His birthday is Sunday! Who's wants to fly out and surprise him in Australia???

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Why flip? That's simple:
1) CCNer of the Month cannot hold the title for more than 1 consecutive month.
2) Mack breaks tie breakers (to handle the first month's election, of course).

So...Mack, which one will you vote for on the first month????? That's a tough one!

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Originally posted by arissa_nightblade:
We should all make an Axys fangame

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I would still totally groove on busting this one out. If we had graphics, we could do something pretty quickly with Torque Game Builder.

And Jeremy, are you kidding me? David's such a particularly fine specimen of a masculine individual, I don't stand a chance against him in a voting contest. I think he could just create two accounts and it would flip flop between DavidLancaster1 and DavidLancaster2.

--clint

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Good point about the 2 accounts, I bet he would be a little sneakier about it and have them more like DavidLancasterO ("OH" at the end) and DavidLancaster0 ("zero" at the end) so that even though DavidLancasterO won last month and is not in the dropdown box, DavidLancaster0 is!

He's a real sneaky one, that David Lancaster.

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Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice.
"Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto
I reserve the full right to change my views/theories at any time.

Is that a small island off the coast of New Zealand?

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Originally posted by mastallama:
What exact art do you need for the Bible David Lancaster game?

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And possibly:
Hit (Injured)
Dancing (Celebrating)

Just facing one direction for all actions is fine -- we would do the flipping in-game.

We would also need a boxified version of the Axys box graphic

And then some sort of environment graphics set. I was thinking city-based, but really anything we can get would be fine (including ripping the Bible Dave graphics if need be).

Oh yeah, and we'd need a logo / title screen. Maybe something involving either this or this or this photo. A win/lose screen would be sweet too, but I'm not sure it's possible to find a picture of David where he's looking sad.

--clint

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Originally posted by mastallama:
So...Mack, which one will you vote for on the first month????? That's a tough one!

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That is tough; Han has a true community heart but David has a true developers heart. Han has been a great help on CCN but David and I have talked for hours over MSN on almost everything. Thinking about it gives me a headache.

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Originally posted by Mack:
Thinking about it gives me a headache.

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I'm man enough to know when I'm beaten. David wins hands down. Especially since it's his birthday. That just pummels me into an unrecognizable pulp.

--clint

Hey David, you're not supposed to be here! Go look at another thread! Can't you read the title? Sheesh...who does he think he is? David Lanca...oh, he IS David Lancaster. Hrm...I seem to be at an impasse.

Somebody else needs to do the background.

David, stop reading.

Clint, how much time do I have to get you these? tick tick tick

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Originally posted by JeTSpice:
Somebody else needs to do the background.

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As far as the tileset format, one thing we might be able to use is the Finding Adina format, as I've already written a converter to build tilemaps in TGB using Samw3's excellent half-tile format. You create your collision map like this, then depending on your tileset, it generates tiles that look like this or this.


Adina's graphics are a little small (16x16 tiles made up of 8x8 piece tiles), but the same idea can carry over to a larger graphics format just fine methinks. If someone wanted to create a sample scene but was unable to figure out the graphics format, I could probably help with that a bit.

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Originally posted by JeTSpice:
Somebody else needs to do the background.

Clint, how much time do I have to get you these? tick tick tick

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Still, it'd be most excellent to have a version of this ready for Big D's birthday on Sunday.

David, stop reading!!! You'll spoil the surprise!

--clint

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I'll email you the *.png

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Originally posted by Mack:
Hey Jet, these might help you:

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One small comment -- I really like the angle of the side view, the only thing is that it almost seems like the back side of his head is cut off too short or something -- though I'm not sure.

--clint

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
I would still totally groove on busting this one out. If we had graphics, we could do something pretty quickly with Torque Game Builder.

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(Torque would probably allow for faster customization though)

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
One small comment -- I really like the angle of the side view, the only thing is that it almost seems like the back side of his head is cut off too short or something -- though I'm not sure.

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Due to the photo refrence I had to sorta mold the head a bit. If I left it to the orignal it'd look really off. I did all the sprites very quickly so a lot of sloppy cutting and what not.

I'd totally get in on this? what else do we need?

Graphics?
SFX?
Music?

fireballs he can shoot out of his eyeballs? (that is one of Mr.Lancaster's more guarded secrets)

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Q.E.D.

Edit: I just emailed you a zipped file of several shots of David's head. Can you photo-shop them onto white backgrounds. (sent to your email as it appears in your profile)

I've got a different body:

But I think I can use the head.

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Mene-Mene, of course I got round trip tickets. I even included a side jaunt to New Zealand with a LOTR tour.

Clint, Mac, which ones do we use?

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
I'd totally get in on this? what else do we need?

Graphics?
SFX?
Music?

fireballs he can shoot out of his eyeballs? (that is one of Mr.Lancaster's more guarded secrets)

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Fireballs would be *fantastic*. I know you draw a mean UFO -- maybe some alien baddies flying around in saucers?

