2996. Tom 7 (h-72-244-71-99.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
15 Oct 2005 20:54:44
[ NEW: Escape Beta 2! ]
Stephan: humm, sorry about that. Was everything working fine before the restore thing, like, you think that's what caused it? Did you restore without having saved first? It sounds like a pretty crazy bug, so if you can give me any more information (or steps to repeat it), let me know. These dataloss bugs are by far the worst, so fixing 'em are a high priority.
Your player file should be backed up automatically every few days. Go inside the escape directory, and there should be a group of files named stephan.esp~nnnn where nnnn is some number. Copy the one with the largest number to a filename like "stephan2.esp" and it should be good again. Also, it might be helpful if you could send me the broken "stephan.esp" if it's not empty. |
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2995. Stephan (fl-71-3-34-61.dyn.sprint-hsd.net) –
15 Oct 2005 13:28:44
[ NEW: Escape Beta 2! ]
Wow, I've really messed up my playerfile with this build. I tried to play through my recent level again; I launched into it, and then tried pushing R to restore. Escape put me at the exit door, with bots and walls intact. I moved off the exit door and back on to finish the level and got a Bug error message (something about the solution optimizer having an invalid start position).
I was prompted to press enter to file a report. When I did so, Escape crashed.
Upon relaunch my player file in the menu reads:
stephan.esp **ERROR** (-1)
and selecting it yields
"Couldn't read player stephan.esp"
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2994. Stephan (fl-71-3-34-61.dyn.sprint-hsd.net) –
15 Oct 2005 13:16:15
[ NEW: Escape Beta 2! ]
The new bomb tiles are pretty interesting. The rules for the bomb are a bit confusing though, regarding what tiles the explosion affects.
Destroyed by bombs:
blue, red, green and gray and gold blocks (including broken)
buttons, wire and transponders
trigger panels (both gray and colored)
decorative tiles (stop, arrows)
lasers and bots
Unaffected:
steel blocks and spheres.
traps, holes and teleports
on/off switchs, 0/1 blocks
electricity or colored floor of any state
This complexity makes more interesting levels possible, but means that players will have to learn (by trial and error?) which blocks can be destroyed.
IMHO bombs should be pushable into holes, resulting perhaps in either the bomb vanishing completely, leaving the hole, or perhaps exploding upwards and filling the hole in with a broken grey block. |
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Ok, well, I hope you fix this known ridiculous situation some time soon. Nonetheless it is a great feature. |
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Is there any equivalent file to "escape.txt" (mjn is talking about) for Mac OS X? Downloading escape-beta-osx.zip once more did not help. I've just no clue at all what I might be missing... -> maybe explanations for shortcuts?
Nice work, "cute" bombs - even so they can't be cute by definition ;-)
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2990. Tom 7 (h-72-244-71-99.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
14 Oct 2005 11:15:23
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
For now you gotta do it from the "solution manager" (press ctrl-m on a level), but you can only get to the solution manager if you've solved the level. Also, solving the level will delete all your bookmarks.
Yes, I realize how ridiculous this is. |
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2989. JME (pool-151-204-77-26.delv.east.verizon.net) –
14 Oct 2005 10:53:53
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
Wow, this problem is wayyyyy more common than I thought!! I woke up this morning, turned on the shower and as i went to hop in noticed that there were mushrooms growing outta the tile!! The bathroom floor was replaced about this time last year, but there was a gap in the floor by the tub and the tile on the tub is broken, and right through that crack our 3-4 little mushrooms that were NOT there yesterday!! I don't know what to do! Its freaking me out BIG TIME! |
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2988. jcreed (pool-141-158-125-212.pitt.east.verizon.net) –
14 Oct 2005 09:50:03
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
Am I missing a way to delete bookmarks? |
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2987. Tom 7 (h-72-244-71-99.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
14 Oct 2005 09:38:30
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
mjn: Yes, 'c' is the same as 's', I just wanted to use a different name in the menu (I thought 'save', which is why it was 's' in the first place, would be confusing). |
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2986. mjn (pool-68-161-220-16.ny325.east.verizon.net) –
13 Oct 2005 20:26:52
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
Whoa, so much new stuff! Them bombs are pretty cool, I reckon. Haven't tried the bookmarks yet, but I'll bet they come in real handy on the insanely difficult puzzles (which are unfortunately all I've got left!)
