iPad Ground Effect 1.2 + Lite with OpenFeint

GlennX · Jan 17, 2012

The fastest non-broken time on oval seems to be 1:26.16. I'm pretty sure that's genuine as it's only just better than a bunch of others at 1:26.xx. There are a lot of broken scores at 00:00.00 because of a bug I could never reproduce here. Possibly it only happens in the pirate version.

Simon Potticary · Jan 17, 2012

GlennX said: ↑

In case anyone is still interested, here is a little info about the much delayed update.

Some months ago we had a pile of very cool new levels, pretty much tuned and tested and were about to add them to the game but it seemed there was more stuff to do. Ipad support, multitasking, support for DLC etc...

At this point the history of the project started to cause problems. Basically, Ground Effect is based on a port of a cross platform framework built for a shelved PS3 project Seen here running on a PC with a Wiimote (long story). This was ported by the other coder to iPhone right at the time I started iPhone dev. It enabled me to jump straight in and start writing the game in C++. The downside of this is that I didn't really ever learn Objective C. All of the extra stuff I added that had to talk to the iPhone libs was pretty much hacked in, I only cut and paste another 100 lines or so of objective C in the whole project!

Basically, the organisation of the code meant it was very hard to add a lot of cool new features, some of them giving significant performance boosts. Because of this I've undertaken a huge rewrite of the underlying systems and learned some Objective C.

I now have a version that runs faster, smoother, supports Retina and iPad and multitasks nicely. The only problem is the problem with fog on hi-res screens running GL1.1. Basically the iPad version runs at 13FPS on iPad until I turn the fog off and it runs at 40!

It looks OK with the fog off but I thought this was kind of lame so I'm now making the system run with both GL1.1 and GL2.0, intending to put the fog back in and maybe some nice shinny water and/or post processing effects. This is taking a bit of time...

Add to this the fact that Ground Effect is a 'spare time' thing now (I had an offer I couldn't refuse to work on a major console game and some iPhone stuff for another company) and it's taken much, much longer than I'd hoped.

Basically, it's all coming together now and something with some major improvements will be released soon.
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Is this still happening at all Glenn?

icoker · Dec 15, 2017

I want this back so badly.

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