Hey guys!

I’m not dead! Like you even missed me . . . don’t lie. *glare*

For those who have been pining away for my posts (so tempted to add another p word in there, but I won’t…) I have been preoccupied with a lot of … stuff so I haven’t been able to do nearly as much gaming as I want to.

However! I plan on using all of you to change that! You shall be my sla…I mean motivators and I will complete the 10 billion games I have started. I will also review the ones I finished but didn’t review because of so many distractions. Excuse the randomness I’m a bit delirious. No idea why my brain decided that I should announce my return to all things bornegamey, but that’s how it worked.

Luckily the Nintendo 3DS gives me a new median to review retro games so I can reflect back on the times of my childhood. Played Ocarina of Time 3D, AWESOME! My love for that game borders on psycho obsession. Do I have yet to beat Skyward Sword . . . yes, but so far OMG BEAUTIFUL! I love that game. Although when I was playing it for the first time Brad got a massive laugh out of me trying to fly that dang bird. I’m pretty sure it went something like:

“Hey I’m flying, I’m fly…oh God why am I falling!”

“You have to do this, DO THIS!”

“I AM DOING THAT!! I’m GOING TO KILL LINK!”

Oh, that reminds me, spoilers?

So what am I playing currently?

Cave Story

Yoshi’s Island

Brad and I are playing through the Co-Op adventure of Uncharted 3

We played through Gears of War 3 Co-Op, beat it… (do I review that?)

Still trying to remember if I reviewed Okamiden…

Brad says I must play Kid Icarus (duh)

Ah the most recent Professor Layton! I beat that… (PS Professor Layon vs Ace Attorney, I am SO there!)

Ghost Trick (LOVE THIS GAME)

annnnnd yes, um, there is a list of stuff I must play. I know y’all get annoyed that it seems most of the games reviewed are Wii and DS so any suggestions on the other ones?

Or do you even care . . . anyone *whimper*

FEED MY EGO!!!!

I need sleep…

I’m still updating the game, but there’s two major bugs that I keep reading about. One is, if a stunned baddie hits a scratch shot from a mouse, it’ll break. Shouldn’t be too hard to fix when I get a chance.

The other is, FPM becomes invincible at some point. I haven’t been able to reproduce this one, maybe you guys can help me out. Anyone have this happen to them? Any idea what could be causing it? Are you hitting anything specific before becoming incincible? Halp!

Well, most of it, at least. The public beta is live! Play through the entire game and help me get World 3 ready for its full release.

A few menus and such still need to be added later, but World 3′s been in development for long enough, amirite??

Oh, and like always, let me know what’s broken.

Fixed so far:

0.16

- Changed how the challenge scores work, which should fix the Beach (no idea why it was like that, thought I already fixed it).
- Bottle was missing from Misplaced.
- Fixed the pants menu.
- Adjusted the reset controls button in the menus.

0.15

- Biggest change is the pants color selector from the pause menu
- Option to reset controls from the main menu, in case something goes wrong (and I forgot that the game’s background is white, not grey, whoops)
- There was an extra star or something in Misplaced? Weird.
- Fixed Bat Spider’s congrats
- NPCs now only change your pants automatically the first time they congratulate you after beating their challenge.

0.14:

- Ducks and Parrots fixed
- Music overlapping fixed

0.12:

- Manly Beard fixed
- Music tweaks
- ‘quick sounds’ fixed (swimming, sand and puddle footsteps)
- rest of the dialog fixed (fingers crossed)
- Attacking ‘beard shockwaves’

0.11:

- Factory and Cave Plats fixed
- I broke some controls earlier, fixed them
- NPCs change your pants color after victory message
- Moved Mountain Goat Course finish line

0.10:

- Falling off the level while rolling
- Sliding into crabs
- Quitting from Beach scoreboard glitch
- Bumper tweaks

0.9:

- Beach fix
- QTP on throne fix
- Beta is now certified beatable!

0.8:

- Bunch of fixes, I’ll list them later
- I did break progressing passed the beach, though, and Mochi’s not letting me upload a new build, I’ll have to upload tomorrow. Hopefully, most of you can just skip it for now.

0.7:

- Beach sand effects
- All moving platforms
- Bottles pop up message
- Forest background
- Baddie pile and dialoge
- HUD during pirate ship
- Places where you could jump out the level (sorry, heh)
- Yellow key room
- Disco effects
- All far foreground animations (tub drain, getting pencil, a few others).
- Rainbowbeard’s text size
- Tub music fade in repeat

I’m sure I’ve missed something, check the build and let me know, just make sure that 0.7 is showing in the top right at the first menu screen, otherwise clear your cache and refresh the page.

Which reminds me, another weekend, another battling event!

Download FPA on PSN (I’ll be playing it on XBLA too, don’t worry) for only five bucks, then come beat me at some King of the Hill!

Here’s how:

Tomorrow (Saturday), at 5:00pm CST

Quick Match -> Player Match

I’ll be switching between the XBLA and PSN versions, like usual.

And for anyone who’s in a different time zone, check here.

Wow, that entire post sounded like an infomercial. That’s CRAAAAAAAZY!

Just wanted to address a few things. Hopefully, this page will come up if you’ve had trouble with the game and you Google around a bit.

Update: Build has been submitted to Apple, no idea how long it’ll take to go through, though.

Game size on phone: There was a slight error in packing up the game, and it expands to 1.1 gigs once installed. This is why the game isn’t installing on devices that have less than 1.1 gigs left, even though the filesize says under 300 megs in the App Store.

Save games disappearing: Apparently, progress is being lost when the game is started up again. Force quitting the game (double tap home, close the icon from the quick launch bar) and starting up the game again may restore the save file.

An update is coming soon that addresses both issues. File size on phone will be only slightly more than the download size. I don’t know if save files can be restored, but I’ll check.

Many apologies for any inconveniences you’re experiencing, I just wanted to let everyone know that Over the Top addressed both problems as soon as we knew about them, and an update is imminent!

Thank you so much, and I hope that you can enjoy the game even more in the future!

[UPDATE: SECOND!!! :O]

So a huge thanks to every single person who bought the app and contributed to The Fancy Pants Adventure’s current success on the App Store!

Download away!

Lite Version:

http://itunes.com/apps/FancyPantsLite

And it’s a Universal App, so one price and one purchase for iPhone, iPod, or iPad!

Oh yeah, and it’s ONLY A DOLLAR!

Anyone out there in New Zealand?