Battle of Serenity game comments by Saint Jayne

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Battle of Serenity game comments

POSTED BY: SAINT JAYNE
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:05 PM

I hope all of you have been able to try the new feature game, Battle of Serenity. It was fun to make, and I hope to make several more Flash games. If you haven’t tried it yet, follow this link: http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=51

The game is based off the 10 second segment in Serenity where Sergeant Malcolm Reynolds saves the day by downing an Alliance skiff that is keeping his troops from taking to higher ground to defend the valley. I tried to get the Chinese labels and the indicators as close as possible to how they functioned in the show. Those CG people put a lot of effort into that little 10-second piece, and I have a new appreciation for their work.

(Boring) History of the Game
Some people like reading this stuff. Hey, some people watch commentaries. I’ve heard some people even juggle geese; hand to God.

I’m always out to improve my mad h4x0r skillz (in this case Flash) so I thought early this year, what kind of game can I build? Not a whole lot of options sprang to mind. I was half ready to do a version of Minesweeper where Serenity piloted amongst Alliance cruisers. Being a fan of first-person shooters, I just had to make a game where you destroy things, and as I watched Serenity again, I found my muse.

I had just heard Nathan Fillion’s description of firing that huge military gun, and I pictured myself there. What a great game that would make…

It was programmed in Flash 5 on a 2GHz Windows PC. Yeah, Haken, sorry for giving you a hard time about MS, but my other boxen are Linux and Mac! (and Flash 7 sux BTW). Programming time: 25 hours, although half of that was just shooting things. I was even tempted to put in a FOX target that replenished ammo, but some people might call that a mood-killer.

Post comments! I may not change this game, but I’m looking for a new game to program. Wasn’t there talk of a MUD or MUCK or something?

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Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:30 PM

MANIACNUMBERONE

It was fun. I sure do suck at it.
I think my brightness was set too low though. I had trouble seeing the little ships.

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Inara: Who's winning?
Simon: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:42 PM

SHINY

SaintJayne, your game ROCKS!!! This is the sort of thing that would be worth putting on an official movie web site. It's just hard enough to be challenging without being impossible.

I'd love to see the option to have the Fox logo fly across the screen so we could blast that!

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:47 PM

HEX20

The game is awesome, and i finally figured out how to kill things, my personal best is 12

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Jayne: "Dear diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy... Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

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Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:52 PM

GAIJIN

It's a pretty cool game! Thanks!

Thanksgiving is a sham. But it's a sham with yams...it's a yam sham.

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Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:25 PM

ZAPHODB

Great game, but I'm a lousy shot. Really nice work.

Industrial Looniee & Madness - http://www3.telus.net/vchrusch

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Friday, January 16, 2004 6:39 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Very cool game SaintJayne. It was a very cool surprise to pull up the site this morning & find that waiting for me.

It took a couple of games to get the hang of it, but I am up to 6 points.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Friday, January 16, 2004 7:36 AM

MANIACNUMBERONE

Took me a while, but I finally managed to hit 2 ships to the ground. Yay!

I told ya I suck. Be patient with me.

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Friday, January 16, 2004 7:58 AM

DUG

Quote:
Originally posted by Saint Jayne:
I’m looking for a new game to program. Wasn’t there talk of a MUD or MUCK or something?

Funny you should mention....Check out http://www.geocities.com/aimarcusbbe/fireflyMUD/main.html

Isaac is looking for people or reasonable facsimiles of people to help with a Firefly MUD. I'm jumping in, but my experience level is low. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind hearing from a whole passle of folk.

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Friday, January 16, 2004 4:40 PM

SAINT JAYNE

Thanks for the comments guys! I hope I could make your days a little brighter. Of course I have to encourage everyone to keep up the target practice.

ManiacNumberOne, you're right, the ships are sometimes impossible to see - that's why the target ring is so important.

Hex20, a score of 32 would be quite impressive! I think there's a thread where you can post your high score.

Haken, Shiny, Ciara, Gaijin, BrownCoat1, ZaphodB, you're too kind. I'm just fueling the Firefly enthusiasm that keeps me coming to this site.

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Friday, January 16, 2004 4:54 PM

SHINY

Quote:
Originally posted by Saint Jayne:
Hex20, a score of 32 would be quite impressive! I think there's a thread where you can post your high score.

Yup. The thread's here:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=3376&m=34349#34349

Did you really manage to score 32? Wow!

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Friday, January 16, 2004 5:24 PM

ARCBEATLE

You got two? DOnt say You suck, I havent hit one yet...

Im bad at theese first person shootin' type games.

People only beleive somehting if it's in a movie

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Friday, January 16, 2004 5:41 PM

SAINT JAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by Shiny:
Did you really manage to score 32? Wow!

I'm not even going to say what my personal best is.

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Friday, January 16, 2004 5:41 PM

SAINT JAYNE

Hey guys! My first double post!

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Friday, January 16, 2004 5:52 PM

WINTERFELL

i don't gorram get it!!! i am shottin' but them alliance ships keep cumin!!

i can't hit none of em!!

can someone explain it again? just match up the circles? ug.. i've never felt more like jayne in all my life.. yet i'd bet he'd be a god at this cause it's a gorram gun... ug...

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Saturday, January 17, 2004 5:12 AM

WINTERFELL

YAY.. with the help of my own personal hero of canton, Saint Jayne, i was able to figure this thing out and killed 15 ships.. now i can sleep easier and appriciate life a little more...

