WarMUX

Alpha version removed, please wait for final Warmux release

Dear players,

I'm glad to announce the availability of a first test version of Wormux for Android phones, not ready for release (to the market for instance) yet.

Disclaimer

• You should read all of this carefully; this is for tech-savvy users wanting to help finalizing the port
• There's an important initial download of data; if your data plan is expensive, turn on WiFi or follow the installation path asking to download first some files
  

Known shortcomings

• For devices with few buttons, gameplay is degraded
• Not able to type text if you don't have a hardware keyboard
• Installation process is cumbersome, and fails sometimes
• Game can't be put to background or restored after phone was put to sleep
• The game is slow; there is no hardware support, so if you know someone who knows opengl/opengl es and can get him interested, please do it!
• Controls are far from perfect
  

Requirements

• Your phone must a recent Android phone with at least Android 1.6 on it; older devices may not even have the raw CPU power needed
• Your phone must have physical buttons: while the direction keys can be (badly) simulated by the accelerometer, a key for shooting is needed (if you don't need to jump) etc
• You must have one of the following (the market won't be used until a final version is ready):
  • The Android SDK installed, the USB driver for your phone, and know how to use adb to install apk files;
  • An application to install apk such as Apk manager
  
  

Installation

1. Allow unknown sources in the Applications sub-menu of Parameters
2. Allow USB debugging in the Applications/Developping
3. Grab the APK file and install it with adb - sorry, no, there's no other way and I don't want to explain; find a tutorial if you need to (people are welcome to contribute one)
4. Either:
   • Download the 30MB data file and unpack it to a Wormux folder on the root of the phone SD card
   • Download a validation file and put it inside this Wormux folder
5. Or:
   • Activate 3G or preferably WiFi on your phone; warning this is a 30MB download
6. Launch the game, and reply to the questions:
   • If you don't have downloaded the file previously, when asked where to download files, reply 'on the SD card'
   • Set other parameters about controls; if you have physical keys or pad, I highly suggest you use it instead of accelerometer
   • If short on keys, you can still select accelerometer
7. If you went through 5), it will take a while to download and unpack to the SD card; probably 2 or 3 minutes
8. Download this fixed file and put in the data folder of your "Wormux" data folder (eg /sdcard/Wormux/data/graphism.xml)
   

How to uninstall

1. Do the classical application uninstall (or use adb)
2. Reset any parameters you want that you changed on previous Installation steps 1&2
3. Delete Wormux folder
   

Tips

• The game now uses kinetic scrolling during a game: press your finger on the screen, move it at some speed, and see the screen scrolling in the direction and speed you set
• You can click on the minimap to quickly jump to some part of the map
• You can click on a member of the current team to make it active
• You can click at the bottom of the screen to make the interface appear
• You can click inside of this interface on:
  • The character to center on it
  • The weapon to open the weapon menu and select a new one
  • The timer to open the pause menu
• The help menu isn't finished, but lists the controls in a scroll list (controls not perfect)
• You can set controls in the options menu in a specific tab; the checkboxes on every line indicate whether (in that order) Control/Alt/Shift) are active for a key
• If you have a problem, delete Wormux/config.xml to reset the configuration
  

Devices tested

Beware, the framerate may vary widely depending on whether sound is on and which map is selected.

• Samsung Spica (equivalent to Moment without keyboard) i5700, Android 2.1: 30fps, thanks to its smaller display, 25fps with music & sound
• Samsung Galaxy S or Tab: 50fps (yes indeed)
• Archos 5, with the storage being an external USB mass storage device: 17-23 fps (outdated)
• Google's Nexus One: 10fps (outdated)
• HTC Evo 4G: 10fps (outdated)
• Motorola Droid: around 13fps (outdated)
• HTC Hero: 5-13fps (outdated)
  

To Do

• Add back networking, and hopefully make it compatible with normal Wormux
• Add more help images
• Try to optimize it a bit
  

Editing history

• 10/08/30: add network game, add shoot button in interface, fix scrollbars
• 10/08/28: reduce size of data package, some tweaks giving a 10-20% speed increase and various fixes (construct weapon); requires wiping data folder
• 10/08/22: update reports, post the new version
• 10/08/19: finally fix the installation to internal memory, add i18n support
• 10/08/18: updated apk and data files (fixed potential use of unknown keys, storage on internal memory and trying to fix the resolution problem)
• 10/08/17: reported the Nexus status, added apk manager to the list of means to install the application
• 10/08/16: added more info
• 10/08/15: initial post
  

I'll try to keep this updated. Meanwhile, happy gaming and spread the word!

