Re: Anonymous Poster.
Once you have installed the game, there should be a file called "Cedric.exe". ^_^
A cute, short, blasphemous 2D Platformer
You thought you were getting a free game, but you were actually hoodwinked into being our testers!
Actually that's what happens when you make games for free, you have no budget for testers. Or time, you have no time! We'll see what we can do this weekend. Or rather, I'll try to coax my partner in crime (He's the programmer, I'm the artist) into looking at our code and also we'll see if we can reproduce these errors.
Actually that's what happens when you make games for free, you have no budget for testers. Or time, you have no time! We'll see what we can do this weekend. Or rather, I'll try to coax my partner in crime (He's the programmer, I'm the artist) into looking at our code and also we'll see if we can reproduce these errors.
Hello everyone :) I am the aforementioned programmer half of Happy Big Fun. I will try and respond to what I can:
Anon: There should be a desktop shortcut and a start menu/programs link to Cedric once it installs successfully. If not, I apologize as I haven't got the .MSI thing down-pat yet ;)
About the bitmaps and size/speed: Believe it or not, I highly doubt the bitmaps are to blame at all for anything. Every single file is completely unloaded whenever the stage changes, including cut scenes and boss fights. So when you are fighting death (12MB bitmap), the only bits in memory are that one death bitmap, cedric, the background, the floor and a couple others.
They are saved as bitmaps since saving them as anything else increases the compressed size. The .MSI compression (and the Zip compression, of course) are able to compress the bitmap to smaller then a .png or other file in almost all cases. I could have written my own bitmap format, but I figured there were better things to spend my time on :)
Here is the smallest specs we could get the game to run against in full-screen mode:
Laptop w/ Win2k
P3 700mhz
256MB Shared RAM
(Shared of course means NO special video memory)
Still ran well on this system. So to those of you having huge problems with decent systems, its quite possibly a driver issue (the game uses DirectX 7 which may have been neglected in recent driver releases for the newest cards? Sigh...2D support is going away it seems :()
Very Important!
While you are playing the game, hit ESC to change your Keyboard settings and/or volume settings. These changes are saved for next time so its a one-time change :)
I have tried repeatedly to repro the bugs you are seeing (those are definitely my error messages, but I can't make them happen), but can't. I'm sorry :(
Thanks for all of your kind words! I would never have expected this level of populatiry =D
Anon: There should be a desktop shortcut and a start menu/programs link to Cedric once it installs successfully. If not, I apologize as I haven't got the .MSI thing down-pat yet ;)
About the bitmaps and size/speed: Believe it or not, I highly doubt the bitmaps are to blame at all for anything. Every single file is completely unloaded whenever the stage changes, including cut scenes and boss fights. So when you are fighting death (12MB bitmap), the only bits in memory are that one death bitmap, cedric, the background, the floor and a couple others.
They are saved as bitmaps since saving them as anything else increases the compressed size. The .MSI compression (and the Zip compression, of course) are able to compress the bitmap to smaller then a .png or other file in almost all cases. I could have written my own bitmap format, but I figured there were better things to spend my time on :)
Here is the smallest specs we could get the game to run against in full-screen mode:
Laptop w/ Win2k
P3 700mhz
256MB Shared RAM
(Shared of course means NO special video memory)
Still ran well on this system. So to those of you having huge problems with decent systems, its quite possibly a driver issue (the game uses DirectX 7 which may have been neglected in recent driver releases for the newest cards? Sigh...2D support is going away it seems :()
Very Important!
While you are playing the game, hit ESC to change your Keyboard settings and/or volume settings. These changes are saved for next time so its a one-time change :)
I have tried repeatedly to repro the bugs you are seeing (those are definitely my error messages, but I can't make them happen), but can't. I'm sorry :(
Thanks for all of your kind words! I would never have expected this level of populatiry =D
Nice game.
I chose Alt for attacks and the system menu kept interrupting. And you can't see the cursor on your error dialog boxes. And Bubblegum hurt my eyes.
shmoove
I chose Alt for attacks and the system menu kept interrupting. And you can't see the cursor on your error dialog boxes. And Bubblegum hurt my eyes.
shmoove
I'd suggest including an uninstall feature, as well as putting your artwork and sound effects into their own folders (so the uninstall won't be cluttered with a bunch of different files in the main Cedric folder).
I just wanted to compliment you guys on the game. I've beaten it several times now. The only thing I could suggest is making a longer Cedric 2! :)
Quote:Original post by Gauvir_Mucca
I'd suggest including an uninstall feature, as well as putting your artwork and sound effects into their own folders (so the uninstall won't be cluttered with a bunch of different files in the main Cedric folder).
The uninstall is accomplished by going to add/remove programs :)
I keep playing this now - due to the fact that you have actually given us the choice to change the controls! Actually, you've given us the defaults of "Z" & "X"... ^_^
I'll tell you guys what would make all the difference - A DAMN README.TXT FILE! This would cut out alot of confusion - have a butchers at the Readme for my game( *SPAM* "CONSTELATION OF ATHENA" *SPAM* ) if you need a reference...^_^
OH! I downloaded your trial version of QDRPG...haven't tried it out, yet...I'll let you know what I think of it!
I'll tell you guys what would make all the difference - A DAMN README.TXT FILE! This would cut out alot of confusion - have a butchers at the Readme for my game( *SPAM* "CONSTELATION OF ATHENA" *SPAM* ) if you need a reference...^_^
OH! I downloaded your trial version of QDRPG...haven't tried it out, yet...I'll let you know what I think of it!
Quote:Original post by GameCreator
I just wanted to compliment you guys on the game. I've beaten it several times now. The only thing I could suggest is making a longer Cedric 2! :)
Oh my. Do I hear a request for a sequel? We make no promises, but I have a folder on my computer full of game ideas, and I've got at least 3 or 4 ideas written down for Cedric sequels.
But, our next game is a 3D rpg called Blocktown.
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