Recent posts by editundo on Kongregate

Topic: Programming / how to make a flash game without gamemaker

They are called flash games because you need FLASH to make them. After years of flash games being so popular, I fail to understand how people still don’t know this…

Topic: Kongregate / Holy Crap, New Navigation

I don’t like it much to be honest, maybe it would look better in red.

Topic: Kongregate / Buried Treasure Week feedback

chauang: See, my opinion is that Jumpcat is quite frankly the dumbest game I’ve ever played.

Awesome! Just the response I was going for! Seriously

GandalvGul: I liked Buried Treasure week, especially Jump-Cat :-O bq. trib4lmaniac: Don’t listen to the people putting down Jumpcat greg, it was incredible! bq. paladin93: It was indeed very good. I preferred jump cat.

Thanks guys!

But I promise my next cat-related game will be even dumber.

I think Buried Treasure was a great idea. While I personally didn’t think any of the chosen games were great, it’s still a cool idea, and I liked playing games that I would probably have otherwise missed.

Maybe in the future, instead of whole weeks, you could put an extra box at the bottom of the front page labelled “Today’s underdog is…”. No points challenge attached, but badges would be cool.

Maybe also give users bonus points in general for playing underdoggish games, for example offering double points (10 instead of 5) for the first 1000 players/voters of every game (providing the user has a score submitted via the API to check that they actually played the game). This would make people seek out less popular games, but they could ignore the whole scheme if they didnt want to participate.

Topic: Kongregate / RUNESCAPE does not belong!

I’m against Runescape being on Kongregate. Not because of it’s format, or because it is or is not a good game (I havent played it). I’m against it because Kongregate, to me, is a place for small-time Flash/Shockwave/Java developers to show their games and build up a reputation, and maybe earn a little cash. It’s not fair for a huge, multi-million dollar company to crash the party and steal the thunder of the casual developers when their game is already famous and popular.

Topic: Kongregate / Introducing Underdog Week!

I just got home to 50 bug reports in my inbox. I hope you’re happy Greg!! But cheers for picking Jumpcat :) Seems like it’s been a contraversial choice, but at least now I know how to improve it. I mean, I won’t improve it, but it’s nice knowing how I could :p

FYI (to everyone) “YOU SUCK” is not a bug report. It’s not a bug I’m willing to fix anyway.

Greg, do you want me to foward you all the bug reports that are more Kongregate-based than Jumpcat-based? Most of the bug reports I got seemed to involve connection problems which are out of my hands.

Topic: Games / ssbb

I like King Dedede because he has strong, albeit slow, attacks which launch opponents far.

I also like the Ice Climbers, mainly because it confuses the hell out of my friends that I’m controlling two characters.

Topic: Games / Super smash brothers brawl: Kongregate tournament.

I’ll join if someone emails me an American Wii with a copy of the game… or if someone persuades Nintendo to release it in Europe :(

Topic: Games / SSBB Snapshots

Seems like a lot of work when you could just use a camera…

Topic: Games / Mario Kart Wii Tournement

Anyone up for a Kongregate Mario Kart Wii Championship?

I realise this game isn’t out in America or Australia yet, so this would probably happen on a night a few days after it’s US release.

So, to become part of the tournament, create a Mii with your Kongregate username (or an abbreviated form of your Kong username), give it a profile on Mario Kart, and post the License Number/Code here :D Or if you don’t want to use a Mii with your username, make sure you make it clear when you post what the name of your Mii is, so I can keep track of scores between games.

I’ll be updating this list with all the License Numbers. Make sure you add everyone on the list to your MK friends list, so you’ll be able to see them when we play. Feel free to bring a player-two guest when you play – the more the merrier!

THE LIST:

[Username – Mii Name – License Number]

editundo – Scott – 5284-1540-9829

Topic: Games / Super Smash Brothers Brawl!

Doesn’t get released here in the UK for several months :(

Topic: Games / New game, THANKS to all the testers :D

http://www.kongregate.com/games/editundo/jumpcat

CHEERS EVERYONE! :D

Next up, Skicat…

Topic: Games / New game, THANKS to all the testers :D

Regarding the rechargable healthbar that Blazian_Pyron mentioned – after consideration I’ve decided this wouldn’t work with the current scoring scheme, where your score is added to the total when you lose a life. And with a recharging healthbar, people could play pretty much forever witohut dying, something I don’t want – it would be less of a challenge. But it was a great idea though, thanks. I might consider something like that for future games.

Topic: Games / PS3 , Wii, Or 360? The Battle Marches On

No-one’s mentioned the Wii’s virtual console yet; 20+ years of gaming, all accessable through a quick download. Although that said, I was extremely disappointed when I tried the original Legend of Zelda…

Topic: Games / New game, THANKS to all the testers :D

if you got to the shop and spend $50 on a new game that you really want to play do you not play it in case you get bored with it?

Lol, I actually do this… I haven’t played Zack and Wiki for weeks because I don’t want to complete it too soon. Anyways, I literally have over 50 unfinished projects and I very rarely finish making a game because they get tedious – adding in a major extra feature like a shop and levels would push the project into the “gah, i really can’t be bothered to finish this” folder. But I appreciate the suggestions nonetheless :)

Maybe put a big ol’ smile on that kitty’s face…

And so I shall.

Also, a boing sound when it jumps maybe?

Nice one :)

But could there be a score that I can watch get higher and higher during the game? Good job though.

