## Content FAQ The few sections below outline a ton of frequently suggested content that’s been rejected for one reason or another, or is simply not feasible to implement. It’s a long list so using the search functionality in your browser is recommended to research something specific. * * * ### Random stuff I get asked about a lot. - [**Flash 2020 EOL**/**HTML5**](https://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-mutilate-a-doll-2/topics/513429-faq-frequently-asked-questions#posts-13230330) - [**Can't Enable Flash**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-mutilate-a-doll-2/topics/1839709-summer-update-news-adobe-flash-problem#posts-13161678) [Chrome] - [**Local Storage not working**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/7/topics/1782709-ff-v64) [Firefox 64-66] - [**Error 1502**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-mutilate-a-doll-2/topics/725152-bug-reports-2017?page=8#posts-11476387) - [**Game won't load / Black screen / I can only see a bunch of menus**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794/topics/725152?page=6#posts-11415825) - [**Where is MaD2 Local Storage? / How to back up Custom Items? / My Custom Items Disappeared**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794/topics/521014) - [**Local Storage Not Working**](https://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-mutilate-a-doll-2/topics/725152-bug-reports-2018?page=12#posts-12514980) - [**How to delete custom items?**](http://i.imgur.com/uyahdaG.png) - [**Collision Groups?**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-mutilate-a-doll-2/topics/586359-effects?page=15#posts-10163023) - [**Console / Commands / Home key?**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-MaD2/topics/543580-Console) - [**Joint Limit**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794/topics/605084?page=29#posts-10393769) - [**Doll revolute joint angle limits**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794/topics/711661?page=1#posts-11040182) - [**Local Models?**](http://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-mutilate-a-doll-2/topics/629030-summer-patches?page=11#posts-10533214) - What happened to **Unbreakable**? Unbreakable was split into two separate properties for flexibility, toggle **Uncuttable** and **Resist Breaking** to replicate the previous Unbreakable property's functionality. * * * ### Not everything from MaD1 will be added. MaD2 is a brand new game, and while it sports the same premise as the original, it is very different — and always will be. Some of the systems in the original, while kind of amusing, were horribly hacky code-wise and a PAIN to upkeep. There’s just no way I’m putting myself through the messy updating process of the original, where adding one thing broke three other things because it was put together so shoddily. - **Water** Water was amongst the first things I scrapped when I started making MaD2 because it’s so so so dodgy. It’s not an official part of the physics engine version MaD2 is built on, so tons of workarounds are required to implement it in the first place, and a ton more to make it work with all the non-physics systems (particles, temperature, etc.) - **Multi-part items** (e.g. chains, or the bear trap.) Simply too much of a pain to manage both state-, and save-wise. The system was never built to support multiple bodies per item, and the end result in MaD1 is very dodgy (as clearly seen with saving chains for example.) - **Ragdoll2** As seen in MaD1, there are several issues with the ragdoll2 (namely: damage and stability issues, plus floating bodyparts.) and it is not worth reimplementing due to its complexity. See also “Additional Ragdolls” below.

## Ideas rejected by design These are things that will never change, because they do not fit in the game. - **Ragdoll Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Feelings / Emotions / Movement / Walking** The whole premise of the game has always been about mutilating senseless ragdolls, adding emotions or actions doesn’t fit in the picture in any way. Lore-wise dolls are senseless fleshbags filled with a blood-like liquid, that contain no organs, and most definitely don’t have any sort of capability to think or act. AI or direct control will **never** be added in any shape or form. - **Organs / Bones** This is a design decision, and while there would be technical hurdles as well, they’re not worth mentioning since organs are a non-starter in the first place. I’ve wanted to keep the gore as neat and as simple as gore can get since day one, and decided to stick with the bloodbag lore mentioned above. Organs do not fit in the picture design-wise, and will never be added. - **Additional Ragdolls** The game has always been designed around a ragdoll that is as faceless and featureless as possible. Additional ragdolls would break this design philosophy and generally complicate things too much. In addition, different types of ragdolls would require TONS of balancing to make everything work spotlessly. - **Animals** Same as above, with the addition that animal ragdolls would simply be on a completely another level of horrible compared to traditional faceless ragdolls we see everywhere. Even if adding additional dolls were easier, this is a line I would never cross. This has been set in stone from day one, and will not change. (P.S. The trout and marlin are fake, and you can’t hurt the bees, so don’t go there.) - **Zombies** As mentioned above, dolls don’t contain any organs, so there are no brains to infect, nor organs for the theoretical zombies to consume either. In addition, considering there will never be any form of doll AI, the zombies would just flop to the ground like every other doll. Zombies simply don’t make any sense whatsoever in this context, and have no place within the MaD universe. - **Buildings / Vehicles** MaD2 focuses on itemisation on a room/lab scale, and has nothing to do with the vast open world or traversing it.

