Recent posts by NeilSenna on Kongregate

Topic: General Gaming / Flash issue

If it helps, mine is in

User (me)/AppData/Roaming/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/[random number/letter combo]

Windows 7 Ultimate, which I assume has the same layout as Home Premium. Or you could try typing kongregate.sol (I have one of those, assume everyone will) into the search box, and opening the file’s location.

Topic: Serious Discussion / A question of morals:

I’d have to consider it from a ‘how would I feel?’ sort of viewpoint. Would I rather be moved to a strange country for the sole purpose of being sexually abused, or die of starvation?

Easy, I’d rather die. So I wouldn’t support it, as I believe the alternative is better for them.

Topic: Serious Discussion / My Opinion About Evolution

Originally posted by WwarMmachine:

1. I heard the sun is slowly shrinking, which makes sense. But supposedly, if it has been shrinking at the same rate for one million years or so, it would have been big enough to incinerate the earth.

I’d love to see anything credible that indicates it’s been shrinking in physical size at the same rate for the last million years. As far as I’m aware, that’s a straw-grasping idea made up by creationists using horrible logic.

Making an assumption like that based on less than a century of accurate observations is like looking at a square metre of flat land and assuming the entire Earth has no elevation changes at all. Or looking at one side of a wave and assuming it continues upwards into infinity.

Topic: Kongregate / Why doesn't Kongregate support games made with Game Maker?

Wrong file type, as far as I recall. Game Maker results in an .exe, which Kong (and as far as I know, every other Flash gaming website) doesn’t accept.

Stencyl, similar as it may appear, outputs .swf, the ‘standard’ for Kong.

Topic: General Gaming / Do you have european football (soccer) knowledge?

It’s difficult and easy in equal measure.

I’ve got passable knowledge of Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Ireland… Wales I recognise the names, and good knowledge of the English and Scottish leagues. Can generally do those by name.

Outside of that it isn’t a football game to me – I’m relying on what I know of geography (city names and the like). That’s easy enough with countries and flags I know, and languages I can recognise (eg Greek is quite unique), but in the more obscure countries it gets very hard – my knowledge of Slovenian cities isn’t too good, nor am I great at national flags.

But what makes parts of it easy is that the badges often have the club name in them.

Good game overall – scored 6,895 on hard.

Topic: General Gaming / best UNITY ZOMBIE GAMES COMING TO KONGREGATE

If this is the standard of thread it’ll attract, I’d rather it stayed well away.

Topic: General Gaming / How did you ever reconnected?

That was quite possibly the worst post I’ve seen on a forum in my entire life.

Congratulations.

Topic: Kongregate / what games can i spend my kreds on

Save them until you find one.

Only ever encountered two games I’d pay any Kreds for (Gemcraft Labyrinth and that recent, highly-rated TD which I forgot the name of), and one’s 30, one’s 50, so recommending them would be pointless.

Topic: Kongregate / "Hey! Are you running an ad blocker?"

A nice middle ground is Flashblock – an add-on that lets you choose which Flash objects you want to start on each page. So, you click to start the game and chat, but not the adverts on the page.

It removes the worst adverts (typically, the ones that move a lot, make a noise, cause you to lag, expand over your screen) but leaves the less in-your-face ones alone.

Of course it’s not perfect for the site, but it’s better for it than adblock. Been using it for years and makes the internet so much more bearable.

Topic: Kongregate / Ratings Etiquette

Originally posted by Moshdef:

Hey everybody!

I’d like to start a discussion about ratings here on Kongregate and what counts as ethical behavior for developers. I recently promoted my series The Ocean Around Me by telling players in the description that, if the game receives a rating of 4.0 or higher, I will stop working on all of my other projects and focus only on the series in order to release each game faster.

On top of this, I used the phrase “please be generous with your 5 star ratings!” and reminded players to rate the game, as I have noticed less than 1 in 10 players rate the game they’ve played (based on an average across several of my games).

What I’d like to know is, is this unethical behavior?

I’d say no, as you’re not providing any incentive. You’re stating the truth.

As long as you’re not attempting to influence ratings by offering incentives, it’s fine.

One game not long ago this one had ‘new levels will only be unlocked to players who rated 5 and added game to favourites’ in the description. Obviously people took it badly and gave it 1s… that sort of thing annoys people. When he reuploaded a new version on his other account a week or so later, silly comments like that were removed – reuploaded version

Of course it’s a slightly better version, but the difference in ratings is quite noticable.

If people really thought you were begging/bribing, you’d know about it via the comments. If it’s just a few isolated incidents of people ‘complaining’, you’re doing nothing wrong.

Regarding the ‘please rate 5’ messages – I tend to ignore those, as it’s just harmless begging. One dev put in a ‘subliminal message’ on a level of his game (it was a physics game, forget which) asking for 5s, which was amusing and meant I raised my rating to 5 from 4. Others rated it down because of it… so that can be a hit and miss thing.

Topic: Kongregate / Best of 2011 *Official Voting*

Gemcraft Labyrinth

Topic: Serious Discussion / Do you support Mitt Romney?

No… but then, they all seem a fair distance from my own political views, from the little I know of them. So nothing personal, Mitt my old bean.

