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The Alternative Digital Arts Festival is happening at this moment and it's kinda neat to see the giddiness of this crowd getting together for chats. http://www.hitbox.tv/adaf

I don't know who Troy Baker is, but I was tempted for a moment to make a faux-account so that he could show up in the New People Say Hi thread. "If only I had found y'all sooner. So... i got some jokes I was thinking about tweeting, any opinions?"

Is there a good way to use IRC on an iphone?

I'm the same way. I may be weird though.

That webpage is a bit broken for me, they must expect everyone to have amazing internet to put that many long gifs on a single page. Anyway, I can't see the cars in the gifs, it's like I'm getting a quarter of the camera's view. Also, I saved a replay of my own game and watched it. It was pretty cool.

Here's a short documentary (15min) about how market forces and the political scenario in the regiont is fueling the Thai slave-trade that was providing the labor for the the Thai fishing-industry but which is now becoming cargo-ships full of people being held for ransom now that fishing is becoming less profitable. I've heard that similar things are happening with South American, Central American, and Mexican immigrants trying to come into the United States. Trigger warning: first-hand accounts of rapes and beatings and also lots of matter-of-fact accounts of how disposable these people are to the human-traffickers.

I've begun to treat the camera like a special ability. I switch between the ball cam and the regular cam regularly depending on whether or not I need to know where the ball is. ---- Also, y'all this multiplayer is so good.

I've pulled off some impressive saves with rocket-flying, but I whiff 10x as often. I can do pretty well in the training, but when the pressure is there, I hesitate or press the wrong button (this is actually something I enjoy about the game). I'm still playing 3v3, but one of the things I've trained myself to do is just not get involved when a teammate is on the ball. With the exception of boosting the ball into the goal when it is on the line, I try to stay away from my teammates so they can do their thing and I'll be more likely to have an opportunity when an assist comes up or just to keep the ball near their goal with an easy bump when it get's shot out of the crowd. ------------------- One of the things I really like about this game is that I have to make hypothesis about my teammates. I pay attention to whether or not they rush the ball at the beginning when they spawn closest to the goal and operate on that info for the rest of the match. I also pay attention to whether or not they tend to hold striking positions in the center when the ball is cornered and I fill out the role of centering the ball if that is the case. In first-person-shooters I never pay attention to what other teammates are doing. Super Monday Night Combat is the only other game I've played where it has felt possible (and necessary) to pay attention to teammates.

I just saw a truck commercial before a Youtube video and I instinctively looked for a giant ball. I've started spending some time in freeplay mode once I realized that I can't actually dribble. It helps. Also, in the matches I play, the ball ends up in the corners for most of the match and I don't know how to manipulate the ball there. Spending time in freeplay is useful just because I have time to figure out what I want to do to cornered balls.

In general, I'm having a good time playing around in Construct 2. The visual-scripting of events and pre-authored behavior scripts can be kinda inspirational when I don't have anything specific I want to do. But when there is something specific I want to do, it can be really frustrating trying to figure out the location of what I need. There has to be a simple way to have speech-bubbles pop up, but after thinking I had the solution three times, I got fed up. Anyone have a simple method for text that has a white background?

If anyone comes across Construct 2 tutorial projects that they enjoyed following, I'm taking recommendations. -------------- is pretty sweet guys. It's a cannon-firing physics game. It took me about an hour and a half. I like this tutorial because he covers a lot of simple built-in functions of Construct2 that look like they would be useful for a lot of simple games. He doesn't do everything as efficiently as possible, but that was good for me because I had opportunities to experiment (to do things more efficiently) and see if my understanding was operable. I wasn't able to find the images he uses, but I just drew some shit in Gimp real fast and it worked fine. It's interesting how Construct2 seems to add circle-colliders to round sprites automatically. This is a good beginner tutorial. It doesn't cover exporting or saving or anything like that though.