Music and foley would of course be r0x0r as well.

CPUFreak: Yeah, we could use Bible Dave too -- I was thinking I could whip this up faster in TGB, but I'm still open to options, especially if you wanted to code on it too. Whaddya' think?

Jetspice: I know you do some excellent particle effects in TGB -- at some point I might want to enlist your l33t skills to make some cool fx for the game.

--clint

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Originally posted by JeTSpice:
Okay, if you want stick figures, we can use those instead. Here's a middle ground, too:

Clint, Mac, which ones do we use?

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I'd whole-heartedly vote for the Manequinman -- the stick figure thing is great.

--clint

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Mac, I'm sorting out the 6-or-so animations we'll be using. (Edit: Do you want them as a bunch of individual frames, or compiled into sheets?)

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Edit: Okay, sent away.

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Run_Jump_Fall
Stand
Run
Run_Jump
Stand_Jump
Hit_Front

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The "animated" David series.

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
CPUFreak: Yeah, we could use Bible Dave too -- I was thinking I could whip this up faster in TGB, but I'm still open to options, especially if you wanted to code on it too. Whaddya' think?

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Howdy all! Check out http://art.twobrotherssoftware.com/shs.html, my latest CD.

If you ain't in the forums, you in the againstums :)

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Originally posted by JeTSpice:
Here's some splash screens. Do they work?

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Those are brilliant. He looks like he could be a magician

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Ok, I have some midi samples...

http://www.jeremysouthard.org/ccn/BDL/

feel free to use or not, they're all real short ones for like gettin' hit, pickin' up a box, etc.

It's me Randall... I'm on a different computer now and had to login under my old forum name. egghhhh.

Anyways, hey, how about this sound as a game starter? Click on the link below.

GOD:
RESCUE THE VIDEO GAMES AS THEY FALL OFF THE TRUCK, AND DO IT NOW!!!

Funny huh? HAHA!

http://www.noahsadventures.com/downloads/rescue.wav

Hey, it's a mission from God. Woo, Ha, Ha!

<Praise God!>

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God said to Noah, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.
Genesis 6:13

Jet, your splash screen inspired me:

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Mastallama, I took the sound effects from your site. I'll make TGB files for Clint so all he'll have to do is /include and reference it when he does the walk/jump/stand codes.

Randall, sweet! I'll get this to Clint, too. It's awesome and I know he'll appreciate having "The Voice" in his game.

(Edit: all sound is now converted to .ogg format. Sound effects called "good" and "weird" have been changed to "good1" and "weird1" and Randall's announcement is renamed "announcer")

(Edit: the sound files, called audioDatablocks.cs, have been scripted.)

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Sending you the *.pngs Jet.

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The sounds are located here and are in OGG format. They are not normalized and may not match the levels from Randall or Mastallama.

EDIT: Fixed url formatting.

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All - We've got enough sound effects, til Clint says what else we need. Does anybody else program in Torquescript and have TGB? (and like David)

Here's Mack's play/don't play in static, mouse-over, and mouse-click:

Go, team, go!

If needed, I can do something late tomorrow night. Or at least test it at some point.

Some of my sounds may have no use. I just threw in several ideas in case
they happen to fit somewhere.

I only got half an hour to work on it last night, so just a warning, it's still *really* buggy.

I'm thinking that I might like slightly different coloring on the character art -- right now the wood looks a little too flesh-colored. Even so, I like it all quite a bit. In the back of my mind though, I'm still not ruling out the possibility of using hand-drawn stick figure animations like Mack originally started doing. Anyways, y'all can play it and tell me what you think.

I'm busy again tonight and tomorrow night as well. The best time for me to work on this and finish it up would probably either be late tonight or early tomorrow (Saturday) morning before noon or so. It's just been a packed week, so I don't have a ton of time for this.

Anyways, everything people have gotten together looks *GREAT*! SSquared, I could totally groove on having you or others help with the code -- I just don't have much time to work on it. Right now most of the code is taken from the Mini Platformer Tutorial, though it's got some serious issues, and I'm thinking we might want to change some parts over to the Custom Platformer Tutorial as our base. I dunno' though -- I'm *totally* open to suggestions (including switching languages). I only put half an hour or so into this Torque thing, we won't lose that much if someone wants to take it in a different direction.

Thanks!

--clint

P.S. David, stop reading!!!

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right now the wood looks a little too flesh-colored

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Quote below from David Lancaster's mother:
"Although it may be acceptable in some arenas, a naked David Lancaster is not acceptable in video game format. David dear, stop reading this thread."

Here's my thoughts: It's a birthday present, so let's focus on getting him something on Sunday. Even what we've done is a great present. To me, it looks like we are very close to finishing this.

If I have a vote, I say keep going with Torque, mini platformer tutorial version, and add the following:

Pick up video games.
a "Games:" or backwards-counting "Find 23 Games." score thing
Some monsters
Falling off-screen
4 levels
funny music
(and code in music and sound effects ... sound effects are already done.)
Edit: I'm coloring the wood-colored mannequin man. He'll be blue, like Axys.

