yeah, my point wasn't that every ff is a great game

my point is that ff, while staying true to the ff formula

changes around the battle system, experiments with different types of graphics

jumps from serious stories and art in one game, to lighthearted stories and art in the next

and they increase the amount of time they spend on each game

instead of digging deeper and deeper into this hole of sameness that nintendo does

final fantasy isn't even a good example, but yeah, almost anyone old enough to have been a big fan of all things nintendo in the snes days understands the deterioration I'm talking about

btw, that "this is a family system" is exactly what I'm talking about

it's an excuse, not a reason

"these are dumb kids, they'll play anything"

that's their logic

crank out something quick, it doesn't have to look good, there doesn't have to be much to it

just throw a picachu in there, and maybe a mario, make it easy

pixar movies are intelligent, deep, and moving

little big planet is beautiful, creative, and innovative

it makes your imagination soar with it's gorgeous visuals

and then let's you apply those ideas to your own levels

and if it's such a family system, why can't I play 4 player mario?

anyway, little big planet is a perfect example of what I mean, it's better in every way as a platformer, and a family game than mario

so davio either missed the point, or was just trying to be funny

nintendo should be amazing us with some new totally different type of gameplay

some awesome new world

not damn, bang your controller 80 times warioware garbage

stick figure, move your arm every once in a while wii sports

and sameass, hasn't changed much since n64 zelda and mario gameplay

you can be fanboys and defend it till the end,

but quality and creativity is elsewhere, not with nintendo

they've lost their way

anyone I know, kids or not

who own a wii and another system

rarely plays their wii

it just sucks

and so does nintendo, at least right now

it doesn't have to be permanent

and it's just my opinion

super metroid was a new world

super mario was a new world

link to the past was a new world

they had staple from old games yes, but they had minds back then, and they used them to come up with ideas

everything now is just recycled

none of it's new, none of it's exciting

I know the other systems cost more, so not everyone can try them

but if you've played a truly new title, you realize how irrelevant wii and nintendo have become

deadeye, I feel your pain brother

What else can i say? When loads of money is involved the overall quality cap is going lower. But we all know that. Still new metroid looks awsome!

New metroid looks like it's closer to what it should be,

but when I see the preview, I don't get the same feeling of being in an alien world thriving with mystery and creativity. Even with the 16 bit graphics, it manages a better job of pulling you in.

and as far as quality caps lowering with loads of money. I think you should play some valve games. also maybe watch a pixar movie or two. Team Fortress 2 long ago reach it's sales peak, and still on a regular basis I get updates that change the gameplay, or add new levels. I didn't like final fantasy x, or x2 as much as others, but both contained changes and expirements in gameplay, a completely different type of story, different themes, new environments and worlds. I also haven't had the pleasure of playing part 12, but I heard it's a return to form, once again, a rehauled graphics and game engine.

and about pixar, I know those are movies, not games, but it's a perfect example of a company getting insane profit, and record breaking sales each time they show their face, and they use those extra resources to up the quality, and their popularity and reputation as motivation to soar to new heights, instead of as a crutch. Wall-E, and Up are of a whole new standard of quality in storytelling, and visual quality. they didn't have to outdo themselves, but they did. They care about making something amazing. [rant]Nintendo doesn't seem to anymore. It's all about gimmicks and selling systems. and about the hardware I know it was designed not to compete with the highpower nextgens, but stand in it's own lower price market. but the wii is completely pathetic. I owned one for a while. MOST of the games look worse than gamecube games. why does it need to be stick figures just because a game isn't about graphics? If it's all about gameplay, then the wii controller should have been for the gamecube. It should have been included with all new gamecubes, and available in an expensive bundle with a new mario game or a new zelda game. The wii isn't powerful enough to justify being a new system. Nintendo's fallen off the wagon, and now with xbox360, and ps3 entering the motion controller game in full force, and destroying even wii's enhanced wiimote. etc etc etc[/rant] didn't have time to finish my rant. something came up, but it wouldve gone on for pages anyway

