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Messages - jhvipond

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Ask a Question / Re: Drawing Text
« on: February 11, 2014, 03:18:52 pm »
At least one other Stencyl user has addressed this issue. Try searching the forums for "wrap text".

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Game Ideas / Re: Possible to build this?
« on: December 31, 2013, 01:20:33 pm »
Stencyl comes with a "Basic Match 3 Kit", made by rob1221. You should be able to modify it into the game you want.

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Chit-Chat / Re: What's Your Favorite Game Genre?
« on: December 20, 2013, 05:39:05 pm »
I prefer puzzle games, since my reflexes aren't so good as they used to be. Specifically, I'd like to see a broader range of TV-style games for Mac OS X and iOS.

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Game Art / Re: Looking for easy graphics... any one has library ?
« on: October 22, 2013, 12:40:16 pm »
I suggest you search opengameart.org for the types of graphics you want for your project. If you decide you want to use a font for the numbers, you can either create your own in Stencyl's font editor or download a font from one of the following sites:

http://fontstruct.com/
http://mfs.jp.org/
http://zone38.net/font/
http://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php
http://www.piecepack.org/JCD.html (piecepack font; includes numbers and heart icon)

For the lightning bolt, I was going to suggest Harold's Pips, a dingbat font by Harold Lohner, but it is no longer freeware.

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Ask a Question / Re: Web Request not producing a response
« on: October 12, 2013, 03:29:44 pm »
@ jhvipond Are you sure you're running MY version of the game?
Maybe you have the same flash security errors?
This is your event:

Yes, I imported your *.stencyl file into Stencyl and renamed it to SadiQ Quiz, to avoid overwriting my original game file.

EDIT: I finally registered for an account at Dropbox.com and moved the text file for my Stencyl quiz project to that site. I changed the URL in the "visit URL" block of my game accordingly, but when I tested my game, it still shows blank white fields where the question and answer choices are supposed to appear.

I've attached a screenshot of the current "when created" block, with the Dropbox URL. Is the URL incorrectly formatted, or am I doing something else wrong? I'll worry about the "next question" routine when I get the first question and answer choices to display.

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Ask a Question / Re: Web Request not producing a response
« on: October 12, 2013, 02:41:10 pm »
I'm having the same problem The8BitMan reports. My quiz game is supposed to retrieve questions and answers from http://wat.midco.net/jvipond/quiz.txt, but when I test the game scene, nothing displays in my text fields. Flash security doesn't seem to be a problem.

As I told you in the other thread...the problem was your separator and your implementation of the site's response. Here's the working game attached below.

I see what you're trying to convey, SadiQ, but when I test the scene in my browser, it still doesn't display the question or the answer choices. Can we discuss this outside the Stencyl forum?

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Ask a Question / Re: Web Request not producing a response
« on: October 12, 2013, 08:05:58 am »
I'm having the same problem The8BitMan reports. My quiz game is supposed to retrieve questions and answers from http://wat.midco.net/jvipond/quiz.txt, but when I test the game scene, nothing displays in my text fields. Flash security doesn't seem to be a problem.

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Ask a Question / Re: How do I develop dialog scene?
« on: October 08, 2013, 08:26:35 am »
Here are some suggestions:
  • I am assuming that your game messages are stored as lists within the game itself.
  • Try checking to see whether the mouse is pressed on an actor, such as a "next screen" button. If it is, then display the next message.
  • Try clearing the message field (i.e., redrawing the background over the old text) before each message is displayed.

I don't know enough about Stencyl to be of any more help.

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Ask a Question / Re: Visit Url doesn't work for this site?
« on: October 05, 2013, 03:16:28 pm »
Print the site response block.  Does it return the data you want to split or not?

I added the "print" block to my "when created" event, but when I opened the Console in Mac OS X, I couldn't see anything from my question file. I'll just post the current version of my game, which I call Samantha's Quiz, to StencylForge in hope that some other Stencyl users can help.

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Ask a Question / Re: Visit Url doesn't work for this site?
« on: October 05, 2013, 02:21:51 pm »
You still haven't answered Rob's question yet: "What data does the site return?  Does it return nothing?"
And you didn't say anything about using a normal list attribute instead of a global list attribute I said earlier.

Sorry about that. I don't know what data the sire returns, but I do know that the question and answer fields are blank, but should not be blank. The reason I chose to make the question list a game attribute (purple) is that after the player has answered a question and his answer has been ruled either right or wrong, the game should proceed to the next question on the list. Is that incorrect in Stencyl? I can place the current version of my game on StencylForge if you'd like.

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Ask a Question / Re: Visit Url doesn't work for this site?
« on: October 05, 2013, 01:17:18 pm »
Thank you all for your comments. What I'd like to be able to do with Stencyl at the moment is to create a general knowledge quiz, with plain text question files divided into categories. See the video for Merit's Tic Tac Trivia arcade game here:

http://gamesdbase.com/game/arcade/tic-tac-trivia.aspx

I've read the page about Web requests in Stencylpedia. Is there still a way to do this with Stencyl's "visit URL" block? If so, can another user show me how?

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Ask a Question / Re: Visit Url doesn't work for this site?
« on: October 05, 2013, 11:42:40 am »
Here are the "when drawing" and "when updated" blocks for my project:

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Ask a Question / Re: Visit Url doesn't work for this site?
« on: October 05, 2013, 11:39:05 am »
I also am having trouble with the "visit URL" block in a quiz game I'm developing. I have on my personal Web space a text file of 20 general knowledge questions, using tildes as separators:

Question~Choice 1~Choice 2~Choice 3~Choice 4~R (where R is an integer indicating the right answer)

The first image below shows how I want the game screen to appear. The second image is the "when created" block for my scene behavior. My problem is that when I test the scene in my browser, I get either "undefined" or blank fields where the question and answer choices should be displayed. (If no images appear below, show me how to attach them.)

My intention is that the player will choose an answer by pressing a keyboard key on a Mac (1, 2, 3 or 4) or tap the number on an iOS device. The game will then sound a bell for a correct answer or a buzzer for an incorrect answer, highlight the correct answer and go to the next question.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Game Art / Re: Free drawing software that is better than MS paint?
« on: September 29, 2013, 09:47:41 am »
If you're using a Mac, I recommend Paintbrush (http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/). It can save files in PNG format, suitable for Stencyl.

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Chit-Chat / Re: What are your goals?
« on: September 24, 2013, 04:31:10 pm »
I would like to create TV-style games for Mac OS X and possibly iOS, in the spirit of GameTek products from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Unfortunately, I seem to be better at creating graphics than at programming an actual game.

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