Timewaster's Guide Archive
Departments => Webcomics & Free Stuff => Topic started by: Spriggan on May 29, 2002, 12:56:47 PM
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Well as soon as 42 does the artwork out first flash game will be done. Make your own Droid is the first simple game. it will allow you to custamise a droid from different selections (Head, torso, right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg, and accesories) you can select the different parts from a menu and then place them on your droid how you like. Right now there will only be 4 different droid parts avalible in each section (accesories may have more), we do plan to add more later and intergrate a final "stats" screen and maybe let you print it out with the picture. But I need to realy work on figureing out all that code. I've allready spent about 4 hours on this program. anyway sence i can't draw 42's doing the art work and we may accept submissions to be placed in the program. so hopefully it will be up tomorrow.
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That's awesome, Sprig. Do you guys have a login account ready yet?
Oh, and if we're going to put this in the Tower of Cheapness, which I still think is the best idea, your day will be Thursdays (so tommorow is perfect.) Whenever you want to give me an update, we'll do it on Thursdays--that is when I intend to review free games and the like.
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i do have a login, but i can only edit and add reviews. which before now is all i needed. i don't know if Tage wants me to resend him my login and pswd to change my access level.
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ack couldn't sleep at all last night so i finished the program. this is a beta version. First off know issues:
1) yes i know there's no color. i'm trying to figure out how to let the user set the color.
2) yes i know that there are only 2 robots. I said four but we ended up only doing two for now.
3) the items are layers in the order that you choose them from the bottem up, i suggest you choose the torso last (or you can delete the torso and reselect it). I'll try and find a way to make the torso allwayse on top.
4) yes the white background is ugly we're working on it.
5) there will eventualy be an option to turn the music on and off.
6) I will be adding sound effects such as clanking metal and drill sounds.
7) I'm trying to work out a way to let you scale and rotate each item. I've got something but it might take a while.
8) I will be changeing the menu system to allow for more items and make it look cooler.
if you have any other suggestions or ideas post them here or let me know via e-mail.
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...is there supposed to be a link to the game, sprig, or is it on the main page somewhere?
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i posted earily thinking Tage would give me or 42 access to post that afternoon. I was wrong, I can't put it anywere yet.
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Supposedly, I got a password, I'm just having a little trouble getting it to work.
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What's the trouble?
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It just doesn't seem to work. Am I going to the wrong place to log in?
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Yeah, this confused me. You have to add an 'admin.php' to the end of the TWG URL to login as an admin. Go to www.timewastersguide.com/admin.php
Ben never really explained that to me, so I kept trying to use the little login place at the bottom lefthand part of the screen.
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Tried that. Didn't work.
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when exactly do we get the game????
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When we can get it posted. ;D
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Wow. That didn't work? It did bring up the admin login screen, right? Everything's case sensitive--I have to type EUOL, not euol.
Wait--as I recall, there are two sepearate passwords you need to have. One gives you ftp access, the other gives you admin priviledges to the PhP Nuke section. Maybe he only gave you ftp access. If that's the case, you can upload, you just can't post a link on the main page.
If nothing works, you could always email it to me (though it's probably big, eh?) and have me post it for you.
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i have and admin login, how do you get to the ftp section??? humm ok 42's going to try to connect via dreamweaver's ftp program, if it works well upload it and make link here.
Also EUOL, Tage is up there in IF right now maybe you can talk to him. i don't think he's comming back untill sunday night.
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no it's not big, the beta version is only like 80 kb. but mom's computer dosen't have an ftp program that i know of.
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Ok I got it up, you were right EUOL. Tage gave 42 a ftp password. i took us a few minutes to figure out that we only have access to the games folder. we were kinda shocked that when we connected we found no files on the site. :) Anyhow I'm just going to post the link here for now, once me and 42 finish a few more things you can make a link to the main site.
also on the buggs needed to be fixed metioned in another posts....I fixed the problem with the Torso not being on top, now it is. currently there are no accessories avalible. Me and 42 are still working on how we are going to work them and what they will be.
the link is http://www.timewastersguide.com/games/droid.html
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also check out this new header i made
http://www.timewastersguide.com/games/Clock2.swf
humm this is small look at it full size:
http://www.timewastersguide.com/games/Clock2.swf
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great music! :D
needs accesories :(
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ya we're working on them the main problem is we can't just import gifs or clipart sence they are not vector graphics we have to trace over them. so it takes a while.
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eh?
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we have to trace everything in certain programs for a certain graphic type. so it takes a while to get graphics.
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so what's the next game?
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well we're still finshing this game up and it's takeing up a lot of my time. but we'll start planning a shooter game. more like a shooting gallery game. but sence that game is going to be very graphicaly intense compared to the droid game I can't give any type of date. Then after that i'm tossing around a few ideas in my head and i'll decide after i've started the shooter game.
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how about your own version of the teletubbies game?
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haven't played it, but me and 42 don't want to just copy someone elses games. there are many different ways to kill tellatubbies.
From now on i'd like this topic to focus on flash games in general and ideas. there will be different topics for each game we post so plz make comments specific to a certain game there. thanks.
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You know, a mouse-shooter like the old arcade games would be very cool. Something like the T2 game or that one alien game we used to play, where the screen scrolls past you and you could move the mouse around and shoot things.
