are entered into the game. Once you get in the teens they seem to appear all at once.

4. It appear that there may be a battery drain on my T3 from the game (???). If you leave the Palm in the game, say the high score screen, and then turn it off, it appears to be slowly draining down the battery.

Overall, a very good game.

[Pdaman]

Pdaman what a game you want have at your PDA? Sport? Arcade? RTS?Well we have on my opinion enough sport games for palm os (bowling, billiard and etc. games) but palm os lacking on good warfare incorporated kinda games or games which have somekind option where you can challenge another player through wlan/internet (maybe i'm asking too much?). Anyway luckily Realdice company has brought some internet games lately chess and poker. Though I hope you guys could bring some internet games too :)!

[snark]

1. I think Drunkard is right. You should probably just automatically fill the pieces in. You start to do that anyway once you reach a round in the high teens somewhere.It's already done, the next piece is displaued when the "gauge" on the left side is filled up. It fills up faster as levels go, it's normal.

And if you're quick, you can always click to get the next piece. Personnally I like the way it's implemented.

BTW: level 17, score 61530 :D

[Mas]

Pdaman what a game you want have at your PDA? Sport? Arcade? RTS?

I say re-develop Zap! Evolution!!!!! Personally, I'm quite tired of Puzzle games and would highly like to flex more mindless finger/thumb muscles on a great shoot-em-up when we know its possible to do with some of the Clies..Even my Older Nx80V.

If it can play games like Stone Age II, Doom, and Edge which have great gameplay and great graphics (well..not so great on Doom but its still a classic), Its surely possible

[Pdaman]

I say re-develop Zap! Evolution!!!!! Personally, I'm quite tired of Puzzle games and would highly like to flex more mindless finger/thumb muscles on a great shoot-em-up when we know its possible to do with some of the Clies..Even my Older Nx80V.

If it can play games like Stone Age II, Doom, and Edge which have great gameplay and great graphics (well..not so great on Doom but its still a classic), Its surely possibleI second that :)!

[2XS]

I second that :)!
dito!! :)

[Deluxeware Team]

ok guys... i think we need make new thread with your cool ideas =)
Admin! pleas can you move posts to new thread?

About Pinguine...
thanks for your bugreports.. worked.
i post latest news later

[lesliefranke]

How is this coming along? The beta version has expired and I am interested in seeing the updated version of the game.

[modernmystic]

ok guys... i think we need make new thread with your cool ideas =)
Admin! pleas can you move posts to new thread?

About Pinguine...
thanks for your bugreports.. worked.
i post latest news later
Incredible! I love the support!

EDIT:
Guess I should of read lesliefranke's post more closely.
So will there be another beta or have you gotten the info that you needed?
Thanks,
-mm

[Deluxeware Team]

Hi!

new beta version of Pinguine Panic

http://www.deluxeware.com/Beta_Pinguine.htm

- 5way navigator support
- new game modes
- bug fixes
- and much more =)

[PinCushionQueen]

I couldn't get it to play at all on my TX. It just kept freezing on the opening screen.

[snark]

Works fine on my TX. I had one freeze during a play but it didn't happen since.

[PinCushionQueen]

Ok... Reinstalled app - and finally got off the startup page using my 5-way Nav button. Maybe that was the problem all along?

Anyways, now it works... Great game! :D

[lesliefranke]

Looks good unless you play the hardest level in story mode. The game stays stuck on the first level. After all of the penguins go away it reloads the first level. This happened time and time again. Finally, in the midst of one of these first levels and with one penguin still on the board it kicked me into the second level.

[Deluxeware Team]

New beta version 0.20 ready!
download from
http://www.deluxeware.com/Beta_Pinguine.htm


- Online HighScores table added!

now you can visit http://www.deluxeware.com/high

and post your high scores or show your best rank to your friends!

[rowillia]

I downloaded the beta this morning and, upon launch, received the error message, "Sorry...Beta expired". The program that I downloaded has a size of 884736 bytes, comprising 122 records. I really enjoyed the 010 beta and plan to purchase the final version of the game when it becomes available.

Sincerely,
Roger M. Williams

[goonie]

Nice game. I did find a bug where completed rows would not disappear, however. I'd post a screenshot, but the problem is that my screenshot program is DA-based and the program would not let me take the screenshot.

Mine hasn't expired yet. Will this game expire?

[legio]

Pdaman what a game you want have at your PDA? Sport? Arcade? RTS?

i'd really like to have some wwii 1st person shooter like bf42 or so. Or also a port of some old flight simulator (like F15 Strike Eagle II (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2228)) easy to control with only stylus and the 4 palm keys. Or, again, surgical ones (Life & Death II: the Brain (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=637)), underwater sim (688 Attack Sub (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1933)), strategy (Crisis in Kremlin (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Crisis+in+The+Kremlin)), ...

except for bf42, all the others did run on the old 8088 machines, so i guess it shouldn't be so hard to have them on palm

[Deluxeware Team]

Thanks for you comment!

rowillia plea try remove beta and install new 0.20

legio thanks for you suggestions.



And nobody test online highscores table?

[Eddy]

Trying it out on my TX, so far so good! :D

[Creideiki]

Thanks for you comment!

rowillia plea try remove beta and install new 0.20

legio thanks for you suggestions.



And nobody test online highscores table?

I did last week. I'm pleased to see I'm still number 2! (Here come the challengers).

Is there some way in the high score web system to separate scores by game type?

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[snark]

And nobody test online highscores table? I do. I have the 4 high scores for Classic mode in Medium level. :D