Insectoid near release

[Wingy]

So Vern! Whenever Insectoid is released in the next few days, what shall become of the forums? There is going to be a forums for Insectoid, yes?

I think it'd be best if there was another forums for Insectoid, and you'd select Midnight Mansion forums or Insectoid forums when you click the forums button on the main page. =D

Dividing this forum up would be too complicated I'd think, seeing we have so many subforums. I'm not a big fan of have *ever* single mansion have a subforum, because we have so many mansions. But it's okay. =P

[hawaii]

Wingy wrote:
Dividing this forum up would be too complicated I'd think, seeing we have so many subforums. I'm not a big fan of have *ever* single mansion have a subforum, because we have so many mansions. But it's okay. =P

Good Point Wingy!

[brell]

hawaii wrote: [quote author=Wingy link=1256846937/15#20 date=1257216362]
Dividing this forum up would be too complicated I'd think, seeing we have so many subforums. I'm not a big fan of have *ever* single mansion have a subforum, because we have so many mansions. But it's okay. =P

Good Point Wingy!
Hmmm....?

[link]http://www.actionsoft.com/forums/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1221076499/0[/url]

[aquaMat]

Congrats, Vern....on having your Insectoid game finished !! (It has put your attention away from the MM Expansion for long enough anyway       .....!).

Usually I'm not a fan of those kind of games....but it looks very interesting.

As for Wingy's comment:

I do think (too) that we should NOT mix up the MM forums with a forum for another game, not even if Vern designed it.  Also I'm sure Insectoid

deserves

a forum of its own, rather than a sub-forum here or something.

I could also envisage that it'll be an entirely or at least partly different

clientele

that will become Insectoid hardcore fans, than our average MM fiend here....  and while they (as everybody else) are of course always welcome here, they should be because of their interest in MM and Insectoid can be discussed in its own pages.

My 2 euro cents worth, only.   8-)  


PS:  Vern, I didn't forget that you asked me to send you Trigger Island Re.  I'd just thought that I

give you a bit more time

in that important final phase of Insectoid..... but I'll send it to you within the next 2 days por so.

[VernJensen]

No worries folks, I'll be doing separate forums. But this means, for one thing, that if I ever upgrade forum software, I'll have to do it *twice*, once for each separate forum. And upgrading THIS forum software is a royal, huge pain. Took me 2-3 days last time I did it. Should be easier now -- doable in 4-8 hours, but it's still very un-fun.

I think what I'll do is just offer FTP access to anyone who wants to perform a forum upgrade here for the MM forums. So anyone who is technically inclined can have access to the MM forums directory and go at it. (I would of course recommend making a complete backup first.)

[Toybox]

Um, I tried to change a key (

space

to be replaced with

<>

right next to the shift key on my German keyboard) and a little console window appeared out of nowhere to signal some error. I could close this window and resume playing (but still with the

space

key) with no trouble at all though.

[smiley=bath.gif]

Great game btw 8-)

[VernJensen]

It sounds like on your German keyboard, you found the equivalent of ~ on the American keyboard, which brings up the console window.

If you try the official 1.0.0 release (released today), you should find it asks you for a password if you push this key, since I don't want most players mucking around in the console. If it's a problem, I could add another control to the Keyboard settings dialog for

Show Console

so you can set it to a different key, allowing you to use <> for something else. As it is right now, you can't use that key for a game control. Think I should change this?

[Toybox]

I don't really mind not using that one; having to avoid one single obscure key is not a big restriction ;D It was just the console popping up suddenly was very scary!. I will try another pair of neighbouring keys!

[aquaMat]

Wow, Vern.....   [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

that was SUPER-FAST.  I check my mails this morning and what do I see..... your new site is up + running and Insectoid is released !!!

Congratulations.....and mucho successo with it !

(I just DL'd the demo...... have to check if it's my kind of game at all....but I'm really looking forward to check out the graphics !)

[Alanfalcon]

My High Score for Hard Mode is currently 638187. Who else has downloaded and registered the game? What's your high score? I'm curious!