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OffTopic > Madness Interactive?

#52384 - AlexYoung21 - Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:57 pm

hi, i'm really new to this, i was wondering if anyone here could remake the flash game Madness Interactive, that'd be awsome. I'd do it myself but I can't code, so far i haven't had any time to learn...

If you don't know what madness is, here's a link: http://www.flashplayer.com/games/madnessinteractive.html

thanks!

#52409 - leoedin - Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:26 pm

its an amazing game, but flash isn't a very port-friendly format, and its pretty closed source :(
I guess you could completely remake the game engine using the graphics that are OS, but it would take a while.

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#52449 - deltro - Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:08 am

=/ I think we need a DS dev idea forum.

#52463 - tepples - Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:00 am

This is the DS dev idea forum.

In DS development :: Forum Rules, tepples wrote:
"Wishful thinking" proposals for games or emulators running on Nintendo DS belong in the DS Chat forum.


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#52884 - sgeos - Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:43 pm

leoedin wrote:
its an amazing game, but flash isn't a very port-friendly format

Flash is awesome for prototyping games and tools, so long as you don't need to do any deep computational work. You can't port, but you can rewrite.

leoedin wrote:
and its pretty closed source :(

There are plenty of flash decompilers. I think Action Script Viewer is supposedly the best. Never used it. Costs about $60 IIRC.

leoedin wrote:
I guess you could completely remake the game engine using the graphics that are OS, but it would take a while.

A remake is the only way to go.

AlexYoung21 wrote:
hi, i'm really new to this, i was wondering if anyone here could remake the flash game Madness Interactive, that'd be awsome. I'd do it myself but I can't code, so far i haven't had any time to learn...

Sure, that would be awesome for you, but what incentive does anyone have to make a remake for you? Everyone is busy working on their own stuff. If you don't have time to learn to code, make time to learn. No matter how busy you are, I bet you spend 15 minutes a day on it.

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#53258 - Soccr743 - Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:31 am

sgeos wrote:
leoedin wrote:
and its pretty closed source :(

There are plenty of flash decompilers. I think Action Script Viewer is supposedly the best. Never used it. Costs about $60 IIRC.


Never use flash decompilers on code that you shouldn't be seeing in the first place. That is completely wrong to do.

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#53272 - sgeos - Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:20 am

Soccr743 wrote:
Never use flash decompilers on code that you shouldn't be seeing in the first place. That is completely wrong to do.

You should read Macromedia's white paper on security. I'd pull it up, but I don't have time now. There no such thing as "flash code that you shouldn't be seeing in the first place". That's like trying write secure HTML.

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Anything that needs to kept secure will be handled by server side scripts and/or be transferred in dynamically.

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