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KupoGames — A Platformer Game in Flash
Published: 2012-05-15 05:34:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 21042; Favourites: 121; Downloads: 695
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Well here's my dissertation on Flash games.Keep in mind that this was written for a software engineering project, not a game design one. It assumes the reader knows nothing about video games, so a lot of it is going to sound very patronizing to most people.
A lot of the content probably isn't too useful, a bunch is probably wrong, a few stats are made up, but if you read the whole thing you might still find something interesting.
At the very least you'll learn about some of the tedious processes you have to deal with if you end up doing software engineering.
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Hey Kupo i really liked EBF 1,2,3,4 and bullet hell 1,2
Bullet hell 2 was a cool games i liked the easter eggs like where lance says SPAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEEE like the spacecore
now heres question:why do you ship matt with anna?
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now i see what we have to write as one person in university.
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Don't worry, mine was one of the longest in the class.
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so why do you ship Matt with Anna?
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Ohhhh. But that means you probably get better marks than the others.
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Are you sure? It seems like a scam...
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Step 1: grab something to drink.
Step 2: Open EBF 3 in another tab, and get to the main menu.
Step 3: allow lost & forgotten (main menu music) to play in the background.
Step 4: get comfortable and start reading.
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yes, go play it on Kongregate already :I
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Really good maybe you can make games for us
[link] rpg games
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Wow! I am overwhelmed how detailed this is!
I had written a short Game Design Document for a variation of the classic "Pong" in the previous semester, but that was nothing compared to this.
Thanks a lot for the upload!
Now I am motivated to study harder
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I'm writing a dissertation "comparing studio and internet animation"- I'm not alone ^_____^
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oh wow.. we almost have the same software engineering project o.o except we will do it in 3D..
is it ok to use some of report?... we are (like most CS students) lazy as hell XD
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Uhhhhhhh, you can use it as a reference, if that's what you mean.
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Matt, I love your work, there is no questioning it, If you ever feel like making language option on your games in the future, I'll do it for free, I have all the Cambridge exams in English (I'm portuguese :'D)
I speak and write english, portuguese and spanish, going on a fourth language, please, it's no bother to me, if you ever need a game translated or anything, I'll do it for you ^-~
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I'm not really in a hurry to get things translated, but maybe someday...?
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Of course of course, just saying, if you need it, I'll gladly do it, that's all >.< Loved your dissertation by the way.
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very information, i look forward to attaining patience to do this soon
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Wow . . .
Someday, I will finish reading this. Every word of it.
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You evil bugger blanked out the revenue statistics. That was 50% of why I read the whole thing!
(I just want to know more about how large the sums of money are that are involved in making video games, including creation expense and possible returns)
(Judging by kickstarter, large games take in the 100,000s to make. That's a ton of money!)
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You probably won't earn much from Flash unless your games are always making front pages and are part of a series.
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In other words, if your name is Matt Roszak. But thanks for the overview on that.
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You said in the performance section (pages 101-102) that, "Users who did change the [quality] settings however, most often chose selected the lowest setting, suggesting that particularly poor performance must be needed to prompt this." Which probably isn't true, because I (and probably many others) just changed it to the lowest setting because I personally could care less about how it looks and want the game to be working as fast as possible. Just saying so that you don't think everyone else believes 26 fps is slow.
Overall I liked your dissertation though. Very accurate for the most part. Good Job.
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Loaded instantly for me, then I saw "1/117" on the page counter.
Then I felt a part of me that wished that it didn't load. D:
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After seriously reading it thoroughly, I can see one difference between our dissertations: how one refer oneself. In yours, you can say "you", but in mine I had to refer myself in 3rd person view. Ok, so that's not important. What's important is my 2-word comment on your dissertation: VERY DETAILED. But that's the good thing. A dissertation has gotta explain everything to show that you know what you're looking for. And it gives a good "behind the scenes" feeling about Adventure Story too. New and budding game creators/developers can definitely learn from this treasure of information.
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Ah, dissertation. Quite a whole load of research. But there's only thing that sets our dissertations apart... And that is, I'm not allowed to use wikipedia. Mainly because wikipedia also cites from other places to compile all their information together. It's true! So I had to google my information up! I can't comment on this yet because I'm still reading it but I will when I'm done.
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That was actually an exciting read. But then again this is coming from a History grad who just consumes any legible material put in front of him >>;
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It was interesting to see the iterative (and interactive!) process of balancing the game and giving new options for the player. It was also nice to see that you took the criticism seriously and plan to make a sequel that can cover the faults.
I hope you can keep making good quality games
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It is then time to break out the ultimate resolution... Internet explorer.
God why.
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i think you have to download it
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I have always wanted to make flash games online. I have made several sketches of possible games, but I did not have the knowledge or classes in order to bring those ideas into existance. Thanks to this, at least one of the two is solved.
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Read the whole thing - actually feel a bit wiser.
Now I gotta go to sleep and go back to studying for my exams (which have nothing to do with any kind of games, I assure you...)
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