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Election Fighter – free game – open source

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Post by katchwreck »

We made an election-themed game to test our "vizflow" open-source visualization engine (http://github.com/vizflow). Now you can fight back! Or at least, get some relief :)

http://electionfighter.com

Also available in Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.electionfighter

Feedback wanted.

Re: Election Fighter – free game – open source

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Post by korteks »

orionblastar wrote: post #2

http://electionfighter.com On my Android Samsung Galaxy S4 after choosing a fighter I get a black screen. Is it not mobile friendly?

There is a known issue where the Ras-tan level takes a long time to load, and the screen is black for up to 10 seconds. Sounds like that's not what's happening to you though.

Is this issue occurring for all characters?

You might want to try dling the game from Google play (free ofc) and see how that works for you.

The feedback is appreciated!

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#4

Post by katchwreck »

orionblastar wrote: post #2

http://electionfighter.com On my Android Samsung Galaxy S4 after choosing a fighter I get a black screen. Is it not mobile friendly?

Thanks for the feedback. Are you selecting the Ras-Tan character? As mentioned, the Ras-Tan level is slow loading.

Also, we have seen this level fail to load on some devices using the website version. As mentioned, the app version is available in the GooglePlay store, and the app version seems to fix the problems that we have seen with loading the Ras-Tan level.

We suspect this is due to a memory limitation due to the large number of pixels going into the Ras-Tan character's animations. As time allows, we will work on optimizing the code to allow more devices to run this level.

Hope this helps! Appreciate the input.

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Post by orionblastar »

katchwreck wrote: post #4
orionblastar wrote: post #2

http://electionfighter.com On my Android Samsung Galaxy S4 after choosing a fighter I get a black screen. Is it not mobile friendly?

Thanks for the feedback. Are you selecting the Ras-Tan character? As mentioned, the Ras-Tan level is slow loading. Also, we have seen this level fail to load on some devices using the website version. As mentioned, the app version is available in the GooglePlay store, and the app version seems to fix the problems that we have seen with loading the Ras-Tan level. We suspect this is due to a memory limitation due to th…

Yes I selected the Ras-Tan character.

Re: Election Fighter – free game – open source

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Post by orionblastar »

korteks wrote: post #3
orionblastar wrote: post #2

http://electionfighter.com On my Android Samsung Galaxy S4 after choosing a fighter I get a black screen. Is it not mobile friendly?

There is a known issue where the Ras-tan level takes a long time to load, and the screen is black for up to 10 seconds. Sounds like that's not what's happening to you though. Is this issue occurring for all characters? You might want to try dling the game from Google play (free ofc) and see how that works for you. The feedback is appreciated!

The app works better. Thanks.

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Post by katchwreck »

orionblastar wrote: post #6

Http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.electionfighter It plays better than the web version. Every enemy is Donald Trump. Meghan has the Doctor Who theme are you worried about the BBC being mad at you for using it?

Thanks for checking it out. We've gotten many requests to add other enemies (especially Hill). But we ran out of time on this unfunded project (for now). We do plan to keep updating it with new features as time allows. For example, we just added Bernie to the powerup delivery animations for each level :)

Since the game is 100% free, open source, and not being used for commercial purposes, we hope to avoid any litigation. However, if we receive any requests that we remove copyrighted material from the owner(s), we will be happy to do so.

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