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14y ago
Hi there, I won't speak for Joe nor Mark (the color cycling demo was their baby, but I'll pass along the sentiments), but thanks for the kind comments about Effect Games. As far as Gold Cart is concerned, we're working mainly on some short
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itsmin
14y ago
please say I'm not the only person who thought of the "eyePhone" from Futurama.
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17y ago
Hi everyone, We've updated our policies http://bit.ly/4NKGHm so please give them a read, and check here http://bit.ly/7b4yF2 for a comment about an upcoming feature that addresses an additional concern. And thanks again for all the grea
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17y ago
Hi. These are great suggestions! A mobile optimized version of the engine and services are very high on our to do list so you can expect to see something in the near term.
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17y ago
Hi there. You bring up a great point (one that we've thought about ourselves quite a bit). I'd like to mention that we are working on a standalone distribution package for your published games. This package can be deployed to your own serve
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17y ago
To you and all the great commenters on HN, thanks! We're really looking forward to seeing any games you create.
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17y ago
Yes, we currently use Flash for audio as a fallback. We've been working on native audio with mixed results. http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/news/Snow... It is definitely something we're continuing to work on tho. And th
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17y ago
We actually support IE6 as well. It won't perform quite as well as browsers with optimized JS engines, but it should load, run and be playable.
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17y ago
That is a great suggestion! We actually have an option available to the game developer to opt to preload each level - Essentially, they can choose to preload everything at once. There are some performance implications to this tho. In any ca
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17y ago
Hi, which demo were you trying? and what version of Opera and FF?
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17y ago
Hi, we're revising our EULA and privacy policy to be clearer. Also, I'll be posting an article on our site so please watch for that in the coming days. fyi, we provide an embed function for posting a game to your site (via iframe), so copyi
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17y ago
We're updating the EULA and policies to be more open. Once it's up, I'll post a message on the site. The absolute last thing we want to do is keep people from trying Effect out.
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17y ago
Thanks for this! Looking into it.
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17y ago
First off, thanks for the kind words! You shouldn't be seeing a significant difference in performance on IE (6-8). We'll look into the alert boxes, are you in Chrome on Windows? We currently don't charge for use of the services. And, absolu
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17y ago
Hi, again, this is pure JS/DHTML but we are looking at HTML 5, specifically for audio. We go into more detail on our FAQ. http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/docs/Freq...
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17y ago
Hi, currently this is pure JS/DHTML but we are considering Canvas for the future. We go into a little bit more detail in our FAQ. http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/docs/Freq...
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