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Started 5 years ago by DrNeroCF
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DrNeroCF
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Fancy Box is a go! Here's some links:

Just want to play some more Fancy Pants? Check out what's been made so far:

http://bornegames.com/FancyBox/

Fancy Box Package

Want to contribute? Become famous for the best FPA level ever created? Download the package!:

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Update 1 / 13:

- Switches and moving platforms template added

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Update 1 / 8:

- Select music, backgrounds, and fighting mode from level container (more music coming, let me know which you want)
- Most recent doors added
- Lots of fixes to fighting
- All updates in Arena1.fla

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Update 10 / 12: Baddies!

Spiders (with all hats), bats, ducks (because there wasn't nearly enough ducks in World 3!), and shooty mice.

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So, one thing that I've been continuously asked about (besides a 'Dark Pants' villain, heh) regarding Fancy Pants is having some sort of custom level editor. That's not something that's very feasible, since everything I make is very simply drawn into Flash movie clips, with smaller clips like squiggles and baddies copy and pasted around.

But, during the development of World 3, I got the level files loading externally, so that I didn't need to re-export everything just to test a level, and that's got me thinking. Technically, anyone could make their own level files using almost any version of Flash, and load them from a special shell swf. Would be as simple as editing a sample fla and adding the address of the file to the shell swf.

So the question is, would you guys be interested in me making such a thing available? There's a lot of limitations with the engine, but it would be super interesting for me to see what you guys could come up with.

Do enough of you have a version of Flash that you could use to make levels? Do enough of you care? heh

To this day, I do really enjoy playing FPA, but playing my own levels gets pretty boring. I'd love to play something new that I hadn't seen before. Heck, could go so far as to make your own baddies, without me.

So, what you guys think?

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Posted 5 years ago #
jesus_minime
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I'd be down, except for the fact that I'm a sucky artist. I hope you do get some cool submissions though. If you DO do this, I think you should make some in game link to the forum topic so you can get some of the talented guys from the newgrounds portal and kongregate portal involed.

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Posted 5 years ago #
blob
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I'm supposed to be not here, but this sounds great! just look out for to many people making new levels...

Posted 5 years ago #
AJ32
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Posted 5 years ago #
sockeye
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Have some ideas. But cant make any flashy thing.

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Posted 5 years ago #
Pencilmaster
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I am a noob at Flash. But, yeah, a level editor or so would be cool. Maybe a new game called "Fancy Pants DIY".

Also, it would be cool to have a "Anti Pants Man" Villain.

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Posted 5 years ago #
AJ32
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@PM: There won't be a level editor!
@Brad: Do you give us some kind of level template for Flash? I would like to create an Anti Pants level!

Posted 5 years ago #
WJUK
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jesus_minime said:
I'd be down, except for the fact that I'm a sucky artist. I hope you do get some cool submissions though. If you DO do this, I think you should make some in game link to the forum topic so you can get some of the talented guys from the newgrounds portal and kongregate portal involed.

We can always do joint levels. Where someone can design them and others can draw etc.

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Posted 5 years ago #
sockeye
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How would the combat with anti pants be ?

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Posted 5 years ago #
Infrared
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I'd be very interested in doing this, but a potential problem would be that it would be difficult to tell if a level is playable or not (for example, if platforms are placed too far apart from each other) without actually being able to play it before it's put in the game, because if you actually place Fancy Pants Man and his code in the downloadable .fla people would probably take the code and use it without your permission. Maybe you could include a basic shell .swf in the download that only loads one level from a predetermined .fla file (so you could put a .zip file on your site with a level .fla file and a shell .swf along with other files if necessary and the .fla file would be named so that the shell .swf could load it). Or maybe you could just put a shell .swf online where you could input an .fla's address and it would load the level from it.

Posted 5 years ago #
WJUK
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Infrared said:
I'd be very interested in doing this, but a potential problem would be that it would be difficult to tell if a level is playable or not (for example, if platforms are placed too far apart from each other) without actually being able to play it before it's put in the game, because if you actually place Fancy Pants Man and his code in the downloadable .fla people would probably take the code and use it without your permission. Maybe you could include a basic shell .swf in the download that only loads one level from a predetermined .fla file (so you could put a .zip file on your site with a level .fla file and a shell .swf along with other files if necessary and the .fla file would be named so that the shell .swf could load it). Or maybe you could just put a shell .swf online where you could input an .fla's address and it would load the level from it.

Sounds like Brad could get levels loading from external files (see the top post). So all you need is the .swf that points to a local file that loads in the file.

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Posted 5 years ago #
pixelScientist
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Sounds like fun! I have flash, and I would enjoy this experience. In one of the world 2 bugs, your collision box layer became visible, so I was able to see the different colors assigned to your wall jumping and stuff. Seems like an easy-enough task!

Posted 5 years ago #
ICARAX
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It sounds fun, it just sucks that my flash trial ended. plus I suck at computer drawing.. I'll see if I can get it on another CPU.

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Posted 5 years ago #
WJUK
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pixelScientist said:
Sounds like fun! I have flash, and I would enjoy this experience. In one of the world 2 bugs, your collision box layer became visible, so I was able to see the different colors assigned to your wall jumping and stuff. Seems like an easy-enough task!

During the beta he left the ability to toggle the visibility of that layer with a button.

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Posted 5 years ago #
pixelScientist
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No, but I meant the full version. I never got to play the World 2 beta... :C

Posted 5 years ago #
LifeInAnEgg
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Idea: if all the collision is a single vector movieclip, can't you just make an in-game editor by making movieclips (circles i.e.) inside that single movieclip. That's how I do it . So just create different movieclips, like circles with different sizes, and let the player paint with them like in Paint MS!

Also, add drawable rectangles.

Posted 5 years ago #
pixelScientist
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Although ideal, that is very ambitious for what is possible as of now. it would be very advanced in comparison to the usual type of that stuff, which is tile-based level builders. nobody has even TRIED to make anything more complicated than that.

Where am I going with this..?

Posted 5 years ago #
Infrared
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WJUK said:
Sounds like Brad could get levels loading from external files (see the top post). So all you need is the .swf that points to a local file that loads in the file.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Brad didn't already know how to load levels in externally, but I can see how that could be understood from what I wrote.

Also, although it might be too ambitious, it might be interesting if level building contests or collaboration projects were held on the forums.

Posted 5 years ago #
AJ32
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Brad has disappeared again!
I hope we can make levels soon.

Posted 5 years ago #
WJUK
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It's probably going to take quite a bit of work to get up and running, but I'm sure he's working on something.

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