(12-26-2019, 07:19 AM)Guinea Wrote:

(12-25-2019, 01:10 AM)chaoxys Wrote:

(12-23-2019, 01:49 PM)Guinea Wrote: Well I still exist, I'm quite busy though. Are you no longer using Skype @chaoxys? Not been hearing anything from you for a while either. And since I was quite busy myself I didn't really want to push you on anything, as I'm mostly the one who's behind.

Anyway, as always no promises, I just want to say I'm always reachable here, so before anybody gives away "my" project or announces it canceled, I'd like to be informed first via PM (that should give me an email notification).

I still want to see it through, it's just ambitious as hell, and so my usual working schedule on this game causes me to find more bugs than finish features.
I'm honestly not sure how any other developer could really help with it either, since Game Maker 7 is required as well as some super outdated version of Matt Thorson's Ogmo Editor and the thing is so badly documented and complex that even I keep forgetting what's where, not to mention it relies on some custom GM7 extensions that only I have.

A big problem with finishing the game proper is, that the first few worlds have so much ambition in it, and everything that is done in later worlds that doesn't live up to that just doesn't feel right. So I'd kinda still like to finish it, just it will take a LOT of time to do so and I'll need to cut some corners. I'm just not a teenager anymore.

Although, if somebody with time would somehow acquire a license for Game Maker 7, and contact me about it, I could show them the most important things. How about it @Mors?

As it turns out, I have skype, but it doesn't seem to work on my new laptop for some reason, which I wasn't aware of. I thought it was working this whole time and you haven't been on, I apologize if this has caused any trouble.

Ah that sucks a lot If not Skype what else do you use these days?

(01-08-2020, 09:54 PM)Mors Wrote: So I talked with @Guinea and got his blessings to port the game to later versions of Game Maker and finish the game, but I had to tweak some of the more outdated parts of the game, such as the title screen!

(01-08-2021, 12:35 AM)HellJumper Wrote: I need this game in my life right now.

(01-08-2021, 12:35 AM)HellJumper Wrote: I need this game in my life right now.

Spoiler

Remember the face you see at the end of world 1? It's Midas, but not King Midas, you find out it's actually Queen Midas. Theres some hidden journals you can find that reveal that long ago, a viking gave the king and queen of a kingdom a glove that would help them make their kingdom prosper. The viking said he did this in good will, but really planned on letting greed consume the queen and then, once the whole kingdom was gold, he'd come in and steal it back along with all the gold. It turns out she had become too strong and turned pretty much everyone in the kingdom into gold, and then turned the viking into gold as well. Ultimately the King destroyed the gauntlet, but the queen had become one with it, causing her to become trapped inside of it. When Bowser and Syrup finish the glove, they release Queen Midas. who plans on flooding the world is greed that will cause people to basically go mad.

This is a general mockup of, well, not the final boss, but it's like the third from last final boss, it's Midas when she emerges from the hand, just before she takes her human form

(01-09-2021, 09:25 PM)Q-Nova Wrote: I have many questions: What happened to Guinea? Did you lose contact with him again? If so, have you sent him a forum PM? He once said that he should receive an e-mail whenever he gets a PM. Did you lose the level editor and couldn't find it online? By engine, do you mean Game Maker? If that's the case, did Game Maker use to run in your laptop and now it couldn't work or are you talking about a new computer that cannot run that software no matter what?

I hope this game still has a chance; it's one of my most anticipated fangames!

(01-09-2021, 10:02 PM)chaoxys Wrote:

(01-09-2021, 09:25 PM)Q-Nova Wrote: I have many questions: What happened to Guinea? Did you lose contact with him again? If so, have you sent him a forum PM? He once said that he should receive an e-mail whenever he gets a PM. Did you lose the level editor and couldn't find it online? By engine, do you mean Game Maker? If that's the case, did Game Maker use to run in your laptop and now it couldn't work or are you talking about a new computer that cannot run that software no matter what?

I hope this game still has a chance; it's one of my most anticipated fangames!

Haven't heard from him in a while. As for the level editor, it's an old version of Ogmo that I can't find, and I don't think Mors had any luck either. I do have it on my old laptop, but my charging cable is broken on it so it's almost dead and I don't want to spend the money to get a new one. As for the GM thing, idk whats up with it. It worked for a while, then I went back and tried to us it again, and now it doesn't work.

The only chance it'll have is if Mors or someone else wants to take over on things. I'm still willing to lend a bit of a hand, but honestly, I've moved on to working on my indie game at this point since theres not much more I can do.

(01-10-2021, 09:49 AM)Mors Wrote:

(01-09-2021, 10:02 PM)chaoxys Wrote:

(01-09-2021, 09:25 PM)Q-Nova Wrote: II have many questions: What happened to Guinea? Did you lose contact with him again? If so, have you sent him a forum PM? He once said that he should receive an e-mail whenever he gets a PM. Did you lose the level editor and couldn't find it online? By engine, do you mean Game Maker? If that's the case, did Game Maker use to run in your laptop and now it couldn't work or are you talking about a new computer that cannot run that software no matter what?

I hope this game still has a chance; it's one of my most anticipated fangames!

Haven't heard from him in a while. As for the level editor, it's an old version of Ogmo that I can't find, and I don't think Mors had any luck either. I do have it on my old laptop, but my charging cable is broken on it so it's almost dead and I don't want to spend the money to get a new one. As for the GM thing, idk whats up with it. It worked for a while, then I went back and tried to us it again, and now it doesn't work.

The only chance it'll have is if Mors or someone else wants to take over on things. I'm still willing to lend a bit of a hand, but honestly, I've moved on to working on my indie game at this point since theres not much more I can do.

Well, I have done quite a bit already actually. I ported the game to GM8 (which wasn't that easy!), I tried to polish what was already there up and fix some issues, but unfortunately, things eventually came to a halt since I've been quite busy myself too.

I still don't want the project to go to waste, but at the same time... Yeaaaah, I can't really devote much time to it at all. Maybe at some point I can spend a month or two just to it just to get it out, but don't really expect that to happen anytime soon. Maybe later this year at best? I don't know, I'm already overwhelmed with projects as is.

And as for the level editor situation, that is a bit issue, but I'm pretty sure a solution can be found for that eventually.

Either way, my point is that I haven't fully given up myself yet. Not fully at least.

In any case, if anyone else wants to help too I'd be willing to work with others as well. Actually, in the past few months, I DID get some such offers, but it was by people who were clearly lacking any real game development experience or skill. Midas Machine's source is very complicated and there's quite a bit of bug fixing work left, so if you want to help make sure that you're at least competent in GameMaker 8.

And probably contact me about it first since I'd be able to tell if you'd be able to actually help us finish the game or not.

(01-08-2021, 01:47 AM)Ostrich101 Wrote:

(01-08-2021, 12:35 AM)HellJumper Wrote: I need this game in my life right now.

Dude, you really can't stress that enough, can you?

Considering Mors is very busy in his life (from what I can tell), I think it's better to just not spam the thread over and over again saying that you are dying to play it.