[Game] Orbital

[SlimSlaby]

Just posted it up on Newgrounds :

Orbital

[renderhjs]

to slow on my computer,- as soon as I pick up 5-6 balls I get ~ 5-10 fps. Also might want to change the default Arial font look
http://www.dafont.com

[SlimSlaby]

Sorry, what kind of computer do you have ?

No one seemed to really complain about the framerate. I'll see if I can spice up the fonts in the next version. Any suggestions ?

[renderhjs]

very old PIII 700 Mhz but that´s the only computer I let access the internet (security reasons)

[SlimSlaby]

I'm thinking maybe drop shadows and glow might be part of the issue as to why it's slow on your system. The collision too... Basically I am doing hitTesting against every ball. I guess maybe I can use the distance from the main sphere as a way to exclude spheres too far away -- and not do a hitTest on them.

[ImprisonedPride]

If you don't remember a players highscore, why bother having it in there? The first time I refreshed the page I lost my cool 40000+ hi-score.

[Ray Beez]

very old PIII 700 Mhz but that´s the only computer I let access the internet (security reasons)

That's a bit extreme Render. I never have problems with "security". Just don't use IE. Have an up to date anti-virus running ALWAYS. A proper firewall. And NO GOOGLING FOR WAREZ OR PORN. You're pretty safe if you fallow those rules.

[ImprisonedPride]

I've never had any problems from pr0n , like he said, AVG, WD, Norton, ZA, w/e router firewall w/e. None of that matters if you don't use FF. Nuff' said.

[bomesar]

Nice work. I've never seen a game like this one. I like it. Don't know how about you guys but I can't turn off the sound. However, the music playing in the background is pretty mild and easy, not agressive at all and fits the genre perfectly.
Well done.

Regards

[tomsamson]

i like the game concept, nice one
You should add a life system though, it gets annoying quick when you have to start all over for each try.

[swak]

Nice but was really choppy on my computer (500mhz). You don't need to do a hit test at all just check the distance and minus it by the radius of both circles.

[renderhjs]

@ Ray Beez: the main reason is that I dont have to worry about 99% of virus, hacks,... dangers. The other very important one is that all AV,FW, and esspecially on windows crap cleaners (registry, spyware,...) eat to much resources. My other work computer (wich is a modern PC) works sooooo much faster without the whole security crap that window introduced.
If I want to test online stuff that require more CPU power I go to the univeristy