From Henry V:
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day and Lancaster's birthday!

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I will see what I can do. I can have him pick up the game boxes. I should be able to work out a game counter. I can add some enemies marching back and forth. I may even make a better timed 'jump' sound, to match the actual jump of the character.

Some questions:

1) How can I get access to the audio and datablocks code?
2) Is there a game box image we can use?
3) Any enemy artwork? I noticed Sam's snake and vulture images are in the directories.
4) How will we destroy an enemy? By weapon? By jumping on it? Or, to make things easiest (for me) just have the character jump over it. If you touch the enemy, you start from the beginning of the level.

I am a little weak on TGB as I am just learning it. If someone can package what Clint has done, integrate the files for audio, add the datablocks files in there, and add the 'exec' statements to read in the datablocks, that will be EXTREMELY helpful. Also, add any enemy images we may want. Then I can just focus on coding when I get time tonight.

GUI/Screens is still an area I am learning. It would be really helpful if someone can work on the level tranisition code. Or, we just have it immediately plop you into the next level.

This really all depends on how much time I have tonight. I've been up past midnight the last several nights, so I'm not sure how many more late nights I have in me.

Ssquared, I have audioDatablocks.cs already done, + audio files in OGG format. Where shall I send them? (Edit: also, the new Blue David sprites)

I've integrated audio before in TGB, so I'll wrack my brain to remember it.

No gamebox image yet. If someone can do it... do it, yo!

No enemy artwork yet. If anybody has a copy of Axys and can cleverly rip or screencapture the pictures of the enemy plants, that will be pretty cool. (Clint's idea, earlier).

I agree with just jumping over the enemy. If time permits, we can incorporate a kick or punch. There are Mannequin Man animations of kicks and punches that are already done.

I've packaged TGB for PC and Mac.

I'll be gone for a couple of hours, and then come back and pick up wherever we've left off.

Edit: Here's the blue Davids (just one displayed here, but all of them are done: )

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I think I can code the audio stuff, I just wanted someone to add the audioblock and get everything prepared. That way, I can just sit and code, without having to think about creating audioblocks.

We should just be able to swap in the blue guy file for the old one, eh?

That's cool there is already punches and kicks in the character. Adding animation is definitely an area I am scared to implement. All I have done is the MiniPlatformTutorial, so I understand it, but don't feel confident in animations yet. I know I can do it, but it will require me to read up on using animations. It is still on my "TGB Things To Learn" for this month. I'm glad Clint got the moving and jumping implemented.

God Bless!

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Check out my CCN SpeedGame 2 Blog

David, stop reading now...

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God said to Noah, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.
Genesis 6:13

The blue Bible David looks much better -- thanks! Yes, we should just be able to swap the graphics files and it will all work just dandy.

SSquared:
1) Both HeardTheWord and I both used audio in our TGB games for the Speedgame competition. If you're uncomfortable with this, I can get it started -- it wouldn't be too hard for me.

2) We can start with using this image:

But eventually I'd like to give it a slightly 3d look (though on second thought, this might not be necessary -- the ultra-flat 2d look certainly fits with the big-head-pasted-on look that we've got going on). For now, let's just use this flat graphic and not worry about the 3d look.

3) No enemy artwork yet -- I would like to get UFOs (ArchAngel, are you up for converting some of your UFO artwork from the speedgame?) as well as some of the Axys plant baddies. Can someone volunteer to go into Axys and take screenshots of them for us to use?

4) First assumption is that you'll just have to avoid the enemies, though if we give Bible David any attacks, I totally think fireballs from the eyes would be best. Ideally we would have an attack animation with a few frames of animation where David raises his hands and he gets a more maniacal face with eyes that blaze. We would also need a fireball graphic for that.

If we don't get the fireballs in, that's fine -- he'll just have to dodge enemies.

As far as packaging the game that I already made -- it's already packaged with the source. There are Windows and Mac binaries in the download that I linked earlier -- no further packaging necessary.

As far as animations, you shouldn't need to do too much with that -- most of that code is already in the prototype that I did.

The start on sounds is *fantastic*! I think they're absolutely wonderful. I got a slightly corrupted .zip from Jeff that only had a few of the sounds, but from what I heard, they're perfect.

The titles screens and menu graphics are great!!! I really really like them, they're perfect.

We still need level graphics. I don't have any particularly interesting thoughts on the matter -- does anyone have any bright ideas as far as what graphical look we can use for the game levels?

We need:
1) Enemies (Plants, UFO)
2) Fireball
3) Truck graphic
4) Lose screen graphic
5) Win screen graphic
6) Level graphics
7) Time to code all of this up.

Thanks so much for volunteering to help, SSquared! I'll try to do what you asked (adding the exec statements for the audio datablocks, etc) -- we'll see what I can do.

I'm collecting all of the BDL stuff that people are sending me and posting here and throwing it up on a web-shared folder:
]http://www.hanclinto.com/dav/ccn/BDL/ (EDIT: Fixed link -- thanks for the heads up!)

