Professor Automaton's Cruel Legume Device

[mclysenk at mtu.edu]

In article <e2ulf7$1ipo$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
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><mclysenk at mtu.edu> wrote in message news:e2r9ic$2ta6$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> Well, the school semester is almost over and most of my projects are 
>> getting
>> wrapped up.  I figured I should post the results of my team software 
>> project.
>>
>> http://www.csl.mtu.edu/cs3141/project/group2/www/index.html
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>> It is written entirely in D, using Derelict, SDL and SDL mixer.  The 
>> gameplay is
>> similar to Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine or Puyo Puyo.
>>
>> Throughout the project, we extensively used contract programming and 
>> unittests.
>> As a result, we finished our project ahead of schedule and with fewer 
>> major bugs
>> than any of the other teams.  I would like to say that D directly improved 
>> the
>> productivity and success of our project.
>>
>> You can see some of the other projects here:
>> http://www.csl.mtu.edu/cs3141/www/Home.html
>>
>> Any feedback at all would be appreciated.
>>
>> -Mikola Lysenko
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>Oh, man, how nostalgic.. one of my favorite games for the genesis, and with 
>MOD music!
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>The graphics aren't much to look at, but this is the result of too many 
>programmers and not enough graphics artists - been there before ;)
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>The gameplay feels pretty solid, though there's a bit of a hiccup every 
>minute or so.  Don't know if this is because of something in the game timing 
>or because of the GC collecting.  I think it might have been the GC, because 
>as time went on, the program continued to use more and more memory, until it 
>got to almot 80MB and started hiccupping every minute or two.  Thinking 
>you've got some kind of leak (not catastrophic, thanks to the GC, but still 
>not something you want in a game!).
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>Would be great to see the source! 
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Hmm... I will need to take a look at that once I get a moment.  As for the
source, I'm not sure if I can release it, since the university technically owns
the rights, but it would probably be ok once I get instructor approval.