Your message dated Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:14:32 +0100
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and subject line Re: #346441 Poor collision detection
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regarding Poor collision detection: gameplay suffers when frames are dropped
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Package: lbreakout2
Version: 2.5.2-2
Severity: normal
The collision detection in this game is very poor. When frames in
which collisions would have occurred are dropped, the game is unaware
that a collision should have happened, and so the ball appears to "pass
through" the paddle.
Stock Debian kernels don't have preempt / low latency desktop turned on.
As a result, if the system is doing *anything* at the time that you're
playing this game, frames are frequently missed. This is frustrating to
the point that I would not recommend that anyone play this game on
anything but an idle system, or one which is tuned (e.g. with preempt /
low latency desktop) so that I/O, particularly writes to IDE drives,
doesn't ruin gameplay.
Other games manage to implement proper collision detection, even when
frames are lost. If you want to significantly improve this game, please
see if you can figure out how to implement good collision detection in
LBreakout2.
Thanks,
Ben Armstrong & family
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lbreakout2 depends on:
ii lbreakout2-data 2.5.2-2 A ball-and-paddle game with nice g
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libsdl-mixer1.2 1.2.6-1.1 mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.9-0.0 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
lbreakout2 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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This isn't a Debian bug. In fact I'm not sure it's a bug at all. If
anything it's an upstream enhancement request.
I'm closing this, if the original submitter is still seeing the
problem then they should submit a bug to the upstream bug tracker on
SourceForge.
Colin
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