Recent posts by 123aaa789 on Kongregate

Topic: Technical Support / VIP

I’m not quite sure which multiplayer game you’re talking about, but it might be more appropriate to check if there’s already a forum for the game in this list, and then check if the issue has been brought up before.

Topic: Technical Support / Missing account

I’m assuming that you’re talking about the error with Backyard Monsters, there’s a nice thread about it already made in the Backyard Monsters forum: Cell for base “0” not found issues. Hopefully you can find what you need there.

Topic: Technical Support / Not receiving badges

Hello, first of all, there is a very informative post on the subject right here, feel free to check it out if you have any questions. It basically summarizes why you might not be earning badges, the main point being that you’re not connected to the API properly (make sure you have a green plug in the top-right of your chat window, not red). You can always submit a missing badge report if it persists, but always make sure to try to refresh the game, sometimes that’s all that it takes to get the system to realize that you’ve completed the requirements for a badge.

Topic: Technical Support / Could you please

While I cannot help much with the developing questions you have, I can comment on one part of your post; you cannot get an account deleted. The explanation lies right here. Also, I’m not sure if you’ve checked it out yet (or if it could be useful), but there is a dedicated part of the site for developers.

Topic: Game Programming / GiTD [#24] Voting

Well, after playing through each of the games, I’ve made up my mind on which ones I liked the most (there were quite a few close ones in the mix):

1st: The Floor is Lava
2nd: Wizard’s Quest

It was close between these two, but I’m just not a huge fan of the adventure game genre (it was still very well done, though).

Topic: Kongregate / Emoticons for chatrooms?

I’m sure that someone who’s good with writing scripts could easily make one to do this. For example, if it detects that a certain combination of characters is entered that’s usually used to represent a smiley, it could substitute in a small image for it from a database that’s included with the script. I know that scripts already exist that can figure out if a friend/moderator has posted and will change the colour of their name, and also a script exists which will notice that a link to a YouTube video has been entered and will display a hyperlink of the video’s name, so it’s not a farfetched idea that it could be possible.

Personally, I like how it is right now, it’s simple, and effective. Any chat I’ve ever seen that allows for these things is just littered with people spamming them, and it can be annoying.

Topic: Technical Support / Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 NOT WORKING

Well, since no one has posted it in here yet, this userscript will allow you to play the game on Kongregate, however it will not allow your stats to submit. This is better than nothing, since you can now submit missing badge reports with it. All credits for the script go to resterman, so thank him for it.

Note: you will need Greasemonkey to run this script, and it does work, I have it running right now and have been able to play the game perfectly.

Topic: Kongregate / Broken badges

I’m fairly certain that Sola Rola is completely dead and that a working version doesn’t exist (unless someone downloaded it at some point in the past and has it on their computer). The host site, Gimme5Games, doesn’t even have it listed as a game on the site anymore, and although you can get to the game on their site right here, you can see by the comments that it hasn’t been available for well over a year there, as there haven’t been any comments on it is a long time.

Topic: Technical Support / Kred not being added?

Oh, if it’s donated then it goes to your revenue (I believe), not your Kreds. It means that they donated a Kred to you which transfers into money, so you just made the worth of one Kred, and once you’ve amassed $20 of game revenue from ads and Kreds, you can take out the money, and then spend it on Kreds if you wish, or on anything else.

Topic: Kongregate / Gamestop Employee?

From a previous topic on the matter:

Originally posted by Zshadow:

If you link up from this page, you can see all the bonus features we currently offer for Gamestop Employees:

http://www.kongregate.com/gamestop_employees

Topic: Technical Support / inappropriate ads

There’s a thread which has instructions on how to report bad ads right here, basically follow the steps there and you can properly report the ad. The necessary steps require you to be able to see the HTML makeup of the site so that Kongregate can verify the source of the ad, and from that they can take action.

Topic: Technical Support / Game chat will not load :(

Basically try whatever is posted in this post, it has a bunch of helpful information as to why it might be happening. I know that this kind of thing was happening to me a few weeks ago, and that just refreshing a lot would eventually load the chat, but I can’t really do much more than say that, since I’ve started using a different computer since then.

Topic: Technical Support / Kred not being added?

Are you sure that it wasn’t a point from rating the game? I’ve never heard of games giving out Kreds, but they do award you with 1 point when you rate them.

Topic: Technical Support / Badge Problems

First off, the Badge of the Day that’s currently for Splitter is for 30 Kongregate points, not 30 GameStop power-up points. Secondly, if the badge is not getting awarded to you, there’s a button to report a missing achievement under the achievements tab when on the game, it will lead you to the feedback page where you can attach your screenshot and a short message explaining what happened. Also, make sure that the plug colour is green and not red, it has to be green for the stats to be submitted to Kongregate from the game. Hopefully this gets sorted out.

Topic: Technical Support / Requesting for night mode

This is actually something that could be interesting, I remember when the collabs section had a black background, and it looked pretty good, but it was changed to match the rest of the site. There are already some games which seem to have different backgrounds on them (this one shows a Left4Dead one for me, guessing it does for others too), and when scrolling to the bottom of the page it shows as plain black, and I’d have to say that it looks pretty good. If you’d like the option right now without having to wait to see if an on-site feature is added, this Firefox add-on might do the trick (I’m not using it, but it looks like it would work).

Topic: Technical Support / How do you change your name?

Originally posted by boyman:

I want to put a big “B” on the start of my name so it becomes Boyman, instead of boyman.

