Mindjolt

Here's the MindJolt extension that Stephen made for me.

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It's a little flaky when it comes to the score submit, but it should work well enough to submit your game to Mindjolt.
For example, here's the game I made that was sponsored by Mindjolt: http://www.mindjolt.com/ball-bricker-3d.html

Anyway, be sure to set your flash version to 10.0.0.0 in your application, or the extension may not work properly.
Also included is an example of how to sitelock to the Mindjolt website.

Thanks for sharing :D Also, that game looks awesome, I really like the 3D effect :O

Thanks!

Thanks guys! I played around with it, but I couldn't get it to display a pregame ad. I'm wondering if it's because I'm in Taiwan and there weren't any ads for this region? I submitted it for testing, but I didn't have scores implemented, so I guess I need to do that first since mindjolt requires scored games. Ayayay.

The way I implemented the pregame ad was to make a preloader (application), Include the mindjolt extension, and have - start of frame: connnect with game ID, show pregame Ad.
Of course, make sure to set your flash version to 10.0.0.0 in both the game and preloader.

Also, this extension seems really flaky, and may not actually seem like it's working on your computer. For me, I saw nothing: no pregame ad, no highscore on my PC until the game was actually running on mindjolt's website.

Is this worth doing for older games? What sort of ad rev do you get from there?

Steve

I got it to work. A few things that people should know:

First, Mindjolt's dev area is all messed up and your games' frames will get reset by there API and this is a known bug in the developer area that will not occur in the player area. I had the best luck testing with Google Chrome and the worst with Firefox.

You don't need to use a preloader: Just include the "Connect with Game ID" the "Show PreGame Ad" at "Start of Frame".

When you submit the score, make sure to connect with your game ID again before submitting the score.

Also, the mindjolt api for pregame ad can be called from any frame as long as it's the first thing called in the frame.

Thanks for this! Should I donate some money somewhere with Paypal? I feel like I should.

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Is this worth doing for older games? What sort of ad rev do you get from there?

Steve

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It depends on the type of game that you have. An action-oriented score game will do better there than my dressups... Some people make most of their Flash revenue here based on the forum posts I've read.

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Originally Posted by redpandagames

I got it to work. A few things that people should know:

First, Mindjolt's dev area is all messed up and your games' frames will get reset by there API and this is a known bug in the developer area that will not occur in the player area. I had the best luck testing with Google Chrome and the worst with Firefox.

You don't need to use a preloader: Just include the "Connect with Game ID" the "Show PreGame Ad" at "Start of Frame".

When you submit the score, make sure to connect with your game ID again before submitting the score.

Also, the mindjolt api for pregame ad can be called from any frame as long as it's the first thing called in the frame.

Thanks for this! Should I donate some money somewhere with Paypal? I feel like I should.

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Thanks for the detailed information. As you mentioned, Mindjolt's dev area is very unorganized and buggy.
You don't have to donate, it's my job to make the users happy, but if you want to you can click on Extensions in my signature and donate from there. :)

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Originally Posted by Pineapple

Here's the MindJolt extension that Stephen made for me.

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It's a little flaky when it comes to the score submit, but it should work well enough to submit your game to Mindjolt.
For example, here's the game I made that was sponsored by Mindjolt: http://www.mindjolt.com/ball-bricker-3d.html

Anyway, be sure to set your flash version to 10.0.0.0 in your application, or the extension may not work properly.
Also included is an example of how to sitelock to the Mindjolt website.

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By the way, I don't think that your sitelock code is going to work. I tried using it on a few different sites, but it doesn't accept the subdomains. Also, mindjolt has an additional domain with a really strange name that it uses, so I don't think your code will work there. I could be doing something wrong, but I couldn't get it to work.

Well, it worked well enough for Mindjolt to accept my game and pay me for the sponsorship deal.

How did you guys get the submit score for this to work? It recognizes and loads the API but I have tried everything and when I test the game on Mindjolts page it never register a score sent:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4047131/MyPublic/a.PNG

The sitelock also does not work on the test site so I had to remove it.

