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Title: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Wed 08/02/2012 23:20:49
dose anybody know why my game link is broken download works
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Ali on Wed 08/02/2012 23:34:53
Hi Igor,

Please don't keep posting in the Competitions and Activities board, posts like this aren't supposed to go there.

I think it's because the links don't work. One goes to www.mediafire.com the other fails to go to www.media fire.com.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Khris on Wed 08/02/2012 23:36:01
There are two game entries linked in your profile.
The first one contains two links, one redirects (or does it...?) to the mediafire main page, I guess because they can't find the file, the mirror leads to a bigbluecup 404 error because you've omitted the http:// and the link is thus interpreted as relative.
The second entry contains one link that leads to http://www.media fire.com, but due to the space it's also broken.

It looks like you're trying to enter "http://www.mediafire.com", which is pointless. You need the link to the file, the one they showed you after you uploaded the game.

It's going to look similar to this:
http://www.mediafire.com/?woewhf9a8sdd93m
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Thu 09/02/2012 12:26:06
Simple, you added your game to the db 6 times each with a different word for "unexplainable" and none of the links for any of the entries work. Go back to one of the pages and click "edit this game" at the bottom and then add the right link and fill out the rest of the form fully and the 'link not working' will be removed.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Thu 09/02/2012 21:39:11
Quote from: m0ds on Thu 09/02/2012 12:26:06
Simple, you added your game to the db 6 times each with a different word for "unexplainable" and none of the links for any of the entries work. Go back to one of the pages and click "edit this game" at the bottom and then add the right link and fill out the rest of the form fully and the 'link not working' will be removed.
thank you be sure to check my game out
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Thu 09/02/2012 23:22:15
What? Now you've linked one of them to Ghost's game, what are you playing at?
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Ali on Thu 09/02/2012 23:24:11
Excellent use of "what are you playing at". I don't think I've heard anyone say that in years.

Try to say "this is a strange kettle of fish" at the next opportunity.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Fri 10/02/2012 01:30:03
Quote from: m0ds on Thu 09/02/2012 23:22:15
What? Now you've linked one of them to Ghost's game, what are you playing at?
go to my profile and click the first one
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Igor Hardy on Fri 10/02/2012 07:24:47
Quote from: Ali on Thu 09/02/2012 23:24:11
Try to say "this is a strange kettle of fish" at the next opportunity.

Oh big thanks for that one! I don't think I've ever heard it before (either that, or took it literally).
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Tabata on Fri 10/02/2012 20:02:01
Quote from: ig299 on Fri 10/02/2012 01:30:03
go to my profile and click the first one

WOW - veeery clever!
Now you linked to the uploading site - to make some of us upload a game for you, or what  ???

You should seriously clean that mess up and delete all those "entries" of yours in the database.
Please do!   :-\
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Ali on Fri 10/02/2012 20:22:39
This is going beyond a strange kettle of fish and developing into a rum do.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Fri 10/02/2012 20:29:54
Quote from: m0ds on Thu 09/02/2012 23:22:15
What? Now you've linked one of them to Ghost's game, what are you playing at?

Okay, this broken link leads me into my mediafire account. Am I missing something, or is this the next big thing to do?

[edit]
I am out of proper English witticism but feel inclined to utter a few German ones.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: LimpingFish on Fri 10/02/2012 21:00:01
Step 1: Delete all those useless entries in the database.

Step 2: Go to www.mediafire.com.

Step 3: Click the big white folder in the middle of the screen.

Step 4: Click the white window (with the big '+' sign in the centre) that appears.

Step 5: Find the file (that you have already zipped and named) that you want to upload in the file browser window. Highlight it and click "OK".

Step 6: The file you have chosen will now appear in the white window. Click the green "UPLOAD" button.

Step 7: Once your file has been uploaded, click on the little "COPY LINK" text on the right side of the white window. The url of your uploaded file will know be copied to the Windows clipboard.

Step 8: Create a new text document on your desktop, open it, right-click anywhere on it, and select "PASTE" from the context menu. Save the document.

Step 9. Create a new entry in the AGS game database. Fill in you information, and right click on the "DOWNLOAD URL" entry. Select "PASTE" from the context menu. Your file URL will appear (if it doesn't, open the text document you saved earlier, highlight your url and select "COPY" from the context menu). Do NOT save the database entry until you are sure it has the correct information.

Step 10: Save the database entry.

...

I probably could have whittled it down to five steps, but...ehh.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Sat 11/02/2012 02:37:36
Quote from: LimpingFish on Fri 10/02/2012 21:00:01
Step 1: Delete all those useless entries in the database.

Step 2: Go to www.mediafire.com.

Step 3: Click the big white folder in the middle of the screen.

Step 4: Click the white window (with the big '+' sign in the centre) that appears.

Step 5: Find the file (that you have already zipped and named) that you want to upload in the file browser window. Highlight it and click "OK".

Step 6: The file you have chosen will now appear in the white window. Click the green "UPLOAD" button.

Step 7: Once your file has been uploaded, click on the little "COPY LINK" text on the right side of the white window. The url of your uploaded file will know be copied to the Windows clipboard.

Step 8: Create a new text document on your desktop, open it, right-click anywhere on it, and select "PASTE" from the context menu. Save the document.

