Pickle
A long, long time ago I made a game called dragBall, which went down the history books as being pretty crappy. So a long time ago I made a sequel called dragBall 2 (I know) which I uploaded to FGL and waited for someone to place a bid on it (which never happened), so I kinda forgot all about it and worked on other projects. Then a while ago my computer crashed and I lost all my files. I managed to download the .swf file of dragBall2 from FGL but it was encrypted so I can't decompile it and extract something useful out of it. Meaning I can no longer sell it, which I don't care too much about, the bigger problem is the game doesn't have a preloader and there's a pretty fatal bug in the main menu which I can't fix anymore.

It isn't a revolutionary gaming experience by any standard, but I did spend quite some time on it and I feel it'd be a waste to let no one ever play it. I've uploaded the game to STW here, as you can see there's no preloader and when you hit continue in the main menu the game crashes (this only happens when you've never played the game before, once you've played it once the continue button will work).

I thought there might be a chance to make a preloader by loading the game swf in another (preloader) swf, but I haven't looked into that yet. Does anyone know if that's possible in theory? Also, once I get that to work and place a little disclaimer in the comments so nobody hits the continue button the first time, you guys think I should upload it to NG?

I still suck a it... Oh and CPM Star is going to rape you if they find out what you did to their ads (shrinking it down to where it's barely visible, just wanted to let you know.

At 11/21/09 09:52 AM, Johnny wrote: I don't really play multiplayer. I'm old. I hate 13 year olds rapping in my ear and insulting me every 20-30 seconds.. ect.. ect..

I know how you feel... One of the first things I'm usually forced to do is mute almost everyone in my team. Still, the multiplayer is what I bought the game for, the 5 hour campaign is too short to spend 60 euros on... And the mp in MW1 was great.

... but I thought the single player was great. The story was excellent, though hard to follow at some points a bit. I thought the cohesiveness of the story was fine.

Maybe I was a bit too harsh, my expectations were too high. I just can't help but notice the game feels kinda empty/soulless. This game had such a huge budget, I was expecting some high quality writing, with characters you care about, a logical/deep plot, without the plottwists you see coming hours before they take place, recycled stuff from MW1 etcetera. It's still a good game, don't get me wrong, but it's nowhere close to what I hoped it would be.

At 11/21/09 09:06 AM, patu1 wrote: Them Crooked vultures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7_vH3H8L PI
this song is called new fang
dave grohl nirvana, foo fighters
jhonsy led zeppelin
josh homme queens of..
yesh !

That sounds pretty awesome indeed. In fact, I think I'm gonna go get it.

I'm disappointed by MW2... The single player (I know I shouldn't be playing the game for the single player, stfu) was written by a three-year old. It's such a bunch of uncohesive bs that if I had written the piece of garbage I wouldn't want my name in the credits. The action and scripted events are pretty good. But somehow I get the feeling the guys at IW just thought up a random bunch of scenes with explosions and some cool sets and wrote a story around that. They're like the Michael Bay of videogames.

The multiplayer is pretty good, but it never managed to amaze me as much as MW1 did. Too many stupid collectables/unlockables etc. Yuck.

Congrats :)

Control > Disable Shortcuts

Could have multiple reasons. Most likely you either have your alpha set to 0. Or you're drawing on a lower layer. Or you're drawing on the same layer, but on top of an object, in which case the object will have a higher depth, meaning your line is there but it's below the object.

Of course it'll work. Your version of flash won't, but all your .fla's/.as's etc. will.

At 11/11/09 05:36 PM, zrb wrote: Woot! Finally 17.

Congrats :)

Working Out
I started running about a year back. At the moment I run about three times a week, 2 times a good 7 miles, and once a week a somewhat faster 2 miles. I never really was a sporty kinda guy but I enjoy running a lot, besides I spend far too much time sitting on my ass all day. I'm planning to do half a marathon this summer, did a good 10 miles about a week ago, and that went pretty well, so I think I'll manage.

