Scrolling Game Development Kit Forum

Wow, I found a doozy of a website yesterday! Its a free virtual computer (actually an operating system) that you can login to from any browser (mobile too) on any computer anywhere in the world! It actually is an operating system (or works hard to pretend!), complete with some games and apps for media and productivity and other. It also has it's own built in browser! It's weird thinking about browsing with a browser in a browser, but the idea is portability. All your settings in the os and the browser are saved to your storage. So the desktop and the browsers cookies and settings will all be available to you from any computer. This way you can have your own personal desktop just the way you like it and a web browser that already knows you (saved passwords, etc) Plus you get 15GB of storage to store your stuff on. Add in a built in email (which allows you to forward your other email accounts easily), built in buddies and IM's, sync and sharing with your buddies, and more - I'm in!

Since they have a "refer a friend" program in play, if you sign-up I'd appreciate using me as "refered by". This will give me another 5GB of storage! It'll ask you once you confirm your email and you get to the account options screen. Just paste in ghostlaw  (right in the edit window that has @G.ho.st after it)

Check it out and watch that little video they have. It's called Ghost: http://g.ho.st/

I'd also strongly suggest having a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inbCIil2fog .It shows the CEO of Ghost who seems to be a smart cookie!

Happy Cloud Computing! 

Hey, if you'd like to have a crack at making your own game music, try Myna:
http://aviary.com/tools/myna

I haven't played with it much, but it looks great. Hope you find it useful...

(be sure to watch the video on that page. It gives you a quick idea of what it's capable of. Then check some of the examples  http://aviary.com/popular?t=myna )

I just come across a pretty good find I thought I could share:

http://www.virustotal.com/

It's an online scanner that allows you to upload a single file at a time. I thought it was neat 'cause they run just about every major virus/spyware scanner available over your file for you. I'm still a little uneasy about the whole uploading online thing, but their licenses agreement made me feel a little more comfortable. The results could confuse the heck out of you since there's like a dozen scanners and they will have their own results, but it's something cool to try if you find a suspect file that you want to scan throughly.

Have a look under their Statistics tab too: http://www.virustotal.com/estadisticas.html  -Some neat stuff up in there...

LOL, just for kicks I sent SGDKIDE.exe, and she come back clean! So we're all safe! (not that I ever suspected it as a virus, it was just for my amusement!, and to see if any scanners would give a false positive.)

Hey, I've a question. If I had a team of guys building a game with this, how would we do it? There's no way to load import/load maps into a project.

Cause I want other team members to frame in the maps and set objects, then I'd like to go in and be the one to make them come alive.

Sorry if I've missed something obvious here, I'm trying to get us up and running with something rather quickly, and I'm looking at a few API's/Kits/Engines. - so I haven't looked deep into it. If I could get this figured out I'd probably use SGDK2.

Also, just quickly, for me if you will, how customizeable is this kit?. Pretty easy to add your own AI for enemies and such thru script? We have a pretty elaborate battle system planned.

Thanks, and sorry to be kinda needy and pushy. I've had a rough day of failure with another kit I was settled on. Now I'm behind and have to find something good get back working fast!

I'm on day 3 with the kit, and I'm loving what I see. But I've fighting the plan/rule maker dialog every step of the way. I feel an urge to break into pure c# code. I have been under the assumption the the rule dialog box has been writting the c# code for me behind the scenes, but I can't seem to locate it. I feel I'll never be at peace with this kit until I figure out how it works under the hood. Perhaps a debugger would allow me to step thru and see what's happening. Can I grab a free JIT debugger somewhere, or will I have to install C# 2008 express.

So 1) Where's my plan code going and? 2) What's the best way to debug this puppy?