190 Forum Posts by "bumblefish"
At 12/17/14 07:51 PM, Hero101 wrote:
Man I think I'm just too easily amused when I play other people's games... I found your game rather fun. I can't help but find joy in games with simple mechanics. With a more riveting and bouncy soundtrack your game would feel more engaging (the current music is kinda annoying....). The movement style for this kind of game also feels a little stiff. I would add some friction to your character's movement so that he doesn't start/start immediately. I think if you found a right balance with that it would be more challenging and a lot of fun (speed him up a bit as well to make this effect even better).
Thanks for the tips!
When I get back to working on it, I'll surely change the music first thing and then work on player controls next. I find reviews like this extremely helpful for making a better game, and some things stand out that I don't even notice until someone mentions it, like the controls.
At 12/17/14 05:05 PM, bumblefish wrote:
Here is a better playing version of the game I mentioned.
I also am curious how other devs improve games that aren't fun.
At 12/17/14 03:57 PM, MSGhero wrote: What do you guys do when a project isn't fun to play? Add to it, scrap it, put it on the shelf of projects on hiatus?
I'm not sure if a current project is fun or not, mainly because I haven't added enemies/conflict despite working on it for a while. I want it to be fun, and I think it could be fun, but right now it's not.
My games never tend to be as fun as I expect them to, but a lot of that has to do with having poor level design skills, and a habit of parsing sprites through tilemaps (csv files) for easy placement.
The game I'm currently working on has 30 levels so I've added a new mechanic on levels 11-20, and then another on levels 21-30, just to keep it from becoming boring.
I do usually let people play the rough working version to see if they hate it or like it, or have some idea on how it could be better, but it's hard to find people who will test for you and tell you an honest opinion, before release.
I've had this game on the back burner for a few months until I can find a way to make it fun. I know it has potential, but right now it's just not fun.
At 12/16/14 06:05 PM, killerjeff wrote: It takes a complete pussy to block someone who makes them upset.
A real man eats written and verbal abuse for breakfast, and never remembers the safe-word!
At 12/16/14 04:48 PM, Lich wrote:At 12/16/14 04:47 PM, TomFulp wrote:Yep that fixed it. Thanks Tom!At 12/16/14 04:39 PM, Lich wrote: I've only seen the invisible square for this thread ever.Hold Shift+Refresh, should just need to re-cache.
Had this same issue a few weeks ago and fixed it by clearing the cache also.
Only the banner ads, and the buttons(forum buttons, pm, dump , etc) were empty, but still clickable.
I assumed it was only an issue with Opera, since Chrome, and Firefox both worked fine.
Running Opera 26.0, on Vista, no adblock.
Maybe if you studied in computer class you would know how to do what you're asking, but then you wouldn't need to do it because you wouldn't have made a C.
Either way, trying to hack your grades for a material object from your father (who is trying to teach you to do the right thing) isn't just wrong because you want to cheat, but really low down, because you are trying to cheat the man that has raised you, clothed you, fed you, and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's more than probable that he bought you the computer you are trying to use to make a sucker out of him, for your benefit.
At 12/16/14 02:56 PM, FlamingoPudding wrote: Yes I know, dont use as2. Just wondering if it was possible.
I found this, not sure if its as2.
http://oos.moxiecode.com/flash10/generate_sound.html
Pretty much what I want to be able to do, except maybe a sine wave instead. What would you say? Is this possible? Resource expensive?
Can't really answer your question, but if you just need a sfx generator, try sfxr or bfxr, which are both free and open source.
At 12/4/14 06:41 PM, liljim wrote: Try now.
That was quick!
Thanks!
At 12/4/14 01:45 PM, Cyberdevil wrote:At 12/3/14 06:13 PM, MSGhero wrote: Bc no one has asked until now. That's a pretty easy change, but I'd like to see stencyl files be uploadable since they're just zip files renamed.Is that all it takes? :O I always thought they'd intentionally chosen to list only the essentials, and rely on archives for all else. So many formats that could be there...
Considering audio files, and such could be giant in size and you could just zip them to put them in the dump I understand why they're not supported, but a haxe file is no bigger than an AS3, or an Xml file, which is pretty small and is directly associated with content being created.
cough... @BrenTheMan cough...
At 12/3/14 02:59 PM, Zachary wrote: Hey, just got back into using Haxe again and gave HaxeFlixel a try. I am having problems figuring out how to read a file with frame data for my spritesheet though.