Been playing the mp for a good part of the day. It's great as expected.

At 11/9/09 08:56 AM, Magical-Zorse wrote:

At 11/9/09 07:21 AM, Xeptic wrote: I'm following a course on Game Design this semester, we have to make a game in Game Maker...

Ouch

I know, turns out they don't have a working Mac version either, so that means I'll have to install Windows on my Mac, which I'd promised I'd never try again after it made my computer fatally crash a couple of months back.

Decompiler
On that note, I have a pretty much finished old game laying around, but I only managed to recover the .swf file after my computer crashed. Could someone decompile it for me? I don't feel like forking out a fortune to the folks at soThink.

I'm following a course on Game Design this semester, we have to make a game in Game Maker...

At 11/8/09 03:42 PM, zrb wrote:

At 11/8/09 03:37 PM, Xeptic wrote: Is it an aqueduct?

Supposed to be walls of a temple-ruin ish environment.

Needs less straight lines then. Crooked walls, cracks, stuff that has fallen down, debris, rubble, partially collapsed stuff, the work. You got the style right though

At 11/8/09 03:32 PM, zrb wrote: Sadly, it isn't a colliseum, it will probably be better to notice once its finished.

Is it an aqueduct?

Damn I actually tried that one myself to see if it was a shop, 't wasn't...

At 11/7/09 08:01 AM, Depredation wrote:

At 11/7/09 06:01 AM, Xeptic wrote: Here's the first scene of the film, not safe for work, but I hope nobody's working on Saturday.

Removed :( Got another link?

Apparently they took it of because it shows Dafoe's wang... Anyway, here's a cleaned up version.

Oh, I forgot Saw-like mutilations in that list.

^ that one.

It's anything but a horror-movie, I'm not sure what you should call it, 'drama' doesn't really fit either. Here's a list of stuff people tag it with :)

Basically it combines sexually explicit scenes (although there are two versions of the film in theaters, one is slightly toned down I believe) you'd see in a bad porn flick, the depressing/uncomfortable atmosphere of something like Requiem for a Dream. It's slower than There Will be Blood, and there's bucketloads of symbolism (most of which was lost on me, until I checked some review this morning) like in the Fountain. It's an exhausting film to watch. I'm still not sure whether or not I really like it. The cinematography and acting is brilliant, but it's a weird and draining thing to watch. It certainly is an experience.

Here's the first scene of the film, not safe for work, but I hope nobody's working on Saturday.

Antichrist
Anyone here saw it? I went to see it last night, it was... different...

Audacity is pretty good in my opinion. It does the job, it's free, what more could you ask for?

How about you don't do that, but in stead you go work on that Robotech Manga Movie idea and come back to show something impressive. You probably have some characters thought out, why not draw and animate one of those doing something random so people can see how this thing will turn out.

At 11/5/09 05:32 PM, lgnxhll wrote: Man that was a rough draft i made with a mouse!Besides im working on a better one that was just for fun.

Then don't show something that won't resemble the end result. Because this is not helping.

Hmm.. Before other, less-subtle, people get in here and pour loads of shit on you: You need to spend a whole lot more time on this. You must realize that compared to other high-rated animations yours doesn't look particularly good. AS a consequence, not a whole lot of people will be interested in doing anything for you right now. I suggest you go back to the drawingboard, get yourself a good preview (as in actual, proper animation) together, come up with a decent topic that properly explains what you want to do and how you're planning to do it, and try again.

I feel for you, same thing happened to me once. I hope you made a back-up, but by the looks of it you haven't. You've just learned you should always back-up your files the hard way.

Not really satisfied with how it turned out in the end, but still:

The Siege Of Theldale, by Xeptic Type: Game Rating: Ages 13+

Now, on to more creative stuff!

Hit 'F' and drag that gradient, bro

If this is a serious attempt at trying to attract some interest to your idea: I suggest you start over, because the way you write is unreadable and it'll scare anyone who might be interested away.