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Knocked this up today after failing to find a suitable example.

Left-click and drag to highlight the objects you want to copy (you will need to make sure that you're selection starts on top of an...

I didn't know about folders! I'll be adding that tonight. Will make it much easier!

Good thinking Batman.

I think I'll be handling cutscenes in a separate frame as it will give me a lot more flexibility I think. Although it will make it more difficult as I'll need to re-create a dynamic level in a new...

Hi David,

I just use a spreadsheet to keep track of everything. Try to be as frugal as you can with creating individual active objects. For instance, I've used one single AO for all my tile...

Flash gamers absolutely loathe micro transactions in games, so this would massively hit any potential sponsor's bid.

They can just minimize the browser or leave the game running in a separate tab. There's no way to run a web game in the background.

Upload it to flashgamelicense.com and get it sponsored.

Steve

Hi keehan,

Why would you need to run it in the background? You can't do that with Flash...

Thanks,

Steve

Windows Control object does work I believe. I've used it a few times. There are a few different functions for different things, so have a play with it.

Interestingly the bottom has fallen out of the HTML5 market a bit. Flash is still widely used and adopted but is rubbish on mobile devices.

Have a read of some of the blogs over at FGL.com

Steve

They do, trust me. I've had around 8 games sponsored over at FGL and had this problem every time. Works fine on my PC but not on others.

You'll need an additional exe that launches first and checks for updates before loading the main exe. I did this for my app Aella Mass Emailer: http://aellamassemailer.com.

Steve

Just a quick tip: some browsers will block that from opening if they've got things like popup blocker installed. Try the Flash URL object (I think that's what it's called).

I don't know about 3 yet but Softwarewolf replied to my thread on this matter: http://community.clickteam.com/threads/92623-Amend-frame-size-at-runtime

aha perfect! Thanks :)

Sorry, I meant window size rather than frame.

Can you do this with iOS? I only ask as I would normally do this with the Window Control object in a normal PC application but this option has been greyed out for iOS apps.

I'm making a retro...

A quick couple of questions on upscaling: I'm making retro pixel art game. If I amend the window sizes on the fly and have one set resolution for each aspect ratio, will I get a hit on the...

Thanks very much for all that info Popcorn :) it will come in very handy. Has anyone else got some good tips to share?

Thanks,

Steve

Ah great. Do you get to control the release date at all or is it random?

That's brilliant thanks Popcorn. I wasn't aware of the tool Anders made, so that is really useful!

How easy have you found it to submit the final build to Apple?

Steve

Hi All,

I'm about to start work on my first iOS game and wanted to start a thread where some of you more seasoned veterans can share some hints and tips for us newbies!

Please share anything...

Hi All,

A quick little intro from me, I'm a hobbyist developer that's been creating games for the last 12 years using MMF. I've been focusing on Flash for a while as this had been the most...

Thanks guys. I'll try that.

What sort of a game is it? Will they be coming from the top, bottom or sides?

Anyone? Or can anyone suggest a different 3rd party firewall?

Hi All,

Not sure if anyone else has this problem but every now and then I can't copy and paste events and comments in the events editor in MMF.

I say every now and then as sometimes it does...

Thanks very much guys :)

Hi all,

As the title says, I've just upgraded and wondered whether there are any obvious issues (asides from non-supported extensions not working) that I should be aware of when porting my current...

Thanks Jeff. I don't have my serial number to hand at the minute (at work), so I'll do this tonight.

Steve

Anybody? It's a bit frustrating that I'm hitting a wall of silence and there doesn't appear to be any customer support specific board either...

Hi All,

I've requested an upgrade discount code from MMF 2 Dev to 2.5 3 different times and have had no response (nothing in my spam folder either). I get the automatic response, so I know it's...

Why not have 4 squares sited around the fixed point that become 'activated' when the users finger is dragged across them. That way you could work out clockwise and anti-clockwise. Obviously if the...

Yep still doing this for anyone who wants it.