Topic: Serious Discussion / racism

In everyday conversation I’d typically consider the word ‘racism’ to solely refer to the belief that another race is significantly less worthy of love than another, and so associated acts. That seems to be the meaning which has claimed ownership of the word for most people, though not everyone.

So with that in mind, I’d probably prefer to use ‘racial prejudice’ or ‘racial discrimination’ if taking part in a formal discussion or debate. ‘Racism’, like ‘fuck’, has far too many meanings.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Suicide

I’m generally OK with the idea of suicide. If a person does not wish to live, and makes a considered decision to do something about it, that’s fine.

Of course, I would rather such individuals spoke to loved ones first, took at least a week considering their options, and performed the act in such a manner that it caused minimal distress or harm to other people.

Because diving in front of a train at a station or jumping 30 storeys onto a crowded street is going to severely screw up a lot of lives.

Topic: General Gaming / Weakest Weapons

The club in Road Rash. 4 hits to knock someone off their bike with no weapon at all, but 5 hits with the club.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Are girls getting too sexy at an early age?

Originally posted by Darkruler2005:

Pedophilia is sexual interest in those aged 13 or younger, or in teenagers below 18 when they are 5 or more years younger than you.

16 is legal in a lot of countries. A 25 year old and a 16 year old is a bit weird, but it’s not paedophilia.

First part of the sentence is correct though.

Topic: General Gaming / Why do you hate premium content?

I don’t hate premium content in general. Actually bought it on Gemcraft Labyrinth, and also bought the full version of Creeper World. If the game is good enough, I’ll happily pay a little more to get a little more. Very rare that happens, as the presence of premium content seems to require the game to also be shit, but when it does happen… yes, I’ll pay.

I dislike it in multiplayer games in which spending vast quantities of money gives huge advantages. Like in those silly ‘found city, build stuff, attack neighbours’ games. Some idiots spend hundreds, thousands on those things. So if I see premium content on one of those games, I won’t play it.

And I tend to dislike it when not buying premium content reduces gameplay to a crawl. Like those ‘energy’ games. Won’t touch those either, usually.

And when I see it on awful games… I don’t hate it, I just laugh at the idea.

Topic: Serious Discussion / If you have children, will you raise them to choose their own religion?

I’ll probably just tell them straight that religion is a pile of crap.

Unless I undergo a severe personality shift between now and then, I won’t be telling them that it’s possible they’re being secretly controlled by extremely intelligent Martian dogs… so I see no reason to bother with religion either.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Do you think people as a whole can learn to change? To dominate the world in one union.

There’s nothing to fix.

So… no, we can’t.

Topic: Serious Discussion / BC and BCE

Christmas card with a snowman on the front… Christmas card with a candle on the front…

One is slightly more globally suitable, due to the countless different climatic zones, but at the end of the day they both do and mean exactly the same thing and if you understand both, it doesn’t matter which one you receive.

BC/BCE thing is probably (mostly) for greater global suitability due to the increasingly international audience documentaries, books etc are sold to. ‘BC’ means plenty to us as we’ve grown up in generally Christian countries, but if a documentary maker wants his work to be sold to India, China, Japan, it makes perfect sense to use a more universal alternative.

Same reason a lot of them seem to be moving to using kilometres instead of (or alongside) miles for distances.

That said, I still prefer BC/AD. Tidier.

Topic: Serious Discussion / My theory on the existence of the multiverse

Prove I don’t have an imaginary pet gorilla called Charles.

Like someone else said, such theories cannot be proven or disproven. Only commented upon.

So… it sounds pretty silly to me, but then I suppose Charles would sound silly to you.

Topic: Kongregate / Official Kong Plus Thread

Originally posted by HappyAlcoholic:

okay just buy this ppl im gonna buy it soon i live in the country so i dont have any neighbours except one we hate so ya.

lul. This person’s flags and reports will be given priority over all of yours.
How does that make you all feel?

Like a black Mensa member in apartheid-era South Africa?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Merry Christmas!

Originally posted by karmakoolkid:

Have a great time going into huge debt buying a lot of shit that will be under-appreciated,,, broken w/in days (from China?),,, and hell to exchange at stores where the employees are totally pissed from having to listen to constantly played holiday music & dealing w/ equally harried, frantic last-minute shoppers.

Add in pretending to be pleased to see extended family members you haven’t seen for three years and having to hide from singing beggars who knock on your door… and that could become the basis for a new type of verse inside Christmas cards…

Topic: General Gaming / Any good tycoon games on kong

Originally posted by Redd500:

This one isn’t on Kong, and it requires a download, but it’s free and you can get more content for free by using the in-game downloader.
http://www.openttd.org/en/

That is perhaps the greatest thing a person can download.

Had it a while, even better than the original game.

Topic: Kongregate / Official Kong Plus Thread

Profile skins… no interest.

Chat icon… no interest.

Special chatrooms… no interest.

Beta access to (come on now, this is all they’ll be) shit MMOs… no interest.

Those aside…

Double Powerup Rewards… I’m British, so I don’t even get single Powerup Rewards.

Ad-free… Flashblock sorts out the bad adverts for me already, don’t mind the others.

Customer service priority… should be equal for everyone, and never had a problem before with that.

So of course I won’t be bothering.

But good luck with it – I can appreciate the reasons it’s been done, and from my point of view as a guy who’d never get it anyway, it’s nice you’re not giving out huge advantages to paying players.