[F9] Funnytowers - First AS3 multiplayer game

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08-21-2007, 03:11 PM
Funnytowers

[F9] Funnytowers - First AS3 multiplayer game

Hi there !

We from funnytowers would like to present you with Funnytowers, possibly the first AS3 multiplayer game.

This game was made using advanced technology like we use our own C++ server, to manage our connections from members that are in the multiplayer mode, through a remote port.

So we are very proud of this game.. However, we are having problems with some clients that are using the some kind of flash player we dont properly recognize. So if you have trouble playing the game, please let us know here.

Some versions of flash player v9 seems not to fully accept AS3. Because this problem seems to occur at older versions of flash player 9.

Does anyone knows about this problem?? Every comment or critiq is welcome.

Funnytowers
08-21-2007, 03:32 PM
renderhjs

hmm gambling industry :|
the cards look like they have a tinted square in them is that on purpose? or something to be fixed yet?
At least from the visual technology it doesn´t look like it would require AS3- can´t judege the rest as I never played card games before.

btw. who is we?
08-21-2007, 04:21 PM
Cimmerian

There is no we
08-21-2007, 04:35 PM
phreax

I thought it was a pretty fun game! I only tried the single player version though!

Render, the tinted square is intentional. The left side shows the number and the suit. The tinted square contains the the pattern to visualize the number and suit :)
08-22-2007, 05:04 AM
Funnytowers

Yes the tinted square was done on purpose, and 'we' are the developers behind funnytowers :)

Also the main reason that we advanced to AS3, is that AS3 has a much cleaner interface, and is easier to program.

We hope you understand that this game is a pure skill game and that several aspects are very unique to flash.

Thank you for looking at it.
08-22-2007, 05:16 AM
swak

It does not work in firefox. It's like I don't have javascript enabled. Hmm, did you on purpose block people who are blocking adds? That's the problem actually. Disabled my add blocker then it loaded. :(
08-22-2007, 05:42 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by swak

It does not work in firefox. It's like I don't have javascript enabled. Hmm, did you on purpose block people who are blocking adds? That's the problem actually. Disabled my add blocker then it loaded. :(

We don't know how your add blocker works but it seems that it recognizes our flash detection script as an add. We don't have any script which blocks you on purpose. Maybe there is some way to allow this?
08-22-2007, 05:52 AM
swak

I'm using adblock plus. @@http://www.funnytowers.com/javascript.php?affiliate=1&refresh=20070822
I believe that it has to do with that. Apparently adblock filters stuff that has: "?affiliate"
08-22-2007, 06:06 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by swak

I'm using adblock plus. @@http://www.funnytowers.com/javascript.php?affiliate=1&refresh=20070822
I believe that it has to do with that. Apparently adblock filters stuff that has: "?affiliate"

Thats weird, the url being bloked is indeed our javascript detection, but why it adds affiliate to the url is still unknown to us, this could be the default (the client). Anyway we installed adblock plus and are looking at the problem now. Thank you for showing :)
08-22-2007, 06:08 AM
swak

No prob. :thumbsup:
08-22-2007, 06:08 AM
Cortana

Im using Firefox and when I click on the top left link it just directs me back to the main page. I want to play this but Im not going to change any of my settings or use IE just for this game...
08-22-2007, 06:15 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cortana

Im using Firefox and when I click on the top left link it just directs me back to the main page. I want to play this but Im not going to change any of my settings or use IE just for this game...

Dont worry.. the game actually works better in firefox than in IE (because of the poor player integration). What do you mean with the top left link? is it a link in the game, or do you mean this link?
08-22-2007, 06:29 AM
Funnytowers

We figured it out. You are probably looking at the flash detection page. This means you don't have javascript enabled or don't have flash player 9 or higher. These are the only 2 reasons why the game could not work. Please let us kow if there are any other problems. Thank you
08-22-2007, 06:30 AM
swak

Believe me. It IS the adblock. At least for me. If I disable it then refresh then it loads fine.
08-22-2007, 06:39 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by swak

Believe me. It IS the adblock. At least for me. If I disable it then refresh then it loads fine.

Yes we are still working on the add block but we don't have a mac and can't test it that easy. If you have problems with the javascript you can also try to play the game at http://www.funytowers.com/flash/funnytowers.swf
But than the flash detection is disabled. If the game acts strange from the start you don't have flash player 9.
08-22-2007, 07:10 AM
Cortana

Yep, adblock is definitely the culprit - I disabled it and the page worked perfectly :)
08-22-2007, 07:20 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cortana

Yep, adblock is definitely the culprit - I disabled it and the page worked perfectly :)

Thank you too for explaining.. We are trying right now to find a way around this :)
08-22-2007, 07:30 AM
VENGEANCE MX

I'm using Safari. It complains that I either don't have JavaScript enabled (except I do), or that I don't have Flash Player 9.0 or higher.

