Comments for Fire Jumpers

that's what all developers love to hear, thanks! :D

the length of the hose is mostly consistent, but if you swipe you mouse really fast, you can extend the hose length slightly (hack). I'd love to incorporate a team building stage before loading the map, to select which units you'd like to use, however all these maps are balanced to score 1-3stars based on the units preselected. If users can select their own, then I'd need a new way to calculate score. I thought perhaps introducing virtual dollars to pay for different units, but that's a whole lot of programming! Upgradable units is something else I'd like to add in the future. However, before any of that, I'm looking to add new units, Bulldozers, improved waterbomber (maybe a fire-retardant bomber), water refill trucks, 4x4 ATVs and fire boats. Maybe if you get 3 stars, open the level up to place your own fire and wind direction for replayability. I get to put about an hour or two a day on this game after my day job, so it's going to take a while :) Thanks for your feedback!

hold SHIFT while drawing the helicopter's linePath to auto-drop the ground crew. The helicopter doesn't pick up water in the pro version.. at least not yet.

Thanks for finding that bug, I'll put that on my bug squashing list. Once they leave the screen, there's a small tab showing their entry location. On the unit's panel, you'll see a counter, like 2:00 or something. If you click on that counter, it'll start the count-down before the plane will return with water. If you click the counter a second time, it'll return the plane immediately. This functionality is designed to handle off screen pickup times.

Would love to build a Social Network around this game, it's actually phase 3 in our master plan to take over the world! To use it as a educational game, bring awareness to kids on wildland firefighting. One day, I'm hoping I can take FireJumpers from hobby to working on it full time.

Thanks, Pro version is more a training tool than a game. As for the fire, in step 2, you need to draw your own fire. There's a button you need to toggle to be able to draw the fire. As for the bombers scooping water, all you need to do is draw your path over deep water, the bomber will auto-scoop the water. You'll see a series of increasingly larger circles showing the scoop percentage to fill up. Once full of water, you can then draw a line over the fire. At this point, you'll see 3 bright circles showing the "dropzone" for the water drop. You'll also notice a number of dim circles which shows other potential dropzones. You can update the location of the dropzone by clicking on the actual linepath. A bit more complicated than the game, but makes sense once you get use to it! :)

lol, sorta. The light blue water is shallow water, so I'm thinking you are still touching the bottom. However the deep water (dark blue) is different, ground units' speed on deep water is I think 0.5% of original speed. Basically, you are swimming with a big chainsaw on your back. Given enough time, you can cross deep water, but that's why you have a helicopter to transport units :)

check this out.. it's a training simulator designed for our Canadian government. Not so much a game.. more complex. However it's got multiplayer. It won't be up for much longer as beta testing is near done. Way more fun if you get a couple friends to play at the same time :) http://redbloxgames.com/pro

hose teams need to connect to the shallow waters or firehydrants. Shallow water is the light blue water. The dark blue water is for helicopter water scooping. :)

Je comprend le francais, mes c'est plus difficile pour moi. Si tu veux voir quelque chose plus compliquer, essaye ce link ici: http://redbloxgames.com/pro

yes, the unit menu isn't perfect, it's on the list of todos, just such a large list at the moment. Chain orders is a great idea, just not sure how to implement it into the game without over complicating things. It's already quite complicated as you know :) Hose team can reverse, to stop any unit, just click on it. That'll stop any action in place. Units can't swap their tools, hose team has to carry a lot, and aren't likely to also carry chainsaws too. Besides, it's more challenging with limited units. Thanks for the great comments. Will look into chain commands, but I'm not sure how to simply make that work.

I had taken it down a few months ago due to a weird bug where after a successful level, it wouldn't unlock the next level. However, this weekend (Sep6-8th), I'm adding it to the US App Store as a request by another user. If you're in the US also, this is the time as I'm removing it again on Sunday night. As an Easter Egg, you can unlock all levels by clicking on the version # at the top left on the splash screen.

Tout d'abord, transport de l'équipe coupe avec l'hélicoptère à l'angle sud-ouest de l'incendie, à proximité de la population civile et les arbres denses. Vous avez l'équipe de coupe coupé le long de cette longue zone d'herbe mince juste au-dessus des arbres denses vers le nord jusqu'à la route, beaucoup plus rapide coupe l'herbe de buissons ou des arbres. Ensuite, utilisez l'hélicoptère soit bombe d'eau de la partie nord de l'incendie ou de sauver les civils dans cette même zone. Alors l'hélicoptère ramasser l'équipe de tuyau et le transporter vers le sud de l'incendie, à contenir l'incendie d'aller plus loin au sud. À ce stade, le feu devrait être contenue assez pour lutter contre les incendies sur place. Rappelez-vous, arbres denses prennent plus de temps à brûler, et il est difficile d'éteindre avec de l'eau. Essayez d'utiliser votre hélicoptère à l'herbe à la bombe de l'eau ou des buissons, mais il faut éviter les arbres que c'est seulement 50% efficace.

