At 11/2/09 09:09 PM, Johnny wrote:
I need to know various things like;

Is it fun? Addicting at least?
Does it run well? It can be pretty intensive, and it's a major concern of mine.
Instructions clear enough?

Any opinions on improvements? If it's horrible, let me know why at least. Please be specific if you can.

Constructive criticism GO!

Prismatica II demo

It was fun, though it seems to start out rather slow. As for the instructions, there's too many words! I don't mean that in a bad way, but you're going to get a lot of people skipping them just because of that. Instead of saying "Don't click these, they reduce your points" or whatever, you could just say "No click! These bad!" and most of the people who check Newgrounds will be more likely to read them. Keep it simple.

Also I had more fun when there were two stars on the screen at a time, so I'd have that happen more often. It ran fine on a Macbook but I can see where the effects could slow down many older computers.

At 11/4/09 08:41 AM, TaraGraphics wrote: Ok....I know this is stupid, which I am. How to place the preloader on your flash?

http://www.newgrounds.com/downloads/prel oaders/ Download one of these and put it on the first frame of your Flash. There should be a tutorial in one of the frames of the .fla you download.

This is a discussion thread though so if you have any more problems I'd look up other preloader questions in the forum search bar or make a topic about it on the Flash forum.

At 11/3/09 08:09 AM, Johnny wrote:

At 11/2/09 09:23 PM, zrb wrote: It was pretty fun but the fact that the ball is small makes it really hard in some places, I say it should start big and gradually shrink while exploding, like losing a layer of itself.

I got into the pitfall of getting really good at my own game, it seems. What level were you able to get too? I don't want to make it too easy, but having it be that difficult is no fun either.

I agree with him. Its to difficult. It just gets borring when i go a whole minute without hitting anything useful. Im assuming you have it so that you need to click directly on it to destroy it. But it might be nice if the hit area whent just a bit further then the artwork. Not enough to make it noticable that you are destroying things without clicking on them, just enough that when they are moving fast you have a higher chance of hitting it.

The explosions 'freezing' is not an intended event, and to accommodate for it I tried various ways to remove the objects from the screen so that if one froze, it wouldn't linger there. I was hoping the problem would be small enough that it would hardly be noticed.

I got alot of unfinished explosions. It is very noticeable at the moment.

Maybe you can increase the number of upgrades that come out. There a little to rare of an occurance. And a nice visual cue that getting the upgrade actually did something. Like the red orbs pulsing or something more dramatic. Seems in this kind of game you have alot of chances to do some crazy effects.

But yah, good game. Might want to tweek it around to make it a little more enjoyable over more then a minute or two of gameplay, but its going good so far.

At 11/2/09 09:09 PM, Johnny wrote: Prismatica II demo

First of all, I wasn't sure whether I would be penalised for hitting the PRISMS 'through' a star (i.e. if I clicked on a star while it was on top of a PRISM). Also, I would suggest a quick 'video' tutorial to explain the rules.
Secondly, one of the strange things about people is that they would rather be told that they had to act fast than get slightly bored and decide to act fast anyway. Since your game can easily be played through patience (and so encouraging this boring wait), you may wish to put a timer in - not too strict, but enough to keep players on their toes.
Is a negative multiplier a good idea? It's kind of counter-productive when hitting stars makes you lose points (although I was happy to see that you could redeem your multiplayer by playing well).

Anyway, good luck with the project!

Wolfram Alpha

Anyone else use it? I'm just amazed at how versatile it is. (I kinda pillaged it in that example but you get my drift.) In my opinion it's a lot more useful than wikipedia for research, but that's mainly as I do sciency and maths things for A level, so everything is given conclolisely and nicely but not explained detail.

Also: lol

Wolfram Alpha

I like it (though the £30 ipod app is stupid). It's a good take on a search engine and as you said its very good for more scientific queries. I wish it could compare graphs though (unless i am mistaken), that would be very handy.

At 11/4/09 07:11 PM, citricsquid wrote: you might appreciate

That is a really novel idea, very addicting

Wolfram Alpha

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.

