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laurent mrejen
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Hi,

I have made a website dedicated to promote the games I made with my grilfriend.

Ok, there is not a lot of stuff right now but at last, you can download a small demo of a game I made with her with darkbasic.

The adress is http://www.existenz-software.fr

I hope you will enjoy it. There will be more free games soon. So don't hesitate to come back frequently

Laurent Mrejen
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Posted: 13th Jun 2007 23:51 Edited at: 13th Jun 2007 23:54
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Link for the lazy people

How many websites have you made thus far?
It's a pretty neat site, but you should add a bit more screenshots and story to it.

And the name is nicely chosen too: EXistenZ

Don't look at my sig!
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laurent mrejen
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I have made for myself only one website.

The name is inspired by the movie yes. But this name still hasn't been used by anyone (existenz-software). So I bought it.

I know that I have to improve it and it will be soon. actually, you have a report of what I made since march and I will go further.

What do you think about the game? The pictures were made by my girlfriend

See you
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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 20:44 Edited at: 14th Jun 2007 20:45
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It's a nice game. Verry profesional looking, I alway focus just a tad more on graphics than I do on playability(). And I like the music alot, verry relaxing.
The mouse isn't working very well for me, how did you code it? You could add a lil smoothing to it so it would look like the bee has a wil of its own. also the wing animation of the bee is way to slow. In this movie on 5:50 you can see a bee very clearly to whay yours should look like.

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laurent mrejen
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Posted: 15th Jun 2007 09:19
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Thank you for your advises. I have to improve a lot of things but what you wrote show that we can do it.
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laurent mrejen
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Hi,

I have made another game. It is a remake of Frogger.

i hope you will enjoy it.

Don't hesitate to make some comments.
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Sorry, I forgot the link www.existenz-software.fr
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The site is in French. I was able to figure out where you had the Frogger game and downloaded it, but it would not run.

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laurent mrejen
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Hi,

The site is also available in english (click on the english flag)

Unzip the file to play.

Laurent mrejen
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why is this in the darkbasic board?


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I don't know.

I've only just spotted it myself. Moving it to the Geek Culture board now...

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TDK_Man, I can't reach TGPF.

I'm unique, just like everybody else.
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Seems kind of bland to me... I cant say I like the colours either. But thats personal preference I guess.


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laurent mrejen
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Hi,

There is a new game available on the website www.existenz-software.fr

It is a remake of frogger.

Don't hesitate to download it. It is free

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Quote: "TDK_Man, I can't reach TGPF"


It was down temporarily while my SQL databases were moved to another server.

(Apologies to laurent mrejen for off-topic reply).

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laurent mrejen
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Posted: 13th Jul 2007 10:55
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Hi,

There are some pages on my website written in spanish. Go ahead!

Laurent Mrejen
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looks good u might wanna add a few new graphics though

haha lets rock this world.
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laurent mrejen
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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 11:37
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Hi,

Yes, you're right. I will do that very soon

Laurent Mrejen
<a href="www.existenz-software.fr">www.existenz-software.fr</a>
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laurent mrejen
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Hi,

Thanks to David Gervais, Froggy has been updated with a new background. Go and get it on my website. Don't hesitate to send me your feedback

Laurent Mrejen
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Hi,

I just post some news from my website. The site has been made up. Tell me what you think about the banner in flash. However, I put some advertise from Motion-twin, a french game studio that makes online games with its own technology haXe (programming language)and neko (virtual machine)

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 9th Aug 2007 11:25
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I was ready to say "Flash Banner - noooo" or something like that... but I actually quite like it... Its a little distracting but its quite elegant and I do like the effect.

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Well, good to present yourself, but there are some points to change:
- flash banner.
- my screen is not small, so I have everything on the left side and a white blank space on theright side.
- It is empty, there are many categories with nothing inside.

Et les publicités sont obligées, ou tu as le droit de les enlever ?

- Mind the gap -
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laurent mrejen
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Posted: 10th Aug 2007 09:12
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Hi,

For Nicholas Thompson. Your site is very cool. I like it. That is a good way to show we can use phpBB for other thing that a forum.

Actually, I try to improve my skills in programming websites. So I make my own website from scratch with asp.net/C#. I made the banner with sothink glanda, a cheaper alternative to adobe flash that can make some SWF files with actionscript capabilities.

For Damokles. I know, I have to center the display of my website to support 16:9 screen. It is about time
For the advertises, elles ne sont pas obligées mais je voulais savoir comment mettre des pub google. Elles ne me rapportent pas grand chose (0,69$ en deux mois) mais elles ne me dérangent pas.

For the motion-twin and Xzess advertises, I put it because I want to promote this game studio. I like their works.

For Chloroweb, it is one of my collegue that make her own company. It is just my way to help her.

I can't reach your website

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Damokles
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Posted: 10th Aug 2007 11:18
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You mean you can't reach my website ?
Yes, sionce a month, it's down, that's why I was searching a new webspace for it. It's also why I asked about the adds. On which webhost are you? If I may know ?
My site is tmporarly here : http://www.zendurl.com/a/aziotou/
But it's just a testing phase. I would prefer one that allows phpmyadmin too.

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laurent mrejen
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Ok,

I am hosted by ikoula, a microsoft partner. The price is 35€ per year for 250Mo (disk space) with full features of ASP.net 2.0, AJAX, PHP, flash ... There are some CMS (mambo, dotnetnuke...) and tools pre-installed if you want to use it (I don't find phpmyadmin)

You have also ovh (on vous héberge) that is cheaper but with less service but more space. You can install phpmyadmin by following the instructions from http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=10289

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Damokles
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On Ikoula, I suppose there is phpmyadmin on it, because of this page

Oh and OVH has a nice thing to pay :
"OVH offre la possibilité aux clients domiciliés en Belgique d'utiliser le virement bancaire pour valider leurs bons de commande."
But do you know if they are reliable ? I mean, if the site will be down often, or any other problem that occurs with them ?