## Technical limitations These are things that are very unlikely to change unless a major breakthrough happens that fixes/allows something that was causing the rejection. - **Mobile / Android / iOS** MaD2 has always been a web game and no matter how many times people ask there just isn’t a magical way of porting games between completely different platforms. It would likely require remaking the whole game from scratch, which in turn is just not something I want to gamble on, considering the very oversaturated and luck-mandatory state of the mobile game markets. - **Stabbing / Bullet Penetration** Stabbing and penetration in general just isn’t viable tech-wise without a major overhaul. Box2D is a rigid body physics engine, meaning its main purpose is pretty much to keep things from overlapping. There might be some hacky way to make it work by messing with collision groups, but overlaps are super nasty so I’m not too keen on messing with that. - **Liquids / Gases** Liquid dynamics are very very resource intensive, and as awesome as Box2D is, it’s just not designed for lots and lots and lots of particles that make up liquids. For the record, Smooth Blood is **not** a liquid, but a rendering technique. - **Cutting Chunks / Holes / Carving** The cutter can only make straight cuts due to the way the item format is set up as well as the fact that the physics engine doesn’t support concave polygons. - **Undo / Redo** You can quicksave by pressing [C] and quickload by pressing [V]. You can also enable autosaving in [Content menu > Current Save > Autosave] to save periodically. Both quick- and autosaves are stored between sessions in [Content Menu > Load Content > Save History] if your browser supports storing data so you don't have to worry about the plugin crashing or accidentally closing the tab. Adding full-fledged undo/redo isn't feasible because saving and loading both take a very noticeable amount of time due to the sheer complexity of parsing all the things, which would make it very annoying to create anything more complex since it'd chug for a second each time you make any changes. - **Replays** Replays would be a pain to serialise because there are so many things are happening at the same time. A replay would require keeping track of every single input, and all the item functionality. None of the systems are built with that in mind. - **Multiplayer** Networking is crazy complicated, if even possible with physics like these, and I have pretty much zero experience on that front. - **3D** Games are 2D or 3D, and apart from a few peculiar ones built for that purpose, you can’t toggle between the two without completely remaking the game. MaD2 is a 2D game using a 2D physics engine, 2D rendering, and has absolutely nothing to do with 3D. A 3D MaD game is not planned whatsoever because it would require remaking _everything_ on a completely different platform, which is just not happening. - **Animations / Moving Parts** There's very limited support for this, and the item model has to be designed in a very particular way for animating to be possible (e.g. Security Camera's camera part is decorative layers so it can be rotated by code.) - **Saving Shrapnel / Saving Cut Items** Since any item can be cut in any way, there’s no feasible way of serialising all of the broken stuff. Saves currenly work by saving the item name and appropriate info, and the item data itself comes from the item list based on the saved name. Broken stuff would require the item data itself to be saved, which would bloat the saves massively (potentially hundreds of points instead of one string.) - **Saving Effects** Similarly to above, effects can not be saved since they can potentially appear dozens or even hundreds of times (overwriting other effects infinitely) on any position on an item, it’s just not feasible to serialise them. - **Materials / Wood / Metal** The item format doesn’t differentiate between materials at all. Every layer has colour and properties, and that’s it. - **Level Searching / Roleplay Searching** Level browsing is handled by Kong, and searching is not supported by the user content API. Generally, anything that is not happening immediately inside the game area can not be affected by devs.

