Cosmic Bugs and Best Friends WEB versions beta...

[Mike Boeh]

Hi all:

Here are IE Only (still making a ff plugin) betas of both Cosmic Bugs and Best Friends web versions:


They're are still some small tweaking things that need to be done, but i would be interested to see how they work on your browsers. Thanks!

[Greg Squire]

Worked fine in my Browser for both games. However the copyright notice on the main screen (at the bottom) in Cosmic Bugs was getting cut off a bit. Looks great! I'd be interested in knowing how you did that, especially with "Best Friends", as my current project is in Blitz3D.

[Indiepath.T]

There is an activeX plugin floating around that lets users download your blitz3d apps and play them in the browser.

I found they both worked well in IE, Best friends did default to the NAG screen and I had to hit the "Maybe Later" button before I could play - When I hit "Space" the thing crashed.

Will you make your technology available to other Blitz Users?

[arcadetown]

Looks good. Still get an IE abort error when try to click the close button within BF, should probably eliminate any embedded close buttons from web versions.

[digriz]

Cosmobots ran fine, although the copyight thing was happening on my pc too.

Best Friends was a different matter altogether. It looks like the view portal was getting reduced. See screenshot.

I'm using standard IE6 with service pack 2 installed.

[WaveRider]

two issues with cosmic bugs.

1: if I switch to another IE window while the game is up, then switch back, the screen gets all fouled up.

2: not sure if this is intentional or not, but the enemy bugs speed up while the rope is firing.

I can't tell you if these problems occur with best friends because IE crashes every time I try to bring it up.

btw... just saw water bugs getting a headline billing over at realarcade. nice.

[Mike Boeh]

There is an activeX plugin floating around that lets users download your blitz3d apps and play them in the browser.

I found they both worked well in IE, Best friends did default to the NAG screen and I had to hit the "Maybe Later" button before I could play - When I hit "Space" the thing crashed.

Will you make your technology available to other Blitz Users?

The activex control you refer to is Maher's Osakit (http://www.osakit.com).
I will not be making mine available, because of security issues. All it would take is one person to distribute malware, and the control would be flagged by spyware/virus checkers- can't have that :(

Thanks for the feedback, it's very helpful....

[Ricardo C]

Bugs plays pretty well on my system, but the bg music went out when level 10 started. And on one occasion, I switched to a Yahoo Messenger window, and the cursor became trapped for a few seconds.

[Phil Steinmeyer]

(All comments about Cosmic Bugs)

Message when you click on Cosmic Bugs says 'Best Friends loading' or something like that.

I'm guessing that this is ActiveX and therefore I.E. only - when I click the link in FireFox, I get a loading indicator but nothing ever happens - a better error mesage would be nice.

It worked for me in I.E.

Out of curiousity, what limitation system do you plan to use - limited # of levels? And if so, how many levels will you provide? Also, I don't see any in-game upsell messages - not sure if there are supposed to be any.

[Escapee]

I tried out best friend with IE 6 & received an exception reference memory kind of error after pressing space bar.