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It depends... who's in charge of your QA?

WAAA Flame Wars.

WAAA Flame Wars.

Get these guys some bottles!!

My favorite line from you Flame War Specialists was:
"Do you know what sarcasm is Mr Boner?"

Mr Boner
signing out

Well shoutbox is down when I checked it, but it will be up soon.

Let's avoid making AGSforums upset with our flamewar.  It's going to be cuz you guys have good ideas making games and I have my own and other people have theirs.

Besides making games for a frickin' living, I do have time for fun.  If you want to flame me publically, go to http://www.cc42.com/phpBB2/groupcp.php?g=3&start=0 click on BH Jodo Kast and let it rip!

Jodo Kast

I don't give a shit if it turns into a flame war.  It's well contained.

I spray the crowd frequently with foam that puts out fires.

It's very difficult to get feedback from you people.  It seems, just as I want to update the website, my thread is closed.  Seems sadistic.

I like sadistic... but I want feedback. So I'll add a shoutbox to the website.

Jodo Kast

This is a general forum, I thought I could post what I want here.

Why was my thread closed?  I'm not talking about my game but General B.S.  If my thread was closed for no other reason then "it wasn't liked" what's the point?

Thanks for the clarification.

Jodo Kast

Evenwolf,

I'm sorry.  This is the fan's game, but yes I am making it.

And I am fed up with lame posts that go nowhere.  I wonder if somehow I can take it... no, I don't think so.  I think the lame posts will continue.

Back to my game!  Jealous much?

BTW, I mentioned already it was not their job to tend to spammers and flamers and tend to my thread.  It is the moderator's job to do that, but it's not their job to do it.  That makes a lot of sense!  AGA has been very helpful.  I'm not really sure what your post is getting at, except to address some personal defects of mine.  No, it has nothing to do with the game.  Nothing.  Zero.

Thanks for following the thread anyway.

Jodo Kast

Timosity,

It's a long story.  

The demos will take some time but check out the website today for screenshots.

Jodo Kast

That post was ridiculous.  Somebody forgot their medication today.

Don't like my thread?  Don't take it so personal.

Jodo Kast

DGMcPhee:
Wrong answer (IMHO).  Anything constructive you want to add?

Guybrush Theepwood:
We will start e-mailing fans about the Alpha in the next couple months (but not until then).

Jodo Kast

Well, I'll take your suggestion and hope it ends here.

Jodo Kast

I disagree.  Can't you guys have just 1 muey macho man?

I am not as macho as CJ that is for sure.

Mr Colossal,

THat is your opinion that I should report it to the moderator.

I already did that.  AGA got my complaint.  They tried to keep up and delete the flames but there were TOO MANY!

You guys tried and Mittens crew tried, but professional flamers are flamers to the letter.  

Isn't the measure of a hero or anti-hero determined by the foes he defeats or the obstacles he conqures? Is not a man who only hunts jawas a coward despite how stylish he dresses? Is not a man who uses his strengths to compensate for his weakness and through pure determination changes the galaxy is nothing less than a legend, despite that he was growing up a whiny farm boy
on a desert rock with two suns?

Jodo Kast

BTW: Next week I'm concentrating on the game so Vanessa Mule will be posting for us.  So if you see any posts from Vanessa Mule, give her a warm welcome.  She's head of Public Relations so we can let her deal with the public while we work on the game.  Vanessa has the stamina to respond to everyone (she's not afraid to e-mail me for instance), and the knowledge of the original game and the remake.

YakSpit,

Thank you for your response!

Actually, this is [BH] Jodo Kast.  [BH] is my [BOUNTYHUNTER] clan.  We like to kill teamkillers on BF1942/DC/EOD servers.

Some people think we should take the high road there too.  No we say.  We type game.addplayertobuddylist 20  and the Teamkiller's arrow changes to bright green.  Now we can hunt them until they stop playing.

Here to I am addressing Erpy.  I want him to post too, I am just as interested in his thoughts as my own.  Mine get rather stuffy.

