Game Gardens Forums (Forum: Tutorials and Help)

Difficulty building from SVN

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:54:46 -0700

Hi there, I'm trying to build the Game Gardens source from the svn repo. I initially had some trouble building samskivert and depot due to a missing google-collect.jar, which I fixed by copying gardens/lib/*.jar into projects/{samskivert,depot}/dist/lib . I'm not convinced that was the correct solution, but it at least advanced me through the build a bit. Now I'm running into what appears to ...

tutorial help

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:08:34 -0800

In Step 2. Define the Shared Game State (http://wiki.gamegardens.com/Reversi_Game_State) ant gendobj met an error Buildfile: build.xml genservice: BUILD FAILED G:\game-gardens\games\lib\game-incl.xml:38: taskdef class com.threerings.presents.tools.GenServiceTask cannot be found Total time: 0 seconds I wonder where to find the com.threerings.presents.tools.GenServiceTask, it ...

Missing "viewtest" in game-incl.xml

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:28:30 -0700

I was running through the Reversi tutorial and got stopped cold when it came time to run "ant viewtest" - it informed me that 'Target "viewtest" does not exist in the project "reversi".' Hunting around, I figured out that the ant commands were directed at game-incl.xml, which seems to be lacking a "viewtest" of any sort. I had downloaded game-gardens.zip ...

How to write a computer player (AI)?

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:13:55 -0700

Hi, I am totally lost at how you can write an AI for a game. Could anybody tell me how to start (e.g. with Reversi)? What surprises me is that the example "atlantis" has an option to play against AI, but I cannot find any code related to AI. The only thing I can find is the tag in the xml description. Does the GG framework provide a default AI that moves randomly??? ...

GetDown Offline Robustness (PATCH)

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:03:34 -0700

Good evening! I wanted to drop in and say Thank You for creating GetDown and releasing it to the Intarwebs. I've been able to successfully integrate GetDown as a Java Webstart replacement in the desktop counterpart for my iPhone application (BookShelf), and so far my beta users are raving about the improvement. The ability to do binary patches is wonderful and will no doubt save both my ...

ant server problem

Sun, 10 May 2009 14:42:21 -0700

i follow the first step by step Tutorials but i can't go throw the ant server commend the result is like this; java.security.polict: add project failed: java.net>malFormedURLException:For input string:"games.....

Static location for sprites on a VirtualMediaPanel

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:55:56 -0800

I have a fancy map that scrolls using the VirtualMediaPanel's setViewLocation() function and all my sprites go where they are supposed to go and everything is happy making. BUT... I would also like to have some buttons that sit on top of the map and just chill there, like a Heads Up Display. I'm using sprites for the buttons and I can detect when they are being clicked and whatnot, but when ...

does this work good with netbeans 6.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:39:54 -0800

does this work good with netbeans 6.0 cus im having alot of problems getting this to work the tut really does not help nuch for new folks with netbeans if there was some screen shots to go with it would help alot if someone could kelp me get this going i would be very thankful add me to yahoo or msn messenger my yahoo is dxman_2007@yahoo.com my msn is dxman2007@msn.com thx all this looks like fun ...

boardview does not paint and update all sprites

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:15:32 -0700

first off: sorry for x-posting, but i cannot edit or delete my other postings :( (I think this forum fits better to my problem than game design) Now to my problem I created a small game which uses a sprite to show a die and other sprites for the game pieces. The thing is, the board and the pieces are shown correctly even the cursor,but the die is not visible. If i go back to the lobby ...

How to download game JAR from Game Gardens

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:37:29 -0700

Hi, I've mistakenly deleted the source code to my game Five from my hard drive (so embarrassing, I was positive I had it backed up but no.) Is there some place where I can download my game JAR I uploaded earlier? I don't remember if the source is included in the JAR by default, but at the very least I could decompile it to recover my source. Thanks in advance!

digest.txt.sig problem

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:35:18 -0700

Hi! I use Getdown I config everythin and when I try to lunch it I get that error: [quote]INFO: Attempting to refetch 'digest.txt.sig' from 'http://www.acknex.info/webstart/1/digest.txt.sig'. 2008-05-11 12:22:55 com.threerings.getdown.a a WARNING: m.corrupt_digest_signature_error java.io.IOException: m.corrupt_digest_signature_error at com.threerings.getdown.data.e.a(Unknown Source) ...

Connection Problems

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:48:37 -0700

I play PP through the YourFreedom client while I'm at school, as I cannot connect without a tunnel. I simply edit the deployment.properties file in config.jar to change the server connections to localhost, but I cannot figure out how to do this with Game Gardens. I've already attempted some decompiling of gg-client.jar, but it's proving rather difficult and messy. Any suggestions would be ...

How to Recolor images

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:50:07 -0700

Hi, I am writing a stone-laying game based on Pente. The game works (yay!) but is pretty ugly at the moment. So, I want to allow players to be able to choose the color of their stones, ie from a dropdown menu in-game. It looks like the recolorable resources in Puzzle Pirates (bludgeons, for example) are just PNGs with red, green, and magenta as placeholder colors for the player-chosen colors. ...

reversi tutorial step 2 compile error

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:41:34 -0700

So I ant gendobj the code listed at the end for ReversiObject and get a compile error. 3 errors all concerning DSet "cannot find symbol" errors. Was I supposed to import that class at the top of the code? Thanks in advance.

server crashes during startup

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:17:27 -0700

I'm trying to build one of the tutorials--I picked Atlantis at random. The compile and dist targets seem to work fine, but the server target tries without success to make the server run: server: [propertyfile] Creating new property file: C:\Documents and Settings\Bran Sedgeh am\Desktop\games\atlantis\dist\classes\toybox.properties [java] 2008/03/22 17:12:42:203 INFO ...