Cheers! Thanks so much for the help!

--clint

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What I meant by packaging was someone taking all of the various assets people have created add it your working version and package them all together. I was just saying I don't want to gather up all of the various items people have been creating and lay it all out into the various directories. I'd prefer if I can download one ZIP which has everything already laid out and I can be ready to code.

I am just trying to come up with small separations to partition out the work.

Well, as for free time, I'd either be coding, writing music, or watching a movie with my wife tonight. It just depends on when the kids go to bed, and on a Friday night, it can be rather late. I can try and stay up a bit late if it brings the community together and helps encourage someone.

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ur game reminded me of this goofy game

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>>>--supercoder--<<<

Jetspice: You're currently in charge of consolidating all of the sounds -- when can we get that?

Sam: SWEET fireball! That's perfect!

This project contains 3 invalid datablocs. This is likely because a referenced image file was deleted from the project directory. The invalid datablocks are:

gp_1_fgImageMap
gp_1_bgImageMap
meet_ebenImageMap

I am also unable to see any of the levels. The map layers do not seem to be there.

I also have another issue. I just got a new laptop and it has a big problem I just noticed today. It takes an enormous amount of time to unzip files. I was up to over 1.5 hours on the ZIP when I eventually gave up. I unzipped it on another Vista box which worked fine. Then copied the files over. I've been trying to find out more information regarding this issue. Sounds like some people have it and others don't. I have two laptops here at work and one has the problem and the other doesn't.

Thanks for the bug report. Try this new file -- I fixed those 3 invalid data blocks.

As far as why the level's not showing up, that's very weird. After opening the project file, did you open up the gp1.t2d level? I don't think any of the other ones will work.

Please let me know how that one fares for you.

--clint

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Samw3, can you upload the truck and fireball to the FTP? Maybe we should have another version without David? But it's funny to see two of him, too.

HanClinto and Ssquared, I've emailed you both the sound effects and blue david sprites.

Ssquared, ignore my other emails trying to fix your datablocks.

1 level is great for a birthday video game. Should we have the level spell out Happy Birthday David or something?

I haven't yet gotten your e-mail about the sprites and sfx, but perhaps it's in-transit.

I think it's a great idea to have it spell out Happy Birthday David or something. Perhaps we should all take photos of our faces to put on sprites to wish him a happy b-day at the end, from the CCN community?

--clint

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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Perhaps we should all take photos of our faces to put on sprites to wish him a happy b-day at the end, from the CCN community?

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Now that would be totally awesome!

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BTW, here are thumbnails (50%) of those baddies in some Axys screenshots.
(Edit: anybody who can help cut these out, give me your email and I'll send you the original.)

Here are the picture numbers:
0 1
2 3
4 5
6 7

I'm taking number 4.

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EVDude, I don't know, what *can* you do? One big thing that noone has jumped on yet is creating some better level graphics (preferably in the format that Sam used for Finding Adina -- though perhaps he and I are the only two people that understand it yet). Basically, I like the way he laid out the half-tiles, I just want some stuff that is higher resolution and fits better with the pseudo-photographic/cartoony style that we have going on right now.

Okay, I'd love to spend more time on this, but I *really* need to run to a dinner. Hopefully I'll be able to get back and work on this in a few hours.

Cheers!

--clint

@HanClinto: I'd love to do that! how big do you want them?

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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Until then, I'm sending you one of the easier one, the Penguin in #7.

All - 0,1,2,3,5,6 are still up for grabs.

I resolved my unzip issue. It was AVG Antivirus. I uninstalled and the unzip went down to 1.5 minutes. I installed Avast! instead.

I have made some changes already. I added a bible counter placeholder (no code) on mainScree.gui. I added profile.cs to game\gui to contain some GUI profiles. I also updated datablocks.cs to contain a datablock for a GameBoxDatablock. I also converted the Axys box to a PNG and added it to the project. I think that's all I did so far.

You can find the download here.

Let me know if anyone else has made any code changes.

I won't be able to get back to this for a few more hours. Not until later tonight.

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

download here

I can do the crab thing (6) too.

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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Ah right -- backgrounds are needed too.

As far as the tileset format, one thing we might be able to use is the Finding Adina format, as I've already written a converter to build tilemaps in TGB using Samw3's excellent half-tile format. You create your collision map like this, then depending on your tileset, it generates tiles that look like this or this.


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I'm thinking a 300% increase in resolution would look good. So, create a png 48px x 384px and imagine it is separated into 2 columns, 16 rows (24x24 pixel tiles).

To understand what to draw in each tile, take a look at these sample tiles and the screenshot. This screenshot uses each of the tiles.

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

close up

full image

(I had handed my camera to a good friend of mine, and, of all things, he pointed it back at me! So, I posed.)

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"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

Everybody - Here are the enemies. I'll email to HanClinto and SSquared

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jonwarner.net

I have done several new updates.

