Recent posts by jgeralnik on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / Donating Kreds to a game more than once clutters a user's profile

Tech support is almost never answered. Sometimes it is better to just post here.

Topic: Technical Support / Chat refuses to load.

It suddenly started working for me wednesday morning and has been working fine since. Either kong changed something or all the fiddling with random settings I did to try to fix the problem actually worked.

Topic: Technical Support / Chat refuses to load.

I have the same problem as Maglor. It worked fine until like a month ago and then just stopped working except on very rare occasions. I can’t get the Monster Mash challenge and can’t even screenshot it because how do you screenshot 3 consecutive wins?

Topic: Kongregate / Wii referral contest!

If you look at the front page under the kongai slide it says there is a wii referral contest! Contest ends April 15, 2007. Can YOU be the next time traveler?

P.S. Yes, I know the contest actually happened back in ’07. My point was that it is showing up.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / no enemies

Did you make sure that the actionscript file, the class name, and the class name you set the ship to work with are all called enemyShip in one word with the same capitalization in all of them? You probably called the file enemyShip.as and set the class to be enemyship.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / How many competitors are there?

I’m probably going to enter if I have time; there is a large chance that I won’t though. I would assume that not a lot of people are doing this, my guess would be that there will be ~1000-2000 entries and ~50-100 serious, in some way original entries. The rest will be like much of the stuff up now where they are the same exact code just with different graphics to show off how “amazing” people are that they can program. There will definately be some really interesting ideas, but there probably won’t be so much competition for the top 10 since most of the games will suck and get less than 2 stars.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Incomplete Games

You can upload a game and just not publish it…

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Experiance or Upgrade System (Unsolved) :(

Right, I forgot how the shootLimiter was set up. Just make a new variable (Vara called it defaultShootLimiter, I would recommed calling it something shorter like shootSpeed) and if the if statement say
if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)&&shootLimiter>shootSpeed)

Then you can pretty much use the code I gave you just replacing shootLimiter with shootSpeed.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Experiance or Upgrade System (Unsolved) :(

Make a function that is activated when the button is pressed. I think the code would be something like:

btn1.onRelease=function()
{
   if(money>cost)
   {
      ship.shootLimiter--;
      money-=cost;
   }
   else
      //Print error message etc.
}

Topic: Technical Support / What happened to my progress?!

Your save progress is hosted completely on your own computer. It has nothing to do with the website. Somehow you deleted it. Have you by any chance used CCleaner or some program to clean “useless” files from your computer?

Topic: Kongregate / I need game help

You CANNOT magically change a game to a .swf. You need to write it in flash or you can’t upload it.

Topic: Kongregate / Vectorious Alpha Testers Wanted

Sounds cool. Would love to test.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Experiance or Upgrade System (Unsolved) :(

Yup, basically.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Experiance or Upgrade System (Unsolved) :(

Then you also need to create a variable for armor and weapon strength, and you also need to scale the enemies so that the game does not get ridiculously easy once you upgrade. It’s not that complicated, just decide what variables you need, what class they should be in, and write them.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Missiles disappear right away

The tutorial sets the screen at a specific size and bases all calculations on the assumption that you leave the screen as is. This means that if you resize either the drawing area in flash or the window in the final .swf it won’t work like it should. Double check to make sure the screen is the right dimensions.

Topic: Kongregate Labs / Experiance or Upgrade System (Unsolved) :(

What did you try? Did you google? Think about how it would work, what would need to be done, and how it affects each class.

Topic: Kongregate / Remnants of Skystone Alpha Testers Wanted

I’d like to test too.

Topic: Kongregate / Email server

Sarcasm flies over you…

Topic: Kongregate / New Code

The formatting help never changed.

Topic: Kongregate / Fallout winners

Just reminding everybody, the winners for the fallout contest will be are supposed to be posted tomorrow. Congrats to all those who won. I didn’t think that it would really be kept quiet who won the whole time.

Before the n00bs comment, I am adding that the winners were already told a long time ago that they won, so you do not still have a chance to win.

Winners will be posted on http://www.kongregate.com/pages/fallout3_ticket

Topic: Kongregate / Zening Alpha Testers Wanted

I’m in

Topic: Kongregate / i have a question and dont know where else to state it

No, that won’t work. A program cannot just magically generate actionscript when you change it’s extension.

Topic: Kongregate / The Fallout Competition

The draw is over. For the thousands of us who didn’t win, there is always the small chance a winner won’t respond to the email and we were picked as runner ups. For those lucky winners… maybe you could be nice and not respond to give me another chance to win?
But seriously, any winners want to announce their existence besides kyutbabe?

Topic: Kongregate / Penny Arcade Expo 2008

Yup, Phlibbib, that’s the place. If you look the red sign says kongregate and on top of it is the ant.

Topic: Kongregate / We need to spend our points!

And plus not everyone likes Kongai. cough cough…

Blasphemy!