Now, this, too, strikes me as unlikely, seeing as I have version 9,0,60,184, which is fairly recent (ie, just released in the Adobe Labs last night).

Any chance you could just make a button that says "I am sure that I have Flash Player 9, let me play"?

Also, checking the source code, I'm seeing a call to some 'vbscript' file. Only Windows can run Visual Basic script.
08-22-2007, 07:59 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by VENGEANCE MX

I'm using Safari. It complains that I either don't have JavaScript enabled (except I do), or that I don't have Flash Player 9.0 or higher.

Now, this, too, strikes me as unlikely, seeing as I have version 9,0,60,184, which is fairly recent (ie, just released in the Adobe Labs last night).

Any chance you could just make a button that says "I am sure that I have Flash Player 9, let me play"?

Also, checking the source code, I'm seeing a call to some 'vbscript' file. Only Windows can run Visual Basic script.

Done, thank you.
08-22-2007, 08:04 AM
Cortana

Excellent suggestion! Now I can play and leave Adblock on :)
08-22-2007, 08:21 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by VENGEANCE MX

I'm using Safari. It complains that I either don't have JavaScript enabled (except I do), or that I don't have Flash Player 9.0 or higher.

:confused: We just downloaded the new version of Safari for pc and the game works.

And ... the vb script is only used in internet explorer. For other browsers the detection is in javascript.
08-22-2007, 08:22 AM
VENGEANCE MX

Much better. Now... you might want to consider putting this line of script at the start of your swf somewhere:

Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";

That way it won't stretch the swf to fill the window (which slows things down a lot, and makes bitmaps become very blurry).
08-22-2007, 08:36 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by VENGEANCE MX

Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";

Sorry, we like to play the game fullscreen sometimes and some game sites put the game in a little 640 box so we can't change the size in the swf file. But we just added a page http://www.funnytowers.com/nodetect.php That should solve the problem.
08-22-2007, 09:27 AM
VENGEANCE MX

Ah yes, much better. :)
08-22-2007, 01:45 PM
swak

I have no problems here.
08-22-2007, 02:12 PM
Funnytowers

We finaly found the problem

We installed all old flash player versions in internet explorer and found that the game bugs in IE with flash version 9.0.28.0.

We found them at
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...4266&sliceId=1
( thats handy to know )

We had to uninstall the flash players and start with the lowest version up.

Version 9.0.16.0 did not install or work at all and version 9.0.28.0 finally recreated the problem.

The game crashes when you let the time run out at the first level.
08-22-2007, 05:24 PM
Funnytowers

Solved problem A stuck at problem B

Thank you for your posts.

We found that you can't create a movieclip which is not preloaded in the first frame in version "9.0.28.0".

So:

lostthegame = new SLostTheGame();
addChild( lostthegame );

is just not there. We switched to cs3 because it gave more errors and this just does not give an error. The movieclip just does not show.

But now we have 2 new problems;

1) Users can't logon, it is a 2 trap rocket, first logon to create a php session and than logon to the xml server thing. The first part seems to happen but the second part ..... it should happen in the response event.

2) All movieclips containing components exploded after the game. I'm removing and adding movieclips from and to the display list all the time, the only additional thing is that I force a gc at the moment the game starts.

We think we have to skip version "9.0.28.0" and extend the version detection to warn users. We just got into some debug horror and any change we test in an other version could break version "9.0.28.0" compatibility.
08-22-2007, 06:14 PM
swak

lol that's insane :D
08-22-2007, 06:42 PM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by swak

lol that's insane :D

:( This is absolutely not "Funny". But it's around midnight here and we have to sleep. We will get back to the debugging hell tomorrow. For now users just get a "You need a flash player version higher than 9.0.28.0" messages.

Tomorrow I will put "Please export your flash registry keys and send us an email" on the page :D
08-23-2007, 09:22 AM
Funnytowers

New ActionScript 3.0 components for Flash CS3 Professional do not function correctly in versions prior to Flash Player 9.0.45.0.

Display objects instantiated by the playhead entering a frame because of a gotoAndStop command (or similar action) incorrectly process actions on frame one. (189490)

EOT
08-23-2007, 10:10 AM
Cortana

Off-topic: Does EOT mean end-of-transmission lol?
08-23-2007, 11:55 AM
Funnytowers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cortana

Off-topic: Does EOT mean end-of-transmission lol?

You know your classics :) .

The topic about the unknown flash player bug is closed; now it is a known flash player bug. :mad:

But we like to have more remarks about the game.

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