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the movie is a little bit long, you can fast-forward to its middle.

http://www.geemag.tv/viewVideo.php?video_id=1313&title=100_Marios_per_Hand_gelenkt

now that i saw this video, i wonder if sgdk2 would be able to do the same?
remember all the eye toy games for playstation. but THIS would really revolutionize controlling of sprites, wouldn't it?
how much work would that be, bluemonk? sure a lot, but imagine the publicity!

i would like to introduce Mistraal.
sadly i can't let you try it, because some errors prevent it from be played on some computers. but i will investigate on this.
but i'm happy to show you my blog about it: http://mistraal.wordpress.com/
too bad it's actually written in german. and it's not complete. these days i put all the news into it i should have written when i made them.  :laugh:
some day i may translate it, then i'll post it again. But i will show nearly all of my sketches, tilesets, sprites (the zeppelin was modelled in 3D) and so on. i hope you'll come and visit my blog at least for that.
I highly recommend to bookmark the RSS feed.
if you have comments, post them here. since it's a documentation about my working process, i don't think comments at the blog are needed so badly.

today i tried to start my game on the computer for all the presentations tomorrow. (4 a.m. in your time)
i installed net framework 1.1, directx9.0c is already installed, its video card is a nVidia Geforce 8800 gts.

the error at the game start is attached for you to view.
i picked out all the relevant lines in the .cs files.

Frameset.cs:
public Frame this[int index]
   {
      get
      {
         return this.m_arFrames[(index % this.m_arFrames.Length)];
      }
   }


Layerbase.cs:
 for (int x = nStartCol; x <= EndCol; x++)
          {
             int[] SubFrames = GetTileFrame(x,y);
             for (int nFrame = 0; nFrame < SubFrames.Length; nFrame++)
             {
        Frame f = m_Frameset[SubFrames[nFrame]];
                spr.Transform = Matrix.Multiply(f.Transform, Matrix.Translation(
                   x * nTileWidth + CurrentPosition.X + ViewRect.X,
                   y * nTileHeight + CurrentPosition.Y + ViewRect.Y, 0));
              spr.Draw(f.GraphicSheetTexture.Texture, f.SourceRect, Vector3.Empty, Vector3.Empty, overrideModulation==-1?f.Color:overrideModulation);
             }
         }


start_map.cs:
 protected override void Draw()
   {
      this.m_Startbildschirm.InjectSprites();
      this.m_Startbildschirm.Draw();
      this.m_Startbildschirm.ClearInjections();
      this.m_Display.Sprite.Flush();
   }


mapbase.cs:
public void DrawAllViews()
   {
      switch(viewLayout)
      {
         case ViewLayout.Single:
            currentViewIndex = 0;
     Draw();

gameform.cs:
  OverlayMap.DrawAllViews();

project.cs:
  game.Run();

justed wanted to say that lame encoding for mp3s isn't supported, despite it can be imported. maybe this could either be fixed or be mentioned in the help file.

it would be great, when with the import of the sound effects a volume slider (or similar) could be inserted in the options menu of the compiled game.
this i do miss. also i beg you to consider, that some people (like me) hate it, when they download a game, start it and instantly must quit it, because the sound is much too loud. they have to turn volume down and then start the game again. (not everyone has active boxes)

found this while surfin....
http://www.palib.info/wiki/doku.php?id=day4

i looked into the sample game at the menu and there is one point i do not understand.
i've read the rules, and these are easy. the only thing i really don't understand is, how do the yellow arrows change their position when the player presses up and down?
there is a counter which keeps track of at what menu point you are. but where is the rest? these yellow arrows confuse me...

now this may be a special request/problem/suggestion of me because of the structure of my game.
as you may have noted in some screenshots, i've got several layers to fake deep space. they have the same graphics (flying rocks), but every layer which is farther backwards scrolls slower and its hue is slightly more bluish (as in the real world).

now the idea came to my mind, instead of colorizing the same graphic sheet, importing it and build new frame- and tilesets of it, it would go incredible faster and simplier, when i could modulate RGB for the layer itself, instead of single tiles.

at the moment, i could modulate RGB for single tiles, but i would be not so a great advantage.
because every tile of the rock tileset consists of two frames: the normal rock frame and the freezed rock frame. this method suggested me durnurd, thank you it was great idea!
colorize every single tile and then animating them all again, this maybe three times is much work.

i hope you have mercy with me and could build in this feature... please please please!

(have i mentioned the presention of the game in front of the half student body is only a week away? ::panic:: )