TETREVIL mod for nullpo Options

[esialb]

So, I've been poking though the nullpo source code off and on, and I think I can make a distributable mod for it that will let you play against the tetrevil randomizer. Not sure, but this could eventually lead to nullpo-powered tetrevil multiplayer. Depending on how "hookable" nullpo is, I may be able to import some of the tetrevil UI, such as flow backgrounds and (possibly!) ghost lines.

Is this something people would actually play? I can dream up things like fantasy tetrevil championships, but programmer pipe dreams and reality need not always intersect.

I'll probably do it anyway because it sounds fun (to code), but I hereby solicit comments.

[XaeL]

pretty sure u cna just implement a randomizer? (but u will have to somehow pass in the game state to teh randomizer.next())

[belzebub]

contact me on skype we'll do it together

[Kitaru]

If I recall correctly, Nullpomino's randomizers pre-generate a 1400 piece loop. You'll probably have to muss with it a bunch to get it to be dynamic and still retain replay sync etc..

[XaeL]

If I recall correctly, Nullpomino's randomizers pre-generate a 1400 piece loop. You'll probably have to muss with it a bunch to get it to be dynamic and still retain replay sync etc..

aka rewrite the entire randomizer interface.

[esialb]

aka rewrite the entire randomizer interface.

aka I ALREADY DID IT AND IT WORKS! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

(Can you tell I've had a lot of caffeine?)


(EDIT: Fixed this URL.)
http://www.tetrevil.org/tetrevil_nullpo.jnlp

It's a single self-contained java app that has the tetrevil mod to nullpo in it. Rather than package a whole nullpo you tell it where the nullpo install directory is the first time you launch the tetrevil_nullpo.jar file. The _only_ change it makes to your nullpo install is adding one line to config/list/mode.lst, to add the tetrevil mode.

If you launch nullpo without using the tetrevil launcher then nullpo ignores that line and behaves exactly as normal. If you launch it with the tetrevil launcher you get at the bottom of your mode list an entry for "TETREVIL". Play that and you get to play nullpo with the tetrevil randomizer at the Aggressive setting. Options, configuration, multiplayer, etc., still to come, but the point is...

IT WORKS!

also it was easy.

[XaeL]

Was it really that easy to re-write the entire randomizer api? didnt it break all the other randomizers?

[esialb]

Was it really that easy to re-write the entire randomizer api? didnt it break all the other randomizers?

I never touched ANY of the nullpo code, which means I didn't (for example) have to rewrite any APIs. The GameEngine class is hookable enough to bring that 1400-piece default lookahead down to no lookahead. I'll make the source available in a few minutes.

EDIT: Source code for the nullpo mod now available. See: http://www.tetrevil.org/source.txt
As always, you will need git to check out the sources. If people want me to build zip files or something I will, but so far only people who already have git have wanted to see the source.

[belzebub]

I never touched ANY of the nullpo code, which means I didn't (for example) have to rewrite any APIs. The GameEngine class is hookable enough to bring that 1400-piece default lookahead down to no lookahead. I'll make the source available in a few minutes.

EDIT: Source code for the nullpo mod now available. See: http://www.tetrevil.org/source.txt
As always, you will need git to check out the sources. If people want me to build zip files or something I will, but so far only people who already have git have wanted to see the source.

ok for you if I add it to my mod? combined with the reporting it might be interesting to go through the generated fumens

[caffeine]

I guess this is a good a place to ask as anywhere, but I'm trying to clone your source, but I keep getting this error:

fatal: unable to connect to git.tetrevil.org: git.tetrevil.org[0: 74.112.203.148]: errno=No error