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Work in Progress / [LOCKED] Dumbo and Cool - *2 level demo* & screens, 5mb

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Zotoaster
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wait, whats all the stuff about the 'guys you save'?

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Bestotr,

Well, a download instead of a boxed product saves both you and me money and time. It's only 30mb.

Dom,

Yes - 1.9 - 2.9% of the transaction + a $0.30 service charge. Not alot really.

Zotoaster,

The aim of the game is to save Dumbo & Cool's friends from slavery; wait until the demo comes out and the introduction film should explain it all.


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Drew; do you have any interesting facts about DaC to keep us entertained on the run-up to the demo?

(e.g. Number of Lines of code, strangest bug found so far etc.)


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Posted: 11th Aug 2005 23:23 Edited at: 15th Aug 2005 13:36
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Oh, and the strangest bug? Easy;

I once used the wrong number for the enemy object, which was next to the object number for a pile of logs.

I had a pile of logs patrolling and shooting at the player. Another time, I had a similar bug, which made some coins fall to the ground as if they were rain.


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heheh! these coins sound cool, perhaps for a bonus level there are lots of coins falling like rain and you catch as many as you can! heheh

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Posted: 12th Aug 2005 00:10 Edited at: 12th Aug 2005 00:10
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Quote: " does this require a credit card? my mum doesnt have one"


Visa electron will do it, its not a credit card, but is a the manditory card when joins banks like the woolwich, I got one meself, not combatible every where, but can be used on TGC and PayPal

I hate asking my parents to use their card, so I'm glad I got me own, can't use ebay till I'm 18 though

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I'd Buy, but since it's online and my mom probably wouldn't trust any online payment methods...

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Drew would it be okay with you if I pulled a few strings and tried to get some real Katie Holmes endorsement? (I know your not all for it so I won't do anything without your permission)

Otherwise, keep up the great work man, this looks great!!
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Posted: 12th Aug 2005 13:02 Edited at: 12th Aug 2005 13:04
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W00t - Page 10!

Thanks for the nice feedback...
What strings would you be pulling? I'm mostly worried about getting my ass kicked for already forging an endorsement.
What's your action plan?

Again, I doubt Mrs. Holmes will endorse my pitiful excuse for a game; I'd have to pay her to do a photoshoot with a copy of the game, or to hire a photographer, for travelling costs to any photoshoot etc... Money I don't have.

Maybe I could get her to say a few kind words about it, but why would she? I bet she gets a 1,000,000,000 requests like this every day. And besides, she most likely doesn't even play games.

Talk to me on Myspace.com about it


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she'll porbably say shes too rich even for that, thats celebrities for ya.. i heard that jennifer lopez wouldnt go anywhere without getting this stuff always being sprayed in her path, so if katie homes is like that then i doubt shell even rate it good enough to mention it, let alone let it enter her brain

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Yeah,
forget it - this idea has already been discussed in depth in this thread which is why I had it locked.


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Posted: 13th Aug 2005 01:54
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........... .... but it isnt locked

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Posted: 13th Aug 2005 11:45 Edited at: 13th Aug 2005 11:58
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It was, I got it unlocked for the new screenshots and to post the demo in a couple of days...


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Sorry fellas,

I'm going to have to delay the demo release further again.
I've been working on it, but a number of new issues in split screen mode emerged last night which I never knew about, and I've had to work on fixing them.

The demo is very close to being done, but I can't say exactly when.


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Quote: "I'm going to have to delay the demo release further again."

Nooooooooo!

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Noooooo ...

Next Games: Project Domino / A Racing Game / A FPS

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As they say:
Quote: ""A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever - Shigeru Miyamoto""



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That's the 6th time I've heard that quote this week


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I think what people do wrong is they set a release date before they have got anywhere near finishing the game.

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Posted: 14th Aug 2005 17:46
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I would guess so Benjamin.

I'm actually very close to the deadline; I've got some bugs to fix, about 5 shots for the introduction film and a handful of animations to put in. No more than a weeks work. A slow weeks work.

More to come...


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Yeah I was guessing you were close, its just that sometimes things pop up that take longer than expected eh

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Posted: 14th Aug 2005 20:06
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Yeah, exactly.


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Alright, the demo is out - but it doesn't include the introduction film. I'll upload another version within the week over the old one, but anyway...

Check the Program Annnouncements board!