Jodo Kast

Pau,

Thank you for your feedback!  Kazaa doesn't work because it won't check if you receive a total packet.  So if you have 4K packets, you can have any number of 4K errors throughout the file.  However, we can get around that by adding a Recovery Record to the RAR file.  On top of that we can use Authenticity Verification, so you know if you have a good file (because since I will be releasing the source code, you'll want to know if it's authentic).

However FilePlanet or Vamp3D could host an InstallShield setup file or zip so we'll go that route when the game is done.  We are 4% complete!  (According to MS Project, we are actually further than that because stuff is already done, we just can't check it off just yet.)  If anyone has used MS Project or PERT to manage a project let me know cuz I have questions.

Your second idea:
Is this part of any preventive war looking for mass destruction weapons?
Come on, the revenge has no sense (an eye for an eye makes everybody blind) and preventive revenge is even worse.

That's hilarious.  I first disagreed with preventative revenge, but then I realized this 'Bush Vs Them' thing has been going on quite awhile.  For us Americans, we know we are 'spreading democracy', but as Haiti shows: sometimes it doesn't work.  And the Balkans are fragile.  But we got dictators in court, Milo and Sadsack.

Anyway this LBCBR project is no different than other things on the Net.  We are trying to produce something here, and I believe others find us a threat, because our graphics push pixels to the background.  I hate pixels.  I want so many pixels you can't see them anymore.  Even 640x400 games are done 'by the pixel'.  So with my 3D knowledge and 2D graphics knowledge I can put a 3D character on a 3D background no problem!  Someone mentioned I should use a different engine but this AGS is the PERFECT ENGINE!!!

Here's why it's the perfect engine:
1. Save 3-D views as 2-D sprites for speed (3D requires power, 2D requires more RAM)
2. Make a scripted adventure game
3. Use current LBCBR game to fill in the blanks.

I don't want a total 3D game, but I want the detail of pre-rendered graphics.  They look twice as detailed as painted graphics, because everything is a hierarchy.  When one things moves, EVERYTHING dependent on it moves with it.  This is important for realism.  Drawing something and keeping gravity heirarchies and bone heirarchies and geometries in my mind is something I decided to let the computer do.  It can 'draw' what I need better.  2D sprites of 3D stuff means I don't have lame 3D camera BS to worry about (like looking through a wall, or if somebody dies and their arm is sticking through the wall).

2. I use Flash and I would be upset if I had to use ActionScript to write this game.  I could do it.  But there is so much work that Allegro puts into AGS that I then utilize from AGS... LucasFan showed it!  He made a joke of a game but it was fncking riveting.  Thank you friends!  It brought a tear to my eye I hope he's making a game too.

3. The current LBCBR is useful.  Templates of the screenshots are necessary and screenshots of the game are necessary because sprites change and everything from the background to the foreground characters to the text boxes to items that show up in inventory are important.  3D game would open up a whole new axis.  Time, Z, Y, Z...

Igor made a great New Years game, so check that out, because that is Flash.  But I bet if Igor wanted to add a save feature or anything else, he would have used AGS.

Jodo Kast

MrColossal,

I want to discuss my game with my fans.  The flamers/Spammers from Tierra's board have made it impossible to do so here at AGSForums.

So the real problem is people leaving crap on my thread that is supposed to talk about my game.  LucasFan even posted his game in my thread, and it was never deleted and I had to ask questions about his 'Joke Game'.

I started this thread to remove that pathetic excuse so this way, if anyone brings up the BS at Tierra Forums, I can show them this thread.  Time won't heal this wound.  These types of problems have to be addressed.

Jodo Kast

To address your questions:

"Jodo, why are you starting new flame wars if your old topic has been locked untill further updates?"  

Because I am getting threatening e-mails from Erpy and others.  Hopefully they will stop e-mailing me threats.

Feel free to judge me, but if you spam my e-mailbox, I just add a filter and don't see any of the spam.  It's really easy, but a bother, so I put the pain-in-the-ass they gave me back to them with spam they can call their very own.  My opinion is nobody is perfect; everyone should be getting free porn by now.

I'll address this:
"The fact somebody's right, doesn't mean the others are wrong". You all have said something you shouldn't and you all have said something right in your post. Stop arguing, get along."

