Cogs! New Algodoo Puzzle Game!

[crytek]

I am creating a level series called Cogs. It is based off of the PC Game Cogs.

This is the real game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZzWVkJ5fZk

So I saw the trailer a long time ago, And eventually I realised that I could recreate the game on Algodoo. I tried to do it, but I kinda failed. All the boxes kept on getting in the way of eachother when I dragged them.

Awhile later, I tried again for the 2nd time. Again, fail....

But now, after I do it for the third time, I finally do it! I realised that I couldn't have perfectly straight boxes. I had to have boxes with curved edges so they could all slide past eachother! Now that I think of it, it was a pretty simple problem.

I obviously am not able to create the 3 Dimensional levels, but I am able to make the 2d ones.

So if you wanna play my Algodoo version of this game, just start with the scene below and follow the scene responces!

Tell me how you like it!

And be sure to read the rules in the description for each level.

http://www.algodoo.com/algobox/details.php?id=51568

[HavingPhun]

Is this phun friendly?

[Rideg]

Is this phun friendly?

Only one way to find out, eh? -.-'

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

i copied one of the boxes that hold the gears, the ones that move, how did you make it not rotate, even if it is balancing on an edge?

[daniels220]

inertiaMultiplier, I'm sure. If set to +inf it prevents an object from rotating, ever.

[TC42]

inertiaMultiplier, I'm sure. If set to +inf it prevents an object from rotating, ever.

It's negative infinity not positive infinity

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

No it is positive, but negetive works just as well. but if you change the angular velocity, it kills itself, it will also happen if you rotate the object so that it keeps rotating. the positive side, however, has some strange properties, if you change the angular velocity, it will carry on for ever, not loosing that angular velocity.

[TC42]

You just blew my mind. that sounded weird Anyway, a note for spawning and scripting-- you can't use -inf when scripting; I find it best to use 1+e006 and +inf airfrictionmult. (What I used to stop the arm in my floating-arm trebuchet) If you use -inf, it just deletes/explodes

Anyway, I checked out the cogs scenes, and they were pretty good Now I'm just waiting for the cool -and textured- background and app.mouspos scripting so you can just click on the boxes to move them instead of dragging them...

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

sweet! Why have i been getting a lot of tinyprint? they should have an uberGeek with black glasses, as in cool uberGeek

[Someone Else]

I would suggest adding these to the editor:

Pipes on gear tiles and walls, as in frogman's scene.
Gears on walls.
Rears and pipes on walls.
Movable walls. (kidding)
Crossover pipes that actually allow one pipe to cross over the other- an intersection.
Putting the wheels on the pipe crawler on heteroCollide
Figuring out some way of attaching the pipe to the gear itself, so you can use it as a switch, so the pipe spins with the gear but the crawler can't fall off.
Add the little circle things to the editor. The ones that prevent the tiles from sliding around.

Oh, and if you want to make an infinite flywheel, +inf inertiaMultiplier will not work. You set the angular velocity, start the sim, and it works fine. You undo the sim start and it undos the velocity as well.

In situations like this, use 3e+038. That is as close as you can get to +inf without it snapping to +inf.
*checking Algodoo*
Hmm, it doesn't want to work all the time for me. Weirdness... unreliability...use a motor...

[TC42]

In situations like this, use 3e+038. That is as close as you can get to +inf without it snapping to +inf.
*checking Algodoo*
Hmm, it doesn't want to work all the time for me. Weirdness... unreliability...use a motor...

If you're using a circle, you can have it collide with a box, and edit the material velocity of the circle. Material velocity is phun to play with

But anyway, no-one has any comments on my suggestions? Chronos hasn't completely ripped them to shreds yet? Wow.

[Someone Else]

Wait- so materialVelocity can spin a circle with +inf inertiaMultiplier? Cool! But it's still not realistic...

[crytek]

I would suggest adding these to the editor:

Pipes on gear tiles and walls, as in frogman's scene.
Gears on walls.
Rears and pipes on walls.
Movable walls. (kidding)
Crossover pipes that actually allow one pipe to cross over the other- an intersection.
Putting the wheels on the pipe crawler on heteroCollide
Figuring out some way of attaching the pipe to the gear itself, so you can use it as a switch, so the pipe spins with the gear but the crawler can't fall off.
Add the little circle things to the editor. The ones that prevent the tiles from sliding around.

Pretty much everything you said is already suggested. Besides the HeteroCollide thing and the switching thing.

