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Snowflake LabVIEW Block Diagram Game

by Tomi Maila, Dec 21, 2007 at 9:43 pm

(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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I’d like to thank you all ExpressionFlow readers for our first amazing year. You may have received a large number of season’s greeting cards, but I bet none of them can even closely compete with ours. To thank you for our first year, we’ve developed you a LabVIEW block diagram arcade game for LabVIEW 8.5!

To play the game, use the left and right arrow keys and try to catch all the LabVIEW block diagram compoents with your LabVIEW object. Don’t forget to post your high scores to this thread.

I wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008!

EDIT: Version 1.1 released with a bug fix.

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• Roy Faltesek Said:
  December 21st, 2007 at 10:38 pm

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  Cool application. I will show it to my kids over the holidays and see if they can beat the professional.

• eyesonvis Said:
  December 21st, 2007 at 11:14 pm

  Very entertaining! Thanks and Happy Holidays!

• Scott Hannahs Said:
  December 23rd, 2007 at 5:35 pm

  Too bad it isn’t cross platform.

  It seems to be suffering from the font size translation problem. Also “Play Waveform” doesn’t seem to exist on the Mac. We do have “Snd Play Wave File” and other sound playing VIs.

• Tomi Maila Said:
  December 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 pm

  Scott, I’m sorry to hear that the game doesn’t work on a Mac. I only have a PC so I cannot test or develop any programs on Mac environment. Now that you reported the problem, I checked my Windows LabVIEW and noticed that there are no sound VIs that are compatible with Mac LabVIEW. I can create a Mac version that lacks all sounds if you want. Perhaps I should file a LabVIEW product suggestion for better cross platform game development support

• Albert Said:
  December 25th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

  Nice game Tomi.

  I had a small problem because my screen was only 800 pixels high (wide screen).
  And I could not moce the relative position of the block diagram. (extending my desktop showed me a nice SpaceInvader LVOOP version.

  Thank you very much for this nice greeting card and a lot of fun for you in the coming year.

• Jarrod Slocum Said:
  January 18th, 2008 at 4:37 am

  Here’s the “fix” for a Mac, which I had to do. The block diagram is password-protected, but you can still get to the VIs through the VI hierarchy. Click on each Play Sound express VI to convert it to a subVI, then gut the inside. Voila! You can play with no music… Well done, Tomi!

• Tomi Maila Said:
  January 19th, 2008 at 9:21 am

  Jarrod, thanks for providing the fixing instructions for mac users.

• Tigos Said:
  May 30th, 2008 at 9:48 am

  Bug!? U can crash the program with ctrl + E (normally used to show block diagram)

• Tomi Maila Said:
  May 31st, 2008 at 12:17 pm

  Tigos, I’m pretty sure this is a bug. This game wasn’t intended for serious use, so I guess I’ll just leave it as is

• Tigos Said:
  June 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm

  Hi TomiMaila,
  reason why i tried ctlr+e was to see the block diagram. I’m new with LabVIEW and I didnt know u can “write” programs like snowflake. how did you make this? with acitveX container? Are there some add-on packages required?
  Tigos

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