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Saturday, January 17, 2004 5:25 AM

JAQUILE

Thank's for the exceptionally fun game Saint Jayne...

Shooting at iddy biddy rings has never been this fun. Er.. ships.. I mean ships. Cause real gunners don't need no "auto-aiming". O heck, who am I kidding

And it's only managed to keep me up for two hours beyond my self appointed bed time ^_^

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Saturday, January 17, 2004 8:26 AM

SHINY

Quote:
Originally posted by Winterfell:
i don't gorram get it!!! i am shottin' but them alliance ships keep cumin!!

i can't hit none of em!!

can someone explain it again? just match up the circles?

Try aiming at the center of the smaller circle.

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:28 PM

GUNRUNNER

Wow, good work! I played for about an hour last night, and nocked down 13 skiffs in one game. The only complants I have is that you loose points if one of the skiffs escape and the voices are too quiet compared to the rest of the SFX.

I look forward to more interactive stuff like this in the future!

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Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:06 PM

JHONAS

Did Weyland Yutani make the interface, or the whole gun?

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Monday, January 19, 2004 5:17 PM

SAINT JAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by Jhonas:
Did Weyland Yutani make the interface, or the whole gun?

Who the heck is... Oh, I see! That's a little more than coincidence! Jhonas, what do you know about this?

Gorram it! Now I have to watch all the Alien movies to see if they stole the interface for the UA 571-D Ground Sentry! I found a Google refernce here:

http://www.geocities.com/luiz_roberto/Rpg/Supernatural/Alienbre.txt

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:36 AM

SADLITTLEKING

Saint Jayne, cool game ya made there. I like it.

Could ya help me with something, though? I downloaded the game and saved it but for some reason I can't play it. I double-click on it and a message appears saying "Windows Cannot Open This File". I went to the two sites I was given to download something that could open the file. I downloaded Macromedia Flash Player 7 but that didn't change anything and I downloaded Infra-something which allowed me to open the file and see the title screen and the game screen, but the game wouldn't play and there was no sound. I can play the game fine on the webpage while I'm online so shouldn't I be able to open the file that I downloaded and play it offline? I hope I don't sound too much like an idiot here. I'm not that good with tech stuff.

Anyway, it's a good game and it actually got me to sign up so I could post this.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:45 AM

GUNRUNNER

The way I play this game offline is to open a Internet Explorer window and drag the game's file in to the window. It should then open normaly.

Hope that helps SadLittleKing.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:06 PM

SAINT JAYNE

SadLittleKing, GunRunner basically has it right. Your computer doesn't know what to do with a .swf file. What you can do is drag the .swf file onto an Internet browser window.

Even better, right click the file and choose "Open With...". Then select "choose program" (only Windows 2000 or above) and pick Internet Explorer or whatever you use. At some point here you can also tell your computer to "always use the selected program". The next time you only need to double-click the .swf file for it to run properly.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:03 PM

SADLITTLEKING

Thanks for the help, GunRunner and Saint Jayne.

And thanks for not making me feel anymore dumb than I already did.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:13 PM

SAINT JAYNE

Yay! My "wee" Flash game was mentioned on Whedonesque.com!

http://whedonesque.com/?search=firefly

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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:53 PM

SADLITTLEKING

Congrats.

Your "wee" flash game is addictive as hell, btw. Can't...stop...playing...

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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:52 PM

JASONZZZ

Dammit, I missed so many, I've got -28 pts.

Haken needs a new development system. Donate.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=5&t=3283

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:15 PM

JHONAS

Quote:
Jhonas, what do you know about this?

Nothing. I didn't notice it until I played your game.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2004 6:21 PM

JASONZZZ

This is good for stress relief in between of hitting absolutely nothing on the Serenity game still.

http://megatron.stonehill.edu/other/hitthepenguin.swf

Like Fireflyfans.net?
Haken needs a new development system. Donate.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=5&t=3283

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Saturday, February 7, 2004 7:46 AM

SAINT JAYNE

That penguin game is hi-larious! I've got 574.3. Why do they call them flightless birds?

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Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:47 PM

FIREFLYER

Ahhhhh you spotted one of our little secrets :-)
The UA-571-C (not D) was the big Sentry guns seen in the extended version of Aliens, if you take a look at the laptops that controlled the guns you'll see where our little joke came from :-)

Fun game BTW!

Lee

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:21 AM

SHINY

Quote:
Originally posted by Fireflyer:
Ahhhhh you spotted one of our little secrets :-)
The UA-571-C (not D) was the big Sentry guns seen in the extended version of Aliens, if you take a look at the laptops that controlled the guns you'll see where our little joke came from :-)

Fun game BTW!

Lee

Hi there, Lee! Do you work for ZOIC or something? I'll have to look for the extended version of Aliens to check it out...

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:03 AM

FIREFLYER

Oh I could open a whole can of worms if I answered that one truthfully, so, err, no :-)

L

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Sunday, May 30, 2004 8:03 AM

PINGJING

I was having so many problems aiming in this game - I think because I'm thinking of my mouse as a joystick, so I'll pull back to aim higher, but really the gun is now pointing towards the ground. Not helpful. I'm getting the hang of it now, though, and I've managed to get my score above 0. Yay!

Julia

Mal
Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. Whaddya suppose that makes us?
Zoe
Big damn heroes, sir.
Mal
Ain't we just!

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