Castle Paradox

Friend · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 235 Location: California

Hmmm, this reminds me... rinku also complained about the music being static-y, but I didn't gave it much thought since none of the other playtesters reported such thing. I figured his soundcard is wonky or something. I guess I was wrong.

As for the text pausing for a while... well, I think that's the drawback with using GM. It's a complete memory hog. It doesn't really matter how simple the game is, it still requires a semi-decent computer to run. People have complained about this on the forum, but it doesn't look like Overmars is going to do anything about it soon. Try pressing ctrl + alt + del and check the CPU usage Fedora Spade takes. It's pretty crazy. I suspect this also has something to do with the static-y sound.

Orchard,
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Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

I also always get static in any Game Maker game that uses midi. I think it's a problem with the Game Maker, which is why I urged Orchard to use ogg for this game instead of midi (but he wants its dl to be small or something).
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TwinHamster · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:53 am Post subject:

The same static occurred in the First Chapter?
Hmm. I guess I just wasn't paying any attention to the sound when I was playing through it.

Onlyoneinall · **Bug finder** Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 746

I didn't see that two episodes were already released almost over two months ago, but now I have finally had a chance to play it!

As always, excellent work from Friend.

I noticed the static noise too. I figured it was just my soundcard, because ever since I got a new sound card update file thingy, sounds just sounded weirder like that.

But what can I say? Episode one was a good introduction, and Episode two was a lot of fun and took a bit of detective work. I wonder who 4471 is though? When will episode three come out?!
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Friend · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 235 Location: California

I've been working on episode 3 for a while. I think I'm about 60% done with it. By my own estimation, I should be done by December or earlier. Releasing it is another matter though, there's the playtesting and the fact that the game's still missing a couple of tunes.

I don't really know what's causing the scratching. Apparently GM's support for MIDI files is questionable at best. I have resolved to using OGGs for the future cases.
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Friend · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 235 Location: California

Okay, sounds like OGG is not an option either. I ended up using MIDIs again. Anyway, I just uploaded fedora spade episode 3 to http://www.studioeres.com/games/fedora yesterday. It's longer than the second episode and contains two new notable features: the skip button and the Input Keyword gameplay. The skip button should be self-explanatory. As for the other new feature... you will be asked to input names/dates/objects manually during various points of the games. The questions are fairly easy, but they can easily stump you forever if you don't pay attention to the details.

You can find screenshots of the game here:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fedora-spade-death-wears-a-fedora/screenshots
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Artimus Bena · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject:

I am in love with those screenshots orchie Happy

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Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

Wow, Orchie. Wow.
You know I've been one of your biggest fans.
Hope I get to find the time to try out these games.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

These games are really awesome. I hope many adventure and DOS/NES gamers get to check these out.
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Friend · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 235 Location: California

Well, It's been slow these past few days, so I hope more people will check it out. Anyway, I just checked my paypal account over and I think I owe xerian a hug or something. Thanks, man!
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