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baxslash
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Posted: 12th Dec 2011 11:52
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I'd like to make a small announcement regarding the ADG newsletter. From next month's issue it will have a new Editor since I'm taking too much on at the moment. I'll still be helping produce content and easing our new Editor into the job but Adam Hodgson (Hodgey) has agreed to take on the role. His input and enthusiasm for the group has been a real help to us all that most of you may not be aware of.

I'm sure he'll make a great job of it thanks Hodgey!

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Thanks baxslash! I'll certainly give it 100%. This reminds me, if anyone has any requests for next month's newsletter please email me all relevant details.

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Also ideas can be posted on the ADG forum HERE!

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Congrats on the promotion, Hodgey!
We'll all pitch in to make each following ADG Newsletter a great read.

Quote: " His input and enthusiasm for the group has been a real help to us all that most of you may not be aware of."

True! Thanks, Hodgey!

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The answer is: For continued support, help and general goodwill to fellow forum members.

Now you just have to work out what the question is.

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Posted: 12th Dec 2011 16:54
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You know I'm rubbish at cryptic questions bats so I won't even guess

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Posted: 12th Dec 2011 19:37 Edited at: 12th Dec 2011 19:39
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Silly me

Congrats Hodgey you really are a valued member!

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Posted: 12th Dec 2011 20:36 Edited at: 12th Dec 2011 20:37
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Grats Hodgey. I'm sure you will have some great stuff for future newsletters!

I have been beavering away with a simple little Christmas game for the last few days. It needs a little work to get the gameplay more entertaining but is looking reasonable considering it uses my graphics ;p Anyway I thought it might add some festive cheer to the thread!



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That looks really great DVader! Nice graphics too, you undersell yourself

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Looks good DVader, it's amazing how something that should be simple like christmas graphics can actually be quite hard.

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Posted: 12th Dec 2011 21:59
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Whoa! I wasn't expecting that! Thanks everyone!

Quote: "The answer is: For continued support, help and general goodwill to fellow forum members.

Now you just have to work out what the question is."

Is the question "Why do I have cake at my front door step?"? Well it's delicious!

@DVader: looks like a neat little Christmas game and the graphics look fantastic. I agree with BatVink's statement about them being hard to draw.

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It's well deserved Hodgey

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Posted: 13th Dec 2011 00:11
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Guess I should congratulate you again, Hodgey.

Cool graphics, DVader. Looking sweet.

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Posted: 13th Dec 2011 18:34 Edited at: 13th Dec 2011 18:36
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Sorry for the bump, guys.
Just want to remind everyone that there are still two competitions going on at the moment with great prizes HERE and HERE.
You can find the official ADG site HERE to upload your entries and win one of those wonderful prizes.
Remember, signing up for an ADG account is totally free.

Prizes are given by TGC, Matty H, Rich Dersheimer, baxslash, JRNTexas and me. Thanks for that, guys!

Anyways, good luck to all who competes. You have still a couple of weeks to make something and win one of those great prizes.

Cheers

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Just added Josh Mooney's free sprites and spritesheets to the resources page on the ADG site. Thanks Josh!

Free Sprites!

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Sign me up as a member!

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@Digital Awakening, welcome!

If you want an account on the ADG site just use the "Dev Login" link at the bottom of any page then select "Register new account":
http://adg.devink.co.uk

I'm in the process of changing the first post as I will no longer be using it as a place to store info on our members / games. From now on I'll be using the website as a repository for all things ADG.

I'm saying this so that nobody gets offended by not being added to the first post.

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Thanks baxslash. I was wondering where I could find the registration form

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Welcome a board, Digital Awakening!

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Created ten more FREE explosion spritesheets with smoke (animated) which are available HERE.
This time, two explosion types with each five different variations.
You can use them for free in your games, just give me (Chris Van Wijmeersch) credit in your game. Thanks.

Hope you'll like 'em.

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Quote: "Created ten more FREE explosion spritesheets with smoke (animated) which are available HERE. "

The explosions look fantastic Chris! I might use them for my Radar Invaders game. Having a variety of explosions adds to the fun.

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Beautiful work. Going to put these to good use.

http://www.jlmoondog.com/
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Wow The Slayer! You're really giving some great stuff away! Thanks!

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No problem, guys! Glad to help the community.
I'm in the process of doing a small tutorial for the next ADG Newsletter about creating 2D sprites with Truespace.

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Quote: "I'm in the process of doing a small tutorial for the next ADG Newsletter about creating 2D sprites with Truespace. "

Thanks The Slayer!

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You're welcome, Hodgey!

Can I send you an example of it so far? It's not finished yet, but I'd like your opinion. It's a PDF file.

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Sure.

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Hi Guys,

Been a while since I posted on the forums. Been busy with lots of things (mainly work).

Have been able to complete my first game though using AppGameKit T1.

Not sure how many actually remember my initial post on what I was planning to do, but I've actually finished it. It's announced on the AppGameKit Showcase board AGK Showcase board.

Like I say there, I was really hoping to get this published up on AppUp, but AppGameKit T1 (by itself) doesn't have this capability (yet - hopefully it will come in an upcoming update).

I wouldn't mind it being put up on the ADG Website either as a "Coming Soon" game (it hasn't been approved on any stores yet, so it doesn't fulfill the stated requirements there) - oh well.....

Anyway, have a play and let me know what you think of it. Cheers.

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Quote: "Been a while since I posted on the forums. Been busy with lots of things (mainly work)."

We've missed you Mr D!

Quote: "Not sure how many actually remember my initial post on what I was planning to do, but I've actually finished it. It's announced on the AppGameKit Showcase board AppGameKit Showcase board."

I do remember it and well done in completing it!