Cunts

Do you know who are cunts? Everyone. But more cuntish than most is BT. They're my ISP atm. The internet has been "unavailable" twice already, within 2 months, which is already two times too many. ATM I'm getting less than broadband speeds (i.e. I'm paying for a rabbit and getting a snail). By rights I should be allowed to fuck Mr.BT's wife/daughter.

When my glorious revolution happens these cunts will be first up against the wall.

FUCK BT.

For those on a mac:

Applications/Utilities/Grapher.app

one of the coolest hidden gems in the computer if you like math

it can graph like... anything!

At 11/4/09 07:11 PM, citricsquid wrote: you might appreciate

awesome

At 11/4/09 09:51 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

When my glorious revolution happens these cunts will be first up against the wall.

FUCK BT.

my internet is stupidly slow, but my mom won't upgrade because she doesn't realize how slow it really is.

also, what the hell is the new programmer calculator in windows 7? go to the calculator and go view > programmer.

i can't make heads or tails of it. i've never heard of any of these functions (RoR, RoL, XoR, Rsh, Not, And, Or, Mod, Lsh)

At 11/5/09 01:57 AM, fluffkomix wrote: i can't make heads or tails of it. i've never heard of any of these functions (RoR, RoL, XoR, Rsh, Not, And, Or, Mod, Lsh)

Hm maybe it's for programming chips in electrical circuits?

At 11/5/09 01:57 AM, fluffkomix wrote: i can't make heads or tails of it. i've never heard of any of these functions (RoR, RoL, XoR, Rsh, Not, And, Or, Mod, Lsh)

my guesses
RoR = Rotate Right
01001110 -> 00100111 -> 10010011

RoL = rotate left (reverse of above)
01001110 -> 10011100 -> 00111001

XOR = exclusive or:

0 XOR 0 = 0
0 XOR 1 = 1
1 XOR 0 = 1
1 XOR 1 = 0

Rsh = Right Shift
01001110 -> 00100111 -> 00010011

Lsh = Left Shift
01001110 -> 10011100 -> 00111000

NOT = inverse
0 -> 1
1 -> 0
01001110 -> 10110001

AND = and
1 AND 1 = 1
0 AND 1 = 0
1 AND 0 = 0
0 AND 0 = 0

OR = or
1 OR 1 = 1
1 OR 0 = 1
0 OR 1 = 1
0 OR 0 = 0

MOD = modulus (remainder)
31 MOD 10 = 1 (31/10 = 3 remainder 1)
8 MOD 3 = 2 (8/3 = 2 remainder 2)

You guys and your code...i dont even know why i'm posting this. i'm so tired i feel like im constantly squinting and its 4 30 am. goodnight.

this was wasteful.

At 11/4/09 07:11 PM, citricsquid wrote: you might appreciate

I didn't get it at first, I didn't read the instructions and I was just told to "put your mouse here" twice so I did, then I was like ok I have to rotate it to make it resemble the picture, and was just twirling at random til it looked like it, then I discovered it's actually quite easy to do if you actually think about the picture you're recreating. Very cool idea, very well done.

At 11/5/09 01:42 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Applications/Utilities/Grapher.app

I shall look into it on my friends Mac. Graphs are fun.

At 11/4/09 09:51 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Cunts

I'm with virgin media, 20mbit line between 5 of us (4 of which are computing students i.e. heavy internet users). The only real problem we have is if someone is using too much bandwith, it can be hard to isolate.. sometimes someone isn't capping their uploads, it may be a virus/botnet, or maybe just the router being a bitch :X It's fine in general though.

At 11/5/09 01:57 AM, fluffkomix wrote: i can't make heads or tails of it. i've never heard of any of these functions (RoR, RoL, XoR, Rsh, Not, And, Or, Mod, Lsh)

The windows 7 programming calculator is very nice. Those functions are all bitwise operators.. you may know them better (or not) as |, &, %, ^, <<, >>, etc. They perform functions on binary data (as Glaiel showed very well). Bitwise operations are very fast.

