Beta Test Our Challenge! (updated 10/7)

[Manic Velocity]

The movies are loading properly for me now. Are they loading properly for everyone else (starting at the beginning, syncing with audio)?

During "Definition: Angels", the video flashes for a few frames before disappearing.  I refreshed a few times and this was not a consistent bug, but it did happen on more than one occasion.

[Ash]

Shh....Open the mainChallenge.swf file in the Dropbox/main challenge folder.

Still seeing a stationary star field.  :\  Is it supposed to be moving?

Look closer...

[Adad]

Don't try to move the star field, that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth...there is no star field.

[Manic Velocity]

Don't try to move the star field, that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth...there is no star field.

I don't get it.

[Adad]

Don't try to move the star field, that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth...there is no star field.

I don't get it.

You see Manic, it's a play on a quote from this old movie from 1999. I doubt you saw it, so sorry for the obscure reference. It was a small independent film, I struggle to recall the name, but I'm the only person I know that saw it any way. It was pretty good though.

[Manic Velocity]

Don't try to move the star field, that's impossible. Only try to realize the truth...there is no star field.

I don't get it.

You see Manic, it's a play on a quote from this old movie from 1999. I doubt you saw it, so sorry for the obscure reference. It was a small independent film, I struggle to recall the name, but I'm the only person I know that saw it any way. It was pretty good though.

That's cool. Let me know if you remember the name. I'd like to check it out.

[Adad]

I think Keanu Reeves was in it. Must have been Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

[Tbone]

Remember if you report bugs, please be very specific. If it freezes or hangs, please let us know EXACTLY when (what was on the screen, what was on the screen before, what were you doing). Saying  "it froze up a couple of times" really doesn't help us narrow in on the problem. Thanks!

[Da6onet]

I think Keanu Reeves was in it. Must have been Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

or perhaps...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NHorZ8iZ4Y

Ok, back on topic.

[Tbone]

IE Bug for Phase 2 and 3



Is anyone else experiencing this? The right side is how it is supposed to look. That's how it looks in Chrome. The left side shows what it looks like in IE. Both the width and height extend past where they should.

As you can see, the ship's body doesn't extend all the way to the edge on the left. Also, below the center console is exposed.  While you extended the white fade to cover the extra space, the hyperspace movie doesn't extend to the edges.

Also, are we going to implement the clean up of the body design that Manic did a few weeks ago?

Bugs/Suggestions for Phase 3
-The fade in AFTER the sound effect just isn't working. What if we do the same star effect that we are currently doing, but create a few layers to speed up at the beginning and then slow them down as they go off screen. So when it fades, we're seeing the stars pass by pretty quickly and then they quickly slow down as they go off, until we just have our regular slow moving stars left on screen.
-We should add the SFX of the flashing button back in for this. It's weird to have it at the beginning of Phase 2 but not Phase 3 since it is identical.
-Need SFX for completing numbers and moon puzzle popping up.
-Need SFX for moon puzzle screen going away.

[Lithium]

- Removed Flash Right-Click Menu so you can't use it to skip sections

Not to add another monkey in the wrench, but please keep in mind that this fix is client side only.

It can easily be overridden with simple javascript. The ultimate solution needs to be fixed inside the swf to catch the next previous events and ignore them.

This needs to be done in both yotogi's and adad's flash.

[Adad]

awesome

[Lithium]

Don't get too worried I think it can be an easy fix with some actionscript. As long as it is performed in the actionscript no javascript should be able to hack it. I will be the one trying to hack it!

http://www.webdesignmo.com/blog/2008/08/20/right-click-menu-in-actionscript-3/

http://www.ilike2flash.com/2009/07/disable-context-menu-in-actionscript-3.html

[Tbone]

*Updated*

Please test and leave SPECIFIC feedback. Thanks! Also, we will be updating consistently throughout the week.

[Ghisteslwchlohm]

The reconstruction code disappears and reappears a few seconds later when you click in the field to enter a code.

And after the planet puzzle, Iego and the moons popped up and in less than a second disappeared and the whole screen went black. I have been unable to get any further than that if there is anywhere to go from there.