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Tedium wrote:
3 Then jump down (while recording) to the block three down and three to the right from your starting position

I don't understand what you mean, 3 what?

@leovilok : You should add some space around you levels, it's displeasant to be so near the edge of the window, and when the shadow is on the top shadow block, we can't see its position, it's inconvenient.

Statistics: Posted by MCMic — Today, 18:56

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Hello kripken,

The web port also crashes Firefox for me, I though this was because of an older version of FF (11.0).
But recently I updated Firefox to version 12.0 and it still crashes, while on a different machine runs fine (also FF 12.0).

So after some more testing I think the web port crashes when using a 64-bit version of FF.
The machine it worked on was running 32-bit openSUSE and FF 12.0.
On my 64-bit system I downloaded a 32-bit FF binary and it worked flawless.

Hope you will be able to fix this.

Statistics: Posted by Edward_Lii — Today, 17:35

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Hello all,

More good news, levelpacks can now be translated as well.
I've added a .pot file for the tutorial and the default levelpack, everything can be translated except the title of the levelpack.

A python script is in the latest svn (r. 323) and can be used to extract translatable strings from a levelpack.
It isn't perfect since it doesn't parse the file but tries to detect a key=value line by line.
If it finds one it will check the key against a list with keys that are translatable.
This means that the same text twice won't work properly.

Statistics: Posted by Edward_Lii — Today, 17:29

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MCMic wrote:
A lot of useless stuff in perspective, including the shadow.

The Shadow is not useless anymore I think (update the levelpack and say me if it's still useless).

Tedium wrote:
1 Tab once, it's easier that way.
2 Put your shadow on the highest stair on the top left, without leaving your starting block.
3 Then jump down (while recording) to the block three down and three to the right from your starting position. Hopefully your shadow will land on the normal block right of the starting block. You might need to stop the mimic to prevent your shadow from falling of.
4 Then jump 1 down and 1 to the right followed by another small jump to the right. Activate this recording when the time is right, your shadow has to stand on a shadow block that is being flown over by spikes ! The second small jump will land him on the normal block next to the exit.
5 Get your shadow above the exit. Let him walk the stairs.
6 Jump to the swap and use it. Watch out for spikes.

I don't do it exactly that way but it seems to work , I think there are multiple solutions in Pattern (not easy ones though )

PS : I got killed in replay mode ! with even the "press r to restart message' ! (and pressing r won't restart the game)
edit: new recording : it's working.

Statistics: Posted by leovilok — Yesterday, 21:48

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MCMic wrote:
PS : Now I'm stuck at pattern…

I got stuck there too .

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1 Tab once, it's easier that way.
2 Put your shadow on the highest stair on the top left, without leaving your starting block.
3 Then jump down (while recording) to the block three down and three to the right from your starting position. Hopefully your shadow will land on the normal block right of the starting block. You might need to stop the mimic to prevent your shadow from falling of.
4 Then jump 1 down and 1 to the right followed by another small jump to the right. Activate this recording when the time is right, your shadow has to stand on a shadow block that is being flown over by spikes ! The second small jump will land him on the normal block next to the exit.
5 Get your shadow above the exit. Let him walk the stairs.
6 Jump to the swap and use it. Watch out for spikes.

See the attachment for my attempt .

Statistics: Posted by Tedium — 57 minutes ago

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Hello all,

odamite wrote:
EDIT: I know what is causing it:
Line 287 (might not be exactly) in LevelPlaySelect.cpp
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1 letter changed. Fixed, but I'm not sure can I commit it now or not...

It's fixed in the latest revision (321), thanks for not committing it.

Statistics: Posted by Edward_Lii — 25 minutes ago

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Edward_Lii wrote:
You can try to remove the zip from the tmp cache (~/.cache/meandmyshadow/tmp/).

Doesn't work better.

Edward_Lii wrote:
I've updated the addon, you can update using the in-game addon manager.

Cool ... working!

Statistics: Posted by leovilok — 59 minutes ago

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Hello Tedium,

I see the bug and I'm not sure what is causing it. And I'm not quite sure what is version 0.3-2.4... I'm trying to see what's causing this and I'm sure Edward_Lii can help with it.