Quote: "I was really hoping to get this published up on AppUp, but AppGameKit T1 (by itself) doesn't have this capability"

I thought it did. I haven't tried it personally but here's the AppUp Tier 1 guide.

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Hi Hodgey,

Tanks for the reference, and yes, there are instructions (on transforming a T1 app into an AppUp product), but it relies on having the VS development environment installed and then performing a number of (not so simple) modifications, etc.
This is not possible for me as I do not have VS installed (and don't want it to be either) for now.
Hopefully TCG will come out with a much simpler method of getting an AppUp game up and running using T1 only (without requirements the other external tools). If they came up with their own conversion tool or something, then that would be best.

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Hi mr_d!

I'll download and have a play later but I like the "tongue in cheek" style of the screenshot. Looks like fun!

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Quote: "This is not possible for me as I do not have VS installed (and don't want it to be either) for now."

I see your dilema.

Quote: "Hopefully TCG will come out with a much simpler method of getting an AppUp game up and running using T1 only (without requirements the other external tools). If they came up with their own conversion tool or something, then that would be best."

That would be awesome but I'm just wondering if that would be in their jurisdiction. In other words, would Intel allow them to make such a tool?

Anyway, like baxslash I'll give it a shot later and I see The Slayer has done a good job of posting our team project up on the same board. Nice work The Slayer!

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Quote: "That would be awesome but I'm just wondering if that would be in their jurisdiction. In other words, would Intel allow them to make such a tool? "

Honestly I don't think it would be so hard. They would have to include the AppUp library in every executable or provide a switch in the IDE with some way of adding the correct ID's and passwords into the built exe... not impossible or against AppUp guidelines.

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Quote: "Honestly I don't think it would be so hard. They would have to include the AppUp library in every executable or provide a switch in the IDE with some way of adding the correct ID's and passwords into the built exe... not impossible or against AppUp guidelines."

In that case I hope we see something like this in the near future. Hypothetically, could anyone make this tool or would TGC have to make it?

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It would have to be part of the compile process I think. Just because the library would have to be included. There might be a way to separate the ID / passwords but that feels risky to me.

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Quote: "We've missed you Mr D!"

Indeed we did.
Welcome back, mr_d!
I'll try out your game asap. Looks like fun. Heheh.

Quote: "If they came up with their own conversion tool or something, then that would be best."

Yep, that would be very handy.

Quote: "I see The Slayer has done a good job of posting our team project up on the same board. Nice work The Slayer!"

Glad to, mate!

Quote: "Honestly I don't think it would be so hard. They would have to include the AppUp library in every executable or provide a switch in the IDE with some way of adding the correct ID's and passwords into the built exe... not impossible or against AppUp guidelines."

Maybe they could integrate it in the AppGameKit through commands.

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Quote: "Quote: "We've missed you Mr D!"
Indeed we did.
Welcome back, mr_d! "

Thanks - yeah, I haven't been posting as much as I'd like (but have been able to just keep up with the reading of all the posts).

Quote: "I'll download and have a play later"

Quote: "Anyway, like baxslash I'll give it a shot later"

Quote: "I'll try out your game asap. Looks like fun. Heheh."

please do; I'm interested in all of your opinions. It's a very basic game with not much variety, but hopefully not too boring or repetative...

In regards to the possible AppGameKit AppUp tool or added functionality, I was thinking myself that similar to how they have the main ".exe" file that gets built/copied that seems to use the generated ".byc" bytecode file from the compile process now, that they could continue down this route and add the AppUp functionality to the main ".exe" file and the use would only have to add the relevant AppUp GUID, etc. in the compiled bytecode via possibly a few constant declarations. Anyway, maybe it only seems that easy to me in theory as I don't know exactly how the AppGameKit works, and that this wouldn't be feasible in practice...

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I do wonder what is possible and what is not. We all know Apple wouldn't allow something like this. Other markets shouldn't be as strict but I haven't got a clue myself. I'm targeting Android myself and there are quite a few having problems with that. Wouldn't hurt to be able to compile directly to different platforms directly from within AGK. But this surly would be in the future as TGC have other things planned for now.

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I would like to join this group, if that is OK. I have AppGameKit and my plan is to create my first app this year. Not sure what I can bring to the group yet, but if I think of anything I'll let you know. HNY to all anyway.

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Welcome to the group!

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Hey guys!

If any of you have any content or news that you would like to see in the ADG Newsletter please post it here on the ADG forums or feel free to email me.

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Hodgey, I had word back from Rick. We can host the AppGameKit Bitesize tutorials on our site, they might make a nice addition to the newsletter for anyone that missed them in the TGC newsletter.

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Quote: "Hodgey, I had word back from Rick. We can host the AppGameKit Bitesize tutorials on our site, they might make a nice addition to the newsletter for anyone that missed them in the TGC newsletter.
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Ahh, music to my ears baxslash! Send it over anytime.

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Hey baxslash, mind adding "Freefallin'" to the "Published Games By Our Members" section?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lonewolfgames.freefallin

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Hi Hockeykid, if you mean in the first post I actually need to change the first post since I'm not updating it anymore. I'm going to keep it simple and have all our published games on the ADG website. Would you like to add it to the game listings on the website? If you have any trouble let me know.

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Quote: "Would you like to add it to the game listings on the website?"


Sure, do I do that are do you?

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It would be better if you did it only so that you can make edits whenever you like (because you know how it works). Do you have an account?

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Quote: "Do you have an account?"

Yes he does and I've just made him an author.

Have fun HockeyKid!

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Hmm, when attempting to "Save" I get the following error

"You don't have the permission to publish items."
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"Item saved"

But I don't seem to see it on the "Games" list, does it need to be approved or something?

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