Hello everyone ^^

Try my first Android Game : Droids of the Dead !
It's a mix between Tower Defence and Arcade shoot game.
You should defend your house against droids/zombies

Features :
- 14 weapons
- 5 defences upgrade
- unlimited level

in Future :
- maybe more defences
- more bonus (like bomb)
- new kind of ennemy
- more optimisations...^^

Trial :
Droids of the Dead Trial

You can get the full apk version free on my website (click on "télécharger Droids of the Dead") or, if you like it, Buy the full version on Android Market. It's only 0.99€

I will open the source soon (just I need little refactoring before :p) !
Sorry for my bad english :p



I need your sugestions !

Finnaly, I triomph from ANR !

My main problem was when user touch the screen after call for a new game, Android show a window with message "force close or wait" (ANR). The source of my problem ? My game thread was too big in treatement (load many sprites...).

To solve it, I created a child thread wich load ressource in parrallel of the game thread. Now load a game is perfect ^^

So I released already an Update :

Changelog V1.1 : 5/07/2009
- Bugs corrections
- Added a score manager (with "multi frag" bonus)
- Added new bonus : fire
- Little optimisations
- Difficulty rebalanced

For the next release, I will redraw some sprites and correct again other little bugs.

Don't forget you can download the full game on my website


Sorry for my bad english

New update, see the changelog :

V1.2.1 : 11/07/2009
- Bugs corrections
- Better graphics
- Vibration
- Little Help screen

This sounds really great, keep up the good work. Shame more people haven't commented.

In any case I'll be sure to try this out when I get my MyTouch.

Thank you for the encouragement

I don't know why welcome is so cold. Maybe it's not a popular kind of game ^^.

Pfft don't worry about it man. Some people don't know a good thing when it shows up.

What really matters is how users of the Android Market react to it.

I released the sources, go to my site to download it if you want to see code of big project.
Maybe it's not the best way to create a game, but it work.

This actually may be very helpful indeed! Thank you.

Compiled from source, and I have to say this is a really solid and addictive game. Even with the emulator lagging a bit, I was surprised at how smooth everything is.

Some things I noticed:
- If you try to load a file without having played before, it throws a NullPointerException.
- You may want to rely on the standard Android GUI widgets for the shop screens.

Other than those I was very impressed. Will be buying later on.

Thanks again for feedback ^^

- If you try to load a file without having played before, it throws a NullPointerException.

Yes I noticed this bug. It will be correct in future release.

- You may want to rely on the standard Android GUI widgets for the shop screens.

Yes it's my fault. I will correct this with better inteface soon (with items descriptions and other improvement).

On real mobile the game is not totaly smooth but framerate is very correct. I think arraylist is not an android friend and maybe I should use advanced algorithme with tree to sort my objects lists. I don't know if it's a good way to increase performances.

Good to hear you're looking to optimize its speed.

I also hope you don't mind me picking through your source code to help me. Your DATA file has actually helped me solve not being able to compare Enums in Java.

New little update :

V1.2.2 : 18/07/2009
- Hit zone correction
- Bugs corrections
- Littles improvements

Andrex wrote:I also hope you don't mind me picking through your source code to help me. Your DATA file has actually helped me solve not being able to compare Enums in Java.

This, by the way, is one of the major benefits of open source. I cannot count the number of times I've found solutions to problems while reading through other people's code -- mad props to cokoyan for writing code well enough for you to experience serendipity.

I'm going to try his game now. Thanks.