Cheers,

Steve

Pineapple: doesn't work for my game unfortunately as it totally changes the game play...

Stephen: Did you get a chance to add this? :)

Thanks,

Steve

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

Steve

Good work MJK! :D

Hopefully you got 3 lots of site lock cash Matt :)

Thanks Stephen :)

Steve

Phew! At least it's not just me then!!

Francois?

Hi All,

Has anybody had issues with scrolling in the new update? Just checking it isn't just my game! I have an AO that is set to it's current X position + 2 on an always condition and then...

Hey Stephen,

Did you get a chance to add this feature? I've got a game ready to go but my sponsor's preloader looks awful as it runs way too fast!

Cheers,

Steve

No luck?

Top man!

Yes.

Any chance of sharing or allowing me to contribute to payment?

Cheers,

Steve

Nope. Can't see you'll have any issues IMO.

Steve

Does sound a bit odd tbh. Which Mochi extension are you using the old one or the advanced one?

If I remember correctly... Mochi prevents you showing too many ads within a short space of time. Try waiting 5 mins or so after the first ad is shown.

Steve

I've posted some revenue stats in this thread: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=64779&highlight=cpmstar

They're a little old now though.

Steve

Congrats! :)

Is this fixed now?

Thanks :)

Chaps/Chapesses,

Has anybody looked in to using this service yet? - https://testflightapp.com/

It looks very interesting but mentions about adding in some code. I'm assuming that because the...

Thought I'd release the earnings so far on Cave of No Return which has had a disappointing number of views in my opinion.

Total Impressions = 391,911
eCPM = $0.69
Earnings To Date = $268.59
...

Keep a close eye on the number of active objects too. Think about when you will need them and when you don't and create/destroy them as appropriate.

Steve

Thanks Yves :)

Can't download the dev version? Says page doesn't exit.

Steve

Don't forget this one Jens :)

Steve

+1

Awesome! This should help a lot with debugging!

Thanks Jens :)

Steve

Any more updates Stephen? :)

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=241505&page=4

StephenL has created an extension to embed an swf. You can't control the speed at the moment though. Make sure...

Thanks Matt.

Good idea on the string. Trouble is I might have up to a thousand objects (I'll be loading/unloading them on the fly). Might have a word with the super Matt Esch to see if he can come...

Hey Guys,

Is there any object where I could do this? So that the array with all the objects and positions etc gets built with the SWF? I know that the Playtomic extension allows you to do this and...

Awesome :)

Have you had any more luck with this Jens? As I said before, I'm very keen on trying out the scaling part. That will save me a lot of work!

Thanks,

Steve

Sometimes this happens on the first load for me. A simple refresh clears it.

Steve

Sometimes an interlevel ad won't appear as not enough time has elapsed for it to be shown.

Steve

Thanks Stephen, that'll help a lot :)

The only other thing I found was the resizing issue mentioned previously.

Great extension :)

Steve

Stephen - would it be possible to add an option to set the framerate for the swf? I only ask as most Flash files seem to use 20 or 24 FPS and most of my games are set to 60 so it makes the swf files...

Stephen,

Just trying to work this out. How do I tell the extension where the swf is that I want to embed? I've got the dialogue box asking for the Binary URL and I've tried setting it to the path...

Thanks Jens :)

Steve

Will do :)

Is there a way to test micro-transactions to make sure they work before going live? Sorry not at my own PC :(

Cheers,

Steve

Hey Jens,

Do micro-transactions work fine with this extension? Looking to add them in to my next project :)

Thanks,

Steve

I know this is an old topic, but thought that I'd post some numbers so that people can compare CPMStar to Mochi.

Plough The Skies eCPM - $0.77
Cave of No Return eCPM - $0.67

Plough The Skies...

Hehehe typical me!

Has the Get Object been ported then? Must have missed that!

Steve

Thanks MJK :)

Steve

Hmmm that's what I thought. For some reason I can't see anything in the dev center about it.

