most of the fun of particles is programming them yourself though

The editor does not work on my laptop with PS2.0 shader support. Whole app freezes after typing the level name.

which level name? try not to conflict with one that's already created, they won't load properly (except test.lvl, jump.lvl, and youtube.lvl), it's also fairly glitchy in this build.

Does the game part work?

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/232835

is the experimental games summit up at all?

yes it is.

Is the second half anywhere? I can only find the first half

one thing i did notice, that...didn't feel bad, but did make me think, was that you can jump when you're falling? (provided you haven't jumped before)

There's a 30 pixel leeway where you can jump if you haven't fallen 30 pixels yet.

I need to tweak it, but a lot of people complained about having trouble jumping off of the curved edges of light sources so I'm fixing that

http://www.closuregame.com/Log

(edit: if it doesn't work it's cause I'm fiddling with DNS settings to get it to display the urls properly
this will always work though: www.glaielgames.com/Closure/Log)

moths

http://www.closuregame.com/moths.swf

Portmanteau is a portmanteau of the french words porter and manteau

Will there be any additional art assets, etc. or is the only difference in this more levels and polish?

it's actually being remade from the ground up. Completely new, even some new items to interact with and some new abilities even

hmm; i tried it once there; my macbook doesn't have shader support so that might scupper my efforts.  cast.lvl displayed a black level,  dunk.lvl killed my computer [w/ no error messages of note; just got a crazy amount of processor usage + everything became really unresponsive, to the extent that i couldn't kill it (all while the 'select level' screen was still visible)].  neither of these were recommended in your instructions, but, I'm sure you'll understand, I'm not at all inclined to try out the others without some reassurances that the same should not happen with them.

all the non-recommended ones were old versions of the file format and I forgot to remove them from the folder before uploading... so it's sending a crap ton of garbage to the gpu when you try to load them

it's the real version, the flash one was a prototype

MOTHS
http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/250409/51994_Picture_13.png


MOOOTTTHHHHSSSS!!!!!!!!
http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/250409/52422_Picture_12.png

Dude, the thread title says POKEMON. Have you been paying attention at all?

I'm a nice man, though, so I'll refer to a good Bob's Game website.

http://www.bobsgame.com/

Favorite Pokemon: Sandslash.

haha bob has a contest asking people to draw fanart.

You don't do that, you let people decide that they like it enough to draw fan art on their own.


ON TOPIC:
A pokemon MMO would be amazing and not exactly hard to design or anything

damn I'm working light speed on this haha

inverse orbs in, improved the object and level editors, orbs can now start either off or on, got the light fading out/in transitions in too

I have found that some keyboards restrict you holding two arrow keys and the spacebar down at the same time. Now I think most game engines can avoid this by firing events for keydown/keyup instead of polling directly for the state of a key on the keyboard, which is what the old version of actionscript, and the version still most used by new developers, did (even though it did have key listeners, nobody though to use them when Key.isDown was more convenient).

The new version of actionscript removed Key.isDown completely, forcing you to listen for keydown/keyup events instead, alleviating this problem I think. I still avoid trying to use arrows/space combination and instead opt for arrows/asd

Ok I just got the basics of closure (flash: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/480006) working in a c++ engine I made from scratch recently. And I was able to hack scrolling in to see how it would feel.

Anyway the game just doesn't feel right with scrolling. Like, I didn't exactly put any sort of complex camera in, but the problems inherent in a simple camera wouldn't go away with a more complex one. The game, being a puzzle game, requires the player to know whats going on in the entirety of the level (despite the level being shrouded in darkness), and scrolling kinda obstructs the vision more than the game wants it to be.

So basically my question, is it possible to have a single-screen game feel as professional as other platformers if I focus on making the single screen you play on varied and visually impressive?

on a team its kinda useful if the team is large, but on my own I usually get away with a text file of ideas and file format descriptions

compatibility test plz: http://www.glaielgames.com/NewClosure.zip
hit game, load test.lvl, jump.lvl, or youtube.lvl, arrows to move space to pick up.

in the resources folder (mac: right click show package contents) there's a file settings.cfg, open it and mess with it if you so choose.

feel free to mess with the editor but its not well documented and it's full of hotkeys (land: mousewheel, click, shift, tab, S, X, Y are hotkeys. enter switches between editors. object: s=startingpos, o=orb, hold space and click to place things. you cant delete stuff yet in this one. esc goes back screens.)

raycaster is nothing yet, arrows to rotate and expand view angle, space to move forward

how about just rotating the camera as you walk so up is still up, but like if higher is down as you walk down rotate the camera so it's up instead?

One of the only things in actionscript/java/c# that I miss when coding in c++ is the get and set keywords.

This is probably a bad idea, but is it possible to use some preprocessor template reference magic voodoo to emulate the same behavior in a c++ class?

Again I'm fine making stuff publicly accessible, but sometimes it'd be nice to do stuff that is a computer value and treat it like a variable (like length on a vector class, in my flash class I can do vector.length += 42 and it increases its length by 42 even though length isn't stored on the object).

It's probably more trouble than it's worth to figure this out in c++ though to save a little extra typing.