August 20, 2006
Here's a screen shot of the progress map in the game I'm making with Day Dream.
It's turning out pretty well. I'm also going to post a Flash Black Jack game I wrote on GDS tonight.
It's turning out pretty well. I'm also going to post a Flash Black Jack game I wrote on GDS tonight.
August 06, 2006
August 03, 2006
It seems what I need to do for an XML loader is write it to use an interval for the load checker. What seems to happen if I call the loaded checker from a loop is that the loop sucks up all the processing power and I can't actually load the XML file... or at least that's my theory.
Now I need to …
Now I need to …
August 02, 2006
I'm working on a Flash XML Level loader, and I'm running in to some problems.
function LoadLevel( level:Number ) {
level_xml = new XML();
level_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
level_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace('Author.xml loaded. Contents are: '+this.toString(…
July 31, 2006
Another game to add to my casino collection. Here's the online version of my Flash Roulette Game
It pleasant to play... but not exceptionally exciting. I'll be posting it to GDS soon.
It pleasant to play... but not exceptionally exciting. I'll be posting it to GDS soon.
July 28, 2006
I happened to notice that several of the freeware games I had written were arcade style space shooters games, so I threw together a collection on a Space Invaders themed site.
enjoy
enjoy
July 27, 2006
I'm working on a Black Jack game for my casino game web site. Here's an early version that's still a little bit buggy.
Black Jack Game
Black Jack Game
July 25, 2006
I should be working on my Flash Black Jack Game today for my Flash Casino Game site, but I decided to give up caffeine for a while... and whenever I do I suddenly get a terrible head ache and become extremely unmotivated.
July 24, 2006
I finally renewed my GDNet+ membership. It's been a while. I've been primarily working on Flash games. It's a pretty neat tool, and you don't have to deal with platform differences (as much). Recently I put together a Casino Games site. It's kind of nice to work on Casino Games because they're…
April 06, 2006
I made Space Alien Invaders available for download on GDS. Also, Epoch Star passed 13K downloads last night.
March 29, 2006
I just finished up my first flash game. I'll make it available on GDS shortly. Really it's almost exactly like "Alien Invaders Attack" except it's 2D and written in Flash. The cool thing is it's only a 1MB download.
Also, ES passed 12K download. The downloads appear to be slowing down now that t…
Also, ES passed 12K download. The downloads appear to be slowing down now that t…
March 25, 2006
I finally read the article in Game Informer Magazine that mentions Epoch Star. In issue 156 ES is at the bottom of Page 23 in an article titled "The Top 10 Games You've Never Heard Of".
As it turns out, I'm #9 in their list. Here's what they said:
"Epoch Star is an example of a game that, while not…
As it turns out, I'm #9 in their list. Here's what they said:
"Epoch Star is an example of a game that, while not…
March 21, 2006
That was a rather quick jump from 9K to 10K. Someone told me that Epoch Star got a mention in issue 156 of Game Informer Magazine. I imagine that's where the spike in dowloads is comming from. I haven't seen the article yet, so I don't know what was said.
March 19, 2006
Well, I was going to post my first flash game... but it didn't seem to show up. I'll try again in a bit.
Sorry [sad]
Sorry [sad]
March 17, 2006
Epoch Star just passed 9000 downloads on GDS... but I'm still having memory leak issues. I tried using Memory Manager from fluid studios, but it wouldn't compile in. I ended up writing my own code to track allocations and de-allocations, but I just can't seem to figure out where I'm losing all th…
March 03, 2006
Epoch Star v0.91.07 is now available on GDS. I still need to update my web site.
Any opinions, suggestions, rants are welcomed.
Any opinions, suggestions, rants are welcomed.
March 01, 2006
I'm hoping to get a new version of Epoch Star out soon. I'm having some memory leak issues. Anyone know of any good/cheap leak detection software to recomend?
February 26, 2006
This weekend I got the 30 day trial for Flash. I REALLY wanted to learn it, because I wanted to do some Vector animation. I use Paint Shop Pro 9, and as it turns out, PSP9 has some issues exporting to Vector only formats. After struggleing with this for some time, I got frustrated and gave up.
So…
So…
February 21, 2006
I purchased a book on amazon called "PHP Game Programming" because the idea of writing games in PHP intrigued me... and the book was on $3 so I thought I'd give it a try. After finishing the book, I have to say that PHP is particularly poor as a game programming language. But in order to feel tha…
February 07, 2006
From GDS:
What would be a keyboard/mouse configuration that would be appropriate for left han…
Quote:Original post by Ravuya
Could you please add cursor key controls to the next version? I use a left handed mouse and would prefer to be able to control the game without hunching over my keyboard. [grin]
What would be a keyboard/mouse configuration that would be appropriate for left han…
February 06, 2006
Post on GDS:
Quote:Original post by mumpo
...I also noticed a variety of significant balance issues with various aspects of the game, but I'm guessing that you aren't worrying too much about balance in the alpha stage . . . and despite those issues I found what there is of the game so far, fun. Keep…
February 03, 2006
After some discussions with my brother, I have made changes to the game to cause your ship to automatically decelerate if you are not holding the accelerate button. I haven't put these changes up yet, because I'm not sure I like them. On the one hand, I can see it making the game easier for newbi…
February 02, 2006
I seem to be having some problems with additive blending and Nvidia cards.
It seems like, when the additive blended values of pixels gets too high, the pixels end up rendering in black instead of white. It creates some issues with one of the pixel shaders I wrote. I may be misinterpreting this, so…
It seems like, when the additive blended values of pixels gets too high, the pixels end up rendering in black instead of white. It creates some issues with one of the pixel shaders I wrote. I may be misinterpreting this, so…
February 01, 2006
Epoch Star passed 7K downloads last night. I'm still trying to work out the shader bugs on higher end Nvidia cards. Last night my new GeForce card came in the mail so I spent some time playing with it. Right now I have a version (not yet available for download) that renders the objects to the ba…
January 29, 2006
Well, I finally fixed that STUPID cursor bug on Nvidia cards (I think). I put out a new version of the game on GDS and my web site with the fixe (v0.91.03). I still need to fix the issue I'm having with the pixel shaders on Nvidia cards, so I ordered a new card from Tiger Direct. Hopefully it wi…
January 28, 2006
Below is a list of Freeware games emailed to me by Raigan Burns of Metanet.
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Umihara Kawase: running + jumping + fishing rod = "rubbering
platformer"
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3630
Cave Story: made by one person over several years, this
platform/action/shooter riv…
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Umihara Kawase: running + jumping + fishing rod = "rubbering
platformer"
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3630
Cave Story: made by one person over several years, this
platform/action/shooter riv…
January 27, 2006
January 25, 2006
Well, I'm back from Slamdance and I managed to take home the award for... umm... well they didn't hurl sharp objects at me while giving out the awards, so I suppose that's a victory.
I would like to congratulate the developers who actually managed to win something.
Facade an interactive story with an…
I would like to congratulate the developers who actually managed to win something.
Facade an interactive story with an…
January 24, 2006
I seem to be having an issue with GeForce Cards putting a black box around my mouse cursor. The problem exists only when the Nvidia driver is more recent than the 0.66 version. For the moment, I have been telling people to downgrade their drivers. Obviously this is not an acceptable long term so…
January 19, 2006
I'm off to Slamdance where my game Epoch Star is a finalist in their game competition.
Wish me luck,
Rick
Wish me luck,
Rick
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