That is true.  However I was banned from Erpy's forum and he has a hissy-fit when I e-mail him so this way we can discuss it openly.

So far so good!

I'll address this:
"Two wrongs don't make a right."

In a perfect world maybe, but in this world if you 'jack me, how do I get my stuff back if I don't 'jack you back?  Call the cops?  They are busy.  I can deal with forums, it sounds like OTHER people can't deal with the forums.  The answer is not to ban me, or close my threads; delete the posts that are not related to my game, simple as that.  You'll notice some blame me for annoucing the project too early, or some other excuse.  It's always my fault.  LOL.

Jodo Kast

To address your concern: If you threaten me or somebody I know with:
- signing them up with offers, credit scoring, etc
- adding my e-mail to a spamlist.

I will add your name to the free porn mailing list.  If you say you are going to spam me, I'll spam you right back!  What's wrong with that?

You guys who posted the previous 3 posts were not involved in this issue.  So obviously the spam thing doesn't affect you.

Jodo Kast

Wonderful art!  Flawless Flash!

My experience posting here about game making has been great!  You have all been helpful answering my technical questions and promotional questions.  However I am still being harassed by some members, which through my direct responses to them, brought my thread to a close in the Production area.  I want to talk about how they behaved without turning into a flame war, so if you post here, do so with NO emotion:

I started posting at Tierra's forum.  My thread was not moderated and to nobody's suprise it was people flaming me, and me flaming back.  I was banned and e-mail the moderator Erpy asking "Why?".

I decided to post on AGSforums because people on Tierra's board were expecting a Christmas demo, and since I was banned could not talk to them about it.  So I stuck it on Kazaa and decided to move on.  I posted that here and said if you want to see what's going on check the website cuz that's the new base of operations (not Tierra's message board).

Here my thread was moderated and deleted and restarted and flamers posts deleted but it's really too much to ask a moderator to deal with my personal fans AKA flamers.  Now I have e-mails from Bryce (Muzlak) and Erpy threatening me with the following:

- adding my e-mail address to spamlists
- signing me up for services
- telling geocities I am spamming them
- basically making it their fulltime job to promote my game by harassing Jodo

If anyone wants to see these e-mails they can.  If Erpy doesn't want to receive e-mails from me asking him why I was banned, he shouldn't be a moderator in my opinion because this is simple correspondence.  If Erpy had not posted on my thread in AGSforums I would have appreciated it, but he brought all the complaints he had with me to this forum.  I don't care if he doesn't like my way of promotion, or if he doesn't like my style of characters, or if he doesn't want free porn e-mailed to him for the rest of his life.

I deleted half my address book which I use as a mailing list to keep my fans updated, so you won't receive an e-mail from LBCBR2004 if you don't want one.

Please move on if you are not interested in Laura Bow in Colonel's Bequest: Resurrection because that is why I post.  If you want to address the past in this thread, go ahead but keep emotion out.  Let's just discuss this.

Enjoy your free porn for life Bryce and Erpy!

Jodo Kast
LBCBR Crew

I tried PSP 8, but I use the keyboard.  Once I learned the new shortcuts, I found that it took longer than PSP7 to do stuff in the menu.  For instance, ALT-C, I, 6 to increase to 16million colors instead of ALT-I, C, I, 6.

That happened alot!  I think you can change the menu but I'll just wait for someone else to do it.  I have both 7 and 8 installed so when I went back to 7 I had to first open 8, then Batch Convert the files to PSP7 compatible format (Cuz 7.04 doesn't read version 8 files).

Animation was not updated but Animation Shop 3 came with my PSP8 download.  I purchased it on Digital River.

I use Flash MX a lot for work and it's very easy to use now with the new ActionScript.  You can do ANYTHING, but first learn ActionScript. IE if you have 4 images and you want to click on a bar in the middle, and a circle mask opens up to show one of the 4 images, you just create 4 'movies' in your FLA, each one shows the image, then a circle eats away at it from the center.

Finally you have to write the ActionScript to play each of the different movie sequences.  It was harder to do this in Flash 4 or Flash 5.

Jodo Kast