Thanks a HEAP for preparing the AudioDatablocks JeTSpice. That REALLY helped A LOT. Unfortunatly, many of the OGGs are 0 bytes and for some reason, the announcer was saying my 'doink' sound. No worries, I took Randall's WAV file and converted it myself.

For those interested in just playing the game: http://ssquared2000.googlepages.com/BDL_Game.zip

For those interested in the source: http://ssquared2000.googlepages.com/BDL.zip

There are currently only 2 game boxes.

I'll be heading out for dinner sometime soon.

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you need to have the window down in the truck with Peter Churness driving the thing... bopping his head as he drives hehe

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I'm going to see about adding some of those enemies.

Here's a pic of Peter Churness. Somebody put him in the truck.

Ssquared, maybe the truck is simply parked at the end of the level.

...and enemies -- maybe just have David jump over them. If he touches one, his life goes down a point. I guess that means a "Life:" counter. Perhaps "Life: 3"

...if david collides with the truck and his life is > 0 and Bibles Left is < 1 then he wins.
...if david collides with the truck and Bibles Left > 0 then he loses.
...if david's life < 0 then he loses.

I'm emailing you and HanClinto the win/lose screens.

Hey! He can grab the boxes. One of 'em was spinning! Sweet!

Who can change the level to spell Happy Birthday David?

(Edit: and here's the win/lose screens)

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Check out my CCN SpeedGame 2 Blog

BUT I LIKE MAC's BETTER! (more bobbly headed)
V V V V V V V V V V V V V

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I'll send the animation your way Jet.

(converted image to crappy 256 gif for show only)

[This message has been edited by Mack (edited October 26, 2007).]

Good idea on the truck at the end of the level. That should be easy to do. And we can make the game end when he touches it, following those rules you outlined.

Basically, I just added enough things to get a proof of concept for myself to be sure I really undertand everything. I can do the health bar and subtract the number of boxes from the counter. I threw in a few game boxes as an example of subtracting the counter. And then I added the enemy. Based on this, adding more gameboxes and enemies should be fairly straightforward. Even easier if I make an EnemyDatablock, but I didn't do that. Hand editing the few values is fairly simple.

The game has some collision bugs if David falls into the crevice with the enemy. I think it's probably fine for now as you can still jump out of there, so I don't plan on fixing it. Any other bugs, I'm open to fixing.

I still am interested in understanding how I can see the tiles in the editor. It makes it difficult to place the boxes and enemy. I had to place them, play the game, stop the game, then move the item, then repeat until things get placed right.

I hate to keep throwing up these updates, but I'm not sure if anyone else is working on things and I don't want to clobber their work with mine. I think I will be away for awhile starting at 7:15 PM PST (that's now). We still haven't had dinner yet and I'm going to play with the kids.

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I hate to keep throwing up these updates, but I'm not sure if anyone else is working on things and I don't want to clobber their work with mine. I think I will be away for awhile starting at 7:15 PM PST (that's now). We still haven't had dinner yet and I'm going to play with the kids.

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Hey that's perfect -- I just got to Internet access a little while ago, I can take over as chief programmer. Just lemme' at the latest code, and I'll go to town for a couple of hours until the coffee shop closes. Is it still at the old download link?

Great work btw!!! It sounds great, I can't wait to check it out.

--clint

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Great job guys! I can't wait to see the west coast (and other night owls) progress in the morning!

God Bless!! ..and.. I'm *serious* David, STOP READING THIS!

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Mack, got your truck. We can flip between the two views of Peter, and it'll be that much cooler.

HanClinto, there is a previous post where Ssquared put his latest updates. If it's got enemies in it, then it is the most recent.

I'm going to make a little theme song, if no one objects.

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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Okay, I just tried to load EVDude/Mack's tileset into the game, and it's a bit of a different format than the one that the game uses currently. I don't have time to do graphics editing right now to shoehorn these into the correct format. Thanks for getting a jump on these though -- it's a good start.

Do either of you feel up to restructuring the tile graphics into the needed format? I apologize for any confusion that may come from it -- I know that I stared at it and played with it for a bit before I figured out how it all works.

The end result of this graphics format is that it's *really* easy to draw levels, and the game automatically smooths out the edges and adds grass on top and any desired hangy things from the bottom -- it's just really cool to see it all working, and it makes it *much* quicker to do level design.

--clint

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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Let me know in the next 30 minutes or so.

JEREMY AT JEREMY SOUTHARD DOT ORG or on AIM @ MastaLlama

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We need a UFO and I think that's the whole list.

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How about this?

I'm not sure if it fits the style though. I can do one in 3d in wings real quick.

Something I just thought of was perhaps starting with Danc's free PlanetCute graphics as a starting point.

The angled top portion could be where the grass goes now. We could fill grasss around the top, and dirt to fill in the center.

Just thinking out loud a bit.

Cheers!

--clint

Great stuff!

--clint

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Heart of a Warrior

David Lancaster...shouldn't you be in bed? Stop reading this thread!