One minor question about the C (checkpoint) key: does it just do the same thing as S?
(Hmm, and as I type this, it occurs to me that perhaps the answer is in escape.txt. Oh, well, please ignore the question if so; I'll go check that next...)
P.S. I heartily approve of both the anti-elitist tone and rule #4. |
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I'm glad. =)
The MP3.COM url doesn't work any more, of course, but the album is available here:
http://mp3.tom7.org/reentrant-uperiodic/ |
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2984. Anonymous (137.164.98.61) –
13 Oct 2005 11:56:41
[ FLAMING TEXT ]
ok you people need help!!!! |
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My little stepdaughter (hannah, 4) absolutely loved State of Iowa. |
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2982. Anonymous (pcp01935919pcs.hamden01.ct.comcast.net) –
13 Oct 2005 08:27:12
[ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]
Unrelated suggestion:
I would recommend that you rename "Crap Art" to "Draft Art" thus eliminating the tone of anti-elitism and allowing a connection for those who want to take next steps in their artistic exploration. There certainly should be nothing wrong with wanting to refine and elevate original ideas that are found in the original process.
Also, please edit item #4 in your description of crap art.
Otherwise, this seems to be a noble pursuit.
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2981. Tom 7 (h-72-244-71-99.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
13 Oct 2005 00:40:49
[ Space Names! ]
Represent! |
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2980. b dogg (ip68-101-196-73.sd.sd.cox.net) –
12 Oct 2005 19:51:25
[ Space Names! ]
SCIENCE NERDS ARE H-O-T HOT!!
YEAH LIKE ALL OF YOU GUYS! SCIENCE NERDS! ALRIGHT NERDIES! YA
NERDS UNITE! |
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2979. Anonymous (ip68-101-196-73.sd.sd.cox.net) –
12 Oct 2005 19:50:15
[ Space Names! ]
these chikcs dont even know th name of my baand, but theyre all on me like they wanna hold haands... |
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2978. b dogg (ip68-101-196-73.sd.sd.cox.net) –
12 Oct 2005 19:49:04
[ Space Names! ]
this is very interesting. |
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I knew you did write a computer program to solve this revenge of the computers, that's WHY I don't feel too stupid anymore. ;)
"r" will restore - ok, thank you, I did not get that.
I'm looking forward to the new version - and I'm curious! I'm sure it will be just great and "better" and wonderful! :) |
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2976. Anonymous (212.248.225.138) –
12 Oct 2005 09:25:25
[ FLAMING TEXT ]
Yo ppl itz flixi wixi n raza ere 2 gojus girlies! |
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2975. Tom 7 (h-72-244-70-244.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
12 Oct 2005 09:07:49
[ NEW: Escape Beta 2! ]
Yeah, revenge of the computers is definitely one of the hardest levels out there. I actually wrote a computer program to solve it, though some people have done it by hand.
's' should work; it silently saves your current position and if you later press 'r' then it will restore it. This only persists while the same level is open, so if you quit back to the load screen, then the checkpoint is lost.
BUT -- the new version which I will release this week (almost done!) has "bookmarks", which are saved in your player file and are much more straightforward. So don't fret that 's' isn't as useful as you might like. ;) |
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Thank you, Tom 7. So I've tried to find help "here", read the comments, and found out that some levels seem to be REALLY HARD - I've had a HUGE problem on level 617... - I realized that I'm not the only one, so I feel less stupid now! :-) And now I know that you are sure, positive, that there does exist a solution for every single level.
While playing, "u" alone does undo, and BTW ctrl-u does it, too! "s" alone does not do anything - or maybe I just can't understand the way it does save or what exactly this saves? I couldn't figure out what to do AFTER "s" - the file might be saved anywhere, but where? Do you know what I'm trying to ask? (Sorry, my english...)
For editing: you were guessing right, I've tried to do it the way you suggest, and it works. "s" works as well, and no problem to find the saved file. |
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2973. Tom 7 (h-72-244-70-244.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
11 Oct 2005 22:45:27
[ Speaking Skillz ]
You think my skills are like socks? HELL NO |
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2972. Max (ce-web3.wesleyan.edu) –
11 Oct 2005 22:24:09
[ Speaking Skillz ]
Just like my socks. |
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