I haven't tried it but

duplicate makes a whole new type

ie, sprite2, instead of another sprite1

and to clone a sprite, you just copy as normal, and then paste to layout, using paste clone, instead of just paste

A penguin drives to a walrus mechanic, because he is experiencing car trouble.

while the car is in the shop, he takes a walk to a nearby ice cream shop. he orders vanilla.

since he is a penguin, and has stiff wings, instead of arms and hands, he makes a mess and gets ice cream all over his face.

he get's back to the shop to pick up his car,

and the walrus has just completed the diagnosis.

he says to the penguin, "it looks like you blew a seal"

and the penguin says, "oh, no, that's just ice cream."

this is just and excuse not to work on the onin pgin

pointless observation:

nintendo is to games, what disney is to movies and animation.

they both have remarkable skill at their disposal, but choose to squander it, in order not to taint their image as something invariably family friendly, and innovate only enough to catch your attention and then crank out the same thing in different dressing ad infinitum, making sure to keep any innovation well within the limits of what will constantly scream out their brandnames, and make them toys fly off the shelves.

they both have a tendency to beat you over the head with their damn mascot over and over forever. mickey and mario. they both are shameless merchandising whores, and they both have technically superior companies that publish through them, and allow them to slap their idiot names across. pixar is to disney, as rareware is to nintendo. pixar and rareware, both blow away their publishing counterparts in both creativity and technical excellence.

dont get me wrong, i do enjoy disney movies, and nintendo games. theres just something uber annoying about both of those companies. like a slimy boss, with a drinking and gambling problem telling a disgruntled ronald mcdonald to smile for all the kiddies so mom and dad come back with more money.

are you kidding me? another princess movie? another mario game? goodness

Yea - i understand its runtime only at this point heh - this has been answered at least 5 different times and I think people are assuming I didnt get it the first time

don't you get it?

it just can't be done

why do they have to load dynamically? i dont get it. loading them at runtime isnt what you need for tilemaps, placing them at runtime is what you need.

but

if you have the ambition to make a tile dynamic loader thing. why not make a bunch of instances of a sprite with 1000 2x2 pixel sprites, and all behaviors added to it. then it wont take up much vram, and you can load the needed frames at runtime. if you need a different behavior disable all the others and enable the one you need. easier said than done, but no harder than what youre thinking of

no, why do you ask?

my odd sentence formatting

or me giddy schoolgirl reaction to ps3?

HOLY CRAP!!!!

I know I'm really really late at this

but oh my god

project Natal,

and the ps3 motion controller are both sooooooooooooooo exciting I can't even believe it!!!!!

I was a more impressed with the ps3 one,

I mean, my lord!!!!

it's so perfect!!!

I'm so glad I own a ps3

• Arrows to WASD
• "Key is down" conditions to "Control is down"

man, if only someone made a plugin that let you set controls at runtime

ok, so my heart wrenching guilt in the wake of not providing the promised beta on time and my desolate loneliness here in awesomeworld leads me to provide this radical demo for you fine folks:

click here to try it!

the box the text is in is resizable and movable

aside from the obvious features being displayed, you're also looking at Attach To Object, which is automatically positioning and sizing the textbox to the box object

there is a feature to limit displayed text to the inside of the box only, which is not enabled in this demo,

play with it, have fun!

don't try to resize the window to backwards, it will crash the exe

<img src="http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/New%20Folder/CustomKeys/New%20folder/Runtime/screenshot.PNG">

extra info:

also, although the editbox doesn't show it, there is a newline which is why the text wraps as it does. the text is actually: this is it folks. what do you think so far?

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not

this is it folks.what do you think so far?[/code:2rn78ija]
I wanted to show word wrap working with newline as well

you'll notice word wrap on horizontally centered text can be a little hokey at smaller distances
which will also mess with the vertical alignment in those same instances
and somehow I messed up right aligned text at the last minute (bad enough it's not in this exe)

I think left aligned text is working perfectly for all vertical alignments and all widths of wrapping
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