PYRODOOM'S PROFILE

author=pyroboom

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"Done!", John told himself, as he finished his first Atmosphir level. It was the normal beginners' level, incredibly short, not much professional gameplay and it seemed very broken. Really, John did not care, he just looked happy as can be to have at last made a 3D game...or at least a level for a game. John went to play test, and began playing. He seemed quite happy with it, till' he saw something he never expected. It looked like another player, except with incredibly horrible animations, glitchy, and it was black and white almost. It looked strange, also. It was the perfect look for such an imperfect model for a game. John was very confused, "Um...what the heck is that? I do not remember placing that in my level!"
The thing began to attack him as he was trying to run away, then Atmosphir shut down, after John got out of the level. John got back into Atmosphir, and looked at one level in the level browser. The level was named "Block", the creator was JJ849, which was John's username. He went into the level, wandering what had happened, only to see he was trapped in a black box. He did not even start at a start flag. The monster was back, and was continually killing him. John jumped out of his seat when he saw the thing again, and clicked out of Atmosphir. He went into the files, and found something called,"Hero", it was strange to see such a normal name after such crazy things occurred. He looked at the properties, and found that the file was last used when he got out of Atmosphir. He looked up some videos, and realized that Hero was originally made for the beta of Atmosphir, as a way to test the game engine out. He wandered what had happened ever since. Every day, every night he wanders how the file came back into the game, with such strange affects. Was it a glitch? Did someone edit the version of Atmosphir he had? He looked around for clues, and the only things he could find were stories on suicides because of video games, and the words "hero" on some windows, walls, and doors, spelled in blood. The houses were owned by parents of Atmosphir users. John looked into the files again, one day, and remembered a strange tune that played during the level,"Block", it sounded so glitchy, it made a game crashing seem like the designers meant for it to happen. He found the file, and put it into his a music editing software.
John played the track, checking the pitches, the volume, and if there were any backward messages in it. Nothing. The only thing he did not do, was check the frequency. He looked at the frequency, and in the middle of the song, he saw Hero. It made the creepiest noise when the frequency picked up the image of such a strange being in a song. It did not do anything, maybe because it was just a picture in a song. but then, John went into Google Chrome, with the song still playing, went into the Atmosphir forums, and made a new topic. He typed incredibly slowly, every bit of info he had found. The last thing he typed was,"I'm going to kill myself."
The next day, his parents looked at the computer, and saw blood near the computer chair. They looked at the screen, to find the words "Hero will die", on the screen. The mother looked on the floor, while the father still stared at the screen. The mother started patting her husband, crying because of the sight. The father looked down at his son...
He had a bloody hole in his head.

author=voluceris
so, i just started putting together the maps and events for a new game, all very skeletal at the moment. it's the first time i tried implementing run/walk and jump buttons (since there are jumping puzzles and things that chase you).

there are ladders and other scalable surfaces in the game, and i'd like for the character to be able to switch to a climb sprite as she goes up, which i tried to do by way of an on-touch event that switches her to the climb sprite if she walks through it and back to the normal if she walks back, and another at the top with the opposite (probably not the most efficient way, since if a player decides to jump in that direction they could just jump passed it, but i'm an idiot).

doing so made me realize something: events aren't being triggered in my game. since the only thing that could stop them from triggering is other events, and the only other events i've got in the program right now are the run/walk and jump buttons, i guess something in them is stopping it.

those are the common events for the run/walk and the jump. is there something about them that would stop on touch events (they're both pp)? also, is there a better way of implementing all three of the actions? sorry if i seem clueless i'm not very experienced with eventing.

author=Neverm0re

author=Archeia_Nessiah
Graphics is the only thing that matters guys. Not the game mechanics, the systems or the plot!

< /sarcasm >

You, sir, have video games figured out.