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  • Not Construct related, but I made a time lapse video showing the modeling, texture painting, and animation of one of the enemy characters in my current project:

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  • Getting between 60-64fps in FF5. Occasionally it will spike to around 55 or so, but not often.

    Dual core, Win7x64, 2GB ram, 9500GT

    Overall I'm pretty impressed. It wasn't that long ago that I couldn't even run a small embedded HTML5 game in my browser of choice, and now I'm getting good performance at fullscreen <img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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  • Would there be any way to filter out the default Gravatar avatar?  So we don't see this on the forum:

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  • Huzzah!  I can log in now!  Thanks Tom :)

  • You have a really nice start here. I am liking the gameplay overall, but I think there could be a few improvements. It's really hard to stop the player when you're running, and it's very easy to overshoot platforms, which I did over and over again.

    Some of these problems could actually be helped by level design. For instance, I was jumping across the moving platforms and reached this spot, only to miss the ledge and fall through the gap in the platforms. Then I would have to go all the way back up just to try the jump again. And again. It was painful:

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    If you just put a wall there you can keep the player from having to climb all the way back up if they miss. Making things easier for the player like this in the first level would help a lot. Allow the player to make a few mistakes without getting punished to hard, at least until they get used to the controls.

    Another thing that would make playing a lot easier is MORE CHECKPOINTS. In the first level you should have a checkpoint after every difficult section, not after every four difficult sections. For instance, you could use a checkpoint at the top of that platform where I am jumping up. You could use another one immediately after the part where you need to sprint across two big gaps with the gem in the middle. When you reach the first checkpoint, and then have to go down the small spike section, then have to jump across two spike gaps, then have to climb the ladder with the spikes, then have to swim in the fans.... that's way too much to have to do over again when you die. It the checkpoint is WAY too far back.

    So be nicer to your players on the first level. You are an expert at your game, but other people aren't, and a new player might get frustrated and quit playing because they have to do the same things over and over again just for making a simple little mistake.

    I also think that it would be useful to add some camera controls to the game, so that when you're standing on the ground you can press up or down to look up or down. There are a lot of blind jumps, and it would be nice to know if I am about to jump down onto spikes. Also moving the camera out in front of the player when he is running would be a good thing, so you can see what is ahead of you better. He moves so fast that it's hard to react quickly when an obstacle approaches you. And it's not too hard to set up a camera that moves out in front of the player a little bit when he's moving.

    As for the graphics... I really like the platforms and environment stuff. It has a really nice vector-graphics look to it. The player looks nice and is nicely animated, but it (and some of the other sprites) doesn't really match with the background style. It's more like pixel art. You might consider making all the graphics elements match up.

    Also, I would like it if the game started in windowed mode and had an option to go fullscreen if you choose. Having it fullscreen glitches up on dual monitors when I click on another program.

    Overall though it is a very good game so far.

  • Those are some birthin' hips all right. Chalk one up for chunky-thigh female protagonists, I guess.

  • Steam isn't next... they're behind it all! This is all an elaborate plot to get people to sign up for Steam! IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

  • I am a cynical bastard. There's no denying it, and I think that a lot of people here would probably agree with me . I am just very simply not satisfied with most of what popular culture or the entertainment industry has to offer. As such, my list of "perfect" games is very, very short.

    This game is on that list.

    I really enjoyed Portal 1. When I heard there was a sequel in the works, my cynical nature kicked in. "Why the hell would they need to make a sequel? The first one was perfect, how could you possibly expand on that? This is just an attempt to cash in on the popularity of the first game." Etc. I am very glad to say I couldn't have been more wrong. Not only did it improve on the first game, it DEVASTATED it. If Portal 1 was "great," then Portal 2 moved that bar higher to where Portal 1 is now just merely "good."

    Before I played Portal 2 I heard all the hype about it (but thankfully none of the spoilers). I admit that I did let the hype get to me, which is dangerous (especially for a cynic) because things rarely live up to their hype. But not only did it meet up with expectations from the hype... it was actually better than what I had expected. That's never really happened with any other game I've ever played... except Portal 1 . Portal 2 really is just top quality all the way through.

    I played it for about half an hour or so, but it was basically a boring cutscene that you move around in with some guy talking. And some easy "puzzles" from portal 1.

    There are a couple reasons that you play the first Portal 1 puzzles over again at the start of the game... the first is that those puzzles are already pretty much the perfect way to introduce the idea of portals to people, so for new players that didn't play Portal 1 it's easy to get acquainted. The second reason is all atmosphere for those that did play Portal 1... you get to see a familiar environment from the first game, and how dramatically it has changed since last time you were there. That direct comparison with the old and the new is a pretty powerful tool. It is familiar, yet something is obviously wrong. It was a pretty smart move in my opinion, as it sets up the player with an uneasy feeling right off the bat.

    Unless you just find it boring, I guess. Can't help you there, though.

    At any rate, new puzzles pop up almost immediately after that. And later on the game diverges rather wildly from the puzzle-room setting, even more so than the first game.

    As far as the "some guy talking" thing goes... well, if that really bothers or bores you then I guess you probably shouldn't bother trying to play through the rest of the game because you will have "some guy" or another talking at you all throughout. Portal 2 is VERY heavy on story. If you take the time to pay attention to the atmosphere and the story though I think you will be pleasantly surprised. It is surprisingly deep and engaging for a game such as this.

    And remember, this is all coming from a cynical bastard who is never satisfied with anything.

  • That, and they want to stop Silverlight from dying out. Seriously, who actually uses Silverlight?

    Netflix does, unfortunately . And Netflix is HUGE.

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