JACKLAND Development

Hello randoms!

2009-08-03T03:43:00.002+03:00

As some of you, well probably no one, but anyway, may have noticed, I didn't add my game up for the Assembly '09's GameDev combo. This is due to my lack of time and motivation... Dunno, I might publish it at Assembly '10 or then again I just might publish it when I feel like it.

Not getting any comments here, so I have no obligation to provide you guys with updates ;)

Windows 7 (Beta 64bit Ultimate) Installation

2009-07-06T14:08:00.005+03:00

(I haven't been working too much on my game atm, just did a small bugfix, but won't post a new exe until I have something more concrete)

Anyway, for those who are having one of the various problems installing the Windows 7 beta, I thought I'd write (USING MY CLEAN INSTALL OF WIN7) my account on what went wrong during the installation and how I overcame them.

For many a user before me, and me being included in those users, the Win7 Installation freezes at "Completing Installation..." I read a bunch of stuff on the oh-so-great internets and this is what finally fixed it for me (dunno which of these were really necessary, so just typing everything I did):

- Disabling everything you can afford to in your bios (USB/AUDIO/ETC).
- During the first boot (after the first part of the installation) remove your INSTALL CD, EVERY USB/PS2 DEVICE AND TURN OFF YOUR MONITOR

For me, this helped me past the "Completing installation" freeze, but don't worry, we still have battles ahead of us!

Now you'll be stuck on a screen where you can input your user/computername without any input devices. So restart [PRESSING F8 AND CHOOSING 640x480 (VGA) mode, you'll thank me later] your computer connecting your mouse/keyboard.

After I inputted my username ETC and my CD-key, Mister Seven got stuck at the "Preparing your desktop" phase. This is where the above VGA mode came in handy and let me to my desktop. There. Clean install. Yet, there were problems to be faced.

If you're using ATI, like me, you might have some problems installing CCC (i.e. crashing during the installation). What I did is, I downloaded the Display Driver and CCC separately and installed the DD first, rebooted, and then installed CCC without crashing. Ah, one obstacle remaining.

Almost instantly after I had all my problems fixed and installed my updates, I started having random system crashing "YEAH! TY TY MS LOLI-CHAN-KAWAII-DES?!?)"#!". This is what fixed it for me:

Open Run... (Windows+R) and Run (pun intended?) it as an administrator. Insert this:

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions /va /f

(Found it with some random googling, not sure who was the original author of this fix, but a google search would perhaps give credits to the original wise person.)

So there. Hopefully my installation experiences help someone out on the intrawebs as the intrawebs helped me.

So there, now my Win7 is working perfectly (with updates).

EDIT: For the record, I'm still using Beta Build 7000, but I'm planning on upgrading soon.

New version appears!

2009-06-11T14:31:00.005+03:00

Check the latest version of the engine, v.1341 ->

The main new feature is a pistol. :3

Edit: ASDADASDAS.... Noticed a bug.

Edit: Bug fixed.

Edit: 2nd simple bug found, to be fixed.

A new game in development.

2009-06-09T15:38:00.000+03:00

Hello blog readers!

I've started developing a game, which with good luck I would like to present at the upcoming Assembly Summer '09 Lan Party. I would like to note, that the file availabe at the moment is only a preview of the game engine, so it's just Jack walking around and dancing a bit. It also already has some music and sounds and two different lighting modes (full and a lamp).

My original plan was to make a low-res pixel web comic, but somehow the idea mutated into a game. :)

If anyone is interested, the programs I use at the moment are:

Gamemaker 7: Engine / Script

Paint.NET: Graphics

Music: Musagi

SoundFX: SFXR

Critique, comments and praise are always welcome!

PS: I have a thread going about this at the Pixel Joint forums:

http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8480