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Only bad part is that I have one sponsor right now tellin me to rip out the ending of my game and replace it with a LOL SO RANDOM dinosaur cutscene.

I didn't wanna do it for a while but it looks like I'm gonna. I decided that I'm gonna make like 10 or 12 games in the next year so who cares if one of em sucks :/

I do!
I just spoke to an accountant yesterday. I expected to just sign on as self-emplyed, but then he told me I'd be better off as a limited company, and now I'm the "Managing Director" of TomBrien Ltd.

I used to make huge games over about 3 months at a time (see Legend of JOHNNY or Crunchdown) but since this is my income now I make one game every month and sell it on FlashGameLicense.com for about $3000 each.

It feels like doin what I used to do when I got home from school, but now I do it all the time.
I don't have an office or anythin fancy, I just sit on my computer n make games.

Whatever, I just did
if(isNaN( variable ){
variable= null
}

Fuck this shit

I know which variables are flicking to NaN and I know when they do it, I just have no idea why, and I don't know how to stop it or overwrite it.

What kind of stuff makes numbers go NaN?

I'm doing some AI thing, and this guy keeps saying his goal is NaN, but I don't know why!
I don't know what's knockin him outta whack, but I wish I did. How do I properly debug games?

and don't ask me to post the code cos it's like a hundred n 50 lines.

No wait that's exactly the same.
Oh well, I fixed it with an idea I came up with in bed anyway. I changed:

if (guyANGLE<30) {

to:

if (guyANGLE<30 || guyANGLE>350) {

Problem solved.

Oh, I was doing angle/(Math.PI*180)
That's probably why it screws up. Durrrrr.

I started a prototype. It uses the mouse.
If you stand infront of the blue guy then he'll watch you. You can lose him by goin behind the wall though.

Problem is: if you try to run round him in a circle, it stops at 360 degrees :(
I know why it's doin this, I just don't know how to get around it. This is only my first shot anyway, so it's no big deal.

There any tutorials or anythin on how I should make a stealth game?

Oh ok that worked. Thanks.

I thought the dump would've simulated the portal aswell but I guess not.

At 10/19/10 06:05 PM, HybridMind wrote: Have you made sure you configured the "component inspector" panel in flash when you select the scoreboard you are using? To make sure you've changed the default of "High Scores" to "DISTANCE" ?

If you mean this, then yes:

AS2
The component
No, I get "API-Debugger posted 210 to DISTANCE" whether anything shows up or not.
I can't get anything to display either.

At 10/19/10 04:28 PM, Archawn wrote: It's been over a month since Mike and I accepted a bid on a game.

Do all sponsors take this long to upload games to their own sites?

I've got so many games up in sponsor limbo right now I don't even know if they remember they bought it.

Ok now it posts the name up as API-Debugger. So I got it to post scores.

Except if I turn debug mode off n upload it to dump then it posts nothin.

What? It's not showing scores IN-GAME.

I'm talkin about the Newgrounds FlashAPI scoreboard. I've never used it, I'm tryin it now but I can't get it to post a score up. What am I doin wrong?

I'm postin a score up like this:

import com.newgrounds.API;
API.postScore("DISTANCE", _root.DISTANCE);

and my scoreboard looks like this:

Oh, good, if it's just me then that's fine.
Cos I'm about to release a game with ads n I'm like UH-OH!

Well that fixes it fr me but the problem's still there.

The ads that show up in Newgrounds ad boxes right now are unmutable.
There's an ad that's a Jonah HEX trailer, and one for some Japanese chocolates or something. There's mute buttons ON them, but clickin em doesn't do anything.

I'd report to someone, but y'know- If it's a problem that everyone allready knows about then whatever.

Aight cool!

I've got a sponsorship here that says I can use any ads.
I wanna use Newgrouinds ads cos they're so fucking easy to use, but it won't be sponsored by Newgrounds cos they didn't make an offer.

Am I still allowed to do this?

I think there's allready a hundred pictures of Larry out there.

Wow they didn't have much to say.

Especially when they commended Kong for havin in-game achievements and givin out prizes every month. What the F!

I thought the small eyes made him look like an alien, but y'all might be right now that I try it again:

He's a biker by the way.

that looks like he's from somewhere in northern Europe. I just can't get it right :I
Any ideas? I've got no art knowledge so I'm just flounderin around.
Also I think I might be a racist..

I'll update this thread if I ever nail it.

I just played two minutes of Looming and it's fucking terrifying!

Your crazy money thing is like- PERFECT crowd pleaser. It's startin to feel like a cliche, but every time I read about a new thing on NG, it allways sounds like the perfect simple idea.

Anyway yeah, of course it's not games, you could still win with like generic catapult game every month- Unless you made it only for original game mechanics, which are really hard to spot, and don't show up very often. Also games don't have as bad of a parody problem.
Games make too much money anyway.

Woah when did the Games n Movies switch places on the front page?

I JUST started playing Alan Wake and I've bin lookin forward to it, but it was about half an hour before I hit the first flash-a-big-scary-face-onscreen-and-make -a-really-loud-noise thing.

A: I jump at shit like that all the time, it allways gets me.
B: I don't think it's funny or smart or whatever. That's like a fuckin Youtube prank, not an actual thing that you're supposed to seriously do.
Is that gonna happen like a hundred different times through the game? Cos the first thing I did was turn it down n now everything's too quiet. If I have to play the whole game on edge incase it shouts at me out of nowhere then this is gonna suck.
It seemed really good up til this point.

Stop the presses! Breaking news; In Bionic Commando ReArmed 2, sequel to besty mcbestgame, Rad Spencer returns with a pipin hott moustache.

Lock the doors, everybody go home, this E3 is over.
The game's director was unable to provide a concrete answer on how bionic the moustache is, and which relative lives within. I can't wait to find out.
Discuss!

I dunno, I kind of don't wanna force anyone to play through the game THREE TIMES. That seems a bit crazy.
Lava mode was an idea someone told me in the reviews.

Another idea someone just PMd me was to have a 5pt medal for being halfway there, and a medal for breaking a particular number of blocks before exiting a level. So I've just added those and they'll probably update by tomorrow.
The block one is really hard.