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Slysics is a game where you draw lines and watch a figure slide down those lines in a sort of sled physics simulation, written in C++ using SDL and the Box2D physics engine. Slysics was written with maemo tablets in mind so stay tuned for a future release on PC.

List of features:

* Independent line types for each drawing tool.
* Finger friendly menus.
* Initial velocity.
* Initial spawn angle.
* Acceleration lines.
* Deceleration lines.
* Live editing when paused.
* Trace lines.
* Independently falling off limbs
* Falling off hat that may affect the sled's travel
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Slysics will soon be available on maemo5.

Originally Posted by Firebird8

Hurray, I am releasing Slysics-0.2.3 today which will be the precursor to the final version that will make it up to extras and downloads.

"Change Log"/Changes:

• Save and load added (Saving large maps may take some time, wait until the save menu disappears)
• D-Pad scrolling
• Direction pointer added
• Distance counters added
• Snap to prev line points option added
• Some bug fixes
• More stuff I can't recall .
• World size halved

Btw, I haven't bothered coding the flag manager yet so that doesn't work. Also, if you fall a very long time and reach the end of the world, your game will still crash.

TODO:

• Fix end world crash bug
• Make saving the map screenshots faster
• Clean up the code, make it pretty/better/faster
• Add world objects (instant accelerators, teleports, etc)
• More stuff to come...

So, go install it when it gets through the autobuilder in extras-devel and have fun with the new features and old ones , and report bugs/requests for features.

If anyone can't figure out the GUI, here's some "Documentation":
To change line colors on either the pencil tool or line tool:
-Select the tool, then push it and drag up.

If you get lost and want to return back to the spawn:
-Select the move tool, then push the icon again and drag up (get the idea?)

To set an initial velocity:
-Drag up on the play button

Pausing allows you to edit if you didn't know

To set an initial spawn angle:
-Push and hold the spawn until it becomes red, then drag in a direction. To set it back to zero, push, hold, and let go when it goes red.

To move the spawn around:
-Drag the spawn.

Lines:
-Orange accelerates in current direction
-Sand/Tan decelerates
-Green is normal

Trace Lines:
-Black is the sled
-Blue is the body
-Red is the hat
-Green is the head
-Violet is the arm
-Yellow is the leg

Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat

I can't get it to run from the Applications menu or from the command line.

Originally Posted by qwerty12

I'd be happy to test this on an N900, N810, and on an N800.

Originally Posted by Firebird8

Thanks for the offer , though, would diablo packages work on the N900? I'm planning a separate release for maemo5 eventually which will use GLES, but I guess pure SDL for now would work. I'll try to get a package to maemo5 extras-devel soon.

Originally Posted by qwerty12

Thanks.

I've been using XChat and GConf editor from Diablo's extras-devel fine w/out a hitch. And this has less dependencies than them, which should make it even nicer.

Although, in Fremantle, maemo-select-menu-location doesn't exist and you will need to check for its existence before running it or dpkg will die.

And you haven't set the WMCLASS in the game itself; xprop says "SDL_App".

Thanks for the game!