Challenge Final Beta Testing (updated 10/21)

[Tbone]

Newest version of the challenge should be ready for testing before the meeting tonight. Yotogi is just now putting on the last few tweaks.

[Tbone]

Ok, newest version is up! Please test it!

Known issues:

-Loading bar still either says "Infinity" or "100", but part two WILL LOAD. Just be patient.
-There's a new bug where the background screens disappear when the videos play and reappear afterward in part 2.
-There are still a few more animations we will be testing with the Iego reveal at the end of Part 1. Let us know your thoughts and opinions!
-Galaxy timer will most likely be implemented Wednesday. Make sure you test the challenge Wed night or Thursday one last time to make sure we catch everything!

[likwidtek]

At the bit in the begining where you click the point in the moving galaxy and you jump to light speed and ou hear lits talking about angels and what not and how you don't find them they find you.  Is that supposed to be a movie?  It's just blank white for me.  I hear her just fine but it's just whited out.

[Saint]

I was wondering the same thing, hear it fine but dont see anything. seems like it is meant to see a video at that point

[Adad]

It's supposed to be whited out. As if you're just thinking it or dreaming it

[likwidtek]

ah.  Just looks weird.  Maybe some sort of foggy animation... well ANY kind of animation might make it not look like an error.  Hell even a pulsing FA logo or something.  I dunno.

In the meantime..  

Spoiler alert:


18
11-18
31-18
13-21-18
31-13-12-18

Fuck this thing man.  My head hurts!  I don't get it.  First off the first line is 1 number then 2 ... but then 2 again!  then 3 THEN 4.  That just doesn't make sense.  I can't find a pattern!  They all end in 18 then there's some inverted numbers like 31 13 12 21

[Anathamas]

Looks good for the most part, a minor bug and then an even more minor one:
-When transferring to the experience with AP28431 my loading bar was glitchy and jumping outside the space for it to load. Not a huge deal but it is still a clipping issue.
-When completed the video on the main site still says "join soon" at the end of the intro.

Also some of the transitions seemed to pause momentarily, but that may have just been the connection and not a program error.

Otherwise it looks great! I hope I get in!

[Aerosian]

Still need to change font on text input for the number triangle answer. It's cosmetic, but I thought you'd like to know.

Infinity% bar in Chrome Canary Build

[Adad]

Problems with the loading bar are well known and have been documented and announced numerous times.

What is wrong with the font for the number triangle? Are you talking about the prime numbers?

[Tbone]

I wonder if you would expect a video there if you didn't know we had made videos. I'll put it on the list as something to look at if we have the time.

Yeah, Aerosian, I don't get what you're talking about with the font either.

Anathamas, good find with the video. I thought we had switched that out a few weeks ago.

[Tbone]

Well, once again we are down to the wire. We are very close, but its still uncertain if we will be ready tomorrow night. As of now, here's the game plan...

We have about five things left to do to get this thing ready for live, but I'm not sure if Yotogi will have time tomorrow to do it or not. He needs to implement the static loading screen (after spending a lot of time trying to get a preloader working tonight, that method has been scrapped for now), fix the background screens when the videos play, update the "Ascend" page on thefuriousangels.com, add the new version of videos to the flash file (get to that in a second), and add in the galaxy timer.

I was able to accomplish a few things on my own tonight. I fixed the splash page video so that it doesn't say "Join Soon". I was also able to shave 2MBs off of its size. It still sometimes doesn't load in Firefox (requires a refresh), and that's something we'll look at post-launch.

I compressed the videos in part two of the challenge from 26MBs to 9MBs, so that should dramatically reduce the load time for part two. Yotogi just needs to add those new videos to the flash.

I also did away with the Recruitment forum, putting old apps in the new application forum and posted the cypher on our non-member forums. Try to keep that thread roleplay only, please.

There are still other tweaks and animations I want to work on with the challenge, but at this stage Yotogi and I are both comfortable with it going live if we can implement those last things without everything breaking.

He's going to update me throughout the afternoon, and as soon as I hear one way or another, I'll send out a text blast and email to everyone. I would really like to get one last round of testing in before going live, so I'd like for as many people to be available as possible.

[Tbone]

Release version is up at http://followthesignal.net. http://followthesignal.net. I will be posting the cypher to all of the names we collected momentarily.

[Lithium]

Ummm, please do not put a . (dot) in the url at the end like that... it will break the final forms.