Have a nice break

And uh... I guess I'm back from my break.

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Please use English only on this board. I can't even tell what language that is for translation because it's just a bunch of odd unicode symbols.

Thanks

I'm not usually too big on fan-games, but this looks pretty badass

Okay, I tried the new version and the door works. I noticed that the game is also a lot harder now than it was before...

Anyway, a few new bugs to report:

1. It seems that you can leave level 1 by exiting the same vent you came in as well as the one you have to cut open.

2. Sometimes I get shot once even though I'm hidden, but every shot after that passes right by me.

3. When I died on level 3 there were two text messages laid on top of each other telling me I could press R to restart. I died a second time, and then there were no text messages at all, just a blank black screen (but pressing R still worked).

4. When I ran past the arrow to go to Basement 5 or whatever it's called, a radio cut-scene played, but it was the same "Frank, I'm in a computer room" cutscene as the first level. Also, I could still move the player during the cutscene (at least I think so... when I pressed Z I could still hear the sword swinging, and it didn't skip the cutscene).

It looks really nice, but the gameplay seems a little slow and easy.

Also, I had a problem with level 2. I pick up the key card and go all the way back to the door... and when I touch the keypad the card disappears but the door doesn't open. It kind of glitches for a fraction of a second like it's going to, and then goes back to being closed again. I'm stuck and I can't get out of the level.

This is really sweet. Good job

[quote:2f79rm3m]I've found a bug here though. apparently capturing the manual control somehow makes the "Click" control I set up not register when the user actually clicks the mouse himself so I had to make a separate event for that. Posting a bug report now...

You need to click the dropdown and select "Left mouse click". No really, that fixed it. It seems that even though "Left mouse click" is shown as the default for a new custom control, it isn't actually selected by default.

That's good to know, thanks

The StencylWorks page now says it's directly inspired by Scratch - is that an edit since you guys saw it? Still, I'm a bit disappointed since I always thought of Scratch as being an educational tool or toy (no disrespect meant to the Scratch folk though, looks like they're doing a good job).

This thread was the first I've heard of it. And I don't think the Scratch folks would take that as disrespect, I'm pretty sure "educational tool and toy" is exactly what they're aiming for.

Yep and Construct GUI look's similar to MMF, I felt it similar to MMF the first time I opened it and still think of it like MMF especially event editor GUI look's more or less to MMF

What?

Not used the for each loop yet, so this question is just speculation ..

If Sprite is Visible

For Each Sprite - > Action

Wouldn't this code see that a sprite is visible, then run the for each on all the sprites if atleast one was?

No. It would run the loop only for the sprites that are visible.

<img src="http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/3407/sw1u.png">

STENCYL

<img src="http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/3541/scratchw.png">

SCRATCH

Alrighty then, it seems I have found the answer to this little puzzle:

http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=26990

The similarity is no coincidence, they modeled the interface directly off of Scratch, with full the permission of the creators of Scratch. They also have recruited Scratch users to be Stencyl beta-testers.

Honestly, I think that sort of collaboration across projects is pretty damn cool. That still doesn't make the candy-colored programming interface any more attractive to me, though.

They have made some sort of cropped picture:

<img src="http://www.stencyl.com/static/sw/sw1.png">

Oh wait, this looks a lot like Scratch

Kind of reminds me of Alice as well.

Out of the three games I'd say the Versus game was the best, but it still felt a little sluggish and the controls were WAY overcomplicated. You could create that control scheme with a lot fewer keys by adding some context-sensitive controls. It would probably work better with mouse aim too, especially since you could solve the "press X to turn your mech around" problem by just facing the mouse cursor. Still it seemed like the most polished game.

Second favorite was the pumpkin game. The platforming was a lot better than the astronaut game, but they still sort of felt really similar to each other. Like they were made from the same template or something, and the creators didn't bother to change up the settings for the platforming all that much. I thought some of the enemies in the pumpkin game were coded decently too. It could use checkpoints or lives though, I kept dying on the falling-platforms-with-spikes-under-them bit on level 2. It seems they have a problem with the player staying rooted to falling platforms as well

I really don't like that GUI. The pastel colors don't help anything either, I think. Makes it look like it's for Children.

If that is indeed a shot of their GUI then yeah I'd have to agree with that one. But it looks so similar to Scratch that I can't help but wonder if it really is just a shot of Scratch. I can't imagine that they'd actually bite off of another game maker/programming thing so blatantly.

Yeah cause construct would never look anything like another application out there, oh wait.

Hey now what are you trying to say, LMK?

I'm going to jump in with a preemptive warning against Stencyl bashing. Not that I don't have faith that out members can handle themselves with a modicum of decorum, but just in case, you see

UberLou has the right idea... honest crits of Stencyl and it's capabilities are fine, but let's not perpetuate any bad blood between Stencyl users and Construct. Healthy rivalry is well and good but let's keep it civil.

And if your ire is truly bubbling over and you absolutely can't help but vent or poke fun then at least do it in chat