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Topic: Off-topic / Nonoba

Topic: Game Programming / In search of easy multiplayer game tutorial

Well, the free service gives you a helluva lot more than most other MP services. You can have up to 500 concurrent users. It also is completely flexible, you can change the lobby / chat, etc whereas Nonoba’s gives you none of that.

Topic: Game Programming / PHP<->Flash interfacing

Originally posted by SavageWolf:

AS CANNOT communicate with PHP.

PHP is run on the server, wheras AS is run from the host.

So determined yet so wrong. :]

Flash interfacing with PHP is how all of those logins are done…

Topic: Game Programming / for loop crashing flash

evaluator?

Topic: Game Programming / How do you make a timer so the object explodes after...

I think intervals are better for some aspects. It stops cheaters.

Topic: Game Programming / (AS2) Game slowing down badly.

‘or’ is outdated for starters, use ‘||’ instead.

Second, you must be running through some kind of for loop right? the index in the first field of splice should be the index for that loop. You should also run the loop through backwards now that you are removing elements to prevent “jumping” of instances on the screens.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is HDTV Really Worth Every Cent?

I regularly find people who say HDTV is not worth it or cannot see the difference has never compared the two properly or cannot afford a HDTV and so they just brush it aside. Some TV sizes make it almost a neccesity to have HD and for games or animated movies the difference is spectacular.

Topic: Game Programming / a few questions about functions (AS2)

No, Yes.

Topic: Game Programming / copyright

As long as you’re not associating Adobe’s products with somthing bad it will be fine. In other words, don’t use it if the game is anti-flash/adobe and make sure the game doesn’t somehow condone piracy or crap. All the stuff you’d NEVER do anyway. Basically, give them no reason to complain.

Topic: Game Programming / Final Tweaks (Solved)

Also make sure it’s in the same directory as the file importing it.

Topic: Collaborations / Tips for a Successful Collaboration

You have a limited scope of ‘flash games’. You are merely talking about casual gaming here. Plenty of RPG’s are popular in flash which contain a load of text and need writers (though I’d agree completely, animation to convery story is always better for people who want a game not a book) and a lot of downloadable, premium games might have a long story to them aswell which would require a writer. I think your point is valid for the kinds of games people will be recruiting for here but you cannot fit the whole of flash game creation into that one pocket.

Topic: Collaborations / Artist needed for top-down chase game.

Original post updated along with the demo, new schoolyard kinda map going on. Still looking for artist, if anyone’s interested.

Topic: Game Programming / Where the hell did my topic go? (Menu Problems)

Can you post the error output again?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is our military the strongest - -because of the no gay policy?

Why not just come to one of our countries and enlist then? We’re all fighting the same war and besides, we have crumpets and tea…

Topic: Serious Discussion / Zombies

Originally posted by DrJamming:

I was using ‘Virus’ as an example, there’s also Bacteria and Parasites which don’t have to kill what they infect.

For zombies to happen, virus/bacteria/parasite/other would have to develop intelligence and realise that it can use what it infects to infect more.

Already done. Certain parasites which infect rats will travel through their bloodstream into their brains and make the inexplicably attracted to cats (i.e, they will actively seek their predators), then when the cat kills the rat the parasite moves into the bigger animal. Clever huh?

And for those who haven’t heard of this, you’ll to google it because I was shown a book by my friend (classic cop-out but I’m sure it out there somewhere. :D )

Topic: Game Programming / Change part of text to other color

Create another bar instance and another dynamic text object. Place them in a movieclip and position them directly over the current objects. Inside this movieclip separate the objects onto layers and make the text the colour it should be when the bar passes over. Now make the bar layer a mask layer and expand that bar with the same code as your main bar. Make the text display whatever the other text is displaying with the same code aswell.
DONE!

Topic: Game Programming / AS2 random add objects

Both are fine, but it isn’t very flexible if you ever decide to name your objects somthing else than object1 object2, etc.

Topic: Game Programming / AS2 random add objects

 if(Math.random() < 0.5){
   Object = _root.attachMovie("object", "object"+_root.getNextHighestDepth(), _root.getNextHighestDepth());
} else {
   Object = _root.attachMovie("object2", "object"+_root.getNextHighestDepth(), _root.getNextHighestDepth());
} 

Topic: Serious Discussion / Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting - Que the Lawsuit!

People sue because of their own stupidity but this is not one of those cases. Crossing a road while texting is stupid, walking on a sidewalk while texting is not. She deserves compensation.

Topic: Collaborations / Need Team Help for Platform Game

So, will the maps be long or will they be like arenas (i.e. Super smash bro’s style), will the enemies all have some form of chase AI (they will actively seek out the player) or will they move to and fro (like the turtles in super mario)?

Edit your first post, make a neat layout with all these things which are gonna matter to a programmer and still, show what you’re bringing to the table. You’re still yet to post any artwork you’ll contribute. :)

Topic: Collaborations / Artist needed for top-down chase game.

kosmo, do you have a skype name you can whisper me? It’s easier to get a quick discussion going on some form of IM. :)

Topic: Collaborations / Need Team Help for Platform Game

You will get more offers if you post examples of your work (art) and ideas for the platformer (how it will play out, etc).

Topic: Collaborations / Artist needed for top-down chase game.

I realise an almost top-down game isn’t the most exciting project in the world. We’ve got sounds going, just looking for an artist now. :)

Topic: Serious Discussion / What if World War II never happened?

Originally posted by warsoldier94:

if WWII never happened…then one of historys greatest wars would never be talked about and hiteler would probably still be alive

/puts on old man voice
War is never great!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Is homosexuality a mental illness?

Originally posted by SaintAjora:

Actually, seeming as the whole goal of evolution is to make us reproduce, I’d say that is, if anything, our purpose.

Let me be a bit more clear. Evolution is not a person, it is not an entity, it does not think, it does not feel, it does not have goals. Evolution is a definition regarding a process of which reproduction is a part. That does not mean things operating separately from or contrary to the behaviors surrounding reproduction are not natural, or are you are going to take the stance that anything that does not reproduce in X manner is not natural – something that can readily be shown as nonsense considering a plethora of species that do not reproduce in that specific manner.

A quick example would be your implication that bees and ants are abominations against God, since they don’t all reproduce. If you decide not to tie yourself to archaic and limited explanations you might notice that individual reproduction is not a measure of “naturality” no matter how you describe the term, unless you don’t give a damn about creating a meaningless and extremely limited way of naming things.

Natural selection would happily introduce a gene that gauranteed death at the age of 40, if the upsides meant you could reproduce more (obvious logic).

Again, stop attributing human qualities to processes and ideas. It just looks silly. Naturally selection would also select for a gene that kept something from reproducing if it meant that thing reproduced more. If that doesn’t make sense, look up bees and ants again. Or the entire field of psychology insofar as it regards any prosocial behavior. You don’t need to take the extremes to understand it, though it can clarify the concept.

On a species level, homosexuals are useless.

Lol. No. Homosexuals are fantastic since they contribute to the increase of the survivability of the young without a comparative strain on resources as would result from a similar heterosexual union. It does so by certain types of limiting behaviors, although I think you can all do some research on the other concepts I mentioned before we go any further, since you are making things up as you go along.

If you read my post you’d see I did say that
“So while it may not be a ‘given’ or pre-determined goal,”
Meaning, I know it’s not thought process, and it doesn’t have a set goal but that is what it invariably works toward. And your point about them not reproducing being a good thing, that’s exactly the same effect as having no child at all instead of a gay one.