JeTSpice, HanClinto - anything else before I go to bed?

Song's almost done and then 3 particle effects for Torque and I'm done.

Argh, I'm totally fighting with graphics. I guessed that other people might need a bit of a kick start to know what I really meant for the tile graphics, so I decided to try and whip some stuff up. I've made good progress, but it's not quite there yet, and I'm still fighting with it. I'm staying up *way* later than I had originally planned, and I feel like I've gotten nothing done. We'll have to see how it goes though.

Here's what it looks like at this point with my hacked attempt at using the Planet Cute tiles:

Here's the link to the tile map graphic that is used to generate the above tile look.

If I could get this working, it would just make level creation a whole lot easier because we can just draw up the collision map and it makes creates the graphics around it.

Though maybe it's not as much of a time-saver as I had hoped.

Argh.

Anyways, I think I'll leave this where it is for the moment, and work on the menus and whatnot.

Cheers!

--clint

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I started touchie, had good success with resizing the base Planet Cute graphics, but then decided to not, and checked here, and you were taking over for a bit. w00t!

I've refactored a bit of SSquared's game box code, and it's a bit more flexible now. It detects when you collect all of the boxes, and now I'm coding in win/lose/menu/splash screens.

w00t!

Thanks a lot guys -- it's just been fabulous how everyone's pulled together on this -- it's been quite a lot of fun.

--clint

--clint

Jeff, a particle effect that would be great for this is to have one with Axys boxes flipping out of the back of the truck -- sortof to set the scene for the game.

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Ack! Mack! I just realized that the super l33t splash screen graphic you gave me just says David Lancaster, it doesn't say Bible David Lancaster. I like your graphic a whole whole lot though -- if it's not too much to change it, the extra word would be r0x0r (unless that was your silent way of rebelling against the name, in which case I'm open to your opinion).

--clint

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Yes, that particle effect will be easy. I'll skip the truck exhaust one, because it might detract.

...aaaaand that's beddie bye time. See you all tomorrow.

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Okay, it's uploading now (took me a sec from my Mac). You can get it here.

--clint

I think I'm following Sams diagram to the letter(?), from the ingame examples and also the resized thing he posted here earlier.

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Alright Han, let me know if this is right:

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Very good first run, Mack!!! I'm very impressed!

Here's how it looks in-game.

I'm sure you can see the issues with it -- I'll upload a build for you so that you can play with editing that graphic to get it right.

What you've got looks *really* good though -- fantastic stuff!

You're definitely right-on in that you don't need to fill every last bit of the graphic -- some of those edge pieces are just there in case you want to do something fancy. Still, I really like what you've done -- it's a very good first!

--clint

Here's the screen with Bible added to it:

Here's the ending screen, I figured we'd all have our heads attached to mannys like David waving or something at the bottom.

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You're right -- I zoomed way too far in with those tiles -- that was left over from when I had blown it up to use my really big tiles. Here it is, shrunk back down to the size that you were working for:

I think it looks much better at the proper resolution.

Great job on the win screen graphic!!! haha, that's fantastic. I've got the splash screen and menu screen working now -- it's just a small issue that I'm having that's making the game crash when I try to go from the menu into the actual game. As soon as I track that down, I can upload a much-closer-to-finished version.

--clint

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I really think you have a great start on it! I honestly think most of the trouble is just that a few of the tiles are misplaced in the graphic, and when they're put into their correct positions, we can probably get most (if not all) of the look you're going for.

Hopefully being able to play around with this latest version will help.

...67% uploaded...

I cut out the biggest files (such as the .exe and .app and one of the audio files) so that it can upload more quickly -- it was just taking forever. Even so, this still isn't moving too quickly.

Okay. You can now get the file here.

Mack, I'm also on Google Chat right now if you'd like to converse in more real-time.

Thanks so much for all your help!!! It's really really appreciated.

--clint

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It's 2am here so I'm going to hit the sack and try a fresh start in the morning.

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Ugh. I really gotta' go get some sleep. I've got a packed weekend -- that's why I was cramming to get this game done tonight so that I would have a chance to get it done.

Okay, I think I should have this last bug solved soon, and then I'll post a final-ish build of the game. Charlie is graciously doing some level design, so hopefully we can bang out at least one fun level for Big D to play on his Big B.

Yay!

--clint

P.S. Anyone else reminded of this comic? (warning, strong profanity) Maybe in a few years we'll have a David Lancaster balloon that we can parade through the streets of Canada.

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Can we mix two different tilesets in one level? Or is it just one tileset per level?

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Yay! (scroll to the bottom for the link)

While this version is basically shippable-quality, there is still some that can be done on this before submitting it for Mr. Lancaster's approval.

Programming:
- (Most Important) Sound fx for picking up boxes
- (Optional) Particle effects
- (Very Optional) Capable of progressing between levels
- (Nice but difficult) Fixing the wall-climbing bugs -- not for the faint of heart.

