@sportd: thank you for creating this game. will it be possible to download the game when its released for public to avoid server problems?

it is up to him.

But his last game (The Gym Game)

People reported old bugs on the download games That he was hard to find this thx to the reporter did not know what version of the game he/she did download & play

@sportd:
Thanks for the game! I am not done yet but it is a big improvement over the gym engine-wise. A suggestion would be to maybe put some music/sounds into the game? it seems a bit weird with no sound. Do you have your own blog/board too?

saw the image of sniper on the homepage, it looks better & more realistic than last two games.

after i meet misty the game just keeps loading

@Kopi: This game won't be able to be downloaded. The game is tied into the rest of the website and while I could possibly separate it out, it would take a while (which for the moment I'd rather spend on the Sniper). I have tried to get as much of the game client side (cached in the browser) so queries to the website are minimised (still need one per page to get next page number). This requires a browser that is not in incognito / private browsing mode and one of the major browsers but it is almost as good as downloading the game. The downsides are you still need an internet connection to play and emptying the cache means you'll need to redownload the images.

I have considered how I'd adapt these games to the mobile platform to be played when not connected to the internet but they are just pencil diagrams at the moment.

@anggus: I thought about music / sound for thePhysio but didn't get around to it. I like the idea of background music that gets more intense depending on the situation, I am at the moment restricted in obtaining music to options that either are free or are very cheap. Does anyone know of anywhere that allows the use of their music?

Sound effects wise, I might experiment with a couple of options here. I've always wanted sound but haven't made the time to get familiar with tech to make it happen. It may not happen for theSniper.. (maybe just background music this time), but we'll see.

I don't have my own blog / board. Again it's something I have wanted to add but I'll focus on theSniper first. At the moment I just pop in here and have a look every now and again.

PapaSmurf wrote:after i meet misty the game just keeps loading

Hmm... I have PM'ed you with a few questions so I can hopefully get to the bottom of this.

@sportd:

A quick search of free music to use in games yields lots of results.

If you look on this thread: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/14/where-can-i-find-free-music-for-my-game

There are a few links in the top reply by a person (not the closed discussion post).

BTW finished the game- great job, big improvement over the last one!

Comments:
Movement was very clunky, and I accidentally moved to the wrong places all the time- unintuitive for sure.
The loading/saving was glitchy and ended up re-setting me to day 1 at some point so I had to start the game all over.

If sniper is as big an improvement engine-wise as this was over the gym, it should be good!

Thanks anggus, I'll check that out.

The music industry in general seems like a minefield to me as a novice looking in. I just want to be sure that whatever I choose will be above board...licence wise.

Someone has pm'ed me regarding composition so I'll follow that up first.

@anggus regarding the game.

The engine with get another complete rewrite. The two areas I want to rework are the travel system (standardising the areas for movement. I had trouble moving around while testing the game but the way I'd written it made it a headache to change) and the other area is load / save. Load save I put in late and used cookies to save the data. That is a major problem with private browsing which generally clears cookies on exit. I want to add a save file option (discrete of course)
Other areas I'll target are better preloading of images and animations and better rendering on mobile devices.

Also I am testing a new rendering engine for the images. A10 minute physio rendered image took 2 hours but the quality improvement is worth the effort.

Pretty much a straight forward game
Not a happy ending though
By the way is there one?
Look forward to more
Cheers

Hi psycho 72

To answer the ending question:

sportd wrote:@didou : I'll hopefully get going on this in the next couple of days. (The walkthrough)

You said the next couple of days? But, has spent several weeks now. Is expected soon?

Hi didou,

I finally got the walkthrough up. It's highlighted a couple of little errors and one glaring omission. It seems the safe is open and you never need to get the safe code... I was sure I wrote the safe code section in but it's not there. I must have been dreaming.

I'm not ready to start a Sniper thread yet but I have added a page to the website called "Updates".

It can be found under the "More" drop down at the top of the screen. I thought I'd start adding some content while images render (15 frame animation loop will take 2 days to complete).

http://www.the-vdates.com/updates.php

The new rendering engine really seems to give good results. good works. I look forward to see more.