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9304. N7DOT (c-71-231-161-95.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) – 21 Jan 2010 20:00:59 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
And No, I'm not bored already, but sometimes I wish the were folders like
"1-99", "100-199", etc. etc. in triage, but with "1-499", etc. first with the others in the big ones.
 
9303. N7DOT (c-71-231-161-95.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) – 21 Jan 2010 19:55:53 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
It's also impossible to locate the good files. Oh, Tom, escape.exe was fine. Stuff like animation.png were unsuccessful, and all the stuff that I created was gone. The only stuff left was the stuff that comes with the game. Oh, and wowei, do you mean we need a link to the old thread?
here is the old thread's URL:

http://radar.spacebar.org/f/a/weblog/comment/1/898

 
9302. Kirima (54-180.60-188.cust.bluewin.ch) – 21 Jan 2010 17:42:54 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Tom, I've sent you 2 screen-shots, hope it will help?!
 
9301. wowei (frnk-590fdb6e.pool.mediaways.net) – 21 Jan 2010 09:33:06 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
@devin and @n7dot there are almost 3000 levels for the game, and most of them are really nice and challenging, are you sure you are bored still?

i can see no progress with the invention of a "curtain"-tile, it is against the idea of having transparent riddles. any hidden information or randomness in a level is only one thing: bad style.
 
9300. wowei (frnk-590fdb6e.pool.mediaways.net) – 21 Jan 2010 09:23:40 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
hi Tom7, please update the link for "feedback" to this new thread. And while you're at it, you may update the download for linux.

I can imagine how difficult any debugging is, when you cannot reproduce an error, cause things dont go wrong on your own machine. Sorry, cannot give no helping hand, because after compiling with the new sources things are running smoothly here too.

I see some new animations but what else has changed? Is the bug gone that didnt set your shortest solution as default?

Thanks a lot and keep on the good work.
 
9299. fetjuel (vpn.omnigroup.com) – 21 Jan 2010 04:04:32 Album-a-day #25: everylyyly everyy must it & & than an ]
Good to see another Welcome New Friend With Bomb fan.

I just gave this album a second listen, and it is definitely growing on me. The writing and production are strikingly… professional? mature? confident? There are plenty of moments that could totally get away with being attributed to a real-life album-deal world-tour kinda band.
 
9298. Tom 7 (c-71-206-239-200.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) – 21 Jan 2010 00:12:49 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Oh, too bad. Well, I guess there are problems with both the Mac and Windows versions. I'll look at them this weekend. It'd help me if you could describe more about what happened when it failed. Was it just escape.exe that couldn't be replaced, or different files? How did you notice you were missing esx/esp files? There isn't any code in the upgrader that should do anything with those files, so it's quite mysterious to me. Are you sure they're still not in the old installation directory or in the attic subdirectory?

BTW, if you want to upgrade manually in the future (and I understand why you'd want to do that, if you're afraid of losing your game data) all you have to do is download the installer or zip from the website. I want the in-game upgrader to perform the upgrade in place without any work by the user other than confirming. I obviously also want it to work correctly and not make the game unplayable (or worse, lose data!). I appreciate any help you guys can give...
 
9297. N7DOT (c-71-231-161-95.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) – 20 Jan 2010 19:10:35 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
We Need More Good levels and more stuff to work with in the editor, as things are starting to become boring. Going almost 11 seasons (2 and ¾ years) without a new tile/bot is really long.
 
9296. Anonymous (adsl-76-240-70-68.dsl.scrm01.sbcglobal.net) – 20 Jan 2010 01:49:17 Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
found a mushroom worried
 
9295. devin (host-24-100-105-241.newwavecomm.net) – 19 Jan 2010 23:27:16 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
this is starting to get unaddictiong
 
9294. N7DOT (c-71-231-161-95.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) – 19 Jan 2010 22:53:15 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
--- Um, I play on two computers, one Vista and one XP. The update should just download the new version and install that minus the levels you have already with an altered name in a new folder in the directory. --- Ex: Say you had Escape ver:3.1, the new escape should be like Escape ver:3.175 or something. That will allow an old backup of the game and rid of the dangers of the player's files being destroyed.
 
9293. Tom 7 (mobile-166-137-138-037.mycingular.net) – 18 Jan 2010 23:25:28 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Max also had a problem running it on the Mac. N7, are you on OSX? What version? I'll look into it.
 
