You can change the colour and opacity using:

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22173473/backgroundset.png" border="0" />

Hope this helps

(you could use the bottom layer as your background?)

Nearly finished the Match3 maker.....Thank God!

Should be completed by tomorrow? <img src="smileys/smiley19.gif" border="0" align="middle">

In the meantime, here's a sample game...'Marble Match'

See how many Marbles you can match in 2 minutes.

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22173473/marble.png" border="0">

Marble Match

Great looking game, love the graphics.

zeno98

'when I click on a skull, a skull 2 places to the right becomes the active skull'

I,m having the same problem, and the word 'view' with the letter'm' underneath appears in the top right of the screen. Might be something connected to the full screen settings?

To bad you cant just make some browser plugins to play sounds.

Is there a way to download the 'sound files' when you open a game, and play them from the hard drive ?

You don't really need to change, but you WILL have more options! There's a difference :)

You can test things out on different browsers now.

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I just installed FF5, and it is miles quicker playing that simple sound test.

I didnt take into consideration was the fact that i am only using a 'Broadband dongle' which will slow things anyway, but FF5 deff faster.

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chrisbrobs

Using FF5 on XP.

There is a very slight delay - microseconds, but hard to accurately quantify - but certainly not 1.5 secs. That's very slow!

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I'm downloading FF5 now !

Thanks zeno98

I hate changing things   <img src="smileys/smiley19.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I did the following conversion test with a wav file:

Original (wav)    232 KB

Convert to MP3    41 KB

Convert to OGG    32 KB

Convert to M4A    26 KB

Like you say, if your games got 10-20 sound effects, it's a massive difference.

I also made an example with C2r50 and uploaded it to Dropbox, just a basic 'click on a square' to play sound thing.

Click on square

Using my current browser (Chrome..XP), i get about a 1.5 second delay, so i think its time to try another browser.

After Internet Explorer.....which browser would you recomend as the best alternative to Chrome ?

Her's another example.... Ajax Animator.

Link

'A html5 powered web-based animation suite. Its original goal was to be a usable Flash IDE alternative, but has evolved into a cross-platform/cross-format animation tool. Works offline'

Not tried it myself yet.

If you're happy with commandline applications, Nero have a commandline AAC encoder:

http://www.nero.com/enu/technologies-aac-codec.html

Haven't tried it myself, let me know if you have any luck with it.

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It only converts WAV(PCM) files.

Audacity is probably the best and easiest to use.

It converts WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A, MP3 and a few others.

Thank's Tom, the post is an (edited) collection of stuff i read on the internet, so i can't really claim to have wrote it.?

FREE Tools for editing AAC and M4A files:

Audacity 1.3 beta (Support for AAC format) (Free)

Audacity 1.2 cannot import or export AC3, AMR(NB), M4A, WMA or most other proprietary file formats due to licensing and patent restrictions.

However, the Beta 1.3 version of Audacity can import or export these and many additional formats, if you install the optional FFmpeg library.

FFmpeg also allows Audacity to import audio from video files. Note that on Mac, Audacity Beta has built-in support for M4A import without installing FFmpeg, using the QuickTime components supplied by the operating system.

Audacity 1.3 beta

Plugins:

ffmpeg

FFmpeg_v0.6.2

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VLC Player-VideoLAN Client (Free)

With the VLC player, you can enjoy your AAC audio files quickly. The player directly supports AAC decoding without the need for DirectShow filters or special codecs to be installed. If you are looking for a quick solution then this is certainly it, but if you want to look at other examples of these players or learn to play with Windows Media Player and store it in your Media Library.

VLC

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Foobar 2000 (Free)

Another Player with Direct Support for FLAC

One of the most excellent audio players and converters available is Foobar 2000. It is available as a free download from AfterDawn and it natively supports the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format. It also will allow you to easily convert it to another format or edit the tag information.

Foobar

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Features of AAC format:

AAC was promoted as the successor to MP3 for audio coding at medium to high bitrates. When compared side-by-side, AAC proves itself worthy of replacing MP3 as the new Internet audio standard the advantages over MP3 are:

* Improved compression provides higher-quality results with smaller file sizes.

* Support for multichannel audio, providing up to 48 full frequency channels.

* Higher resolution audio, yielding sampling rates up to 96 kHz.

* Improved decoding efficiency, requiring less processing power for decode.

A file with the AAC file extension is an MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding file.

Other types of files may also use the AAC file extension. If you know of any additional file formats that use the AAC extension, please let me know so I can update this information.

AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, is often considered to be the successor of the MP3 format. This may be true in the market for legal downloads, but not really for music file sharing. However, the AAC format is also used with video (used with MP4 & 3GP container) and it does provide better audio quality than MP3, keeping the bitrate lower. This makes AAC a suitable audio format for portable players like iPods.

This is brilliant !

Is there any way to change the brightness/contrast settings ?