Pipemania

Darkon · Post by **Darkon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:28 am

inspired by a puzzle game i played years ago, which i cant remember the name of, and quite frankly, i didnt even like

i made this minigame, which plays alot different from it, which is good, anyhow, id really like to see other peoples pipe puzzles too using these elements so please e-mail me them, oh, and make sure they are actually possible to complete

http://www.zomis.net/rnd/info.php?f=341

bojster · Post by **bojster** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:26 am

Very interesting concept indeed. Unfortunately, I find it quite unhandy to play it with Rockford (or whatever the name of the yellow capped guy is). I definitely prefer the original.Might be a nice idea to make pipe mini-puzzles part of some bigger CE levels, though.

Martijn · Post by **Martijn** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:03 pm

Looks cool! I'm ever surprised by seeing new CE levels. Will it be included in the next contributions or do I have it manually?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:46 pm

good one Darkon!

This works very similar to something I'm doing at the moment.
In fact, looking closely this works exactly like my game.... oh hell.

(better say something now in case you think I have ripped you off!)

Darkon · Post by **Darkon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:25 pm

no problems there alan, i didnt intend to make any more than 1 level for it, i just like to experiment with the CE's basically to see what can, and cant be done

and for starters, i know for a fact yours will have sparkly cool graphics compaired to mine :-p

Zomis · Post by **Zomis** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:32 pm

Well Darkon, although I really like new techniques, I "only" voted your file with 7 (of 10) on the archive. The water or whatever it is comes pretty fast, so the pause function is a good friend then.
I agree with Bojster that the game is quite unhandy to play with Rockford, and there was a lot of CEs in it (although that's not totally bad, it could be hard to reduce CE counts sometimes - just look at Alan's defender, he uses nearly all 256 CEs), but oh well...
It really reminds me of the windowsgame "Pipe", not exactly like it but a bit close. I think it would be possible to make such levels too with a little technique.

Martijn · Post by **Martijn** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:44 pm

But how would you like to play it then? Is it possible to control the pipes themselves?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:09 pm

>and for starters, i know for a fact yours will have sparkly cool graphics compaired to mine

thanks, there not very sparkly at the moment...

>Alan's defender, he uses nearly all 256 CEs

Wrong! , it uses about 100. I blanked everything out, also there's large gaps of empty CEs between elements, so if you looked at them randomly it would appear I use them all

>But how would you like to play it then? Is it possible to control the pipes themselves?

I once made the Rockford graphic into a mouse cursor, then I made dummy walls that you could walk over, if felt like you where in the editor but in the game

If you could change what's under you, it would work nice for pipemania.

Zomis · Post by **Zomis** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:27 pm

Alan wrote:>Alan's defender, he uses nearly all 256 CEs

Wrong! , it uses about 100. I blanked everything out, also there's large gaps of empty CEs between elements, so if you looked at them randomly it would appear I use them all

>But how would you like to play it then? Is it possible to control the pipes themselves?

I once made the Rockford graphic into a mouse cursor, then I made dummy walls that you could walk over, if felt like you where in the editor but in the game If you could change what's under you, it would work nice for pipemania.

Well, I didn't looked randomly on them, I checked the level in RNDTool, and I saw that all CE numbers where in the CE list, and I checked some of them through and saw that most of them used other elements or was used by other elements. So I came to the conclusion that nearly all was used.
Plus, if you search for "CUS4" in the .level file, you will find 256 matches, which means that 256 CEs has been saved. So I thought that nearly all was used.

And well, yes it's possible to control what's under you, it won't be exactly like Pipemania but more like the Pipe game in windows, with a few disadvantages though. I won't start working on it yet, but within a couple of weeks. At least now I have an idea for it.

Martijn · Post by **Martijn** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:32 pm

Where can I find RNDtools? can't find it in the archive! is it a program to change graphicsinfo.conf/soundinfo.conf/musicinfo.conf files in a quick manner?

Zomis · Post by **Zomis** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:35 pm

Martijn wrote:Where can I find RNDtools? can't find it in the archive!

1. It's RNDTool
2. It's listed as one of my files on the archive
3. There is a search function on the archive, search for "rndtool" and you'll find it.
4. It's here

I haven't started with the next version of it, I don't know if there will be one; but we'll see. At least I haven't enough time for it currently.

Martijn · Post by **Martijn** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:20 pm

hmm, strange why I couldn't find it... but the program looks promising! Will have a close look later.

Martijn · Post by **Martijn** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:59 pm

is there a tape of pipemania? I directed the pipe to the exit but nothing works.

Darkon · Post by **Darkon** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:56 pm

there should be tapes with it, or at least i "think" there should be

and your supposed to direct the pipe to the end pipe, not the exit :-p

(the pipe that is only 1 way)

RAP · Post by **RAP** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:30 am

A intresting ce-mini game with nice graphics and the water floods too.

I think it was solveable level with conneting pieces on the pipe.

And the exit and rockford? Well Rockford is our player, but i guess rockford is useful anyway.

And the exit will be useful as well in some mini games.

Graphics:
5.5 - 10.0

Gameplay
6.8 - 10.0

Real Rating:
6.5 - 10.0

Nice Game.

But i wish there are more Pipeline levels that were made.