I love the new icons and I'm happy that I've been the inspiration for you. It's quite funny because I created the mockups very fast and I was too lazy to find the real icons there. But good work and lets see will we start using them.

Statistics: Posted by odamite — 9 minutes ago

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Hello leovilok,

leovilok wrote:
It extracts well with ark ...
I tried again in M&MS and the extraction seem to have been stopped at a close level (close to what I got last time).

Not sure what is causing this, it works fine for me.
Do others have this problem?
You can try to remove the zip from the tmp cache (~/.cache/meandmyshadow/tmp/).

leovilok wrote:
There are also fast ways in level 5 "Breaking" (but this one is difficut to do or to fix so I keep it), and maybe in level 1 (but I didn't managed to do it so I think that's OK )

I've updated the addon, you can update using the in-game addon manager.

Thanks again for making this levelpack.

Statistics: Posted by Edward_Lii — 9 minutes ago

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Edward_Lii wrote:
What if you download it from here and extract it to see if those files are also corrupted:
http://meandmyshadow.sourceforge.net/ga ... Castle.zip

It extracts well with ark ...
I tried again in M&MS and the extraction seem to have been stopped at a close level (close to what I got last time).

MCMic wrote:
There seems to be a lot of useless elements in these levels that are just here to mess with you…

->Level 1 : I don't see that much useless elements (but those used for symmetry : we are in the geometry part after all )
->Level 2 : Yes, some parts are useless, to keep the Perspective concept (I hope the 3d cubes are still visible, isn't it?), but it's still too easy (you can finish it in less tan 10 seconds) so here is the new version : 3d.txt
->Level 3 : it's the worst I made I may remove it if everybody find it really bad ...

There is also a way to cheat I want to remove in the Columns level, here is the new file : columns.txt
There are also fast ways in level 5 "Breaking" (but this one is difficut to do or to fix so I keep it), and maybe in level 1 (but I didn't managed to do it so I think that's OK )

Statistics: Posted by leovilok — 17 minutes ago

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The replay button (background and icon) of the first level of a levelpack doesn't appear when you select it .
The actual button still works though.

Replaybug.png
As you can see I'm trying out new "inky" icons inspired by odamite's translation mock-ups. See the attachment. Feedback is welcome.

Statistics: Posted by Tedium — 28 minutes ago

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Hello all,

acme_pjz wrote:
As for the new feature, I have an idea which is a collectable item which can stop the time (stopping moving blocks and the shadow), similar to a game I had previously played: http://www.miniclip.com/games/chronotron/

odamite wrote:
After reading this I got a quite nice idea in my opinion. What if in some levels the shadow movement was actually reversed. This would give more challenge to game. Also shadow's (or player's) gravity could be turned up-side-down. And there could be some trigger for it too. These could create some interesting puzzles.

These are all good ideas and can be used to create more interesting/challenging puzzles.
But I think we should be careful with adding new stuff just like odamite said.

One option would be to implement a very flexible scripting language that is capable of such things.
But that will almost certainly make it harder to understand some levels if for example the gravity is lower.
Take for example XMoto, some levels auto-kill you when using your right wheel without saying so.

Statistics: Posted by Edward_Lii — 8 minutes ago

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Hello MCMic,

MCMic wrote:
I did not managed to finish the first one yet.

Tip: When the level starts press Tab to see a few buttons that are otherwise out of sight.

MCMic wrote:
It really convince me that theme and levepacks should be linked :P

Yeah, but there's a problem with that.
Bundling them in one zip would mean that it if other packs also use this theme it will be downloaded multiple times.
But if we separate them there needs to be some sort of dependency system, which will require a lot of work.
Perhaps when we start working on the new addon system we can built in such a system.

Statistics: Posted by Edward_Lii — 11 minutes ago

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Hello,

After reading this I got a quite nice idea in my opinion. What if in some levels the shadow movement was actually reversed. This would give more challenge to game. Also shadow's (or player's) gravity could be turned up-side-down. And there could be some trigger for it too. These could create some interesting puzzles.

My only concern about this is the effect on player's learning curve. We don't want to "bloat" the game with too many features. Now the game has a nice and simple idea and gameplay. Maybe it's best to keep it that way...

Statistics: Posted by odamite — Today, 15:08

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