Thanks :)

Hey All,

Does anybody know the minimum amount you can charge per micro transaction?

Thanks,

Steve

This is a tough one. How not to cripple your app, especially if it isn't level based or anything... I'll have to keep all this in mind.

Found this: http://developers.kongregate.com/docs/single-player/stats and this http://developers.kongregate.com/docs/single-player/statistics-api-tips

They call them Statistics for some reason and...

Thanks Olivier. I think that this is where the problem lies. Open URL requests are being blocked when a swf file is not being run on the domain that it is stored on. In the case of Newgrounds their...

Olivier: I think it may work there as the file isn't hosted on uploads.ungrounded.net like it is on the main site. At least I don't think it is... could you test that?

Opening links is now working...

Hey Jeff. The link is here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/577594. It's still up on the front page now. It isn't one of my games, it's actually one that I converted and got sponsored for a...

Francois,

Did you get around to checking this? It's causing real problems for me. A game I converted got front-paged on Newgrounds and ofcourse none of clicks on the More Games buttons is working!...

Jens,

Have you managed to finish this one off? Achievements would be really really useful!

Thanks,

Steve

Looking forward to this Jens, especially the scaling part!

Steve

Keith,

How do you set the app to require a front-facing camera? Is it set when you upload the app to the appstore?

Thanks,

Steve

I know, I'm just terrible with nerves when I give presentations. Perhaps I'll do a blog post or something.

Started dropping down to 58 FPS with 1,200 objects for me. Impressive.

Steve

Naked zombie chicks? **downloads**

I was thinking of giving a talk on my experiences with the Flash runtime/market and give out some details of how much we've made using it but I hate giving presentations :(

Perhaps I'll force...

Mine happens on my iPad 2. I don't really run the simulator.

Steve

Keith,

What sort of install numbers have you had for your free apps? An idea on the average ecpm? I know it will fluctuate a lot depending on which countries your app becomes popular in!
...

I might tidy it up and comment it first.

Steve

Attached. This is really basic though! It grabs the X, Y and Z values at the start and then sets the other counters to the base value minus the current values. It's just what I used to get a handle...

DEKE15: It looks like you're trying to check if the game is running on clickteam.com. You obviously can't upload games here to test it. I'd recommend uploading it to FGL to test it out (so test your...

Yep, you can still choose whether to accept or reject the offer. Although worth pointing out that I've never had one of those offers.

Was good to see your presentation Luke. Didn't realise that MMF was being used as a game design tool at uni's :)

Nice games too btw.

Steve

Chaps,

Just wanted to say I had a great day yesterday and was good to meet a lot of you (although there were too many people to say hello to everyone!).

Well done to the guys who arranged...

Kong and NG are the only problem as far as I can tell.

Steve

You'll need an extension made specifically to do that I'm afraid.

Great news Jens :D

Great stuff! Thanks Stephen :D

Looking forward to trying this out :)

Will it bundle the the swf in to the MMF generated SWF so there's no external files?

Steve

Afraid not Arthur. Are you trying to implement a sponsor's API?

Steve

Hi Francois,

It's set to New Window. The strange thing is that it works when not on either of those 2 sites!

Thanks,

Steve

It'd be great if it could be called at will! I've had an intro sequence made for me and the SWF file is just 98kb's but recreating it in MMF adds 5 mb's!

Steve

Nope. Just using the normal Flash object :(

Hi Olivier,

Yes it's a left click on object event and it's set as the first action. Very strange. It's the new build 252 and it didn't happen in the previous build.

Steve

Hi All,

Not sure if anybody else is having this problem... when I upload to NewGrounds or Kongregate all my outbound links are blocked and won't open. Although the same SWF opens links fine on...

Looking forward to trying this out StephenL :)

Steve

Are you using new window or current window?

Steve

Francois: Would you be able to take a look at this?

Thanks,

Steve

+1!

No. It's definitely half a second.

