Homebrew Official [RELEASE][HBL] Flappy Bird GX2

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Flappy Bird GX2

Introduction

I wanted to use GX2 for some homebrew and found that Flappy Bird was funny and easy enough (thanks for inspiration Android System Settings )

That's actually my first C++ programs so expect bugs and bad code

I used Floppy Bird assests sometimes scaled or edited

Downloads

You can download it from The Homebrew AppStore (Thanks @vgmoose and @pwsincd )
or from the Github Releases

Changelog

1.0: First public release

Features to implement

-Save scores to SD
-Proper Game Over screen with scores and Medals
-Less hacky and more Object Oriented?
-Some sort of difficult increasing?

Source Code

Github

Credits

@dimok - WiiU libraries, dynamic_libs, examples, Homebrew Launcher
@Maschell - GX2_Example and coding help
@vgmoose - Coding help
@pwsincd - Icon
@QuarkTheAwesome, @Dylon99 - Various help and testing

 

[pwsincd]

high score table :

1 : pwsincd - 41
2 : ???????

 

[brienj]

I hope to try this out later today. Awesome job!

 

[xtheman]

Cool! Now time to go crazy trying to beat my high score.

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

Cool! Now time to go crazy trying to beat my high score.

Haha, thanks
Remember that you can't do more than 999

 

[xtheman]

Haha, thanks
Remember that you can't do more than 999

I high doubt I will reach 50 any time soon.

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

I high doubt I will reach 50 any time soon.

It's easy mode™
[I made less gravity and more distance between pipes beause I wanted to be able to reach at least 20 points ]

 

[pwsincd]

i got 41 first go..


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i wanna see high score screenshots.. lets have the great GBA flappybirdU off !!

 

[brienj]

I never played the original, but I've seen many videos of it and this seems to be a pretty faithful reproduction for the most part. Great job!

 

[Deleted User]

I never played the original, but I've seen many videos of it and this seems to be a pretty faithful reproduction for the most part. Great job!

Brienj is uncultivated ( ͡ ° ͜ʖ ͡° )

 

[Deleted User]

Brienj is uncultivated ( ͡ ° ͜ʖ ͡° )

Yes, of course you can't grow vegetables on @brienj. (dictionary jokes)
I played the original game once, scored something around ten and just gave up trying to beat it. How well will I do this time? Currently sitting at 17 - can I make it to 20?

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

Yes, of course you can't grow vegetables on @brienj. (dictionary jokes)
I played the original game once, scored something around ten and just gave up trying to beat it. How well will I do this time?

2x at least
I scored 9 with the original game and 57 here (hehe)

 

[QuarkTheAwesome]

My only experience with Flappy Bird was one of the spin-offs that came after the takedown - Floppy Bird (and yes, the bird was an actual floppy disk).
The issue was that my only smart device at the time was a HTC Wildfire (not the S model!) I have Pentium 3s in my parts box with higher clockspeeds than that phone. The result was that the game ran at 30%-40% of its original speed, which gave me a bit of an unfair advantage.
No idea how well I'll do here.

(P.S. You should set up leaderboards - just use cURL to send off people's highscores. No idea how you'd make it unabusable (esp. with a FOSS app))

 

[OriginalHamster]

Is there any limit size for HBL .elf's?
I wonder if could be possible port flOw...

 

[Deleted User]

Is there any limit size for HBL .elf's?
I wonder if could be possible port flOw...

As of now, the limit is 6.5MB for an HBL executable.
Though if you need more space for images and sounds, those can be stored outside of the executable and loaded separately. The ELF file can contain just code.

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

My only experience with Flappy Bird was one of the spin-offs that came after the takedown - Floppy Bird (and yes, the bird was an actual floppy disk).
The issue was that my only smart device at the time was a HTC Wildfire (not the S model!) I have Pentium 3s in my parts box with higher clockspeeds than that phone. The result was that the game ran at 30%-40% of its original speed, which gave me a bit of an unfair advantage.
No idea how well I'll do here.

(P.S. You should set up leaderboards - just use cURL to send off people's highscores. No idea how you'd make it unabusable (esp. with a FOSS app))

I neer played the original game too
I found it when some days ago at school they constricted us to do some sort of hour of code (haha, 1 minute to complete all the exersices) and I though it could be ported to Wii U just fine.
So then I searched flappy bird and found floppy brid html5 (I taken resources from there) but there I scored only 9 after too much tries.
When I made Flappy Bird I scaled assests to 1,5x but not the gravity and jump so it's much easier
For leader board I could crypt the connectionnand score file, etc. (But it just wouldn't work with the source code public) or...just ignore cheaters

 

[Deleted User]

I neer played the original game too
I found it when some days ago at school they constricted us to do some sort of hour of code (haha, 1 minute to complete all the exersices) and I though it could be ported to Wii U just fine.
So then I searched flappy bird and found floppy brid html5 (I taken resources from there) but there I scored only 9 after too much tries.
When I made Flappy Bird I scaled assests to 1,5x but not the gravity and jump so it's much easier
For leader board I could crypt the connectionnand score file, etc. (But it just wouldn't work with the source code public) or...just ignore cheaters

I have do hour of code at school too
Too much easy 4 me

 

[QuarkTheAwesome]

For leader board I could crypt the connectionnand score file, etc. (But it just wouldn't work with the source code public) or...just ignore cheaters

I was thinking about highscores, and a possible course of action is to have some crazy encryption system (crazy enough to be hard to reverse-engineer) and build the app to work just fine without it (clever #defines) and simply only include the system in the official elf files and not in the git repo. Thus, the app is still open-source (ish) but the highscore encryption system/key isn't. It'd also be possible to use UDynLoad and have the highscore system as an optional and completely seperate file (or even project) that isn't open source.

 

[Deleted User]

All of Wii U hacking has culminated to this moment

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

All of Wii U hacking has culminated to this moment

There are still many projects going. We need more devs though, we're just 6-4 actually working on something