Boulder Dash Forum

By the way, can you please tell me what the one line fix for the extra lives is? I'd like to recompile the game with the patch applied, if it's not too much trouble

- Agetian

Hm, interesting. Could be some kind of miscalculation of the final score, counting down to the calculated (wrong) value, then updating the screen with the correct value one frame later. This is only a suspicion, but I will check that... Hmm yeah, that could actually be the case, it could be that it...

Just got in on the BD1 Atari (GDash) cave set: I played cave D and did not see it during the final countdown, then in happened on the next cave (cave E). I may be wrong, but it felt like it counted the final score to 319, then at the last possible moment, changed to something (maybe went down to 318...

Nice, thanks for fixing it promptly! :) As for the first issue, it's difficult to tell if it's when it reached its final value or right before it (since the countdown is so quick), but it happens at the very last moment - it seems to jump back and forth between whatever and the final value, and then...

A couple questions (or, rather, a question and a report) regarding version 4.4.0.1: 1. A minor thing, but it looks like sometimes (not always, but most of the time), during the final countdown and at the very end of it (when the final score is shown), the score will quickly "flash" between...

Very nice, the ability to play a full BD game inside RnD (with multiple lives) is a very exciting development! No worries regarding the single life mode animation, it's awesome that you're planning to eventually integrate that as well :) RnD is quickly becoming the definitive way of experiencing GDa...

Nice, that sounds like a very good solution to me!

- Agetian

Oh, that's a really exciting development, that sounds awesome! Being able to play the game both classic BD-style with multiple lives and RnD-style on a per-cave basis is really great! Best of luck, can't wait to play this new version! :) Here's how Krissz's engine handles the high score flashing ani...

After playing some more with the RnD BD engine, I'm quite confident that it would be a nice option to have the "flashing cave" animation (currently used as extra life bonus animation) signify beating the current high score, a la Krissz engine :) At least, it could be an option, possibly ev...

I also think that with the Boulder Dash engine there should be 3 lifes. Not endless tries. In my opinion, there are two possible things that can eventually be done here (at least it's just my $0.02 for the brainstorm) :) Having an option to play a traditional 3 life-based game of BD in RnD eventual...

I did some testing and debugging, and was able to find a problem with sound precedence in the native BD sound engine. It's fixed now, and the expanding wall sounds in the test level mentioned should be correct now! Will be released soon with the first patch version 4.4.0.1. Regarding playing sounds...

May it be possible that this only affects sound effects for game elements that are outside the visible area? Both R'n'D and GDash use some sort of stereo sound effect handling to locate sounds that are far left or right, with at least R'n'D not playing sounds anymore if they are too far away from t...

Grats on getting 4.4.0.0 released, Holger! it's a really nice milestone release and I'm happy you've seen the project through to completion! :) I have a little report based on playing the latest release. It seems like the sound priorities and/or sound mixing is incorrect sometimes, which causes cert...

Very nice job, grats on getting this pre-release out! Best of luck with finishing the final release!

- Agetian

Awesome, great job thus far! Best of luck with finishing the project! Great effort!!

- Agetian