Comments on: RockGarden version 1.04 Released

By: Adam Walker

Adam Walker — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:43:21 +0000

There are a few ways to fix it…
1) limited to 64 bits
2) nearly unlimited by using floating-point math or Objects instead of primitives
3) stop selecting rock after the limit is hit. This would break large groups in two. Lowering the score compared to #1 and #2 but not compared to the current setup.

I’m leaning toward 64 bit (62 bit) limit for a single click and the main score stored as an Object with arbitrary precision.

By: ck

ck — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:35:48 +0000

Hey, thanks for the reply,
does that mean there’s a chance we have a shot at 2 ^ 62 (64-2) or 4.6 x 10^18 points - with version 1.05 :/
(really I’m not usually this immodest)
great game btw.

By: Adam Walker

Adam Walker — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:22:17 +0000

Ck, that’s not a flaw, it’s feature In geek-speak, I use an int (32-bits) to represent the score for one click. But the main score is a “long” (64-bits). Anyway, during beta testing, the score would go negative and as a quick fix I limited the single click score to 30 bits (one bit for the sign and one for other reasons — the 2^30-1 was to make it obvious during testing that the limit was hit). I got very busy during beta-testing with my other job and the release was rushed. I’ve since had a few ideas on the best way to fix it, since then. They will be in version 1.05 — and maybe a internet high score list, too — but it will have to wait until after RockSlide is released.

By: ck

ck — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:48:20 +0000

I think there is a flaw in the program in that it does not allow for more than 1,073,741,823 points with one click no matter how many contiguous rocks there are. I have an example with 41 contiguous rocks that should give a score of 2 ^ 40 = 1,099,511,627,776 (one trillion…) points but the game reads only 1,073,741,823 which equals approximately 2 ^ 30 (FYI 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 not sure why the one-point discrepancy). If you like I can send you the screen capture of the 41 contiguous rocks.

(uhh, that makes my high score over one trillion points )

By: ck

ck — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:51:47 +0000

just got your game.
addictive.
but I’m afraid to play again.
high -score:
1,073,742,195

could have been higher but have to go home now…
(I’m not kidding)
p.s.
perhaps you could set up a high score list…

By: Adam Walker

Adam Walker — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:31:51 +0000

One of the beta testers regularly scores over a million.

By: Ryan Escobar

Ryan Escobar — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:53:42 +0000

Very addicting game. Very nice work. My high score so far is 1,050,868. Anyone out there beat that?