Soooo... any idea where I could find some beta keys? Any links?

If you're interested in image compression, I heartily recommend reading through cbloom's blog: http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/

In-between the rants there are a LOT of great posts about image compression. At least, they seem like great info -- it's all over my head.

Yeah, I definitely remember it being brutal at the start; I think just removing the "player can be injured by their own boxes" rule would help.

There are a few places where you can farm for health though, I seem to recall doing this a lot -- enter a room, kill enemies, hope for health, repeat.

no word yet

I guess no one has a copy on their HD?

Yeah, Lyle in Cube Sector is right up there with Cave Story in terms of "if this game had come out on SNES, it would be world-famous" quality.

AVG is complaining about trojan "Dropper.Generic2.CLVG"... anyone else getting this?

Found the topic for the game on the gamedev forums - the site is dead and archive.org's no use here, but if nobody here has it you might be able to contact the author (jack_1313) there.

Great idea, thanks! I've sent a message.

Graphically it's 2D, but gameplay is 1D: left/right across terrain.

I *think* I'm remembering the name correctly; it's a WW2-themed 2D (mostly 1D actually) game, sort of like a slow rocketshoes-less version of Soldat.

Does anyone have a copy? I can't seem to find anything via Google

Oh, here's another one from PBN:

On the same page, raigan is looking for "Spout", which can be found here: http://www.box.net/shared/m3cien5mfr

also he is looking for Smashset:
http://www.box.net/shared/kjs1n4mcnc
and Kurukuru UFO:
http://www.box.net/shared/zviacltsr4

thanks!!!

Ooh, just remembered some good 90s shareware: Squarez! http://www.adeptsoftware.com/squarez/

The joke here is that his tileset will never actually be included in the game.

I've been using ProggyTinyTTSZ at size=20 and it looks pretty amazing.
http://www.proggyfonts.com/download/download_bridge.php?get=ProggyTinySZ.ttf.zip

[If anyone has a copy of these or knows of a non-dead link, please post it!]

And games by The Learning Company, especially Ancient Empires and Operation Neptune.

YES!! Also Rocky's Boots.
Solar Winds too.


Okay, these aren't super-old but there are some good HotU-era games that aren't on TIGdb; most of these are known pretty well probably, sorry

Medieval Clash: the classic "1D RTS"
http://www.gamemakergames.com/archive/medieval-clash

Frontline: another "1D" game, this time action/shooting
http://hotud.artfulgamer.com/files/game/f/frontlin/fline125.zip

Puchiwara no Bouken: Lode Runner-esque stick-man puzzle-platformer
http://ftp.vector.co.jp/pack/win95/game/action/puchi073.lzh

Wirehang Redux: addictive Icy Tower-style game
http://www.gingerbeardman.com/wirehang/

Area 2048: I'm surprised that this wasn't in TIGdb already...
http://homepage2.nifty.com/isshiki/a2k.zip

And I can't believe that there are no Chris Street games (Zone Runner, etc.) in TIGdb...?!?!





Unfortunately a lot of early-2000s games, especially from Japanese developers, are missing/dead.
If anyone has a copy of these or knows of a non-dead link, please post it!

Kurukuru UFO/Smashset: two really fun, simple, and slightly strange games
http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=4683
http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=4262

Spout: 1-bit particle-fest randomly-generate cave-flyer
http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=4781


Finally, a really great, pretty old game: Zeliard!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeliard
http://zeliardgame.tripod.com/download/

raigan
p.s - there are other more recent games like Colorful Notes that I would have assumed were in TIGdb but aren't... wasn't there even a main-page article about that one?

nowhere near as good as double rainbow, but we have a mathutils class that is referred to as Matthew Tills

http://doom.chaosforge.org/

Kinda surprised there isn't already a thread about this, it's a week or so old... does anyone else love this game?

Do the SDK and CS version match? (i.e are you using FlexSDK 4 to compile against the swcs generated with CS4?)

SWCs? I'm not using SWCs at all, I'm just compiling as normal (to SWF). Is there some reason why I need SWCs here?

No, sorry, my bad -- in fact I'm an idiot because [Embed] is sort of the opposite of using .swc! (they're two sides to the same coin, different ways to build Flash-authored content into an FD project)

You could try the .swc method to see if that works: http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=AS3:FlexAndFlashCS3Workflow

Do the SDK and CS version match? (i.e are you using FlexSDK 4 to compile against the swcs generated with CS4?)

We had a problem where swcs created with CS3 wouldn't work with FlexSDK4; presumably FlexSDK3 + CS4 could have similar problems.

As I said though, non-raycasting (collision-or-not checking) solutions don't find the closest point, which sounds like what this fella needs if he's doing motion planning.

If you use the "solve a quadratic" approach, you should be left with 0, 1, or 2 values of t (the ray parameter) at which there's an intersection; the smallest value is the point closest to the ray origin.

I hadn't ever seen that Pythagoras-based approach, that's pretty cool!

Doesn't the left player have an advantage, because they're turned away (and thus it's harder to see if their shield is centered/down)? I guess both players "facing forward" like the right player looked wrong?

What's wrong with Math.random()? Are you looking for PRNG? In which case, having a seed value is a very good property.

Yeah, I need it to be repeatable.

What I meant about the Flixel version is that as of v2.43 it's suggested that the client save the previous returned value and use this to seed the next call; this seems really wrong, as that sort of thing should be handled by the library, not by me!

It would require just a tiny change to make it handle that internally, so it would be an easy fix, but more importantly seeing that sort of thing doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the code

Code:

//COPYRIGHT TYLER GLAIEL 2010

Thanks!


A related question is: does it matter if my RNG only returns values inside (0,1)? I always assumed that random() in AS3 and C# produced numbers 0 <= x < 1, can anyone suggest why this would be any better than an RNG which produces 0 < x < 1? I really have no knowledge at all when it comes to RNG, I've always used the standard runtime versions