This is what I currently have:
public function new()
{
super();
this.loadGraphicFromTexture("assets/images/player.json");
this.animation.addByIndices("idle", "p1_idle", [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15], ".png", 24, true);
this.animation.play("idle");
}
Yet it keeps telling me there is no animation called "idle". Any ideas?
I've never loaded a .json with HaxeFlixel before but I've had that error when calling for an empty frame from of a spritesheet.
Could it be because you're using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, instead of 0,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14?
Why doesn't the dump accept Haxe files?
At 12/1/14 04:22 PM, 24901miles wrote:At 12/1/14 04:07 PM, bumblefish wrote:At 12/1/14 12:47 AM, 24901miles wrote:The thing that bothers me about Stephen Hawking is he is a "theoretical physicist", and most of what he says is just his own theories. I know he has had a lot of education, and has plenty of credentials, but I have to take everything he says with a grain of salt.At 12/1/14 12:03 AM, FurryGod wrote: Theoretically. Do you even Steven Hawking?I'm actually reading through all of Hawking's books this year but I'm also familiar with and somewhat studied on his theories.
That's funny. Stephen Hawking is pretty outspoken about (A) not having his IQ tested and (B) showing disdain for people who brag about their IQ.
Where did you hear that?
Anywhere you search will yield the same number of 160, which could be based on educated guess, but it seems he has taken a mensa test which I assume could be beneficial to determine his IQ.
I'm not saying he isn't a genius or that any of his theories are wrong, I just personally don't put stock in theories very often.
At 12/1/14 12:47 AM, 24901miles wrote:At 12/1/14 12:03 AM, FurryGod wrote: Theoretically. Do you even Steven Hawking?I'm actually reading through all of Hawking's books this year but I'm also familiar with and somewhat studied on his theories.
The thing that bothers me about Stephen Hawking is he is a "theoretical physicist", and most of what he says is just his own theories. I know he has had a lot of education, and has plenty of credentials, but I have to take everything he says with a grain of salt.
Fun fact: Quentin Tarantino has the same I.Q. as Stephen Hawking.
Nah, I use HaxeFlixel also. I can't believe it hasn't been getting more popular, as it is a hell of an upgrade from AS3 and Flixel.
No way! Go for it!
I learned AS3 when I was 27-28, and moved on to Haxe a little over year ago.
If you can draw, learning the flash UI isn't that hard. If you're more of a thinker than an artist, diving head first into some code may be the way to go.
Well it is pretty good, but I personally think there is a lot of great stuff on here that kinda gets lost in the crowd, and is more deserving of a better spot.
Example :
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B&W Groove by SteinbergIt's grooooovy!!!
- Score
- 3.38 / 5.00
- Type
- Movie
- Popularity
- 539 Views
- Rated
- Everyone
At 11/16/14 06:35 AM, OmnisScio wrote: First up, I am intending to use Flash with actionscript 3.
I believe I will need to make some sort of state machine, but I cannot find a decent tutorial on how to actually make one.
A link to a decent tutorial, or a example game, or any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
You may wanna take a look at the Flixel (AS3) library. HaxeFlixel is very similar, but much more advanced and of course it's in Haxe. They each have example games, and are open source.
Q: If I bug NG Staff about it daily, will it get done faster?
A: No, in fact I think it slows us down!
At 11/19/14 01:58 AM, MrMann1 wrote: If you have a minute, please check out my massage youtube channel:
What the actual fuck?
Your mom.
#original
Disable AdBlock. I have no idea what your issue is, but you will likely get no help here openly using AdBlock.
At 11/18/14 03:06 PM, Gagsy wrote:At 11/18/14 02:44 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote:If you can't trust us, who CAN you trust?I bet those Kongregate staff give their users a nice chat room or two..
What the hell is a kongregate?
Can't wait for....."next week"
I'm also waiting semi-patiently on a new chat, especially since the main skype chat faded out.
Glad to see the forum getting updates!
I think most people don't really know how much work is going on behind the scenes for these "small" updates, but just getting new stuff out of the blue, is great for A. the new stuff, and B. it lets everybody know they're steadily working on it.
Wow... I've always thought so much of the IGF, but after reading that post and hearing Edmund's podcast.....
Well I didn't see it because it already got blammed...
Don't let it get you down.
I try to make each project better than the last one.
Do that for a while and you are liable to make something pretty good.
