Re: Strangely addictive Tk::Zinc based game

I could only manage 5 seconds. :-) The ball really moved fast on my machine. My cpu usage never went above 5%. Maybe your high cpu usage has something to do with the amount of video card( and/or ram) you have? I have a 2Ghz Athlon, 1 gig ram, and 128 meg Radeon video card.

You probably could incorparate a variable delay, selectable by the user. If I set the delay up to 40, it was more fun. Maybe you could test the system somehow, by seeing how fast the ball moves during a delay period, and automagically set the initial delay. Then have the delay decrease as the game goes on?

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re^2: Strangely addictive Tk::Zinc based game by wazoox (Prior) on May 05, 2006 at 11:59 UTC
You're right, zentara! With a delay of 40, the game is much more playable and fun, and I kept the ball floating 36.41 s at the first try!	[reply]
Re^3: Strangely addictive Tk::Zinc based game by zentara (Cardinal) on May 05, 2006 at 12:01 UTC
For an extra challenge, try it left-handed. :-) I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^4: Strangely addictive Tk::Zinc based game by wazoox (Prior) on May 05, 2006 at 12:05 UTC
But I'm left-handed :)	[reply]
Re^2: Strangely addictive Tk::Zinc based game by thundergnat (Deacon) on May 08, 2006 at 17:44 UTC
Good point. It worked ok on both of my systems (2.2Gh Intel running Win2k and AMD 3500+ running WinXP/Ubuntu Linux) but it probably is a good idea to try to detect the system speed and adjust the delay accordingly. I have made some updates to the script to automatically detect the speed and derive all of the parameters from the delay value to make the gameplay comparible across a fairly wide delay range.	[reply]