My brain hurts. I joined the 11 Second Animation Club and just voted on over 200 entries for October. So many were so similar that I can hardly think straight right now...

On the plus side, I got a lot of great practice in telling good animation from bad.

At 11/5/09 12:13 PM, JKR wrote: My brain hurts. I joined the 11 Second Animation Club and just voted on over 200 entries for October. So many were so similar that I can hardly think straight right now...

On the plus side, I got a lot of great practice in telling good animation from bad.

You going to submit something for November? I've been meaning to put something up there, but my schoolwork gets in the way so much.

Yeah, I plan to try. Though after watching some of the awesome things they have for October, I think this will be more for my own practice than any hope of winning. :)

I'll work at it though! Maybe set a goal to one day get first place in one of these. Could be fun.

I hear you about the time thing, though. Work takes up most, then the Shades of Orange collab gets the rest, so I think I'll be fitting in a November entry for 11 Seconds sometime between 2AM and 5AM, lol.

Is today guy fawks day/night?

At 11/5/09 02:47 PM, BoMToons wrote: Is today guy fawks day/night?

Yes. Yes it is.

At 11/5/09 03:25 PM, adman1993 wrote:

At 11/5/09 02:47 PM, BoMToons wrote: Is today guy fawks day/night?

Yes. Yes it is.

Is it comparable to the US's fourth of july?

At 11/5/09 04:09 PM, Starogre wrote:

At 11/5/09 03:25 PM, adman1993 wrote:

At 11/5/09 02:47 PM, BoMToons wrote: Is today guy fawks day/night?

Yes. Yes it is.

Is it comparable to the US's fourth of july?

I guess so. But we're celebrating a foiled terrorist plot (which is my opinion is dumb), what does the 4th of July celebrate?

Also, the British don't celebrate any holiday as much as you yanks do. Christmas is the only holiday we really celebrate

At 11/5/09 05:08 PM, Rustygames wrote: what does the 4th of July celebrate?

America gaining it's independence from the Brits.

4th of July is synonymous with Independence Day.

I thought that was when jeff goldblum figured out how to trickle down the virus through the mothership?

At 11/5/09 02:05 PM, JKR wrote: Yeah, I plan to try. Though after watching some of the awesome things they have for October, I think this will be more for my own practice than any hope of winning. :)

I'll work at it though! Maybe set a goal to one day get first place in one of these. Could be fun.

I hear you about the time thing, though. Work takes up most, then the Shades of Orange collab gets the rest, so I think I'll be fitting in a November entry for 11 Seconds sometime between 2AM and 5AM, lol.

Good luck mate! Last time I tried to finish one on time, it ended up being half done and 10 times worse than the rest, :P. My acting looked like an epileptic nightmare.

At 11/5/09 06:15 PM, Coaly wrote: I thought that was when jeff goldblum figured out how to trickle down the virus through the mothership?

Blank post.

At 11/5/09 05:08 PM, Rustygames wrote: I guess so. But we're celebrating a foiled terrorist plot (which is my opinion is dumb)

Yes it's dumb, but people just like to burn things and fireworks are cool so.. I'm assuming that is why it's survived so long.

Also, the British don't celebrate any holiday as much as you yanks do. Christmas is the only holiday we really celebrate

Eh, New Years Eve (which is kinda 'part' of Christmas because it's in the Christmas season) is really well celebrated. St. Patricks day is also really well celebrated. We celebrate Halloween but not as much as the Americans, which is strange because it's a celtic thing, but still.

At 11/5/09 07:30 PM, PBass wrote:
Good luck mate! Last time I tried to finish one on time, it ended up being half done and 10 times worse than the rest, :P. My acting looked like an epileptic nightmare.

Well my goal for this one is going to be "Place in the top 50%" and if I don't then that will remain my goal for the December one! I just hope it goes okay since so many are 3D and I'll be doing sweet ol' 2D.

Do you still have the one you did? I'd love to see it, just for kicks. What month/year were you doing?

made it 6 days without drinking coffee... crappiest week ever I can't live like this.

*makes coffee*