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M Gaming
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Posted: 24th Mar 2004 00:02
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Hi. I have just finished my first game, a action racing game involving you driving in a sort of dirt bike, nicknamed in my game the MotoBike. Now, I just need to find a website to put the game on.

The game enables you to gain experience and driving rank while you are able to race in two different modes of racing: Lap racing and Motocross. If you don't want to race, then you can perform stunts in the Trick Mode, in which you can do flips while driving at a high rate of speed to earn points. You are also able to select up to 8 different colors of your MotoBike.
Bonus Features: Increase your speed by performing enough tricks or winnning the complete Lap Racing or Motocross. If your engine upgrade gets to a certain level, then you can earn a new vehicle besides a MotoBike...

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walaber
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Posted: 24th Mar 2004 05:11
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well, the usual candidates:

fewwewbs, geocities, etc.

however I would recommeng signing up at http://www.dbspot.com it's free for DB programmers who want to feature their games. my website is there at http://walaber.dbspot.com

once you get a site, post us some screenshots, your game sounds cool!!

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Thanks for the websites. The game is large, 40 MB, and it is still large when compressed.

Screenshots coming up.

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then dbspot is your best choice!

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Just a quick comment.. but do you have your images and other things compressed where possible? That can really help since people dont like downloading large files on average...


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or perhaps you have lost of uncompressed .wav files in there or something?

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Posted: 26th Mar 2004 04:22 Edited at: 26th Mar 2004 04:31
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Here are the screenshots:

http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot1.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot3.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot4.jpg

I have compressed the file all that I could. However, it is still too large because of its many textures, sounds, and objects.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2004 04:43
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Are you sure?
You just need to get winrar and put everything in one big .rar file.
They are more compressed than .zip.


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Posted: 26th Mar 2004 04:57
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How much more? A good amount is more than a couple of MB. I can't get that, I don't think.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2004 05:13
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When I compress it using a standard .zip folder it only reduces the size to 33 MB. I should try using .rar files.

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With using WinRAR, it compressed the file to 29 MB. Not too bad. I'll see if I can compress it even more.

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Screenies please. That would make the 30mb download more worthwhile.


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Posted: 26th Mar 2004 07:42
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Screenshots mentioned at site above.

http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot1.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot3.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/mflame@wans.net/screenshot4.jpg

This is a temporary web site.

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from the screenshots it does look pretty good but i can't see how it could have such a big file size... maybe put a demo together with just one level so we can test it out?

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Posted: 26th Mar 2004 23:58 Edited at: 27th Mar 2004 00:00
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wow. that's lookin good
if the file size is quiet large, try changing all of your pics to *.jpg to change 2meg files to 100k files (or if yer've already done that) try also using winace <- very good compresser
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Found out compression problem: in-game Music Playlist too large (20 MB)

The total size now is only 6 MB. When I have my DBSpot site running, it will be available for download.

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If you want a decent site for to let people download stuff, e-mail me the file & I'll stick it on my site.


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