Mario Roots, Jr Koopa AI

thanks
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Having made the website, I needed to make a credits page. so far it's:
Special Thanks to:
-Xgoff - Various tutorial help
-BlueFrenzy - Static ladder platforming help
-Rage - Static ball movement tutorial help
-TheDamizean - Pan Camera
-Onilink/Dr. Demon lizardman/Alba Gracia - Great beta-testers
-Black Squirrel - Color pallete suggestions/BG changes
-RetreiverII - pseudo revolving object tutorial

Communties in general
- SFGHQ - Letting me post my topic in there
-ClickTeam forums - For various issues I had
- MFGG - Hosting my demo and anyone else involved
-Sprite Inc. - Letting me post my topic aswell.

If you feel you belong on the this list please tell me before August 15th.

In the meanwhile I have made a sage/ncfc EVENT level only, meaning it will not be there in the future.


now that I've got a spare 2-3 hours I better finish my improv entry before its too late. luckly sage registration was delayed until August 16th giving me 7 extra days, so I don't really need to put 100% into working on anything as of now.

I would of loved to do the improv contest earlier but there are other priorities to be filled first.

This post has been edited by kirbyhi5 on Aug 10 2008, 10:18 AM

Woah, this is very good. It seems like the old sonic games, but with mario! Awesome job man!

Download:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ult3kjaekja


Well, I have finished my sage entry. It has 4 levels for the demo.
2 story-mode levels
2 challenge mode levels

And feel free to report any bugs, they help greatly.
also, please tell me if you beat the boss at Mushroom Kingdom.
*yes you may have to use healing items or skills, and it is beatable, easily.*

Now to work on the other 2 story-mode/challenge mode levels for NCFC. So that brings around 8 levels for ncfc.

W00T! I'll edit this Post with a Review once I've DLed and Played it.

EDIT: Ok, I have beaten Bowser, and Mario resfuses to jump high enough to reach the Purple Flower's(Forgot her name)Cliff.

EDIT 2: Ya, don't save the Game as a INI, at least Encrypt it. I edited my Stats to be 99 in everything. 1-Hit KO on Bowser. And Up to jump higher? I got Lilly too.

EDIT 3: I found a Skidding Glitch, somehow I can skid, turn around Mid-Skid, and continue Skidding longer than normal.

This post has been edited by OniLink10 on Aug 17 2008, 08:16 PM

oh that most likely means that it the game is running slow overall(im guessing 30 fps out of 66 fps). there isn't much I can do about that. I suggest having a faster processor.( I tried testing the demo on some older computers and the framerate is around 30 fps regardless of what I do)

and yeah I just kept it as an ini for the demo. it'll probably be changed to knp like the settings

66?

yep, at 60 fps mmf sometimes desynchronizes and causes rips in the scrolling/timed events. For some odd reason I noticed a big difference in 66 than 60.

either way theres not much I can do about lag/slow motion on older computers unless they release a nice object management. maybe once the object is used it is unloaded from the memory so that it doesn't stack up as more objects are created

probably due to your monitor's refresh rate, if it's at 60 Hz; since MMF updates the game window at about the same rate the screen itself updates, very slight differences in either MMF's framerate or the screen's refresh rate will create a "rip" (which exists no matter what, anyway), but the closeness of the two refresh rates will cause that rip to either hang in one spot or slowly move downwards

i guess the extra 6 Hz would cause the rip to move quickly enough to not be noticeable... but that's still a wacky framerate to deal with (i'd almost use 100 instead if it was easier for computers to handle)

My Monitor uses 60Hz Refresh Rate and I STILL get rips in 60Hz games. Mainly GM Games. D:

Added a video of full mushroom kingdom gameplay.( if you're too lazy to download 20mb)

Video1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zaukwxAICc

Video mirror: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v15597062zdQFe7zp

This post has been edited by kirbyhi5 on Aug 18 2008, 05:03 AM

Mario can't even jump over the first hurdle due to the speed it's running at

Which wasn't much of a case last time.

Second level looks great, I'll play the game later to get to that level. Anyway, if you need beta testing for bosses or anything, just PM me.

I must say, this game is AMAZING. It's like mixing Sonic with Mario and it equals Mario. Even though I can tell what Sonic engine you used, you really managed to have it it's own personal feel.
This game is also very graphically arousing and I would love to see more of this.

The only downside I can see is that Mario runs too fast at times which makes it completely impossible to see what's coming at you.
And sometimes the direction you have to go or what to do can be somewhat confused, but elsewise I adore this!

This is one of the few games I have seen that really amazes me.

after looking at some of those videos i must agree with mecha bowser
the game seems very fast paced
but mixing megman graphics (general guys mech in the begining of video one) seems kind of odd but then the game play is great and thechoice of graphics and sound was nicely done

keep it up

It's good, but you think you can change the action key from Shift? The problem is StickyKeys and now it's making playing the game tougher.

shut it off

I did, but for some reason it was canceling out any SHIFT commands for a while.

I have played the version with the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario defeated those two hammer Bros, the demo is end when I beat this level. I liked this demo, but I found some glitches, when I was writing a name, the characters " " and "?" are glitched, the menu that appear when I press enter sometimes does not work.

This post has been edited by Alba Garcia Clerigues on Aug 19 2008, 06:42 AM

PLEASE PUT A ZIP FILE NOT A RAR

sorry there is not much I can do about this. Even if this were to be fixed without using timers, the game would still probably be unplayable if it's running at 30 fps or slower. I tried to optimize everything as much as possible(believe me, why else would I spend 4 months and have only 1 level done) I will have to do more tests on different computers to see the exact fps and what's the minimum amount of specs you need

Sure, seeing as how I'm going to start working on third level soon

hm I see. I was thinking about telling the player more, but I still want to have that sense that you have to explore the levels/abilities to see what to do next.

You can change all the controls by going to options --> custom config.

That's excellent news. I'm glad someone made it that far. I'll get on to fixing those two keys and pause menu problem.

I would of, but putting it into a .rar makes the file size about 2-3 MB smaller.