I didn't notice how dark it really was until I played it on a CRT monitor. I had to update some internal links, so I went ahead and lightened the background and stuff.
Simrags: Yeah, I probably should have made that clear, but I'm not going back to change anything in this one, partially because I need to start on something else and partially because the original .fla file is painful to look at (_really_ bad programming practices and over-complication of some simple stuff in a way that probably makes it easy to cheat).
I know it's frustrating, but it's because of the bugs with mouse hiding and the star not following the mouse. I obviously don't know what the problem is, but one of my games hides the mouse, plays music, and moves a MovieClip with the mouse. You can download the source files "here":http://facelesscoward.blogspot.com/2007/06/ant-game-source-code-placeholder.html. It also has stuff that changes the right-click menu in it.
IndieRockLance: Mouse clicking ends the game because you can click and drag outside the bounds of the stage in Firefox. I'm not sure why he doesn't just add something to check the _xmouse and _ymouse every frame and make sure it hasn't left the stage, though?
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