One easy way to make the collision work correctly is a constant high physics framerate. For example you say a physics frame is always 5ms and then execute as many physics frames as necessary in each graphics frame in a loop.
That also fixes decreasing collision probability due to low framerate.

mmp

United States2130 Posts

April 06 2011 09:07 GMT

#22

I am aware of this technique. This code was "impromptu."

I'm mostly playing around with different rendering techniques in Canvas and trying to get them stored away for a bigger project later.

This was an exercise in glow/blur with composite rendering (which apparently FF3.6 doesn't have complete support for).

mmp

United States2130 Posts

April 06 2011 09:39 GMT

#23

I've added a combo system so the longer you stay close to red particles the larger the reward.

wooozy

3813 Posts

April 06 2011 09:48 GMT

#24

quit at 1651 'cause i got bored

NikonTC

United Kingdom418 Posts

April 06 2011 11:48 GMT

#25

i left the game open in a tab while i went off to do something else, and when i came back i had a best score of 6865. beat that!

angoluce

Belgium11 Posts

April 06 2011 12:30 GMT

#26

1296 for my first time

Can't bother to play it a 2nd time for now tho :p

mmp

United States2130 Posts

April 06 2011 23:47 GMT

#27

On April 06 2011 20:48 NikonTC wrote:
i left the game open in a tab while i went off to do something else, and when i came back i had a best score of 6865. beat that!

lol gz bro

oxidized

United States324 Posts

April 07 2011 00:18 GMT

#28

Very cool browser graphics showcase

The best way to get points is to have a red particle orbit you for as long as possible - this makes the green bonus hilariously large (btw I think the green particle hitbox needs to scale with its size, not sure).

I managed to get 3200 points just from the first red particle by having it orbit me until the second particle showed up >.<

Cool game idea.

]343[

United States10328 Posts

April 07 2011 03:47 GMT

#29

cute. I got 1384 on touchpad by just shaking around a lot--the collision detection seems to have some trouble when you just move the mouse really fast

I guess the framerate can't be too high.

let_FLY

80 Posts

April 07 2011 08:33 GMT

#30

not sure if anyone's touched on it but i sort of feel like it takes too long to get hard. granted, i only got to 1k points, but i don't feel much of a desire to replay it because i know it'll take me a while to get back to that point in the game where i just made a silly mistake.

other then that it was really fun

ChrisXIV

Austria3553 Posts

April 07 2011 08:47 GMT

#31

1908 points because I wasn't looking.

Fun game, really well done.

YejinYejin

United States1053 Posts

April 07 2011 09:54 GMT

#32

2500 points because I gave up. I was pretty sure I got hit like 3 times, but I was still alive, so eventually I just ran into them on purpose to see if I could die or not.

Tried again and got 2925. I basically tried spawning the biggest green particle possible, and made two that gave me 300 points each. Very rewarding.

Ivs

Australia139 Posts

April 07 2011 10:08 GMT

#33

Get about 6k from orbiting the first red particle as much as I can, then play normally as the trick gets hard when there are multiple reds chasing you.

[image loading]

Edit: 10k is my best so far. Have to say grazing that first green is much more fun than the rest of the game.

EscPlan9

United States2777 Posts

April 07 2011 10:12 GMT

#34

A well designed simplistic game. Well done! I know you weren't meaning for it to be a commercial success or anything, so it's just something you did to practice what you're learning at the moment, and good job with it!

mmp

United States2130 Posts

April 08 2011 06:47 GMT

#35

On April 07 2011 19:08 Ivs wrote:
Get about 6k from orbiting the first red particle as much as I can, then play normally as the trick gets hard when there are multiple reds chasing you.

[image loading]

Edit: 10k is my best so far. Have to say grazing that first green is much more fun than the rest of the game.

wow that's bigger than the ones I was getting, nice job.