Step 9. Create a new entry in the AGS game database. Fill in you information, and right click on the "DOWNLOAD URL" entry. Select "PASTE" from the context menu. Your file URL will appear (if it doesn't, open the text document you saved earlier, highlight your url and select "COPY" from the context menu). Do NOT save the database entry until you are sure it has the correct information.

Step 10: Save the database entry.

...

I probably could have whittled it down to five steps, but...ehh. grate thank-you but how do i delet all those links?
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: LimpingFish on Sat 11/02/2012 02:55:01
Quote from: ig299 on Sat 11/02/2012 02:37:36
grate thank-you but how do i delet all those links?

Sorry, never mind about that. Users don't have that ability, and I'm not sure why I suddenly thought they did.

An admin will delete them eventually.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Tabata on Sat 11/02/2012 04:53:43
If there is no way to delete it yourself,
make sure to modify it* into something like "invalid"
(and please don't forget to change the link you set to Ghost's game)
until the entries will be deleted from someone else.  :P


*[Go to the page/entry, scroll down to the bottom of the page until you reach nearly the last line and you find the link for editing it.]
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Sat 11/02/2012 17:50:51
Quote from: Tabata on Sat 11/02/2012 04:53:43
If there is no way to delete it yourself,
make sure to modify it* into something like "invalid"
(and please don't forget to change the link you set to Ghost's game)
until the entries will be deleted from someone else.  :P


*[Go to the page/entry, scroll down to the bottom of the page until you reach nearly the last line and you find the link for editing it.]
well see i set it to a ghosts game because i thought that was the quot you all were tallking about
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Ali on Sat 11/02/2012 18:02:29
Right, the English language needs an utterly new expression to describe a situation this weird. I'm plumping for "not the explainable".

This situation is totally not the explainable.

EDIT: I hope that didn't sound too unhelpful, I was only being silly. Good luck to ig299, I say!
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: LimpingFish on Sat 11/02/2012 18:54:52
We're either dealing with someone young, someone who isn't well versed in English, and/or someone who is only marginally computer/internet experienced.

Hopefully it's sorted now.


Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Sat 11/02/2012 19:14:56
Quote from: ig299 on Sat 11/02/2012 17:50:51
well see i set it to a ghosts game because i thought that was the quot you all were tallking about

I want to understand that. Can you explain, please?
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Sat 11/02/2012 23:20:39
Quote from: Ghost on Sat 11/02/2012 19:14:56
Quote from: ig299 on Sat 11/02/2012 17:50:51
well see i set it to a ghosts game because i thought that was the quot you all were tallking about

I want to understand that. Can you explain, please? some one said that my game link was brooking because i didn't put the right code in a download rul section and so i just copied yours and thought it would work
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Tabata on Sun 12/02/2012 01:15:23
Quote from: ig299 on Sat 11/02/2012 23:20:39
Quote from: Ghost on Sat 11/02/2012 19:14:56
Quote from: ig299 on Sat 11/02/2012 17:50:51
well see i set it to a ghosts game because i thought that was the quot you all were tallking about

I want to understand that. Can you explain, please?
some one said that my game link was brooking because i didn't put the right code in a download rul section and so i just copied yours and thought it would work

        (http://s7.directupload.net/images/user/111210/vit8mztf.gif)

Sorry, but this is really unbelievable! You must be kidding!?
How on earth can you seriously think about, that the link to his game will be able to lead to yours, too?
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Igor Hardy on Sun 12/02/2012 01:48:45
Because Ghost's game is a portal to our collective imagination. You can find anything you want in there, if you reach out deeply enough.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Sun 12/02/2012 02:41:33
Quote from: Ascovel on Sun 12/02/2012 01:48:45
Because Ghost's game is a portal to our collective imagination. You can find anything you want in there, if you reach out deeply enough. not i just thought it was a code some one was tallking about
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Ryan Timothy B on Sun 12/02/2012 02:48:01
Have you not looked at a single previous post of yours and noticed that you're typing in the quote box?  :'(
Or you're deleting the ending [/quote] which makes your whole post a quote.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: on Sun 12/02/2012 22:31:26
Quote from: Ascovel on Sun 12/02/2012 01:48:45
Because Ghost's game is a portal to our collective imagination. You can find anything you want in there, if you reach out deeply enough.

I never knew I was THAT good! Amazing! Also explains why Aperture Science offered me that job last week!

I think I'll accept. They told me there's cake. I like cake.
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Khris on Mon 13/02/2012 09:06:24
This is one of the saddest threads I've seen, ever.

The hapless struggle against technology

- a one man, one thread play -
by Igor Bushin
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Babar on Mon 13/02/2012 10:14:21
Igor's game has finally been uploaded:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1555

I strongly encourage all who can, to overcome the surprising download size, and download and play it. I have never seen a more potent mix of creepiness and confusion as this picture:

(http://i.imgur.com/tW5LH.png)


BRINE NO BRINE
Title: Re: why is my game link broken
Post by: Atelier on Mon 13/02/2012 14:01:53
I was room hopping (debug left on) and met some 'prist' in a Jason mask. Memorable quotes include "i can't wait to see what thac lub looks like". So one of the most unintentionally trippiest (and buggiest) games I've seen, ig it's not ready to be released. Also... why are you running a buzz saw in the background while you're recording?