ZuDoKu

New Post: I tried running the game and it froze my zune

justinc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:28:03 GMT

Sorry about not replying sooner! I didn't have notifications turned on apparently.

Anyway, I have no idea how you'd get a blue screen! Given, this game is very incomplete but I've never had a blue screen. What version of Zune are you running? Can you debug at all and see where the last line of code to run is?

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justinc — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:57:51 GMT

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justinc — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:34:18 GMT

basic menu navigation with a "mass effect" feel.

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justinc — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:24:50 GMT

- Transition from splash to main menu. - Buttons with labels. - Basic focus management.

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justinc — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:13:59 GMT

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justinc — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:13:21 GMT

Splash screen created.

NEW POST: I tried running the game and it froze my zune

ian21 — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:22:12 GMT

I tried running the beta or the source code and all i got was a blue screen and i had to manauly reboot my zune why is that?

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justinc — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:01:14 GMT

Created separate windows solution. Turns out you can't run the solution with the Zune project in it unless the zune is plugged in. So for now the windows solution and project are seperate.

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justinc — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:45:40 GMT

Adding windows version for easy debugging.

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justinc — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:25:38 GMT

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justinc — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:53:16 GMT

initial base classes.

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justinc — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:57:49 GMT

new Zune 3.0 project!

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NEW POST: Control Scheme

chrisgwilliams — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:51:42 GMT

The controls on the Zune30 (which I have) and Zune80 (which I don't have) are slightly different.

The Zune30 offers a clickable wheel (4 click points: up, down, left, right) with a button in the middle (select) and two buttons outside the wheel (back and play/pause)
(TODO: update with Zune80 control scheme)

Control Mapping
Navigation:
It makes sense to use the up/down/left/right wheelclicks to move the cursor around the ZuDoKu board.

Selection:
The center button would be used to select a square to place a number in.
Once a square has been selected (above), player could use the up/down to change numbers.
After the player chooses a number, click the center button again to confirm.

Erasing/Undo:
The back button could erase the number from the selected square.
(or we could use the select button again and have a blank in the number list)

Help/Menu/Options:
If we don't use the back button for erase (can we even do that?) then maybe it could display a menu.

Unknowns / Issues
Since the beta hasn't been released yet, currently we have no idea if we will be able to use the back and play/pause buttons from the game. We might be limited to the wheelclicks and center button.

NEW POST: Feature Set

chrisgwilliams — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:28:32 GMT

at a high level, what we want to accomplish is...

1.0 create ZuDoKu puzzles
1.1 manually
1.1.1 verify solvable?
1.2 randomly
1.2.1 Verify puzzle is solvable before presenting to player

2.0 play ZuDoKu puzzles

3.0 Gamestate
3.1 save in-progress puzzles
3.2 load in-progress puzzles

4.0 share ZuDoKu puzzles with others via Zune ad-hoc network (?)
4.1 work collaboratively?
4.2 just share puzzles, but work alone?

5 provide hints?

6.0 Solve puzzles?
6.1 Casual mode (no timer, no score)
6.2 Timed mode

Anything obvious missing?

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justinc — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:31:52 GMT

adding bindings to projects.