Katie Holmes says, check the Program Announcements board for the new Dumbo & Cool demo.
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Where is the demo?

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program announcements

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Posted: 16th Aug 2005 22:58 Edited at: 16th Aug 2005 22:58
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Yes, head on over and give it a playtest thrashing so we can sort out all of the bugs.

I can't believe how many times the game is crashing for other people

It's amazing how many bugs David R has found. Maybe we can get a competition going to see who finds the most. I suppose it's good though; if I get them all sorted out now, I won't have to sort them out later...

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whoa! i just clicked on katie.....and now i am here....

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Yeah, she can do that...

Katie Holmes says, check the Program Announcements board for the new Dumbo & Cool demo.
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yeah, she kinda has that effect on people "click on me! click on me!", that kinda thing

dumbo and cool is lookin awesome, any idea when its going to be finished?

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Quote: "When it's going to be finished."


I need to take some serious time off this game to work on my life again, so I'll just stop guessing and say I don't know.

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thats good enough for me!

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As I said in the other thread this game is awesome. My kids love it too! When the full version is ready to come out I'd love to buy a copy

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 22:33 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2005 22:34
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Thanks for the feedback!

The demo will be slightly updated on August 31st with some minor improvements, major stablity *and* the introduction film so you can all see why Dumbo & Cool's friends are trapped in cages. *

* (Careful readers of this thread will already know why)

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Ooh! Ooh! I know why!
Sits and waits impatiently for 31st August.

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In an interstellar burst...

The introduction film for Dumbo & Cool

URL: http://www.drewsgames.com/ddrw/dac.wmv
SIZE: 5.6mb
FORMAT, DURATION: Windows Media Video, 4 minutes long

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That was an awesome video. It's very professional.

How do you make your cut scenes? In DBP or in a seperate program?


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Lookin good. Keep it up!

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Quote: "How do you make your cut scenes?"


All 50 shots rigged manually in DBP, captured by the Fraps demo and put together using Studio 9. Audio added post using Studio.

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Quote: "i heard that jennifer lopez wouldnt go anywhere without getting this stuff always being sprayed in her path"


I hear Lee Bamber doesn't write a single line if code without monkey butlers performing shakespeare 24 hours a day.

@Drew,
Amazing, as always.

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That is awesome intro movie
I was impressed greatly by bubbles. Weird how little things like that can make ya go "oooh shiny :o"

I am also liking thy cute lil signature image D


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Thanks man!

The bubbles are a scrolling plain, locked onto the camera - pretty easy to do.

AND the cape on Lecture is done using Cloth & Particles pack. All hail Cloth & Particles pack, the only third part DLL I've ever used.

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That looks really great. It's all just about perfect. Very impressive.

I give it ten thumbs up.

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Thanks man,

More stuff below. Check it out!

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I really liked the intro movie Soo cool!

And the game is also great fun!

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Once more...

The introduction film for Dumbo & Cool

URL: http://www.drewsgames.com/ddrw/dac.wmv
SIZE: 5.6mb
FORMAT, DURATION: Windows Media Video, 4 minutes long

And what it looks like;



Sorry to regurgitate that, but it represents months of work, so I don't want it to dissapear too quickly from discussion.

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And, Gish is FINALLY in the game, in the 'flesh'. He winks and stuff, as well as pulsates, but your obviously can't see that in screenshots. He is in a regular cage, but when you open it - suprise! Gish! Accompanied by a bit of music from his game.





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And, finally, some WIP screenshots of the factory level ( level 6 )



Now, instead of rescuing Schmumps from cages in Level 6, you rescue them from slavery - they have hard hats, walking around the place, slaving it out, and you have to come along and save them.

So, here is what they look like;



When you 'free' them, their hard hat comes flying off in an array of magical particles...







And they say thanks to Dumbo / Cool quickly before glowing white hot and teleporting away. (To Happy Valley, where they were taken away from in the introduction film) Then there hard hat comes back down to earth, landing with a clink where they once were...









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Cool!
I like how the hard hat goes flying up in the air. Can you pick it up from the ground?
And since those are WIP screens, I assume there will be more than 2 slaves to rescue, right?

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You can't pick them up from the ground but you can walk over them, not through them, if that makes sense.

The Oil rig level is split into two levels, one with 4 slaves and the other with 6 - so yeah, theres more than two.

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