Archive for December, 2008
Atomic Combat, Macbooks, and the Mojiferforums…
Dec 29th
I apologize to all the Macbook owners, the brave souls still rocking first-gen iMacs, the desperate, the crazy, and anyone else who has realized that Atomic Combat’s window can’t be resized to allow them to play the game. I actually just finished up a fixed version and will be uploading the improved app to my website tonight (after midnight, when there is a lull in downloads…) Nothing too impressive or fancy, the app just checks your vertical resolution and adjusts the app window appropriately; the only problem thus far is that instead of implementing a completely new graphics function I simply scale everything down… multiple times a second… So the game is a little sluggish when animating at the smaller resolution, but at least it works!
In other news, after this resolution debacle I decided that I needed a better issue-resolution and user-communication method, so I started the Mojiferforum… So if you need help or want to complain about whatever oddity I’ve shat out, you can do so relatively easily now. I expect the Mojiferforum to become a disaster fairly quickly, filled with nothing but spam, midget and/or turtle porn, damned kids, and the occasional googly-eyed gibbon molester. Have fun!
…and in case you didn’t know, you can view the Atomic Combat Top Ten right on my website. Right now the fine country of Sweden is beating all contenders with an amazing 5920 score! Soon enough I will publish my first list of bizarre country names that people have used, because all of you need help. Mental help.
–Mojiferous
Atomic Combat Released Yet Again!
Dec 19th
Good King Thor may not be fully finished beta testing the game, but I decided that for my own sanity and the sanity of all those around me I would just unleash Atomic Combat 2.0 upon an unsuspecting public… Everything seems to be working magically, so I figured “fuck it, I’m gonna release the thing,” and so I did… Now comes the inevitable onslaught of downloads and then the onslaught of confused emails- “Why does everything show up sometimes?” (The Spy Plane/Spy Satellite “features” still aren’t explained that well) “How do I play the card game?” (ditto) “I don’t understand!” (neither do I…)
I’ll probably post updates within the next few days about how the games getting along- I expect mixed feedback, so we’ll see… However, I am quite proud of how the damn thing looks, and at least no one can say that this release is somehow uglier than the last!
–Mojiferous