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17 insightful ideas to “Death Cloud of Death, the first Welcome to Pixelton Game”

1. Felonious Tub Posted: Mar 9th, 2008 at 3:19 am

   1 Cool game Josh, I loves wasting some time on Flash games. I’ve already bookmarked it so I’ll have easy access to time wastage. Reply to this comment.

2. Joshie McFarkas the III Posted: Mar 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am

   2 Author Comment Thanks Mr Tub! I somehow broke it last night at 3am and spent a few hours making the boxes be deadly again. Nothing worse then making a mistake that you have no clue how to fix. Reply to this comment.

3. Middlerun Posted: Mar 10th, 2008 at 2:39 am

   3 Good stuff! Although another interesting way to be unproductive is just what I don’t need right now. Still, I can see myself playing this a lot in the next few days. My only criticism would be that the jumping could use a bit of motion easing so it’s more of a smooth arc, which would make the gameplay slightly better (I think they only implemented motion easing in Flash CS3). Still, totally awesome. I especially like how the cloud has Kirby’s blood all over its face at the end. It reminds me of me when I eat a discarded 8-bit hero who was trying to escape the rain I am making. Which is often. Reply to this comment.

4. Joshie McFarkas the III Posted: Mar 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

   4 Author Comment Ha, ha – thanks Middlerun! I agree that it needs some sort of physics system as Kirby’s jump is silly right now. I appreciate your thoughts. Reply to this comment.

5. nate "the aruably" great Posted: Mar 11th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

   5 I can’t help but believe that this is better than 90% of the current wii catalog and completely PWNS the PS3′s. Reply to this comment.

6. nate "the aruably" great Posted: Mar 11th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

   6 PS. – seriously. Reply to this comment.

7. that_dude Posted: Mar 12th, 2008 at 5:51 am

   7 wait wait wait? theres a flash game for pixelton now?!?!?! why didn’t I become informed of this sooner? Reply to this comment.

8. Bug Posted: Mar 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

   8 very sweet. Very hard, too…the double jump is hard to control and sometimes there will not be enough blocks to even possibly stay afloat. Maybe you could add some way of affecting the rate of block spawning? Reply to this comment.

9. Bug Posted: Mar 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

   9 i.e. powerups, timed button presses, something new and exciting Reply to this comment.

10. Joshie McFarkas the III Posted: Mar 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    10 Author Comment i.e. powerups, timed button presses, something new and exciting Awesome ideas bug. I don’t know how but I’ll see if I can get power-ups to work. That would be very fun and skill based as opposed to chance right now. Reply to this comment.

11. Kree Posted: Mar 13th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    11 Does the Death Cloud of Death have an ending or is it just endless up-ness? I got to 750 as my best. It becomes annoying when the tower (which I have dubbed the Death Tower) keeps getting built when you’re stuck on a lesser stub of the tower. Maybe high-jump and and teleportation would make for good powerups? By the way, I would suggest putting textures on those random blocks, or at least make those white borders thicker, because that would help to keep the 8-bit illusion going. I dunno, maybe you can give them faces and they can be Fil’s cousins or something Reply to this comment.

12. Bug Posted: Mar 14th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    12 woo, got to 827 ft… I think I know what the deal is with the double jump. It only registers a jump if the up button and no other button is pressed. Oh yeah, and maybe map WASD in parallel with arrows? I wear my right hand out a lot with mousing + racquetball, so I use my left hand alone as much as I can otherwise. Reply to this comment.

13. Joshie McFarkas the III Posted: Mar 14th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    13 Author Comment You got it Bug! The double jump only works at straight up, but on left or right you fall. It was an error at first but I kind of like it. It makes the double jump really hard to use but when donw well the only way to keep climbing. Each time I play I can get over 2,000 feet right now before I get careless… Love the high jump idea Kree. And your thoughts on the blocks are right on too. I’m going to try something I did originally, and not have them outlined. Since they are the same color as the backgrounds it is much harder….but I’ll pull back how aggressive the water is too…. Reply to this comment.

14. Bug Posted: Mar 14th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    14 Don’t think it has an ending…I got to 1016 this time and nothing special happened. Still pretty dang fun. Reply to this comment.

15. Joshie McFarkas the III Posted: Mar 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    15 Author Comment Oh, sorry about not answering that: It doesn’t have an ending. The goal is to get a highscore, and have the cloud mock you at the same time. But Mochi Leaderboards don’t seem to be working on my end. Boo. Need to get the leaderboards up and these tweaks live this weekend! And it doesn’t look like any of the cool flash sites want to buy rights to this game. Can’t blame them but it was a fun dream while it lasted. Oh, but WASD should be no prob to add in! Consider it done. Reply to this comment.

16. Bug Posted: Mar 14th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    16 Yay, glitch time! floating castles: http://flickr.com/photos/24306752@N03/2334479600/ Sometimes happens if you gain a lot of height quickly: a block probably spawns right above or on top of another falling block. Should be trivial to fix…in your collision detection function, just make sure that that what ever a block lands on is either ground, or an already stopped block, before stopping it. The second one is quite strange. Right-click the app in the middle of gameplay and select “Play”, then start again. Two blocks will fall a a time, instead of one. This makes the above glitch easier to reproduce, and frankly also the game, to a degree. It can be repeated, too. Finally note that I have no Flash experience, so I’m basing my diagnosis on educated guesses, and a bit of game dev on other platforms. Reply to this comment.

17. Joshie McFarkas the III Posted: Mar 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    17 Author Comment BUG. IS. AWESOME. Thanks so much! Wonderful (horrible glitchy) finds. Hopefully I can address these this weekend. Reply to this comment.