Hawaii is a tough one, it introduces the concept of using terrain to your advantage. Have the helicopter transport in the ground units to contain the top and bottom fires, pushing the head of the fire between the two rivers. The bomber timer should complete just as the fire reaches the narrowest point between the rivers, which is where you should have the bomber drop its load. That should get you 3 stars :)

not sure what you mean by chieves..

frustrating, just like a real wildfire! xD lol Thanks for the great review!

wow, been a week since I checked kong and such great comments. Thanks, means a lot! :D

awesome! :D

Check out our website for tips and tricks :) http://redbloxgames.com/

hmmm.. strange :/ I'm assuming you have the latest version of Flash, or at least Flash 10. Are you just getting a blank screen?

We have built a pro version of the game with those features, however it's not open to the public. It's mainly geared for real wildfire agencies for training purposes. We're also working on making this multiplayer, which may end up as an update for the game, but we're still figuring out the strategy. Thanks for your review, much appreciated!

Stopping the fire is ultimately the goal, however there are serious (insurance related) consequences if the fire burns too much property. :p

oh man, sequel would be awesome, but it's already taken me a year and half to build this one! My wife would throat punch me if I said I wanted to make a sequel! lol

thanks for the 5 stars! As much as I'd like to integrate the game into the Kongregate API, I simply don't have time. That being said, now that I'm done building FireJumpers Pro for our government as a training tool, I'll be re-focusing on the game with new levels and new units :)

We're planning to do more dev work on the game soon, however we've been concentrating on building a pro version of FireJumpers over the last few months. It has a custom scenario editor, improved Tankers, aircraft altitude, on-screen and off-screen water pickups, dual screen for operator/trainee view points, and the list goes on. Working on a promo video and documentation on our redbloxgames.com site, should be there soon enough. :)

Thanks for the input, we actually made the hosers stronger, but apparently, not strong enough. We've just recently built a pro version of FireJumpers for our government's wildfire agency and we've learned a lot more about how they handle things. One thing they also said was that only in rare cases can they not hold the line, so we'll be improving all their skills on the next update.

Second person who mentioned that.. strange. I use Flash cookies to hold the data, so it should keep the progress. All I can think of is if you cleared your cache that may lose data.

game uses flash cookies.. if you cleared your cache, you'll lose progress. However, I added an easter egg on the splash screen that unlocks all levels. Click on the version number at top left corner of the screen and all levels unlock.

Have you tried clearing your cache? Is this the first time you're playing FireJumpers?

Start by transporting the Cut Team via Helicopter and drop him off in the south river (closest to the fire as possible). Start cutting south towards the road (roads are natural firebreaks). Pick up civilian and bring him back and pick up Hose Team. Drop Hose Team in north river. Then use helicopter to water bomb northern edge. With a little luck, you'll be able to contain the edges, while keeping the head of the fire between the northern and southern rivers. The waterbomber timer should activate just in time to allow you to hit the head of the fire from river to river. Should give you 3 stars :)

Ahhhh yes, the Waterbomber! My favorite unit as well.. for now.. cause I have new units in the works!

got the music done by a fellow in the UK, great guy! If you listen carefully, you'll notice that the music is adaptive, so the volume of different tracks become louder based on the number of active units! :D

I'm assuming you mean Malibu. Transport the hosers to the far hydrant with the helicopter. While the helicopter waterbombs the south-east blaze, have the hosers run straight towards the head of the fire. Run past the dense trees and spray on as much grasslands as possible. Grass is much easier to extinguish with water. Once the whole left side is put out, concentrate on the final north front. Should get you 3 stars. :)

Initially planned to add a easy/normal/hard mode option, but I have such a huge list of other issues I've got to tackle first. If you need any help with strategies, feel free to join our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FireJumpers) and we can help you out :)

Thanks for your input. There's 3 ways the hose team can suddenly stop spraying. First is when the fire burns the hose, he'll turn grey and stop spraying. Second is if the fire touches the unit, the unit will turn red and stop spraying. Last way is if you tap the hose team while he's stopped, this will "unhook" from the water source, he'll turn white and stop spraying. Note however that if the hoser is moving while spraying, the unit will stop moving only and continue spraying water. It's a bit tricky I know, and we're working on a different solution to help manage unit actions and overlapping units. I'm open to any suggestions :)

interesting bug.. I think I know where to find it.. thanks :)

Don't give up yet.. I got a very good version for you this morning! It's just one guy building it, that's me :) This version 1.1.4 (see top left corner on splash screen) to make sure you have the right version. You may need to give it time or clear your cache to see the update. Anyway, as an mini easter egg in the game.. click on the version number at the top to unlock all levels :)

Thanks.. overlapping-units control has been tricky at best. Glad you like the update :)

Thanks man. We initially.. long time ago, added a crackling fire sound.. but on a phone, it sounded terrible, so we took it out. Still looking into music for the game though.

Good call.. I missed updating that level. The rating was completely wrong, thanks for catching that one. I'll update it as soon as I can, I'll also update this comment when I get it uploaded again to Kong.

Sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean kill the controls? You can't move your units?

It would appear that there's a conflict with Chrome. I'm having the same issue.. I'll look into it. UPDATE: Chrome seems to be working again.. at least for me. I'm not sure why it's not holding your data, still looking into it.