...um, try:

Code:

boolval = !boolval;

...I can't figure out how to get it to run, but from your description it sounds like a classic physics platformer problem.

Presumably there is friction between the player and the wall. The strength of friction is proportional to several factors:
-the friction coefficient of the wall
-the friction coefficient of the player
-the force separating the player from the wall (which is equal and opposite to the force pressing the player against the wall)

If any one of these factors is zero, then the friction stops and the player falls. You can set the wall's coefficient to zero, or you can stop applying velocity to the player in the air which is pressing the player against the wall.

To visualize what's happening, imagine slapping a piece of paper against the wall with your hand, and holding it there. What's holding the paper there?

theres very little playable fat men and they're never main characters

Well, there's Wario. You're right that most video game characters are idealized, although I maintain that the genders are not balanced.

A polygon is considered concave if it has at least one concave angle.

Make two convex polygon shapes and attach them to the same body.

Ditto what Sparky said. 

If you had to resort to deductive reasoning to guess the first thing, then the intended effect didn't work on you. But "optical illusion" is probably the wrong term for it.

Code:

var xml:XML = <foo><child1/><child2/><child3/></foo>;

xml.appendChild(<child4/>);
delete xml.children()[2];
xml.setName("bar");
xml.@isNotable = 5;
trace(xml); // <bar isNotable="5"><child1/><child2/><child4/></bar>

I feel compelled to mention that the "delete" operator does not actually delete things (i.e. free memory) instead it just unlinks them, but presumably garbage collection takes care of the rest.

I can't comment on what the indie community thinks, because I am not the indie community. But I can tell you why social network games rub *me* the wrong way.

I wanted to like Scott Jon Siegel's talk. He made it clear that the reason why he cares about social network games has nothing to do with their success or popularity. Instead, the reason why he thinks social network games have so much potential is because they are always on. Even when you're not playing the game, you're still playing it. The game world is still active whether you're actively engaging in it or not, and you're likely planning your day around in-game events.

And I'm afraid that this is exactly what I don't like about them. My time is too valuable to dedicate some of my brain power every day to the same game.

I love movies, but I don't watch TV because TV takes too much time. Social network games are the TV of video games.

Full disclosure: I am currently employed in the social network game industry. (Not Zynga.)

EDIT: I don't play MineCraft or Spelunky for the same reason, though I'm sure a younger me would have loved them.

Hey, question: Can artists see ALL the scripts, including the scripts for future pages? That might improve visual continuity.

[Art Team]

Art Team.

Now now, let's stop biting the hand that feeds me. 

Fear and Loathing in Space

In.

the last ability, there's nothing immediately to climb. You just have to sort of guess thats what it does and go to the area you think it might be used in

Yeah, I was worried about that, but I'm getting the impression that the people who are going to lose interest do it after learning how to turn around. They get fixated on that ladder. Most of the people who get past that seem to be willing to experiment with the last ability.

Hmm, I guess that would make sense. I wasn't exactly trying to organize the controls into "forward, back, up, down", it just kinda turned out like that in the end. Part of me wants to make the controls even less consistent.

Apparently I'm "extending a moral truth".

Note too self: Polish games BEFORE posting them on the TIGSource forums. 

I like the old one better, before it got political.

Hi! I was the guy who actually wore a goddamn Halloween costume. Also crutches. Also I made that thing with the falling on one's face. Also I have a face of my own.

Won't you be my valentine?

@savagewhimsy: You won! 

There is only one ending.