play();

My plan was to start slowly, and mainly just work on the drawing stuff to get my feet wet again.  Yeah, that plan lasted about 5 minutes.

One of the problems I mentioned back when the game was posted is that opening the inventory while a grab is ending will lock the game up.  (This is a different bug than the lockup during a scene change BTW, but I think I have that one fixed too).  This particular bug is caused by having two simultaneous gotoAndPlay() calls that point to the same frame.  So, Play + Play = Stop.  I guess that's like hitting the play button twice on your VCR (lol, I'm old), the game pauses instead of playing.

This is one of those bugs that I have really wanted to fix, and every time I came back to it, nothing.  Hours wasted here, lots of checks & BS added, and still nothing.   I just had one of those "fuck, THAT makes it work?" moments, and it's so dumb that I feel it needs to be shared.  heh.  Turns out putting a play() command on the target frame keep the game moving.  It's a dumb solution (Play + Play + Play = Play?), but at this point I'm really happy with a dumb solution.  =D

Why is all this even remotely important you might ask?  Because only some of the weapons grant invulnerability with their S attack.  If you're surrounded & trying to make some room as a grapple is ending, sometimes it's better to switch weapons first.  And now that's finally an option. 

DirtyC101

July Update

July?  WTF happened to June???

Short answer:  Computer problems. 

Longer answer: I have 2 PC's.  I keep one in the living room for playing modern games.  When that gets too old & gets replaced,  I don't throw it away.  I bring it to my room & use it to surf porn & write my games.  If y'all remember from a few months ago, the game was reaching a size where my slower machine really was struggling.  And my good machine was kinda old too, but it's not quite ready for its second life.  So I decided to only buy some key parts for the fast machine, and then the parts that were replaced would trickle down to the porn machine.

And that's when the shit hit the fan. 

So, for the last few months I've really been out of touch in the porn circles.  The good machine has been working great, and I've been happily addicted to some new (non-porn) games.  The porn machine though has been giving me fits.  I seriously think I've re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-installed Windows XP about a dozen times over the last 2 months.  Everything from hard drive failures to burnt processors to bad RAM, and lately a series of random bluescreens which I *THINK* might be a driver issue, but still haven't 100% nailed down.

Anyway, point of this note is simply that I'm not dead.  And as much fun as Sims Medieval is, there's not nearly enough naked for a game with 'slutty' as a character option.  So I've already started working on the porn machine in earnest again (I'm using it for this note), and I suspect you'll start seeing real posts from me again in another month or two.

Til next time
DirtyC101