[Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

Some years ago, when I was still using a Palm to browse the web from my bed, I used to play an addictive little game called SFCave, where we were controling a line threw an infinite cave.
The cave would get smaller and smaller while the line would go faster and faster. The line was continuously falling ; but we could however make it move up by touching the screen.

I made an SDL clone of this game, thanks to SDL_gfx. It's still pretty basic : no obstacles, no advanced hiscores, all lines of the cave are 0.2*height-of-screen long, but it works. The source code is also as horrible as this remark lets you imagine...

Controls : touch the screen to start a game, then touch it to make the line go upward. When finished, you can also use the keyboard with r to restart and q to quit in addition to the buttons on the touchscreen.

http://yannbng.free.fr/sdlcave.png

Package file : http://yannbng.free.fr/sdlcave_0.1-5_armel.deb
Source code : http://yannbng.free.fr/sdlcave_0.1-5.tar.gz

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

I like it. Simple but pretty fun! Although, if you make another version, consider making the text a bit bigger. Currently its so small I can't really see it while I'm playing the game.

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

sweet. I loved this game when I had my Palm(s). - will try it out

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

I made a little update with a bigger font : 10x20 vs 8x8 ; texts should be easier to read now :-)
EDIT : Another little update. Nothing remarkable ; something just bugged me : the font file (10240 bytes) was smaller than expected (10*20*256/8 = 6400 or (10*20=200 and 256*256/8 = 8192) or (16*24*256/8 = 12288 - bigger ?!)). Instead of just reading 6400 byte, it now reads 10240b, so we can be nearly sure it misses nothing.

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

Another little update : now using 16bpp mode, which is a lot faster on this device...

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

i would appreciate if you upload this to repos , thank you

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

It's already uploaded to extras-devel :-)

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

Good one...I am now spending lot of time on this...Not able to score above 1200 :)

Sometimes it crashes in between...anyone observed this problem?

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

Yeah, crashes a few times for me too - happened when I got a new high score. Oh, 1225 is my best.

EDIT: just crashed again after a new high score (but saved the score).

Re: [Maemo 5] SDLCave : a very basic clone of SFCave
 

I made 1560 a long time ago :-)
I experience sometime the same bug. It seems that it tends to happen more when there is a little load on the CPU. It happens much less with the last version, but I should take a look when I have more time. Something to do with frameskipping, making the menu not to display at the end of a game.