Callan S's Forum Posts

  • [quote:1rvfypui]remember these waves die out quick so make sure you get a quality one done before then

    I think it'll be around for awhile, but the 'big new thing' interest will trough at some point, definitely.

    [quote:1rvfypui]1) Maybe a quick skip button for the intro for impatient ADHD people like myself

    Like clicking or pressing space would make the next page button come up early so you can move on quickly? I'm kind of on a new project now but I'll prioritise assigning time to go back and make an adjustment like that and upload.

    [quote:1rvfypui]2) I never really liked any of the idle games that had numbers with decimals, I always was like..just round! So maybe consider rebalancing the numbers a bit and make them whole?

    I get the aesthetic issue with that. I'm not sure about revisting Lizard Isle due to extensive recoding needed (as I estimate it), but in my new project I'm currenly using fractions. I was going to split it into two currencies to make it nice and round, but then went with fractions to use use one variable. But maybe I should have two - kind of like how D&D has silver and gold as two separate currencies, when silver is really just a fraction of gold. So I get your point, was going to do that in my new project, passed on it but now on reflection I'll have to include that!

    [quote:1rvfypui]3) How are you saving the game right now, is it just Localstorage or savegame state? One thing you might want to look into is saving it into a database. The easiest one right now is Firebase which rexrainbow made a wonderful plugin for. So then you can package up all the stats into some json and send it to firebase and then pull the data when needed, etc. Just a further down the road suggestion, but definitely think about it as you develop because it is a pain to switch how you save data after the fact..I have made that mistake a lot lol.

    It's in local storage. I'm not sure what advantage firebase would have? Apart from the user being able to go from one machine to another and still use the same info?

    [quote:1rvfypui] (especially that one you linked on Kongregate, how the hell did it get so many plays??)

    Well, I'm not going to lay into his/her effort - it has its audience and even if it didn't, they made something and that's to be respected. But it's still a surprising level of interest given it involves zero interaction - 10k of plays a month is not to be sneezed at!

    Thanks for your reply, Djfuzion!

  • Please, it's a bit rude to call anyone a hater or defensive (or not open) as if it's a fact rather than a guess. If you wouldn't like to be told you're being a hater or defensive as if its definitely true, then it's not a good idea to tell others they are as if it's a fact. Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you, and all that.

    So let's not escalate to that - I've faithfully answered the question by anticipating audience interests. There are tons of games out there where you are killing things - and so I've broken genre a bit by removing killing. Breaking genre has an effect, I'll grant. We could discuss the essence of idle games - I mean, in the killing games there can be an upgrade to frequency of auto attack, auto attack strength, active attack strength, etc etc. But in essence it still breaks down to clicking a lot or waiting a lot. So for anyone who is into idle games (which isn't everyone, which is fair) aught to be able to see the fun in the opportunity to click a lot or wait a lot to auto gain points. It's fair to say something like 'Adventure Capitalist' is a bigger game and thus a bigger fun - but they both come from the same essence.

    Like artists study colour theory by breaking down to the primary colours, I think it can be a good base for discussion to make a game that is broken down to the raw essence of a genre (and as a side bonus it's easier to complete the project that way). So let's discuss game design and question what is raw essence (of any genre of game) and what is really just added features rather than requirements.

  • At 10 urns an auto buy unlocks that buys in lots of 10.

    As said it's a small game and a main feature is that it is completed - I've seen too many amateur game designers think there has to be so much more or else and then feature bloat kills the project - they never complete it. I've done this as well, too many times.

    The thing is I've seen games which are about killing things which aren't much more complex than this - maybe buy more damage or stuff but it's still about clicking the same button a lot or leaving it to idle. Perhaps Lizard Isle might seem simple because its not about killing stuff.

    Edit : Also in terms of doing anything, in games like this one you do nothing at all - and it's gotten about 122k plays per year since it's upload.

  • Came here to say the same thing - my game isn't showing in my profile either.

  • I'm in Australia. As said lag maps would just be much easier maps to play for people who lag. Or people who are bad at platforming! lol!

  • Well, I'll go first. For me it'd be a game where you grow and sell food and it's not pure fantasy economics - the selling would be close to some sort of real world potential for sales.

    Wrote a simple game like that but I'm not sure it grabs the attention as games where you kill things constantly.

    Perhaps we can make a forum game of this - you describe the theme your game development has and then describe how you think it might not be doing what players might want?

  • What would a game be about if it were to catch your attention and make you think "Yeah, I want to be in on that!"

  • Heh, a phone as part of the adventuring interface - I wouldn't have thought that'd be a thing back when I was playing space quest!

  • Don't know if it's my connection, but it's pretty laggy - about half a second between jump command and jump. Would prefer some 'lag maps' you can choose as a user which are for bad connections and are pretty easy to do so the game can last more than one or two platforms.

  • Could you put it on the scirra arcade to be played?

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  • [quote:1t3jhnj3]from my little experience i can say that it is much better to pick something easy as a first project. My mistake was to try and create game that was too complex and to time consuming to finish.

    Wise words!

    If I could go back in time I'd say to myself every time I failed to complete a project, I should make the next one simpler. Eventually you get to the complexity of project you can finish!

    Is there some way of playing your game apart from on a device? I don't really use devices myself.

  • An idle game with a growing for profit theme to help replace the food generation Urns of the lizard people.

    As small as this game is, logged the time spent on it and it's at 15 hours.

    I like it - used (and credited) graphics from game-icons.net and from cooltext.com. Very nifty quick assets. Also appreciate the people of the forums who gave me coding advice along the way!

    https://www.scirra.com/arcade/other-gam ... -isle-9045

  • It's a cache issue... just refresh multiple times, or force clear the cache in your browser.

    I have the same problem, and usually refreshing the page a few times (or force reloading by holding SHIFT when you refresh) will often bump the old version out of cache and load it again from scratch.

    ~Sol

    Tried refresh a few times but it doesn't seem to change things on chrome.

    Oddly though some sort of time period does seem to make it update - if I leave it awhile and come back, it seems to update. Which is frustrating when I've still got a small bug in my home made site lock code!

  • I think the 'OR' block doesn't work right with while loops.

    Here's the capx file:

    https://1drv.ms/u/s!AobC4q3rBlr6ibx8L_qw4oTDgur-jw

    A counter is constantly counting up, to show that the program is running. When you hit the blue button, it checks the condition of two flags, for the while loop. On start up the conditions are set so they are not true, and we should not go into the while loop. However, you can see that the counter stops running, so we are in the while loop.

    OR is pretty screwy - if you're testing a value of an object in the OR statement and it fails the test, even if something else passes in the if statement, you will not be able to affect that object. It's filtered out automatically.

    You could just have a theloop=true and make the while loop check theloop to see if it's true. Inside the loop you can use multiple if statements to see if the loop should continue - if not, make theloop=false.

    I've been noticing that I can only update one version daily, or atleast mostly once a day which is going to create many problems. Just now I updated my game, but realized there was a game breaking bug and I fixed it, uploaded a new version, but it still hasn't updated to the most recent version.

    That's annoying for testing out any online only features (like getting site lock to work)

    Wish there was a preview mode - then you could get it to work and THEN it could have just one update per day when you set the preview to public.