Has anyone else had a problem with touches on the iPad being registered really slowly? I tap a fire button or click elsewhere to register a left mouse click and it takes around half a second for it...

Thanks Jeff :)

Steve

Huh? I can't see it?

Steve

You can't implement sponsors API's at the moment i'm afraid Disthron. Unless you ask one of the extension developers to create an extension just for you.

You can recreate a sponsors preloader in...

Good news :D

Steve

Thanks Andy. For some reason I couldn't see that earlier o_O

Steve

Well done Chris :)

Steve

Hey All,

How would I do this? I have a rocket ship (using built in Spaceship movement) and want the object to rotate left or right when the device is tilted but not detect any forward or backwards...

Jens,

Have you looked at doing the Mindjolt API yet?

Thanks,

Steve

It's an Intel processor. Asked him on eBay and he confirmed.

Steve

Andos: I take it when you're talking about large objects you mean Actives and not things like Quick Backdrops?

Thanks,

Steve

Andos: I take it when you're talking about large objects you mean Actives and not things like Quick Backdrops?

Thanks,

Steve

Thanks Andos. Very useful.

Steve

Thanks Andos. Very useful.

Steve

Mine is getting garbled jumping from frame to frame.

So if we made an iPad app (1024x768) it would automatically get zoomed out? If we did it this way would it affect the running speed on an iPhone for instance?

Thanks,

Steve

I was going to order it this morning but the web page keeps timing out when I click on Checkout! Must be due to the sheer volume of people trying to buy it!

Awesome!

Yeah I know what you mean but the answer is no (unless CT can amend that).

Steve

That's the short answer!

I assume you're trying to add in CPMStar or something similar? What I tend to do is do the normal preloader and then have the first frame of the game showing the ads with...

Agree with Jacob.

Any idea on when the achievements will be added Pharanygitis?

Thanks :)

Steve

No problem JoKa. Good luck!

Steve

I think that the open URL problem in Firefox is fixed for Flash games as well as far as I know. Just wondered if there were any other goodies :)

Steve

Hi Francois,

Could you release some details about what will be in the next build?

Thanks,

Steve

Well it's a catch-22 situation. If you want CPMStar you HAVE to have a sponsor. The sponsor gets 15% whatever. You can't reallocate that anywhere or turn it off.

If CPMStar are going to allow me...

Fano raised a good point to me by PM. I won't be vetting any games that wish to use CPMStar. It's free for you to use, just contact me so I can set it up.

Thanks,

Steve

You don't really need to encrypt your swf files due to the way that MMF generates them. They can't be decompiled by a standard flash decompiler.

To site lock use the Flash object: GetDomain$(...

Don't worry Fano! I think its unfair to compare most people to Hayo!

Just good games with decent graphics Fano :)

I'll ask Looki to provide the extension to anyone who decides to take me up on this offer. Or if he is happy for me to send it I will.

Couple of things I forgot to mention... I said above that...

Sorry Looki! I should have mentioned that you made the extension :(

Would you be able to send me the new version?

Cheers,

Steve

Good to hear Ricky :)

@ Jacob: I think that Mochi would probably not approve it. I haven't tried it but I cant see why they would approve it.

Trouble is that I like to use Mochi's distribution service and to get that you have to agree to it for all your games.

I typically release my CPMStar versions and then 2 weeks later upload it to...

*slips Jeff $10*

A good article on the benefits of CPMStar over Mochi. It's from a sponsors perspective but still some valid points.
...

Hi All,

Just thought i'd let you all know that I've recently been accepted as a sponsor by CPMStar :)

So if anybody wants CPMStar ads in their game rather than Mochi, please let me know and...

Yup as MJK said, just insert it. You don't need any extra events, it just needs to be there.

Steve

You'll need your leaderboard id as well doc.

Sounds like a silly question... but have you tried the Mochi extensions?

Yay!

rudy,

What I do is do not show the CPMStar ads in the preloader (which can sometimes take a few seconds to load and cut in to your display time anyway). Instead I show them in the first frame of...

