Malena And Giannina's Wonderfull Adventure

[sammyF]

Coop run&jump game, using sfml and box2d. This was an early version, the last compilable version had 13 levels in different environments(and the one in the movie had been modified to avoid having the kids jumping for 2mn on the trampoline at the end:).
Trying to port it sfml2.0 now, and getting frustrated by the constant API changes

[Haikarainen]

Haha really cute game, is the girls in the game someone you know ?

Really impressed how much work you've seemed to put into it regarding the.. unortodox graphics Physics, dynamic splitscreen etc.

Btw, you should wait until SFML2 is officially released until you start to port it.

[sammyF]

Thanks

The girls are my twin daughters (for which I obviously wrote it Tons of fun filming them simulating climbing a ladder in front of a wall and jumping on the bed. Non-violent coop games are rare, and I wanted something akin to Castle of Dr.Creep or The Goonies for them, in the hope they would fight less between themselves. Now, of course, they fight about who is going to release the butterflies

The port to 2.0 was more or less forced on me, as I'm using Archlinux and it moved to 1.99-git a month or so ago, due to some incompatibilities (the thread in the archlinux forums can be found here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=961518#p961518 ). I just fixed the last breakage and will blacklist any update to sfml on my system until 2.0 is released I guess.

[Haikarainen]

Hehe i can imagine

What I'm doing right now, is using a relatively old SFML2.0 release, and wont update it once its fully released. Probably the smartest thing to do right now. Weird that they moved a stable to unstable? Are you running an unstable distro ?

[sammyF]

Not unstable per se, but Archlinux has rolling releases. 99.9% of the time it is actually very stable, considering you're always running the latest bestest newest (release) versions of everything, but in rare cases unmaintained stuff stops to work because libraries or environments they relied upon had major updates or changes (which is, as far as I can tell, what happened in this case).
Sventaro, the maintainer of the sfml package, decided to move to 1.99-git instead of completely removing sfml from the official repos, as quite a few Arch people are using SFML. I now think (after having had breakfast and fixing the incompatibilities caused by the changes to Keyboard and Joystick input) that that was the correct thing to do, even if it means some inconvenience.

[spiritofforcefield]

The game is cute. Another ArchLinux user here