Mario Roots, Jr Koopa AI

Great to see updates but why does the game run at 66 fps? (It was stating that the human eye perceives 66 fps) Wouldn't it be more practical to shift up to 70 or down to 60 or is there something about 66 that you've seen.

Actually, the Human eye can see 80Hz, which is 80FPS, BUT it can detect motion at a much quicker pace. A few million times a second.

I'd say bring the FPS up to 75Hz, as right now, that appears to be the standard.

60 fps on 60 Hz monitors without v-sync can create "tears" while scrolling. There was a discussion about it long ago and I'll have to see if I can find it maybe.

Haven't tested anything above 66 so far, but I'll see what the results yield. Also yeah I don't know if it was youtube or me encoding the video incorrectly. I tried using a different method of video recording. I used CamStudio lossless codec this time, but the results are pretty much the same as my previous videos.

June 09, 2009
NEWS: Hurray all kinks/bugs listed have been fixed.(Actually it was fixed maybe a week ago, but I was on vacation) Now it's just getting 4 levels ready for this years SAGE. Decided instead of spoiling the main story AND so previous players aren't playing the same thing, I'd make up a mini-story with a stage select including new content.

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►Rock Town

Whoa, an update a day later? Insane! Here's what I meant to do yesterday. Sorry to the ones who have to re-watch some parts to see the boss.

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►Rock Town - Behemont Boss

God of war action going on in there.

Did you make that sprite yourself?

Hah nope. If it's a fangame then i'll just use whatever resources the extremely helpful rippers ripped. If it were my own, then everything would be custom.(Which unfortunately I won't ever have time to do since when college starts in September, well, my time will be limited since I want to try to get involved.)



Animating an image that has alpha channels(and like 3 key frames) is beyond annoying, so I just took the two mouth pieces and animated by sin/cos + angle movements.

This post has been edited by kirbyhi5 on Jun 12 2009, 10:04 AM

Wow, this looks great! Keep it up!

Thanks, Hoping it'll be done around July 24th.

Awesome, I eagerly await it.

It does look like a really well programmed game, not so sure about the sprite clashing though, but thats just me.

off-topic but what screen recorder do you use?

Total Recorder, although I'm probably gonna check out and see how Fraps does maybe later. (forgot which free ones I used to use) I'm sure there may be better ones.

It installs a driver that lets most of Vista users record audio that comes from the computer. Mine doesn't support stereo mix option for recording, and I hated using the microphone for audio. For video compression, I used CamStudio Lossless Codec. Since my game is 66 FPS, I recorded it in 33 FPS.(CPU starts to lag at anything higher than 40).


Then I used SUPER©Converter to convert the video to an avi with the H. 263+ video output codec at 4128 bitrate for Youtube. (not converting it causes youtube for some reason not to process my uploads)

July 01, 2009
News: Following the mini-story, they venture into the Vinal kingdom. (Don't worry, no special meaning to it. Just sorta slapped it on)

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►Vinal Kingdom - He's Back

Holy crap, how did you get the limbs to animate like that!?

angles + sin again. Someone made a sine swinger widget which makes it easy to do.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hqmgg2mjkoo

you can mess around with the values in the alterables for alot of different angles.

Ah jeez, I don't know about the math term sine or how to use it in MMF.

oh no you don't need to know much about it yet.

with the widget, all you need to do is mess around with the speed and angle alterables .


there's an event in the behavior of the object that handles the rest.(the sin part etc)

Well actually, I wanted to learn how you made those events in the behavoir from scratch but this works fine too.

oh yeah you'd need to know about sin/cos for that. There's a really useful article on clickteam forums discussing how to use it in MMF2. (need to log in to see it I believe)

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthre...67082#Post67082

This post has been edited by kirbyhi5 on Jul 2 2009, 12:35 PM

Hmm, I liked the level design and the gameplay looked solid, I didn't like what was going on with the boss fight though.

OH thanks, and just one more thing, how long does it take you to make one boss?