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by Bob the Hamster
Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:48 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Modern Magic Progress Thread
Replies: 57
Views: 13304

Sorry for the bad news, folks. I haven't worked on the game at all since the contest. I probably won't for a long time. Lack of motivation, lack of feedback, and college is honestly getting harder. Here's the thing; in one class, I have to learn PBASIC! I cannot possibly work on graded projects for...
by Bob the Hamster
Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:22 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: "Finish Your Dang Game" Results & Prizes!
Replies: 14
Views: 6746

<s>So far only two people have contacted me for their prizes (and ironically they are the two that visit this board least often)</s>

now we are moving right along! :)
by Bob the Hamster
Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:19 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: A Limited Engagement
Replies: 3
Views: 1863

Pretty strange that so many people have been having problems with big zip file downloads for the past week or two. Both Powerstick man and Genesis. I haven't seen this many corrupted zip files since 1999!

EDIT: I was able to download and unzip it okay, just haven't had enough play-time yet.
by Bob the Hamster
Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:13 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Genesis Progress
Replies: 66
Views: 17504

I have only had time to play the intro so far. Looks fantastic! :) Pepsi mentioned the stair-walking, and that caught my eye too. Here is the trick for doing diagonal walking in a plotscript: walk hero&#40;me, south, 1&#41; walk hero&#40;me, east, 1&#41; wait for hero&#40;me&...
by Bob the Hamster
Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:45 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Genesis Progress
Replies: 66
Views: 17504

what time did you download the file? i put up something wrong at first and had to replace the file, do you think it's possible you downloaded it while i was switching files and it caused it to be corrupt? i've had other people successfully download it and run it, so that's why i'm asking. That coul...
by Bob the Hamster
Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:35 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Genesis Progress
Replies: 66
Views: 17504

<s>I have a problem with the zip file that you uploaded. It won't open, as if it is corrupted. Did you create it with 7zip? If so you might have accidentally used 7zips *horrible* special non-compatible variant of the .zip format. If you do you should re-zip it as a normal zip file.</s> EDIT: nah, I...
by Bob the Hamster
Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:59 am
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: A game in a week (Do You Want to be a Hero?)
Replies: 11
Views: 2345

Mogri wrote:Okay, the game is ready to go. Vehicles are still messed up -- in particular, I have trouble boarding boats sometimes. Use F11 if you need to.
Does F11 actually fix the problem? If so that narrows down where the problem could be. And you arre you talking about bug 770 or bug 771?
by Bob the Hamster
Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:37 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Genesis Progress
Replies: 66
Views: 17504

Lucier wrote:maybe i am crazy here, but what character design in the video are you talking about? it's just me pitching the game concept haha.
I think he may be observing (and I agree) that you bear some resemblance to your game's protagonist

I can't wait for this game!
And I hope it does great in the contest!
by Bob the Hamster
Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:45 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Vikings of Midgard - Development Journal
Replies: 67
Views: 18034

Fantastic!
by Bob the Hamster
Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Hamster Wheel - Linking Information Question
Replies: 2
Views: 1478

Yeah, I agree. There is lots of precedent for news services to quote some other source, so I can't see this being a problem.
by Bob the Hamster
Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: Reviews
Topic: TetrisOHR - Review & Video Impression
Replies: 8
Views: 4549

We probably need to add a separate "reset game" command. When title screen and load screen are enabled, then "reset game" and "game over" would have exactly the same behavior, but when they are turned off, they would have differing behavior. I have added a "reset ...
by Bob the Hamster
Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:57 pm
Forum: Reviews
Topic: Tower of Heaven - Review & Video First Impression
Replies: 8
Views: 6755

I guess the type of skill required is different for each. Tower of Heaven is more about accurate timing and general platformer-skill. The Battletoads Turbo Tunnel is more about memorization and/or fast reflexes.
by Bob the Hamster
Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:18 pm
Forum: Reviews
Topic: Tower of Heaven - Review & Video First Impression
Replies: 8
Views: 6755

Tower of Heaven - Review & Video First Impression

godsavant's Tower of Heaven is a well-presented stylish and funny side-scrolling platform-jumper. The game's color-scheme, art style, and music style strongly emulate the visuals of games for the original non-color Nintendo Gameboy. As you can see in the video of my first play session, the difficult...
by Bob the Hamster
Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:24 pm
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: "Finish Your Dang Game" Results & Prizes!
Replies: 14
Views: 6746

I still wish more folks voted. I have a feeling that if I were a colossal jerk and downvoted the competition, I would've won. There ended up being four voters. All of them were contestants. Everybody gave good votes to their own game, but I saw no obvious evidence of anybody maliciously voting othe...
by Bob the Hamster
Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:45 pm
Forum: Reviews
Topic: TetrisOHR - Review & Video Impression
Replies: 8
Views: 4549

For the title screen tetronimoes, what if you disable the "wait" commands when you are filling the screen up? As for knowing what to clean up, you can use a script like this to free all your slices script, free very dang slice, begin variable&#40;sl, deleteme&#41; sl &#58;= fir...