Comments on: Andre Copperman Picture Panic!

By: vazor

vazor — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:09:06 +0000

Excellent! Another great work- the writing put a smile on my face and the gameplay elements were all unique and intriguing. I got a couple A's but on average I'm a C copier. :)

By: Kniht

Kniht — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:19:18 +0000

"I gotta say that sounds more like a Wine problem than an issue with the game :) If you do dig out your tablet, let me know how well it works – I personally am terrible with a tablet."

Considerably more fun with a tablet, as far as that aspect goes, but unfortunately that input problem, which, as expected, didn't change, still makes it unplayable. (Either I get those erroneous lines or I run out of time.)

Am honestly surprised people tried with a trackpad and bothered mentioning it wasn't fun. It's like trying to use the old NES track&field pad to play duckhunt.

By: Zorba

Zorba — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:57:04 +0000

It definitely seems like the controller type is a major factor in people's enjoyment of the game, I've gotten a pile of complaints that it's tough with the trackpad. solution: stop using trackpad If anyone has gotten it working with OSX 10.5, let me know? I don't know whether Chris's report up there is out-of-the-ordinary or is standard. I'll have to see if I can figure it out.

By: Kuipo

Kuipo — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:39:41 +0000

Worked on my mac pro using 10.6.2

Overall good idea. I liked how the spacebar was for small adjustments since it was slower and the arrows made it move more quickly. I actually failed the basics and once I got the "tools" I aced the rest of the drawings hah.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:53:58 +0000

Not working on Mac OS 10.5.8 on my iMac. Crashes immediately. Apple error report is below.

Process: Andre Copperman Picture Panic! [1624]
Path: /Applications/Andre Copperman Picture Panic!.app/Contents/MacOS/Andre Copperman Picture Panic!
Identifier: com.mandible-games.copperman
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [175]

Interval Since Last Report: 12 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Date/Time: 2009-12-30 09:51:12.232 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: EDC8317D-3E25-4FA8-9AAB-E06B91A594F6

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0×0000000000000002, 0×0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Dyld Error Message:
unknown required load command 0×80000022

By: Olivier Le Floch

Olivier Le Floch — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:29:58 +0000

Works fine on Mac OS 10.6, terribly difficult with a trackpad x) Fun to play, quite fun to watch the space bar at work. Too bad we can't try a level we've just played and failed again, I guess it would help to choose the "most useful" lines to draw first.

This game would probably be very well suited to young children, except the success-and-failure comments aren't very encouraging. Apart from that, great work !

Maybe the game timer can adapt to the time taken for the previous level ?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:51:02 +0000

This was fun. I liked the arrow key ability better than the spacebar one. I find it works great when you do a rough tracing of the figure and nudge the lines into place just a bit. The arrow key ability gives more control and it does its work a lot faster than the spacebar ability. :)

By: Zorba

Zorba — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:57:50 +0000

I gotta say that sounds more like a Wine problem than an issue with the game :) If you do dig out your tablet, let me know how well it works – I personally am terrible with a tablet.

By: Kniht

Kniht — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:00:13 +0000

Almost works under Wine and Ubuntu 9.4.

Main problem seems to be eating CPU (even when doing nothing but waiting for a button click), slowing down the game's response to mouse events, which means you have to be extra careful not to move the mouse after releasing the button or you'll get a huge extraneous line. This also made everything seem a little jerky.

I think it would be lots of fun without that problem, though; and probably more so with a tablet (which I might dig out and try).

By: Albert A

Albert A — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:12:41 +0000

OS X 10.6.2 worked fine for me. I second the 'oof' with the trackpad, though.

I'm almost tempted to try it out on my wife's tablet pc, but that might be cheating.

A cute little game! I didn't find the arrow key power very useful, but the space bar was pretty potent.