Crystal Towers 2 - Flash demo

[davidn]

Yes, I said that it wasn't over yet. But today, I spent my time finally cutting down the first level of Crystal Towers 2 to make it suitable for uploading as a Flash demo as an advert for the full game. That meant replacing the music system (which handled MODs), anything that ever accessed the hard drive (which was everything), and a couple of graphical extensions which don't have Flash equivalents (which I'd happened to use extensively).

It just shows the first level and the types of challenges that you can expect later in the game, along with hopefully directing some traffic back to the full game - you can now play it on Newgrounds.

Tomorrow I am not going to work on anything at all.

Comments

[davidn]

That's a very neat solution - once again, the Flex framework this is going into doesn't let me in to modifying it at that level, but I can ask how the framework handles frame skipping (if at all) at the moment.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't need its permission as long as you can read the system time accurately! (Err.. assuming that all your logic stems from a single call, which now that I think about it, may not be how clickstuff works..! Phooey..)

But yeah, at the very least, it would probably be easy enough for THEM to implement as a configurable option somewhere :)

[davidn]

Yes, it does (presumably) extend from a single "doLogic()" call, but when to actually execute that is out of my hands - it's what's in that main loop that you set up. In the iPhone runtime you have access to all of this because it sets it up as an XCode project instead of a compiled SWF, which would be fantastic if XCode weren't quite so obtuse.