1 in 7 chance crash. If so, try again!

CPUFreak91 on 2008/04/06 18:20 of Deemed Red
— edited on 2008/04/06 14:48

In our scramble to get a bug-fixed version of Roger Robot up before the end of the challenge, we overlooked one bug created by fixing another bug. This bug is only present when you start the asteroids-like mini-game. There's a 1 in 7 chance you'll get a crash, so if you do, try playing it again. :)

There's also a crash that happens when you play the asteroids game and click on a planet that doesn't have any dialog set.

If you'd prefer to spend your day shooting asteroids and getting resources without the possibility of a hapenchance crash, you can get the bugfixed version from: http://software.cpufreak91.net/games/roger-robot-beta5.zip

The game also has an unfinished part, the trading screen, where you can buy stuff with 0 cash, but can't sell :D
We would have added more dialog and unlocked more planets if time allowed. :(

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RB[0] on 2008/04/06 18:25:

Hehe - we have a bug that seems to appear once in every very many games, but we have no clue as to why :/

eugman on 2008/04/06 18:55:

if not random.randint(0,6): system.crash()

Well there's your problem.

ServalKatze on 2008/04/07 13:25:

After a fruitless attempt to sell my precious ores at a planet (a pity that this is broken), I wanted to head out to the asteroid field [something]50. Then the game crashed on me with the following error:

pygame.error: Couldn't open data/images/ammo_plasmaball.png

Indeed.. there is no such file. ^^

HanClinto on 2008/04/07 14:44:

ServalKatze: Indeed -- that's the 1/7-ish crash bug.

We put a flexible system into our game that allows you pretty fine-toothed control for customizing your ship. Sadly, we didn't budget time properly (and perhaps bit off a bit too much to chew), and though the engine was flexible, the trading and ship customization menus didn't get finished, so there was very little way for you to see this extra content we made. So at the last minute, we had the game choose a random weapon to attach to your ship when starting the minigame, to give the players a small taste of the variety in the game, but sadly art was missing on our plasma cannon (it was local on one machine, but hadn't been checked into SVN). As such, when your ship is lucky enough to get that cannon attached, the game will crash. Please try the game again, and hopefully this will let you explore our asteroids-based resource-collection minigame.

Thanks!

--clint