I'm afraid i have to agree. It feels to me more like an exercise in Tom's coding skills than anything else.

I know it's on the list, but can you prioritise fixing the login issues?

I come to the site i'm logged out, i click my alert it logs me out, i click a topic it logs me out. sigh.

I haven't had the opportunity to work on the game since i posted the last update except a few days last week when i added the start of some player special abilities.

The silhouettes will be the player hero character eventually. They can be accessed my right clicking the mouse.

I've done 2 so far, one sends out a wall of fire to destroy any bubble they hit, the second rewinds time so you can take the shot again if you miss.

The bubble matching is done with a flood fill using an invisible sprite to check surrounding bubbles. Different states are set depending on how many are counted. 3 or more and they pop. If there are no bubbles then they fall. I use a lot of functions so i can call various checks when i want, which makes adding effects and power ups much easier.

Everything about this game looks amazing.

Ulysses 31 was my favourite cartoon growing up, i feel sorry for the kids of today who don't have anything like these classics to watch.

How long is a piece of string?

This is awesome, love steampunk.

Nice clean art style, i like it.

This is what i was originally using for a game i was making a while ago but i found a bug in the way it finds paths, you can check my thread here http://www.scirra.com/forum/turn-based-strategy-like-advance-wars-devlog_topic74453_page1.html

I PM'd the author but didn't get a response.

I think rexrainbox does another pathfinding object though.

I had a go at writing my own pathfinding in Construct, it worked but it was too slow. R0J0hound made a fast tile based one which you could modify to suit your needs.

Have a look at the thread http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic74810.html

Also forgot, i modified it to include movement costs over terrain types, and cancels if no path found.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/159885981/AstarMAX.capx

So i wanted to try and find the funniest game review, and i came across this.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/558516

It's from 2011 so you may have already seen it. It's funny on so many levels.

Maybe we could start a list here, so if you have a favourite then please post.

Effects aren't just about presentation but can be important visual queues that something important has happened in the game. A good designer will also use them to communicate information to the player or emphasise that they are doing good or bad etc.

Wow great work.