(Until now I always had free hosts, so I didn't care; but as soon as I have to pay, I don't want a bad quality)

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I never had any problem with Ikoula. When you post a ticket, an answer is given before 2 hours (very impressive) that help you very much. It is a microsoft certified partner

My collegue website (chloroweb and others) are hosted by ovh and she told me that the quality is very high.

You can check other opinions on forum if you want

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Damokles
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In the first time, I was more fond of ovh, but now, I begin to doubt, especially, when I see that files are limited in size in some versions, and that the MySQL database is so low in space.

Is there a file-size limit with ikoula ? (I didn't see one yet)

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laurent mrejen
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I don't find anything like that. I put for my job a 44Mo file and it worked well.

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No, there isn't, and their support-team is very fast. Within 10 minutes, I got the answers to my mails. I think it#s a good point that will make me move to them.


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Quote: "For Nicholas Thompson. Your site is very cool. I like it. That is a good way to show we can use phpBB for other thing that a forum."


phpBB? I spit on phpBB and all its swiss-cheese-like security holes!

The CMS I use is called Drupal and - for developers - it rocks!

Hosting - I'm in the UK and I have a VPS with a company called A2B2 as they're pretty cheap but their support is almost instant, its great! If your budget wont stretch that far, check out their sister company CheapVPS. I think they're UK only, but not sure. In any case, I had an email offer from them today. £25+VAT/m for an unlimited share of a 100mb line (which is gonna work out to about 2,000Gb a month) on a VPS with 512Mb RAM burstable to 1024mb, 40Gb hard disk and pretty much any Linux Distro you like. VPS's are great because you can run as many sites off it as you like (usually + depending on resource limits). You also get to chose things like which version of Apache, PHP & MySQL you want - assuming you even want them. Some people prefer LightHTTPD (I think thats right), or some people prefer PostGreSQL.

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laurent mrejen
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Hi,

I went to Drupal website to check. I understand better now why you phpbb is not so good.

You rent a server £25/month. That is the same price in france. Your website is nice. My girlfriend like your template but said that some pages are too long

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Hi,

My website is new reachable with the adress
http://www.existenz-software.com. The both name with .fr and .com are now available.

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Suggestions...

1) DO NOT use frame's... They're deprecated elements not used in web development anymore due to that fact we have no invented the wheel (Checkout sites like The CSS Zen Garden)

2) DO NOT use tables for layout... Again, "we" have moved on from that. The two main reasons for not using tables for layouts are; (1) You're combining the presentation layer with content layer. What if you wanna change the site's presentation? You cant - the content is bound to the presentation. (2) Tables are S-L-O-W. A browser will only render a table once it knows how large the content is going to be. Using CSS and Div's, on the other hand, is faster and the browser either knows the element size from the stylesheet or it can render it and deal with resizing later.

3) DO NOT bind two domains to the same content - google will see two unique URL's pointing at the same content and penalize you for duplicate content. If you want two domains to make it easy for people to use your site - pick one and redirect the other to it. Personally I'd go for the .com over the .fr - mainly because of the SEO implications. A .fr domain makes it clear to google that the contents is specific for France whereas .com is generally accepted to be a more global TLD - although its slightly biased towards US search results. Then again - it depends who you're aiming your site at!

4) Titles - every page of your site has the same title. How am I (from a search engine point of view) supposed to tell the difference between pages? This is part of the "frames" problem too (IIRC). Each page should have its own title.

Apart from that - I suggest more content, for example the games should have more of a description... and some screenshots too.

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Thanks for your advise. I will change my website with this soon but right now, I want to make new games. I will work on my website at the end of september.

Thanks again

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Hi,

Just a new post to tell you that my girlfriend has put online her own website. Come and get fun with http://www.parole-dautruche.com. It is a funny way to see an urban ostrish live its life

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Hi,

Courtesy of http://www.xzess.org, you can now listen musics on my website. Don't hesitate to buy their musics for your games. They are great!!!!

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Hi,

I made a game playable on web named space out. Your purpose is to make the spaceship going through caves without touching borders.

Hope to read your comments

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Hi,

I made a tool to help you making a 2D game. It can takes pictures of a 3d objects in different position. The tool is scriptable. It is made with Darkbasic 1.13. Don't hesitate to send me your feedback

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I forgot to say that you can download it freely on my website

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Hosting: APlus, worth looking at

For forums, do a google search for Simple Machines Forum, also called SMF. I know Nick is crazy about his Drupal but I can't let him escape clean without someone saying something about SMF, lol.

Cheers


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Hi,

I improve the music player page used also by xzess.org website (a very famous band that can sell you music packs for your game). Go ahead and check it.

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laurent there is an edit button

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Hi,

What do you mean by that?

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He means instead of posting 6 posts in a row, just post one, and if you think of more stuff before anyone else has commented then just edit that post.

EDIT: like so...

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Hi,

An update of Froggy is available on http://www.existenz-software.fr. This version include 3 difficulty levels and correct some bugs.

More is coming

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Hi,

I've put online a clone of Asteroid (made with SWF Easy that let you make flash games in a nutshell and cheaper ~50$)

Send me all your comments to let me improve it

See you

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Hi guys,

I put a 2d racing game on my website with 3 tracks available. I hope you will enjoy it.

See you

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