Graphics:
- (Moderately Important) Finish up the tile graphics (Mack will probably get to this in the morning, yes?)
- (Optional but very cool) Cut out the faces of CCNers who want to be included in this, for inclusion on the win screen. You can get a picture of me from my Facebook (Archangel is a friend of mine if you can't see my photos any other way).

Level design:
- (Very Optional) I think Charlie is working on some additional levels for us -- he rocks.
- (Very Optional) More enemy types in the levels?

Management/Organization/Marketing:
- Document the people who were involved in the project, whether as contributors or encouragers as credits that we can provide with the game, as a sortof virtually "signed" happy birthday card.
- Create a pretty showcase entry for the game, to put it on prominent display for our beloved friend David Lancaster.

Okay, that's about all I can think of at the moment. I'm pretty happy with this one being the final version that we stamp gold, but if others (such as SSquared) wanted to put some more spit-n-polish on it, feel free. It's now 5:30 AM, so I'm calling myself officially done with my portion of the present.

If you look in the new version, you'll see some sweet stuff. Sounds by Mastallama, some sw33t music by Jetspice, voice by Randall, fantastic graphics by Mack, a fun level by Charlie, and programming by SSquared, Samw3 and myself. It's truly been a group effort -- even submissions from people like TallBill and EVDude that haven't yet made their way into the game were extremely encouraging to build momentum for the whole development process, and I don't want to discount the value of the energy that everyone brought to help make this a truly fun and fantastic community project.

I love all you guys. I'm really glad that we can do stuff like this as a community.

Okay, mushiness aside, I'm really just still typing because the upload isn't finished yet (really slow connection right now for some reason).

In the meantime, here's a pretty screenshot of the opening movie! Peter bouncing across the screen in his Rebel Planet panel truck:

And here's an image of the Big D himself, welcoming all newcomers into his game:

Yay!!! The upload finished!!!

Here's a link to the game!

BDL_2007_10_27_First_Playable_Version.zip (15 M)

And to David Lancaster (who will soon finally be allowed to read this thread), thanks for your friendship and encouragement over the past couple of years. Your energy, enthusiasm, skill and passion are always uplifting. Thanks for the way that you let the love of Christ work through you in how you impact others. We hope you enjoy this small gift as a community to encourage you as you encourage others. We wish we had the time and resources to make games like this for every members' birthday, and so in lieu of that, please know that while this game is primarily in tribute to you, it is also a representative token of thanks to every member who brings a spirit of encouragement to this community.

So David, from everyone here on CCN, happy birthday.

A brother in Christ,
clint

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I agree with Clint. This was really a terrific showing of community effort. It was so cool to see the needs be said, and people lending a hand to meet those needs. How neat is that?

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"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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hmm.. the download is REALLY slow. I'm going to try and get a mirror up on my site when its done.

EDIT: Here is a mirror link

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Credits: Let's let this thread be the credits. It can also be the bonus features > Making of.

Enemies: more enemies are posted to the DAV, in the CCN > enemies folder. (Crab not included, see Crab, above.)

BTW, this morning I remembered that Samw3 and Randall both did stuff for the game as well.

EVDude, thanks for the new enemy sprite! I don't know if it will make it in-game, but it is very much appreciated nonetheless, and there is no doubt in my mind that you're a full-credit contributor.

SSquared, something I realized this morning is that we should add a lose condition if David hits his bottom world limit, for when he falls off the level.

--clint

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John 14:6

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Anyway, If someone else can manage to open it correctly, I just realized that we had different bad guy graphics in there, but I just made the level using the one model I started with. You can just go through the bad guys and add some more varience in their art, that'd be great.

Also, the pit with the hidden game at the end needs a way back out (if you don't get it last, you need to get back out.)

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#1 - Request
#2 - Bug?
#3 - Gameplay issue
#4 - Great praise

1) can you make the God voice louder? I could barely hear it over the music

2) Clint you may have already mentioned it, I'm not sure but...I only had 1 box left and I made it to the end of the level but didn't know it was the end and jumped...I couldn't get the last box and to exit I had to click the [x] on the window.

3) At the first part where the platforms are up high, there's not much at the bottom (2 jumps and 1 enemy) and it seemed like it was lacking something. I ran all the way right and couldn't get up on that side and got kind of frustrated and almost quit the game. It may be beneficial to put an arrow or something at the bottom point you to the left or give a way to get up on the right

Maybe something like this:

4) Everything else was awesome! I love the standing animation, it looks like he's dancing to the music!

@JeTSpice - I LOVE the theme! I keep humming it after playing, LOL!

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San Antonio, TX: here

and

Herndon, VA: here

both at large pipe servers in datacenters.

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your welcome!
did the tiles work?

I can't wait to play the game! I'm going to download it to night.

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dudey calls...

