bazookaBen

new levels by the end of next week!

hmm preventDefault() was not built into the older Operas.

apparently the guys fixed preventDefault() on Opera 11.10, as explained here: http://impactjs.com/forums/help/binding-keys-in-opera-not-wo...

about 3 months of work (from the very beginning of opening the manual)

yup, without the music, it's not a game!

i accept your reason. Maybe i'll replace it with some roaring soundfx in the new version.

yup, it's a design decision. I hate it when games keep playing/running when i'm on another tab. Makes the laptop warm.

nope, my handle is @bazooka_ben, with 2 followers right now

just created it yesterday, don't have much idea on how to manage the account. Basically looking at what other game designers use their twitter and try to emulate them.

sent an email

I;ve just increased the quota, it's running great

i used to play around a lot with Akihabara (free & opensourced). The lack of a good map editor made me switch to ImpactJS

anyone completed the entire game so far? I made 5 levels, planning to have more by next weekend

yup there was a bandwidth quota from AppEngine. I activated billing and it should work now

ok i allocated additional bandwidth, the game should be up and running with full music! Enjoy!

the music server overserved its quota. for a 300kb song file, it reached 1 GB pretty fast!

thx, updates made to the game! Key UP and Space now makes you jump.

thanks! it took a lot of integrating+checking+debugging, making sure the loading doesn't break halfway. Look and feel are my top priority

i think multiplayer requires some node.js magic. Don't have a clue how that works!

the forums at ImpactJS had some discussions on node.js, will have a look

try ImpactJS! best thing that ever happened to me.

the thing is, if I make the screen larger, the game will lag (lower FPS). Below 45 fps, the game isn't that fun to play.

I do realize that old NES games can be fullscreened any time of the day. Wish I could do that in my case.

advice taken!

tools:

ImpactJS Google Appengine + Python for hosting and achievement system GIMP for graphics TextMate Switch for Mac (to reduce the bitrate for the audio files)

nope it won't load on an iPad.

Sound is not well built on the iOS/Android browser, so I figured, if the game is going to suck anyway, might as well don't build it for mobile.

the game was tested on

Chrome 10 Safari 5 Firefox 4 Opera 11

some users with IE9 reported some errors, I couldn't debug because i'm on OSX. Please let me know if there're any cheap methods to get an IE9.