9292. N7DOT (c-71-231-161-95.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) – 18 Jan 2010 23:20:56 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
I think a malfunction is moving around and I'm obviously not the only person. First I have failure updating even though it says "update successful" when at the same time the game is completely resetting all my info by deleting my files, and now Kirima lost the ability to play after updating. It's not the old update problem from early beta 3 because back then the only problem was the update failed. I think we have found a worse problem, but so far only Kirima and I have had the problem so far. (to our knowledge).
 
9291. Adam (c-71-236-65-235.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) – 18 Jan 2010 20:41:41 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
The patch is for downloading levels when the existing target is a symlink to a read only location. Otherwise, it won't fetch new levels on Fedora.
 
9290. Kirima (54-180.60-188.cust.bluewin.ch) – 18 Jan 2010 17:41:15 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
I did try to update directly, but now double-clicking the icon won't open the game. Just nothing happening! So I did manually download the zip-file: same problem, impossible to open the game. (iMac OSX Tiger 10.4.11)
 
9289. Tom 7 (c-71-206-239-200.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) – 18 Jan 2010 16:22:11 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Yeah, Adam is suggesting a patch to the update code that might help with the problems that some people are experiencing. It seems like it can't hurt, so I did add it. Unfortunately the update code can't be fixed by updating, if you can't update. :)

More information about updating problems is useful to me, because it's working fine on my computers. That makes it hard for me to debug.
 
9288. radiant (c-68-33-36-11.hsd1.va.comcast.net) – 18 Jan 2010 15:17:51 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
It's not a script, but it's the output of a programming tool called GNU diff, which lists the parts of the source code that have changed between versions.
 
9287. N7DOT (c-71-231-161-95.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) – 18 Jan 2010 13:20:00 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Oh, If you are in the same row or column as the Shybot, it will try to move out of the row/column you are in, But it won't try to walk into a solid object. This allows it to be "Forced" off the wall.
 
9286. N7DOT (c-71-231-161-95.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) – 18 Jan 2010 13:10:20 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
I'm pretty sure that's a script. I've used simple BASIC and GML(Game Maker Language, For the program Game Maker) scripts, I've looked at some of the escape code, and that looks like a script.
 
9285. devin (host-24-100-105-241.newwavecomm.net) – 18 Jan 2010 11:36:36 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
is that a script because i cant script
 
9284. Adam (c-71-236-65-235.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) – 17 Jan 2010 23:28:36 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
diff -ur escape-src~/upper.cc escape-src/upper.cc
--- escape-src~/upper.cc 2010-01-15 23:40:22.000000000 -0500
+++ escape-src/upper.cc 2010-01-17 23:23:42.747097347 -0500
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@
/* everything is rooted within dirname */
nlf = dirname + DIRSEP + nlf;

+ util::remove(nlf);
FILE * a = util::fopenp(nlf, "wb");
if (!a) {
say((string)RED "couldn't write " + nlf + POP);
 
9283. devin (host-24-100-105-241.newwavecomm.net) – 17 Jan 2010 23:22:05 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
and some file that ended with a D
 
9282. devin (host-24-100-105-241.newwavecomm.net) – 17 Jan 2010 23:20:36 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Umm... i cant download files...

dl51AF4583A
dl41AF43285
dl31AF41744
dl21AF468FC
Forgot to post animation.


It Says failed to remove dl______.deleteme to changlelog
OR failed to COPY dl_____ to COPYING
to animation


I even had the teleport animation but its gone!!!
 
9281. devin (host-24-100-105-241.newwavecomm.net) – 17 Jan 2010 23:12:18 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Can there be like a tile called CURTAIN, so you cant see whats under it. But if there is something under it there will be a black shade in the curtain, and to reveal what is under it ONLY in the LEVEL EDITOR with C.



Heres a bot that will be great for my next level - CopyBots - "Copybots copy your everymove like if you press right the bot goes right, and so on...
 
9280. Tom 7 (c-71-206-239-200.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) – 17 Jan 2010 16:28:23 Updated: Escape 200912250 ]
Next up plans are a rewritten level browser. No immediate plans for new blocks. Shybots is a good idea, but I'm worried that they'd spend all their time against the walls, with not much to do over there.
 

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