[frogman786]

I'll see what i can make for that pipe gear thing, cause i really like that idea

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

edited out because of extreem noobness and lameness

[tatt61880]

Edit: (by tatt61880 on 2011.04.10 07:07)
There existed spam and I've deleted the spam post.
Please don't write about spam in your post because your post may not be understandable after deleting spam.
-Tatt
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That spam made no sense whatsoever.
Anyway, Im finding the Cogs game really fun! I hope you continue to make more!

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

me? or someone else? besides, the spambots are following me. when ever i submit a post to an old topic, which the post is on topic i might add, a spambot posted

[Someone Else]

Hmm... I will take a look at this.
In the thumbnail, I do not see any walls with gears or pipes on them.
And I also don't see any pieces without pipes, except the wall.

Also, I would recommend that you add:

• Walls with gears, pipes, and any combination thereof that you can think of.
• A pipe finish spot that unlocks a wall.
• A finish gear that is spring-loaded, so it will only trigger when actually driven, and triggers the unlocking of a wall.
• That pipe switch thing I spoke of earlier.

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

Hmm... I will take a look at this.
In the thumbnail, I do not see any walls with gears or pipes on them.
And I also don't see any pieces without pipes, except the wall.

Also, I would recommend that you add:

• Walls with gears, pipes, and any combination thereof that you can think of.
• A pipe finish spot that unlocks a wall.
• A finish gear that is spring-loaded, so it will only trigger when actually driven, and triggers the unlocking of a wall.
• That pipe switch thing I spoke of earlier.

Whut?

[Someone Else]

Hmm... I will take a look at this.
In the thumbnail, I do not see any walls with gears or pipes on them.
And I also don't see any pieces without pipes, except the wall.

Also, I would recommend that you add:

• Walls with gears, pipes, and any combination thereof that you can think of.
• A pipe finish spot that unlocks a wall.
• A finish gear that is spring-loaded, so it will only trigger when actually driven, and triggers the unlocking of a wall.
• That pipe switch thing I spoke of earlier.

Whut?

I mean, you should make a second version of the level editor that includes all of these things. In short, take everything you have built on a movable tile and stick it on a fixed tile. A wall.

Then, use some scene.my to unlock a wall- make it movable- when triggered by either the finish gear being actually powered, or a pipe crawler entering a finish spot. A solution, one way or another.

Finally, add that rotary pipe switch thing I spoke of earlier to the editor. Maybe add some boxes to the sides of the crawler that collide with the pipe so it must stop the gear it crawls onto while it's crawling on/off? But that doesn't solve the problem of getting off...

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

I mean, you should make a second version of the level editor that includes all of these things. In short, take everything you have built on a movable tile and stick it on a fixed tile. A wall.

gotcha lowd an cleer

Then, use some scene.my to unlock a wall- make it movable- when triggered by either the finish gear being actually powered, or a pipe crawler entering a finish spot. A solution, one way or another.

uh huh! i dont know the game, sos, whats a pipe crawler, never heard of it before

Finally, add that rotary pipe switch thing I spoke of earlier to the editor. Maybe add some boxes to the sides of the crawler that collide with the pipe so it must stop the gear it crawls onto while it's crawling on/off? But that doesn't solve the problem of getting off...

OK, now i dont understand. ummm to activate a wall, using pipes, is going to be extreemly complicated, the pipes arent pipes, there just a shape, oh and there are peices that arent occupied with pipes. somthing to do!
[EDIT]: wait! i found the pipe crawler!

[Someone Else]

The pipe crawler is the thing that crawls along the outside of the pipe. And when it COLLIDES with the finish spot, is could change some scene.my.

. . . Type into..

Console(F11): scene.my.density = +inf
Box onCollide: scene.my.density = 1
Another box density in script menu: {scene.my.density}

Now touch the first box. The second one falls.

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

IMMA DOIN' THA' ROI' NAO! <- lulz capz
[EDIT:] *SCREEEEEEAMM* U MEENZ IZ GOTSTA DOO ALL A DEM OVAR?! WIV CUSTOM VARIBLES FER EECH WON!?!?!? *faints*




*wakes up* nah uh, no, way. un-fricken-believable, this sucks on ice!im gonna leave it to the proffesionals

[FuzzyLogicBrain]

everytihg, except the pipes, works best in no friction..

[Someone Else]

No need for individual variables for everything. Just build the wall set, and build scene.my modifiers based on the pipe finish spot and the gear finish thing. Maybe just declare:

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scene.my.density1 = +inf;
scene.my.color1 = (0, 0, 0, 1)

And put in the solution spots:

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scene.my.density1 = 1;
scene.my.color1 = (0, 1, 1, 1)

And do ten variables this way, five for pipe finish things and five for the gear solution. Just tell the user to put into the script menu for the base of the tile in question:

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density = {scene.my.density1}
color = {scene.my.color1}