If you haven’t noticed, I’ve started updating the website for the open release of World 2, which is this Thursday. I’m trying to set this site up as much like a real site as possible, so there’s the sections to the right right, right there, and, ah, fun, some ads.
So, what do you guys want to see? Some questions you want answered in a faqs would be nice, general, or for a specific game. Anything you want to see in the ‘about me’ in particular?
Anything else I should add to the site?
Not much else to say that hasn’t been said better elsewhere.
I really started creating digital content once I got my first Mac, a now ancient PowerBook G4 (clocked slower than my current phone, imagine that). I first got into Flash games by creating stopmotion animation, and I got into that because I enjoyed video editing, thanks to in no small part by Apple’s focus on media creation with iLife and FireWire (an utter God-sent during the time of DV cameras).
So here’s to (as The Onion playfully puts it) the last American who knew what the heck he was doing.
…Windows. And Flash?
The iPad is epic win. Maybe I’ll finally answer my massive backlog of emails (sorry everyone who’s emailed me recently!).
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Don’t try this at home!
(Oh and click the pic for a larger version)
Sorry for the utter lack of updates on World 3 (though that seems to be the norm nowadays, eh?), keep a heads up, though, Ill be posting some new footage sometime tonight or tomorrow 
Good stuff, I promise.
I’ve been adding all the engine refinements from ME2D back into FPA. Crazy how much better the game looks with character rotational smoothing. No more jitters, yay!
Fancy Pants Man now has 3 separate run cycles, want to add a whole bunch of different jumps too. I’m nuts. Got a lot of animating ahead of me. Good thing I love animating.
Here’s something that bugs me to no end. I am not Justin Long, you are not John Hodgeman.
Apple uses actors to represent their products, Mircrosoft defines their users by what products they buy. Huge difference there.
- Brad
So when I’m not doing concept work for World 3, I’ve been playig Super Metroid. Never beat it before, so I figured I should buy it from the Wii VC and do just that. Amazing game. So, I’ve gotten a few emails and such asking about puzzle elements in FPA, nothing overpowering, but what would you guys think of some sort of level or character progression in World 3?
Hey guys, so I’m trying out a new sidebar thingy, something that would allow me to make smaller posts that don’t push down more important posts (like pictures of various pets on my shoulders).
What do you think of the idea? Is the site too thick now? Should I just sell my soul and finally get a twitter to place up here?
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i think you should let people going to your site a preview of your game and let them play maybe the first level. then you could make a screen showing “what are you waiting for? play the rest of the game now!” or sumthin like that..
brad I’m so pissed for you because FPA 2 got 2nd place daily pick instead of first to a stupid movie that last for 30 sec. and isn’t even on the front page.
Useful things I can think of…
1) A list of all the possible “moves” and the key combinations/situations for each. Examples including Roll, Slide without a head start (Jump + Down), the Angled Wall Jump, Boosted Jump off a monster, Etc.
2) A desciption/list of all the “things” in the game. Swirls, Monsters, Mud Slides, Snail Shell, etc.
3) A Suggestions place in case anybody feels like suggesting game ideas or plot lines.
4) A list of site members.
And, while I’m talking, I’ll mention a few bugs I found that were slightly annoying me in an otherwise wonderful game:
1) The number of swirls collected often seems to drop a numeral. I believe this only happens over 99 Swirls, and occasionally fixes itself.
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5908/1036nt0.jpg
That is 1036 Swirls, but the 0 seems to have vanished. I also got 11_5 Swirls.
2) The shell often seems to roll through platforms that should be solid. Most noticeable on level 6, but it happens on almost all of them in certain areas. It follows a path similar to the one I’ve drawn here, going straight through the lower platform.
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/9898/shellgapdh2.jpg
I’m not sure, but I think this may only happen when the shell is moving at a moderate to fast speed and is not actually in the screen of view.
Also, since I finished the game with 1326 Swirls and I know I missed a few, I just have to ask… did you actually put in 1337 Swirls? It’s awfully close.
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8717/finishedug4.jpg
=)
Also interesting and slightly odd, when FPM falls asleep facing to the left, the Z’s are backwards.
I beat everything. Time 3 Hours. Great game.
dude this game is freaking awsome u should like make fpa into a platform game fur like x-box 360 er ps3
I love the fact that my videos are good enough to be posted in the Fan Art…..
gotta love the rocking!!
brad, great game man. easily better than DTD
check out my site:
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Hey Brad,
I think you should get some sort of faded FPA logo going on in the background, This all white page is ‘blugh, Also show off some of your skills, FPA Short vid’s. The number one turn off for a website is having sections “under construction” take those buttons away untill the contents are there. My true feeling is you should have more than one popular game under your belt because I think you can pump out more games, better games, and games with more depth. I’m not taking anything away from FPA by all means it is a good game, You spent a lot of time on it and it shows, I think would just like to see more from you and your team.
-Hoodie
A background would be nice…