Anyone? I have tried with another game now and I just cant get the site to register a score being sent.. :/

bump.

I'll take a look.

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I'll take a look.

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Thanks Stephen! : )

Any news or should I give up this? :/

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Any news or should I give up this? :/

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It's probably not you. The developer's area of Mindjolt is a complete mess. Sometimes your game will work in Firefox, but not Internet Explorer and vice versa. Just submit the game anyway, and they will take a look at it for you. You may need to send them an e-mail and follow up.

I would like to point out that it's not an MMF2 issue. A lot of non MMF2 users complain about Minjolt's test area in other forums.

Having submitted a few different games myself, I know it's a real pain.

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Originally Posted by redpandagames

It's probably not you. The developer's area of Mindjolt is a complete mess. Sometimes your game will work in Firefox, but not Internet Explorer and vice versa. Just submit the game anyway, and they will take a look at it for you. You may need to send them an e-mail and follow up.

I would like to point out that it's not an MMF2 issue. A lot of non MMF2 users complain about Minjolt's test area in other forums.

Having submitted a few different games myself, I know it's a real pain.

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Hmm, games have to be approved by Mindjolt to go up on the site. I have emailed them about them testing to see if the score is recognized but it seem nothing is registered on their end either :/
"Unfortunately, the game still didn't submit score on our end.

We unfortunately can't offer direct engineering support at the present time, however, I can provide a really fantastic document for testing the game on our Live environment. This will hopefully help you diagnose any issues causing problems with the score submission"

I tried to search for other people with similair problem, but I could not find any? I did find some that got an error but that seem to be more with inputing wrong code in AS3. For me the score testing never changes from "waiting". The api loads though so there is something strange there :/ What games have you submitted and did the score change from "waiting" when you tested it?

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Originally Posted by Outcast

Hmm, games have to be approved by Mindjolt to go up on the site. I have emailed them about them testing to see if the score is recognized but it seem nothing is registered on their end either :/
"Unfortunately, the game still didn't submit score on our end.

We unfortunately can't offer direct engineering support at the present time, however, I can provide a really fantastic document for testing the game on our Live environment. This will hopefully help you diagnose any issues causing problems with the score submission"

I tried to search for other people with similair problem, but I could not find any? I did find some that got an error but that seem to be more with inputing wrong code in AS3. For me the score testing never changes from "waiting". The api loads though so there is something strange there :/ What games have you submitted and did the score change from "waiting" when you tested it?

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I can't remember what I submitted. One was a dress up and the other was a shooter, but neither of them ended up getting picked up, I think. However, they did pass testing.

The trick is that their dev area will restart the frames of your application before they gets a chance to connect and submit. I just checked my logic and I just used at the start of application:

start of frame ----> connect to mindjolt, then submit score (even though the score is nothing.)

It doesn't matter that you won't have anything to submit, but this should help to force you through the approval process if nobody will talk to you. When the player plays the game, they will have a chance to submit the score where they are actually supposed to.

Also, try different browsers. Your game in Mindjolt's dev testing area will play different in all of them. Trust me, their process is horrid. Well, I guess you've found that out the hard way.

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Originally Posted by redpandagames

I can't remember what I submitted. One was a dress up and the other was a shooter, but neither of them ended up getting picked up, I think. However, they did pass testing.

The trick is that their dev area will restart the frames of your application before they gets a chance to connect and submit. I just checked my logic and I just used at the start of application:

start of frame ----> connect to mindjolt, then submit score (even though the score is nothing.)

It doesn't matter that you won't have anything to submit, but this should help to force you through the approval process if nobody will talk to you. When the player plays the game, they will have a chance to submit the score where they are actually supposed to.

Also, try different browsers. Your game in Mindjolt's dev testing area will play different in all of them. Trust me, their process is horrid. Well, I guess you've found that out the hard way.

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Sorry but I don't follow, how do you mean it restarts the frames?