lamar's Forum Posts

  • Think I've finally found the root problem. Yandex search bot was going berserk and indexing ~10,000 pages an hour on the site which is way too many. This was causing an effective DDOS which made pages unresponsive. Am in the process of stopping them crawling, hopefully everything gets more stable going forwards now.

    Right on Tom!

    You probably already know this stuff but I did a little research and this is a great article explaining how to block certain web crawlers like Yandex that might help.

    https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2067357/bye-bye-crawler-blocking-parasites

  • On the second suggestion you tagged Tam instead of Tom

    Ooops! Thanks I will fix it.

  • Sounds like a good idea if you can keep cheaters at bay.

    It will be on my own games so no way to cheat the score. Leaderboard will be set up day of tourney and locked after tourney ends. You can play the game as many times as you want but only high score counts.

    I used to play and host lots of pool tournaments and card tournaments.

  • Burvey

    Once I get the website set up and my games all set up I want to start hosting tournaments for prizes. Highest score for a game over the weekend wins a prize. Something simple like a T-shirt or gift card to Amazon.

    The Scirra arcade works well for that to keep track of high scores and I can create a leader board for just a set time for a certain game.

    I think it will be popular!

  • Hi Lamar,

    Thanks for the reply. Setting the angle to no means that it doesn't rotate at all, which is not what I'm after. I want it to rotate, using 360 smooth, and then to stay facing the angle it's in when I let go of the keys. Instead, it just returns to the nearest 90 degree angle.

    Is there a way to move in 360 degrees, but keep that angle when stopped please ?

    Thanks.

    I should have asked you if it is a car like sprite.

    See ROJOhound comment. That should take care of it.

  • Nice. I'm planning on uploading a demo or two soon. I'll run them by you when the time comes. I'm polishing currently.

    Sounds good Burvey!

    It will be a few days before I start promoting the website. Still adding games and features. If you have ideas for the website let me know.

    If it takes off like my other websites and videos your games should get a lot of free exposure.

  • In the 8 Direction Behaviors you can set SET ANGLE to No or to angle you are using.

  • For a limited time I am accepting C2 games of the best quality for my Pinball and Video Arcade website.

    You will need to have your game uploaded to the Scirra arcade and set so it can be linked to or uploaded to your website and provide me the html5 link. Games with advertising accepted.

    Also provide pics of game screens and an animated gif of the game in action if possible.

    You will get your own game page and a write up in the website news announcing your game.

    I have over 83,000 subscribers and a huge social network I will be promoting this new website to when I have enough games to make people happy.

    Games that are a work in progress will be considered if game is playable and high quality. Games looking for greenlight on Steam or free or for sale as a stand alone will all be considered. You must be the copyright holder and have any appropriate licenses if game is for sale.

    PM me if you have a game you want considered.

    Visit Website: http://pinball-sandbox.comli.com/

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  • Tom &@Ashley

    Another suggestion for additional revenue that would also be a great selling point for game designers that have their own websites.

    Let designers put a custom logo on the game upload HTML5 screen that will show on their website.

    The screen you have does not entice our followers to try a game as they have no clue what the game is about from this screen and all the games show the same screen which confuses people.

    Something like this is how I would like to see my games when someone visits my websites:

    That tells my viewers what the game is about before they try it. You could still have a smaller Scirra banner underneath to advertise your Scirra website and products. It would also be great if that could be an animated gif so viewers get a taste of the game in action before starting to play.

    It would be great if this was free but I would pay a small fee for allowing me to put a personalized image in my game open screen in place of the Scirra logo and those of us with websites that work like an arcade would probably very much appreciate that.

    I hope you will consider this change!

    I think people are getting way too excited over something you haven't even seen yet.

    They will have a free version to try so no reason to complain about that price and it sounds more like this version is for hardcore designers that want to make money designing for mobile and consoles so they may not mind doing a subscription for those options.

    Scirra is a business and has ongoing expenses so of course they expect to make some money and like any business product they will have to see what the market bears and if it is priced too high or the subscription is not what customers want then they may have to rethink their marketing strategy.

    I am more concerned that C2 is not forgotten as many of us are using that engine and want ongoing support for that engine and our games.

  • Should work. Check your layout names.

    WINNERS quotes and excellent score

    You have to reset TRIGGER =0 after you go to your score layout or it will just repeat.

    If the second one isn't working then check that SCORING is actually being changed when you kill an enemy.

    If you want to upload your capx I will look at it.

  • lamar text boxes like these should show up even without any text in them, like web form boxes.

    Oops my bad- I thought he was doing a standard text. Yes the box should show up. Shows up on mine.

    I just tested a text box in my game in NW.jS to make sure and it works.

    Could be you have something moving to the top of the layer covering the text boxes when the mouse is not over them?

    Would need to see a capx but does not look like a bug.

  • i've just made a bunch of text boxes in a new project with nothing in the project.

    Well seems like it is a problem from my side.

    here's an image of the problem. It's pretty simple.

    https://snag.gy/Hx6CmQ.jpg

    OK I looked at the pic and it looks like you don't have any text in the boxes so of course nothing will show up?

    Put some text in your boxes and try it.

    That is not a bug and you might want to move this to the HOW DO I SECTION.

  • Looking great! Did you get the issue with snapping of new tiles figured out? It looks like it from the image above.

    UPDATE: I finally figured out how to do a Snap To Grid Feature in the game so now you can place tiles easily and they snap together perfectly.

    Just have to change about 200 events so they use the snap now thanks Burvey

    Just kidding and it does really help with designing the layouts so everything looks smooth.

    I hope to have this major update with over 200 platform objects uploaded tomorrow.

  • Every 30 second is the Event and checking the triggers are subevents under that event

    Right click on your event and add subevents.