You can send a message to Zshadow, trickyrodent, or IAmTheCandyman (or possibly another administrator, but these three are the community managers) and they’ll be able to change it for you.

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EDIT @below: Or that.

Topic: Technical Support / Dear Kongbot

There’s already a nice discussion about this right here, you’re free to voice your opinion there, it’s not a technical matter necessarily. The fact that you have an ad-blocker running and that you’re controlling what’s happening means that Kongregate must have detected you doing something that it’s not familiar with (possibly blocking some advertisement somewhere), so it sent you the message.

Topic: Technical Support / Unable to report a bug

If it’s not working you could always go manually enter the information in the feedback page, which is where the link would send you anyways. I’m not sure why it’s happening, might be something to do with the link you’re using to get to the game (sometime having extra stuff at the end messes things up), other than that I’m not sure why it’d be doing that. Maybe clear your cache and try again (usually a quick fix for many issues).

By the way, clicking the link worked for me, so it’s not a general site problem. I’m using Firefox 10, if it makes any difference.

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

Originally posted by uuu2:

Originally posted by 123aaa789:

increased leader boards (top 25 is getting a little, well, small)

Yes this!

I was on another site that had this it, and it started some great competitions, and a good way to meet people who are close to you in points. Please add. :D

I know that ArmorGames has a global ranking system which tells you where you rank against everyone, even if Kongregate can’t do that (might not be easy to update for everyone), at least something like it so that we can at least see where more people rank than 25, which is just way too small for the amount of accounts there are right now (it was good enough in 2008 when no one was even near the cap, but not so much now).

Topic: Kongregate / Suggestions

Originally posted by Zshadow:

Thank you for the suggestions everyone!

This weekend or so we’ll be starting from page one and working our ways towards the end, adding any notable suggestions to the list. If you can think of any that have been standing out over the years that we haven’t done yet, feel free to repost it to help speed up the process. :)

Oh wow, that’s quite a commitment to be made (though I suppose that many of the posts here haven’t had suggestions in them, and many others might have already been added), hopefully it goes well.

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Personally I think that, to avoid having to do something like what you’re about to do at any point in the future, a suggestions forum should be added in, that way each suggestion can have a dedicated place to talk about it and hammer out any issues and gauge the community’s view of the suggestions better (if a thread in it has hundreds of responses, and many are positive, chances are it’s a suggestion that’s worth looking at more). It’s been suggested by many people before, and would definitely benefit the process.

Other than that, the usual things; increased leader boards (top 25 is getting a little, well, small), updating the forums so that the things under people’s names when they post (over to the left) are aligned correctly and in the same font (name, posts, edit, quote, and flag buttons are all different), and so on.

Topic: Technical Support / forums = useless without proper search function

Searching the forums is actually a very simple and easy thing to do, and it requires only a small addition to your search query. For example, if you wanted to search the forums for something without it just showing games, you would add the word “forums” to the end of your query, as each link with the forums has that word in it. If you would like to narrow your search even further to a specific forum, you would just put that forum’s name or number in the search term (for example, if I wanted to search Technical Support I would put /7/ in the search). If you want to search a specific thread, then just narrow your search term even more, type in the name of the thread and then what you’re searching for.

If you really must have a dedicated search, then this will search the general forums, and this will search the Kongregate forum (assuming they still work).

Also, it seems like you just came here without trying to search for it, I just searched the phrase search the forums, and as you can see there’s a large list of threads created already which outline what to do.

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EDIT @below: But my query was the exact question that he’s asking, nothing special, if he had put it in, he would have found out all he needed.

Topic: Technical Support / Kong chat is not loading?

Have you by any chance checked the Technical Support F.A.Q. yet? It’s really helpful and has lots of useful information. There’s a section about not being able to connect to chat in it even, so hopefully you can find a fix by reading through it (I would have quoted it instead of linking it, but sadly you can’t quote from a locked topic).

Topic: Technical Support / games

My first thought is that your browser zoom level might be off, try to reset it with control + 0, or manually scroll through the zoom sizes with control + “+/-”. About the message, it might have to do with the zoom, or it might be something else, possibly telling you to update your flash player to the latest version.

Topic: Technical Support / Linking games

Where exactly are you trying to link these games? If you mean in the forums, there are two ways that these forums support: HTML and Textile. With Textile, you simply would use this kind of format:

"Hexiom Connect":http://www.kongregate.com/games/Moonkey/hexiom-connect

Where the text that I want to show as the link is in the quotation marks, and the link itself is after the colon (remember the http part, it’s required).

If you’d like HTML (since it doesn’t break as easily as Textile, with regards to character count and restrictions):

<a href="http://www.kongregate.com/games/Moonkey/hexiom-connect "> Hexiom Connect </ a> 

Where you can simply see which area corresponds to what (sorry for the messy formatting here, I rarely use HTML, and when trying to post a raw example it often fails, Kongregate forums can automatically convert links into hyperlinks, but being able to customize the words makes it better. Just eliminate those obvious extra spaces I put).

If you mean on profiles, Textile is required.

If you mean in chat, simply posting the game’s link will do the job. Kongregate chat will automatically convert a Kongregate link into a hyperlink, if you want any link to become a hyperlink, this userscript will work.

If you mean in comments, sorry, you cannot hyperlink in comments.

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Hopefully I mentioned what you’re looking for.

Topic: Kongregate / Vote for an entry! - Game in Ten Days Competition!

If only I could program in a language to make games, oh well. Good luck to anyone who’s entering this, seems like quite the prize being given away.