I just finished installing the apk on my Nexus One in Android 2.2 and here is my first comment:

- You can install apk with "Apk manager" available on the Android Market.
- The game started without problem, but I had a problem because my screen display is 800 * 480 and not 480 * 320, just edit the config.xml file, but there 's some defect display on the screen to select a team.
- Then I feel that when you choose a map they pass all alone.
- The game is not too slow on my phone, but the buttons X and V does not really work.
- I don't find the command to activate a weapon.
- Very big problem, it is impossible to turn down the sound with physical buttons or with a command of the game and it's very annoying because the sound is strong.


Otherwise I have not noticed any other problem, thank you for your work because it was great to play Wormux everywhere. If you need help bringing aid in the game, I want to try to make svg files.

Sorry for the Google Traduction
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Mylad:
I'll add this to the main post.

Quotation:

What do you mean by display problems when selecting a team? I tested your resolution, saw the label "number of characters" way below the image, and fixed that. Do you see anything else?

Quotation:
I have never observed that. What do you mean again? They don't stop scrolling? They scroll 1/2/3 too many?

Quotation:
You mean the buttons at the bottom of menus. I observed that too, but I don't know if it's the touchscreen's or Wormux fault.

Quotation:
What do you mean by "activate"?
I'll assume it's the weapon selection. You should click on the bottom of the screen to force the interface display, and click on the weapon icon. That'll make the weapon menu appear, and then you can select the weapon of your choosing.

Quotation:
Those buttons have no such meaning with SDL, and we have no such action anyway. There's a menu to edkt the sound level, use it. All in all, not such a "very big" problem.

Quotation:
I have asked here, so yes, it is interesting to do so, but you should discuss with yekcim whenever he is available

Could you uninstall the game, at least remove the config.xml it generated, install this new candidate version?

The new personal/config/etc files will be generated in a Wormux folder along the data folder. This means that if you install to internal memory, such files may be difficult to edit.

Bon je suis désolé, mais je vais parler en français, j'ai du mal à traduire avec mon cerveau et Google Traduction mais vous pouvez parler en anglais, je comprend mieux l'anglais que je l'écrit

Premièrement, je confirme ce que dit xapantu, le bug de résolution n'est pas résolu.

kurosu:
En faite, l'écriture "Number of character" est un peu trop bas.

kurosu:
J'ai trouvé le problème, lorsque l'on fait tourner la trackball sur un coté sa fait défiler toute les maps jusqu’à ce que l'on tourne de l'autre coté. En faite non, c'est que je penchait mon téléphone sur le coté.

kurosu:
J'ai l’impression que sa marche un peut mieux, tu a corrigé sa dans l'apk?

kurosu:
Je voulais dire comment tirer, exemple lorsque l'on a le fusil je trouve pas la commande pour tiré

kurosu:
Pour moi si, le son est beaucoup trop fort les enceintes sature un peu.

kurosu:
Ok, je lui en parlerait sur le chat


Pour conclure, lorsque je j'installe le jeu j'ai des problème pour mettre l'icon sur la page d'accueil, l'icon disparaît et je suis obliger de redémarré le téléphone pour que sa marche, la premier fois le lanceur d'application à planter aussi, je ne sais pas si c'est du au jeu ou à un widget que j'ai installer, je te tiens au courant si sa recommence.

(Please don't forget: This is the english forum)

FUZxxl:

Yeah I know, but in that case, it's better to be clear among us, and the only solution would be to create an equivalent post in the French section, and that is too much overhead for me. So I'm ok with infringing that rule for the sake of efficiency.

Maybe I can at least reply you in English.

For the language, i18n is supported, it's just the system language that isn't detected. You can still change it through the option menu.

For the naming of new alpha tests. Yeah I know, it's just very cumbersome for me to track the numbers and edit their name/location appropriately, as I must also update the code.

btw, by using volume keys as ctrl/shift, it's not from N+2 but 3*N actions that we go. So it's always a win, as long as you have 3 keys.