## **Casual FAQ** I get asked a ton of repeating questions in the chat so I’m doing another more casual FAQ about the game, myself, and random stuff. * * * (Questions straight from chat [sic]) **What inspired MaD?** See [Developer Spotlight](https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1023594/topics/1817411) interview. **How long did it take to make MaD2?** A year-or-so on and off during university. And years of polish afterwards. You can play [MaD2013 on Itch.io](https://dashrava.itch.io/mutilate-a-doll-2013) to see what the game looked like on release. **What language is MaD2 made in?** / **How was MaD made?** See [development tools](https://www.kongregate.com/forums/9794-mutilate-a-doll-2/topics/513429-content-faq#posts-12496588). **Are you 1 person, or a team of people?** I’m a solo developer. **Your computer specs?** Linked in the stream description [here](http://www.twitch.tv/dashrava) Also [desk pic](https://i.imgur.com/RudZp5z.png). **did you code the physics engine yourself?** Box2D handles everything that has to do with physics and collisions. Pretty much everything else is by myself. **How do you pronounce Orava?** Orava is finnish and means squirrel. I generally don’t recommend anyone pronouncing finnish without strict supervision **what did you use to make such high quality gifs…?** I record locally using Dxtory, and edit in (mostly) VirtualDub or After Effects depending on my needs. **Do you have any side-projects that you’re working on?** I participate in game jams (48h or other short time to make a game from scratch) quite regularly also see my twitter @dashrava for general gamedev stuff **Do you watch/read/play anime/tv/movies/books/manga/comics/games?** Yes. Believe or not gamedevs are people who do people things. **What anime/tv/movies/books/manga/comic/game do you like?** Steins;Gate/SG1/The Fifth Element/The Expanse/Claymore/Walking Dead/S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series **Do you have other hobbies besides MaD2?** I bike quite a bit, and as mentioned above play games and do other various things.

### MaD2 Development Tools - Both MaD2 and MaD Lab are programmed in ActionScript 3 using [FlashDevelop](http://www.flashdevelop.org/) - Compiling plus some component managing is done in [Flash](http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html) - Version control and changelog stuff is handled by [Git](http://git-scm.com/) - All the menu icons and particles are drawn in [Paint.NET](http://www.getpaint.net/) - Sounds are licensed from various sites (such as [OpenGameArt](http://opengameart.org/) and [Freesound](http://www.freesound.org/)) - I occasionally edit the sounds using [Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) - Every longer piece of non-code text I write (such as this post) is done in [Notepad++](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/) - Footage for youtube and gifs is taken with [Dxtory](http://exkode.com/dxtory-features-en.html) - Streaming is done via [OBS Studio](https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/releases) - Footage is then edited using either [VirtualDub](http://www.virtualdub.org/) or [After Effects](http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html) - I mostly listen to my library of dnb, or [Bassdrive](http://www.bassdrive.com/v2) while coding

### Flash End-of-Life (EOL) in December 2020 ##### *"Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically,* ##### *we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020"* Full announcement: https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/ ---- **Web** You'll be able to play on the web as long as you can, but Adobe's announcement combined with browsers dropping support means it's going to be increasingly harder to do so. Major browsers have announced to be removing Flash support entirely after the EOL: [Chromium (**Chrome**+**Opera**+**Edge**) roadmap](https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap) All Chrome versions - Jan 2021 - "Flash Player will be marked as out of date and will be blocked from loading." [**Firefox** roadmap](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap) "once Flash is no longer supported by Adobe security patches, no version of Firefox will load the plugin." ---- ### **MaD2 Download** The download edition of MaD2 is already futureproofed against web Flash EOL since it's packaged with Adobe AIR instead of Flash. It's available via the links below: * MaD2 Download is always the **latest content update of the game** * **Supports the game**, its years worth of updates, and rava (thanks!) * **Can be played locally+offline**, is DRM-, and ad-free. * Runs in a **16:9 aspect ratio** window or **fullscreen** * **May have better performance** due to AIR packaging and lack of browser overhead, and won't have any browser-related issues such as the game losing focus, or page scrolling down when using mouse wheel in the game. ### [Discord](https://discordapp.com/invite/MaD2) ### [Itch.io](https://dashrava.itch.io/mutilate) (includes Steam key) ### [Kartridge](https://www.kartridge.com/games/0rava/mutilate-a-doll-2) ### [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/665370/MutilateaDoll_2) * Steam Workshop support for Levels + Custom Items on Steam. ---- **HTML5 / WebGL** Flash-to-Whatever converters just aren't there yet. It's not an automagical press of a button process, but requires feature support from the converter, and potentially rebuilding things on the game's end. My focus is on the Download version for now. **Flashpoint** Doesn't support developers in any way so I won't be supporting it in turn. It's a nice idea for archiving abandoned games, but not viable for developers. The version of MaD2 available there is an older one, and I'm fine with it.