Nice object Jens. Works fine here.

Thanks,

Steve

Are you running a 64 bit system? I had a problem with the Android installation and had to fiddle with the JAVA_HOME environment variable. This gave me the same error as you when compiling for Flash...

Is there anyway of splitting the game up in to parts? So you'd get 3 games out of the one?

I'd suggest that 15-20mb's might be OK for an RPG game but with that file size you're unlikely to get...

It may only take you 3 minutes to load it but for most users that sort of file will take a mighty long to load!

I'd suggest trying to mess with your bitrates (you'll need to change the frequency...

I've PM'd this to Jamie and he's not responding, so thought i'd post here in case anybody had an idea:-

How much will the tickets be?

Jamie: Is this still being developed? Would love a really simple tutorial showing how to make an extension using some simple Flash code. Would help me immeasurably!

Cheers.

Steve

Oh another bug - the sound still plays even when the device is on mute.

Steve

Week 2!
=========

* Fixed a problem with getting the .apk to build thanks to Yves and Jamie.
* Exported first app and got it up and running on my phone in seconds (yay!)

BUGS
-----------...

Stephen,

Do you have any idea on when this will be released? Just finishing a large game myself.

Steve

Week 1
===========
Have so far spent most of my week trying to get the SDK's installed in running. Have posted my issue here:...

A few of mine are here: http://www.viva-la-revolution.co.uk

Ah right thanks :)

Hi Jens,

Might sound like a daft question, but what would you use this for?

Thanks,

Steve

www.minijuegos.com. They should have a submit page somewhere on there. I think you can indicate the target language on mochi as well.

Steve

Great news Francois! When will the next version be released? This will help a lot of us who are getting our games sponsored!

Thanks,

Steve

Can't say i'm having problems either.

Steve

I've been considering perhaps doing the Flash thing full time for a while now. I've earned a fair bit in the 6 months i've been doing it, but not quite enough to make me think I can do it full time....

Thanks Jamie. Are there any security issues to worry about?

Steve

Oh dear looks like I've got the wrong end of the stick! Has anyone got a copy that will allow access from any domain?

It's for a sponsor and submitting scores to their own highscores database. You could use this for a variety things though like custom tracking of events, notifying players of new versions being...

I can afford to pay $100 towards towards this if anyone can help! Not sure if any other forum members are willing to contribute?

Steve

Get object is sandboxed unless a crossdomain.xml file is uploaded which specifically allows access. Most portals will not go to hassle of doing this and will instead not upload your game.

Hi All,

My proposition is for an extension to communicate with a web page outside of Flash's sandboxing. This must be possible as the Mochi extension and few others don't seem to have trouble with...

Great stuff, thanks Stephen! I can see this working well for things like creating certificates for getting a certain score or rank in a game for example.

Nice work!

An exe version would be...

What Ricky said. Really looking forward to some tutorials!

Steve

I think you'll find it's only Firefox that does and CT haven't provided a fix as yet.

Steve

Looking forward to this Andos :)

If not email me... steve at steveharris dot info

Steve

Flash Game Distribution

Sorry! I'll do this by the end of the week. Feel free to nudge me by PM if I haven't.

Steve

Great news :D

Unfortunately not. Try making a separate thread to see if anyone can help out. Post a link to the API as well if you can (or attach it to the thread).

Steve

You would need to get someone to write an extension for you.

Steve

My game went from 11mb's to 7mb's when doing this.

Too many music files normally hurts my file size. Try turning down the bitrate.

For me it would be a toss-up between Kongregate on Mindjolt. Mindjolt has a huge user base (millions and millions) and won't accept games submitted without their API implemented. You also can't show...

Ah yes I forgot about the Kongregare one. Haven't heard about the Social Gold one... i'll have a look :)

Awesome!

Wow! That's awesome. Can't wait to play with it!

For me there are two great ones that i'd love to see and they are the Mindjolt API and the Playtomic API. I'd be willing to help part-fund some...