"Never try to sneak up on someone who knows Martial Arts, is a Jedi, a Narnian Knight, and is standing in front of a mirror. Especially the last part." -Mene Mene

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Aaaahhhh....I need to go really soon. It's unzipping. I don't think I'll have time to work on this before taking off. Can someone add: alxPlay("woohoo_sfx"); to GameBoxClass: nCollision (GameBox.cs file). Thanks. Otherwise, I won't be back until 12 or maybe 1 PST. I may take the computer along so I can do get some work done.

I can't wait to see the latest! The screenshots look great.

If anyone wants to hear the new sound when grabbing a box, download this: http://ssquared2000.googlepages.com/GameBox.cs.dso and put it in the BDL\game\gameScripts directory.

er... I'll post the effect on the DAV. It uses "AxysBoxImageMap", which is already in the game.

(Edit: done. It's on the DAV, under CCN > BDL > OffAxys.eff)

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PREPARE FOR SQUARENESS

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I'd like to give Dave some world limits so he does not fall off the end. Anyone have any issues with this?

JeTSpice, I will see about getting the particle effect in.

We just finished lunch and I will be between this and helping one daughter with homework. Not sure how much more dedicated time I get on this. I'll make a post if I get anything accomplished.

I am having a bad problem uploading though. I guess Googlepages won't let files over 10 MB in so that may be my problem. I will upload to Clint's spot and give a URL for downloading. It will be awhile.

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Source is here.

Game executable is here.

My updated files are in the zip called VanEffectDavidLimit.zip.

Enjoy!

Great job JeTSpice on the particle effect. It makes me laugh out loud each time I watch it.

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Man this is so insane--one of the craziest B-Day presents I have ever heard of--must be killing DL not to check this forum unless he has illegally done so.

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All - it's *much* faster to download sSquared's VanEffectDavidLimit.zip and swap out the files than to download the whole executable. (If you've already got HanClinto's last version.)

Edit: It's currently 8:30 am Sunday morning where David is -- it's his birthday! Does anybody know how to get the game to him? Does he have internet at home?

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I added Mastallama's UFO since I wasn't sure whether or not his work had been fully represented.

EDIT: OK...new files are uplodaded. I think I'm done. There are still a lot of sound effects sitting around waiting to be used, but I really think the game is fine the way it is. I just played through the whole thing and it is really wonderful.

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It's here.

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Also, here's the latest build:

http://www.gameace.org/~ChristianCoders/BDL/

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How are we gonna get this to DL?

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Once it's all ready I'll MSN David this link

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I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I am really amazed at how the community came out for this. This isn't just some small thought either. I've been thinking about it yesterday and through today. I did not realize how many people had such terrific graphic ability. And what really blew me away is that people who don't even have Torque Game Builder were able to play a part in it all.

No, I don't expect this to happen every birthday, but I think it shows we are there for each other and we truly care about our members. I have never met David, but through this experience and the comments made from others who do know him, I look forward to one day meeting him.

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I need a picture of everyones head, post it here so I can finish the final image.

Also, here's the latest build:

http://www.gameace.org/~ChristianCoders/BDL/

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Mine is back on page 2.

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Never Forget to Pray!

"...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the pamphlet, "Effective Prayer"

I've been playing team fortress 2 all weekend and wasn't feeling 100%, but after Mr Spice notified me of this thread today...sheesh...at times I couldn't breathe because I was on the floor laughing so hard. A part of me feels like Clint might be giving just a little payback.

As Clint has said, this is a huge community effort, I've never seen this sort of thing before. I'm honored that you'd make such a fantastic gift Best birthday ever! Thank you to each and everyone one, it means alot to me.

Playing that game was amazing! Beautiful work! Greatest coding/graphics work ever guys! *hands all developers millions of kudos* So now all these great developers who made this can slave away at Orion with me? :P It's gonna take me a year or two to make (I reckon), and I'm doing some work with Brethren Entertainment so that's cool ^^

If I had a day, had something, when I was feeling down and that one thing to uplift me (even just for a moment), something that would mean the world to me. This is it, thank you again you guys rock!

ps: Ssquared, I know of you but I don't know who you are, or seen photos of you (at least I think). Do you have myspace or facebook?

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Happy Birthday David!!! You're the BEST!!

Amazing thread everyone. Very very very cool!

Peter

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David, there is a photo of me in this thread. I am on the bottom right.

Happy Birthday!

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David, there is a photo of me in this thread. I am on the bottom right.

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I tried really hard not to read this thread but by the time I finished reading it, it was too late. Those darn threads that I shouldn't read but end up reading, we should really do something about that...

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See?? I told you guys he was coming!

Haha, anyways Happy Birthday David!

That Eugene meeting looked so awesome!

Jeremy thank you!

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wow! they do look alike! :O Are they brothers, perhaps? o.o

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Happy Birthday David

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Suddenly, the CCN forums are overrun with "women seeking Randall" threads full of pictures and phone number.

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haha, but yeah, S2 does look like Rick Moranis.
Rick Moranis with an edge. a rebel edge.

but yeah, I wish I coulda helped with the project, but turned out my weekend was packed.
Hope you had a good b-day, david!

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They will know that we are Christians by our love.