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Scrolling screens are easy, we could do something like that.
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ya they are. But first we're going to do a simple one so I can figure out the code. then we can move to more advanced ones.
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maybe you could do a shoot the twg staff members...
you know like wild west shootout outside the pub wif dem swingin' doors
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ya that would be cool. actualy while 42 is working on graphics for then website and the next game I'm going to make a boxing game like the old mike tysons puch-out were you get to beat up our editor. I'm bringing my digital camera to todays meeting for that.
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I'll practice my punched-in-the-face faces.
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Finally, we get to beat up the editor!
Uh, wait a sec. Who'd want to beat up Fellfroshe? Is there any way we can switch it to Tage...?
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There shall be no mockery of the mighty Tage---
Oh wait, this isn't the Tage fan club thread. Go ahead, then, beat him up.
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once i get the fellfrosch game working i'll probaly start adding all the reviewers. so Tage can be next.
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He who punches me will find himself polymophed into one of my undead minions!
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But, EOUL you make such a great punching bag. :D You wouldn't want us to have to use sub-par equipment.
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Ha! That one actually made me laugh out loud, 42. Nicely put.
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ha ha no one knows what i look like so you can't punch me!
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Oh we could find you. We have our...methods.
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<gulp...>
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while studying for my physical science final I was inspired to goof off insted. and in doing so I thought of the old DOS game scorched earth. I thought that that would be a totaly cool game to do in flash. the only problem is math and I don't mix. does anyone know the equasions that I would need to make that game?
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Wow. That WOULD be cool. That game ruled. A multiplayer over-the-net version of Scorch would be a monumentous triump, Sprig. As for equations...uh... whoo, boy. Something to do with trig, I'd bet. you'd need to be able to plot graphs, then input Velocity and plot it against the gravitational constant. We should ask Earl--he's got a Masters in math, after all.
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Hey, Sprig. How are the games coming along?
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i'll have a working verson of the bar up for this thursday. it wont have the multi-player option yet, i need to figure out exactaly what varabiles I need to pass back and forth. but i hopefull should have an Idea by then.
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Hey, cool!
Guess I should work on getting the last few classes fixed...
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How's the webgame comin? We need to link it today, eh?
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here's the walking demo. I was working on makeing objects solid and putting a border so you couldn't walk off screen. but ran into some snags. so here ya go:
http://www.timewastersguide.com/games/walktest.swf
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nice. ok i know im asking way too much here, but do we get to personalise our images (sprites). only it looks really stupid when everyone looks the same. as well as the fact that it would allow us to differentiate between each other. finally, how are text and names sorted? UO style or by a textbox?
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Wow, that looks a lot better than I thought it would. Keep up the good work!
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Yeah, Sprig. That's great!
We're working on things, Charlie. We have to get the game actually running before we really worry about specifics. Suggestions, however, are always welcome.
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What do you think of the size and scale of the character?
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I'm not sure, to be honest. It scaled really well, and looked really sharp, but it certainly was unexpected. I kept trying to resize the window to get a little extra space around the edges, and everything kept growing.
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well I'm takeing a break from the MMORPGF and decided to finish the droid game. I would like to make a simple game that we can keep a score. The Beat up the editor game that I'm going to start this weekend could have one (maybe best time or something like that). So any suggestions here would be good. once I figure out a decent way to do networking I'd like to do the Scorch game. also me and 42 have been tossing around a shooting gallery game. And me and EUOL have talked breifly about a Monky Island style game. I figure if I have a few different games I can switch beteen once I get bored with that game I can switch to another so I do just stopp working on flash. But I think I want to keep it to 3 things at once.
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Yeah, that's a good idea. It'll keep you fresh.
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fresh and pleasantly confused-
droid sprites ;D
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ok I decided to make an aracanoid style game in flah (yes I know that I haven't finished the editor game or the shooting game, but 42 has been realy busy and he's trying to compress/cleanup the dan pictures as much as he can, and has promised me a cool background for Timewasters). this game's graphics would be realy simple, even I can do them. anyway I need Someone to help me with some math for the game. I can do it with out the math but the game would be alittle cheep (meaning when the ball hits the paddle it goes only in two different directions that are randomly determined). so I need some volocity equasions and a way to set the angle the ball takes after it hits an object. flash does have full range of trig and algerbra functions. this game would allow me to implement the High score function that I've been wanting to use. I'm figureing two game modes...standard puzzle mode (probaly with 20 or so levels) and a random mode. I'm also going to use the standard unbreakable blocks and multi-hit blocks.
and a alwayse I want to do stuff that would make the game a little unique so anyideas on how to custamise the game, also I haven't come up with a name yet. the game could be a theam game (like timewasters where you shoot clocks) so the name can have something to do with the style or custem fetures in the game. (ie like Wack-a-dan, where instead of blocks you have dan's head), but I don't want to do something that cheezy.
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Some of you may remeber the "shooter" game that I realy never did. Well I was hyper after typeing a RPG review so I started to work on it. Have fun clicking things whilest I figure out how I want the clocks to move and how to tell Flash when to spawn them.
http://www.timewastersguide.com/VG/NickelCade/timewasters.php