Reborn is being revived- want to join the project?

2007-12-14 02:47:55 pm

I'm useless at pretty much everything when it comes to games. I'm a music guy, and I'm assuming (and hoping) you're using the original music like the rest of the hacks.

I could volunteer as another beta tester, though, if it comes around and you still want more. I'm another average when it comes to skill and know little about SMILE (or even what it means).

I guess if there was one thing I could say is that you should really balance the exploration difficulty and the skill difficulty. One thing I've noticed about some other hacks is that every room is just like one challenge after another and it gets kind of old - it doesn't feel like a Metroid game so much as a test. But there you go, my input.

Cardweaver

2007-12-14 03:09:28 pm

Quote from fizzer|me-is-liam:

If for example, the room is too big to save, open it in a hex editor and move it so you have more space.

Well, considering I don't have a hex editor.... no. I don't know how to do that, but I've had a couple (about 3) computer programming classes, and I'm fluent in binary, so hex shouldn't be too hard to learn.

Also I guess I should say (everyone's doing it...) that I'm a very good player as far as testing goes. I wouldn't say that I'm an expert (never TASed and had some trouble with SM:Impossible), but I can do most tricks reliably (cept gate haters...). I think that if it comes down to people who helped design doing the testing, then we need to be sure that people test areas that they didn't design, so we can find out about how obvious or annoying some parts will be. I also think for similar reasons, we should have at least one tester who hasn't seen any part of the game yet, just to get a feel for reactions. Then again, this isn't my hack, so all of this is IMO.

[quote="fizzer|me-is-liam"]
If for example, the room is too big to save, open it in a hex editor and move it so you have more space.
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Well, considering I don't have a hex editor.... no. I don't know how to do that, but I've had a couple (about 3) computer programming classes, and I'm fluent in binary, so hex shouldn't be too hard to learn.

Also I guess I should say (everyone's doing it...) that I'm a very good player as far as testing goes. I wouldn't say that I'm an expert (never TASed and had some trouble with SM:Impossible), but I can do most tricks reliably (cept gate haters...). I think that if it comes down to people who helped design doing the testing, then we need to be sure that people test areas that they didn't design, so we can find out about how obvious or annoying some parts will be. I also think for similar reasons, we should have at least one tester who hasn't seen any part of the game yet, just to get a feel for reactions. Then again, this isn't my hack, so all of this is IMO.

Bolognab

2007-12-14 11:15:34 pm

I shall be the one beta tester who hasn't seen the game!

Edward_Tohr

Edit history:

Edward_Tohr: 2007-12-16 02:49:16 pm

2007-12-16 12:02:16 am

Stuffs. Yar.

Don't worry, Bolognab... I also am solely employed as a beta tester. :P

EDIT: Actually, if you're willing to wait until I can finish learning ASM, I could be the programmer... Programming is what I'm going to school for, after all. :P

fizzer|me-is-liam

2007-12-16 02:51:47 pm

YAY TEXT

Chances are it'll take that long to get the levels and everything else done, and a programmer is what we desperately need; we need one for this hack to work.