Do ya'll use the ball camera? I'm trying to toggle it to find the ball and use it when it's pop-flying, but when at a distance using the regular camera. One of the hardest things for me to do in this game is stay in useful positions. I want to be far enough away that I can get some momentum up for when my teammates center the shot, but not so far that I miss the opportunity. Also, I am forever hitting the jump button twice when I should be hitting jump and then boost.

Please tell me when this is playable.

I like this game a lot.

I did use a drawing pad at first, but it has a delay in FlickGame so I actually prefer the mouse. The trick is to work broadly with a big brush and then shave you rough lines with a smaller brush of the bordering color. Small strokes are best because if you press 'z' you can undo the last few strokes. I have one hand on the mouse and the other on 'z' and I just keep making strokes and inmediately erasing them until I get what I want.

The games I constantly go back to are: Super Monday Night Combat Titanfall Battlefield 3 Spelunky Banner Saga: Factions Pinball Arcade (right now I'm playing El Dorado a lot) Pinball Fx 2

I think it's more of a bastard-child of Hypercard and MSpaint. The functionality is much more limited. No text, for example.

That was fun. You created a lot of agency and I owned every psuedo fail-state. During the jam, someone informed me that you can copy a frame by pressing 'c' and then paste it on a new frame by pressing 'v'. I was like "RU Serious?". I kinda like how your room wiggles a bit though. Here is mine: http://www.flickgame.org/play.html?p=00fd9bccf2c3f14779e1 I was trying to stay close to the theme which was this picture:

We are having a 2-hour FlickGame jam over at Glorious Trainwrecks tonight. I wanted to mention it here rather than in the game-dev section because this tool is so easy to use that those who don't have time or the skill to make games might want to consider giving this a try. It's basically a browser-based point&click engine that provides you with a downloadable html file and a link with which to share your game. All you do is paint, assign one of 16 pages to a color (for each page), and then when a user clicks on that color it will take them to the corresponding page. When finished click on "share" and it gives you a link to give out. Here is an example game: Exploring a Deserted Planet Or Something by FirecatFG The jam starts in an hour, but it's very casual. People just want other folks (especially beginners) to submit something they had a good time making so we can get to know each other and have fun. So if you are early or late, feel free to still submit. If anyone has any trouble with FlickGame, I'll check this thread tonight or you can contact me as @cafefiction on Twitter. FlickGame ------------------- Edit: It was really fun. I really like the resulting games too.

This is pretty much how I feel about it. The article seems like an interesting look into the perspective of a professional critic whose self-identity is infomed with a few decades of history, but ultimately the problem that is being addressed feels irrelevant to my own experience. If I was a professional critic I might feel differently. Consumer culture rewards popular artworks. Popular artworks often do very little of interest to me. Sometimes they do. Why not just write what you have interesting perspectives about. The perceived problem reminds me of that Rockband 4 preview on Polygon. The resulting article wasn't what the context of being a Rockband 4 preview on Polygon suggests to most (myself included), but it was evokative of this type of critic's dilemma. I'm so glad I'm a hobbyist who is in a good enough situation to have health-insurance, a source of income (that does not involve convincing others that my opinion matters) for a mortgage in a rural home, and money for ingredients. I can talk about what actually interest me rather than what seems to interest the greatest amount of people. The hard part is finding others that want to talk about stuff I find interesting.

Do you remember how the music is started in Syracuse Station? I notice that there is a delay between when a round begins and when the music starts. I'm interested in understanding how to get the audio to feel as responsive as possible in html5 builds of Construct 2 games.

It can seem pointless and counter-productive when generalizing all of the U.S. involvement Middle Eastern politics, but the U.S. can be useful towards humanitarian causes in the region. Just look at how the Obama Administration negotiated with Russia to stop Assad's use of saren gas. That's a pretty significant boon.

Sounds good to me. My initial impression is that this piece involves a conflation between the societal-control of consumer-brands and catholicism. The part that sticks out the most for me is how amateurish the Ronald McDonald and the Colonel Sanders appear to be.

Thanks, I'll play them this evening.

Fo you have any playables you've made in Construct 2 Erfeo? I might have some questions about how you do what you do.