I considered it, but it’s just a number that goes up at a constant rate of 30 per second… although it’s something I’ll add in if I decide to start awarding points for things other than time.

anything to reward the player for long streaks of not getting hit?

I may add in “combo” points for avoiding several items in a row, like I did with Rocketcat.

Also, you could maybe use some power ups

I considered it, but again I didn’t want to over-complicate things. If, when the game is “finished” and there still seems to be something missing from it, I’ll add powerups :) But it’s not a priority.

needs a menu and maybe a endurance mode

There is a menu and this IS an endurance game :p unless you meant something else.

wheres the cats tail

I always forget to add tails to my cats. Just now I tried to do a cool dynamic tail which reacts to gravity and motion… didn’t work though, so it’s just a plain old boring frame-by-frame tail.

THANKS EVERYONE :D Your suggestions are noted.

Topic: Games / New game, THANKS to all the testers :D

Thanks to everyone.

I would like to see a health bar that slowly recharges

I’ll experiment with that.

I would like to see more items to jump over, and the cat has gotta be cuter!!!

I’m too lazy to redraw the cat ;) I’ll put more items in if I can think of any that would introduce more of a challenge.

it might be nice to have a sound for when your cat runs into stuff.

Okiedokie.

Bug function: Loose a life when you move to the far left

Thanks for the detailed bug report, I’ll look into it. Welcome to the forums :)

choose abilities when it lvls up

I want to keep this game simple… I’m working with another game at the moment with experience, levels, a shop, etc, and I don’t want to over-use the concept or I’ll get bored of programming it. But it’s a good suggestion.

Topic: Games / New game, THANKS to all the testers :D

*EDIT: The game is now finished and released, and kindly sponsored by Kongregate! Go play it: http://www.kongregate.com/games/editundo/jumpcat * Thanks a bunch to all you guys for testing it and suggesting stuff.

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Hi everyone.

I have a new game in the pipeline and I’d appreciate it if y’all could play the beta and point out any bugs, glitches, etc, and also post comments and constructive criticism.

The link is: http://editundo.bravehost.com/games/jumpcat.htm

Thanks in advance.

Known issues:

• sound is distorted
• highscore submission not yet functional
• can’t pause
• shows the wrong set of instructions in certain control schemes

Topic: Technical Support / Can't connect to chat =(

How about that, it’s working now, and I haven’t changed any more of my firewall’s settings. Must have just been a temporary thing with my internet connection or something. Thanks to everyone who tried to help :)

damijin: I didn’t take screenshots at the time… dont worry though, I have this week’s card now :)

Topic: Technical Support / Can't connect to chat =(

A week on and I still haven’t been able to connect, causing me to miss out on last week’s card :(

I tried emailing Greg, but I got an automated message saying he’s out of office until the 24th – I don’t want to miss another card!

Topic: Kongregate / The Topic to remove Tags!

Just an idea, maybe it could be made so that tags have to be approved of by the author of the game before they are listed. This may or may not be the wrong place for such a suggestion…

Topic: Technical Support / Can't connect to chat =(

Did I do it right:

I went to control panel > windows security center > windows firewall > exceptions > add port, and added 5552.

Chat still isn’t working though, so there must be another reason unless I did it wrong.

Topic: Kongregate / My Ad Revenue Report & Fraudulently game plays

There’s no harm in you playing your own game, it won’t count as fraudulent ad views, as long as you aren’t refreshing the page hundreds of times to boost your ad revenue.

When I first submitted my game, I think it took several weeks before I had any ad revenue. I don’t think it relies on how many view’s you’ve had – simply how long it’s been there. Last time I checked, revenue was updated weekly so if it’s been there less than a week you won’t see anything.

Hope this helps. Possibly wrong forum though.

Topic: Technical Support / Can't connect to chat =(

For the last week or so, I have been unable to connect to the chat at all(light stays red). It worked for me previously and I haven’t changed my internet/firewall settings or anything like that since then. Is there anything I can do to remedy this, or is it a server-side problem? If yes to the latter, any idea when it will be fixed?

I realise there are lots of other topics similar to this about server downage, badge glitches etc, but I didn’t find any recent threads which described this exact problem.

Thanks in advance for any help, and I apoligise if I’ve been extremely stupid and that there have in fact been hundreds of people complaining about this exact same thing…

Topic: Technical Support / Speed of Kongregate

I’ve noticed it too, sometimes the chat box won’t load up for me until several minutes after starting a game.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Guy Fawkes Conspiracy

We dont “celebrate” it here, it’s just an excuse to get drunk and wander the streets while watching the neighbour’s fireworks go off. Just like Halloween, New Years Eve, and even Christmas, their actual meanings aren’t observed by many anymore.

In school we’re taught that Guy Fawkes Day is all about Guy Fawkes being caught when he tried to blow up parliament. Why that is of such significance, I dont know. It’s not like no-one’s ever tried to blow up governement buildings before.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Banksy: Artist or Vandal?

Banksy is probably the most famous European graffiti artist of the modern age. Many see his works as inspiring, meaningful, and insightful; but others see it as vandalism and destruction. He has also maintained complete anonymity: he has never been caught and no-one knows his true identity.

His website: www.banksy.co.uk Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

So, the discussion I want to start here is, is he an artist, or is he a vandal?

My opinion is that he’s a great artist; his work is completely unique, and portrays deep political statements, as well as being original and interesting to look at. And in the nature of true art, he’s not in it for the fame or money. All his work is done in public places for everyone to enjoy.