EmperorIng360's Forum Posts

  • I have not finished yet with this task, mainly because of real-life business, along with me not understanding arrays very well.

    I have some more questions, if anyone would be kind enough to answer.

    1) Tulamide, when you say in your post

    "set timestamp to 'timer'"

    Is timer a global variable? Or is it a behavior? Same with timestamp.

    I am unsure, because I can't find anything preset that I can set them too. I am unfamiliar with CC expressions, and it looks like the Wiki for CC has been hidden away somewhere.

    2)

    So the way I am understanding arrays, they are like grids with values at each of the grid spaces.

    Now, I want a high-score table where people can enter their names, but I don't want something like "type your name here" since that is kind of lame.

    I was wondering, that maybe I can set up an array which has in each space the value for a letter, like A, or H, or a number, 0-9. Stuff like that.

    Of course, I don't know how I'd get that to work, but is it possible?

    3) Tutorials seem to be split on this- to do a score system, and a high-score system, do you go with arrays, or do you go with INI files (perhaps protected by CRC32), or perhaps some mixture of the two? Whatever is easier is good for me!

    As I said in my now defunct OP account, this is the last major thing (and it's quite a major thing!) before the game is complete, so any and all help would be appreciated, on top of the kind and generous help I've received thus far.

  • Sorry disabled again, give me 30 mins to update the site and the signature will appear in your profile for people with >350 rep.

    So with less than 350 rep, we don't have signatures?

    Gee I sure wish my old account wasn't glitched out of the forum every time I logged on!

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  • Scirra is like Quiet Cool.

    It's a place, but it's not here.

  • It looks pretty smooth and cool, Mr. Snool.

  • I would review the Iconoclasts "demo" and the Minitroid "tech demo"

    I use quotations, because they are by and far more polished and finished than a majority of things made with CC.

  • The thing that'd help the most in my game-making is the creation of a high-score table/scoring system tutorial, whether it be by use of .INIs or arrays, complete with an "enter your name" option.

    While Verve does have something like this, it's not quite the same (at least as a "traditional" high score table; for what it's worth, though, it like the rest of Verve is an excellent starting point), and I think there could be some benefit in giving a clear-cut guide towards making a high-score table.

    I've searched high and low on the tutorials and the "help using construct" forums, and while I've saved any useful bit of info into a word doc., there's nothing really dealing with the topic itself. Usually there's a "this is a strong foundation into making a high-score table" or "this works as a rudimentary version" and stuff like that.

    Believe me, if I knew how to do it, I'd make a tutorial for it, since it seems to me (through my searching) like an oft-requested feature.

  • Yeah, there are lots of Metroid fan games, but the actually GOOD ones are few and far between.

    This is one such of those games.

  • Another sh*tty update to youtube that isn't really necessary.

    EDIT:

    lol, my first time noticing the post-sanitizer.

    l o l

  • Sweet- that's something I've always wanted to know, too!

    But can it get even more specific than that?

    Like, from a point of 5.7 seconds?

  • Just bumping this so newer folks can find it. Wouldn't want this to be lost and all!

  • I was having an itch to make a game for myself, on something other than an old pirated copy of RPGmaker (which was the last time I tried to make a game, back when I was 13 or so, lol).

    An indie game-maker I know on another forum and am friends with suggested a good deal of game-maker programs for me to try out.

    He suggested several programs, and then said something like "blah blah blah Multimedia Fusion, which I use. There's also Construct, which does all that but is free"

    And I'm like 'HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I LIKE THE SOUNDS OF DAT'

    A google search later and voile.

  • I haven't cleared my caches or cookies yet (since I am hesitant to re-log back into every website I go to... I know, selfish), but I just wanna let you know that I am still forcibly logged out in my main account every time I click on the forums tab.

    I guess I'll just man up and clear everything later, but I just wanted to bring that up to attention once more.

  • I was emperor ing before the switch, if that's not obvious.

    I'd like to report a little bug of sorts:

    I could log in all right, after I did the "forget my password" thing, which would bring me to the Home tab.

    Every time I clicked the Forum tab, it would immediately log me out.

    I've tried this enough times where I decided I guess i'll have to make a new account to report this. Hopefully you know what I am saying.

    Other than that, a little different, but not a bad look for the site.