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Polo
|  |  | restart culd be a map buton
Actually the restart function can be done tapping on top right the screen, it can also done presing a key?
pd. sorry for my bad english, y just more training
(i Talk spanish)
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Borszczuk
|  | | Feature requesat
To nail them down:
ability to turn off the "after-crash sequence" (I want the level to restart instantly, w/o watching the biker to float in parts for some seconds after I screw the ride)
option to disable Menu button (Treo650)
ability (please, please, please) to use any Treo key for controling the bike. Would be much more handy, plus, it would safe by 5Way navi from being wrecked too early. |
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Borszczuk
| | | Idea - Triggers
It'd be pretty nice feature (and I think quite easy to add to the current code) to have something I draftly called "triggers". How it shall work - the trigger is an invisible object. Whenever user hit the trigger the extra action gets unveiled. Depending on how this would be implemented, it would let us to make the levels more interactive. The trigger could be one-time-use (so once hit, it triggers the action and becomes inactive) or every-time-time (barely used). Possible usage: when user hit the trigger BoD displays level designer's text information (could be quite funny). When hit, shows or hides some objects (i.e. when user hit the last flag we could hide some obstacles) etc, etc. |
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Kristopher
|  | | New display mode
For levels like Cave Dweller, and more to come, I would like a new display mode, that is both Outline and Textured together, so you can see the nice looking clouds and the invisible lines all at once. Just draw black lines around the edges of the ground, please.  |
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You Qi
|  | | Ghost Bike
http://www.teagames.c om/games/bmxghost/play.php
I think this is a very good feature for the next version. |
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Sz
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Bill
|  | | devices and controls
I would like to know everyone's devices and controls they use. It would be cool if it was part of their online profile. I am interested to see if the best players use the same devices and the same control buttons. I use a treo 600 palm and controls are
dpad up = accellerate
dpad down = brake
phone or left button is balance back
calander or second left button is balance right
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ackmondual
|  | | More uses for leftover buttons
I primarily use a T|T3. Assuming ALL buttons are assigned as of v1.3c. we could use the extra 2 buttons for alot of good. If possible, even use the VR button on a T|T3, and any extra hardware buttons on specific specific models of this game as well.
Some suggestions:
-screen rotate
-restart level (requested before)
-toggle sound low/high/mute volume (alr half suggested)
-toggle full screen (peronsally, this wouldn't be needed if screen rotate was implemented)
If perhaps all of them and let the users choose the functions they want mapped |
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...lol
|  | | Level Making Tips
There are lotsa levels ouy there right? Some good, some bad, some ok, some boring, some big, etc. But what really makes a good level pack? What makes a level good in general? I think there are several things a person must know before they make a level.
1)Watch the size! Levels don't have to take up the whole area in Bike or Design. Better yet, don't ever do that. The smaller a level, usually the better the level. Large levels are bad for many reasons. First, they take forever to beat. Second, the load time can be painful. Finally, if you die near the end, you have to start ALL over. Though there is a limit to how small a level should be. They really shouldn't be any smaller the Bottle, just for times sake (The bottle is a good example, look at how close the times are!)
2)Simplicity is freakin' sweet. Don't try to make a level as complex as the Chaos Theory. Try to keep it simple. The way a rider should go should be pretty obvious. If the person has to choose between 5 ways to start the level out, then the level will seem intimidating and will therefore be less fun. Short and sweet: make it simple!
3)Difficulty. Yeah you can have some hard levels, but in a levelpack, try to disperse them so beginners can actually get through the whole level pack. Unless you design a level pack to go from easy slowly to hard through out the levels, try to spread the hard levels out. Don't have every level a hard level, unless you design it to be the most annoying level pack on earth.
4)Fun fun fun. Make the levels fun! Try to add certain obstacles that challenge the person who is playing the level! Challenges make the game more fun. If you make a level really easy and boring, then no one will want to play it.
5)Secrets. Please do not try to make a level like Underground that has a secret way to do it ON PURPOSE. Im pretty sure that Sz didn't make the level just for that purpose. Its more fun to let the players try to find cool ways to do the level that you didn't intend them to be able to do in the first place.
On a different note, don't make the level impossible unless they do some wacko thing that only you knew about. Say you put (on purpose) some awesome thing in you level that allows you to make your bike go through the ground and win, but is only possible if you do some crazy button mashing. That does not make a level fun, because no one else besides you knows how to do it. Dont do it.
If anyone else has other suggestions to make levels good and fun, please post and get your ideas out. |
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Kristopher
| | | Freestyle Game Finding
It would be really nice if you could find a player's Freestyle game by going to his profile and then clicking on something from there. Like this:
< a href=allfreestyle> Freestyle Competition< /a> - < a href=thisplayersfreestyle> #26/42< /a> |
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Kristopher
| | | Replays on a Level's Main Page
Hi (again)! When you go to a level's main page, where you see the list of best times for that level and the comments for the level, how about replacing the still picture of the map with a replay? The replay could be the fastest one that is public. |
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MunkYBoY
|  | | Hall of fame levels...
okay SZ im wondering if you are ever going to change the hall of fame levels. these ones are great and all but i think its time for a change up. and instead of just taking level packs people submit make custom level packs (i.e. very easy lvl pack - very hard lvl pack) though some peoples idea of hard and easy vary you could just use your best judgment. i'd really like some new competition instead of trying to beat these freaking fast times. this way everyone will start anew. its just a suggestion but i feel its time for change. |
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Kristopher
| | | More New Ideas
The downloadable .Zip file with the BOD game should contain the Time Trial levelpacks.
It would be really awesome if Bike or Die could keep Statistics, such as the number of times a certain level was played.
Tires should pop in the crash seens.
A Screenshot command for saving Bitmaps of the screen would be handy.
The text box that appears before you save a game should include a place to edit a comment.
After a game has finished replaying, a menu could come up with the options 'Delete' and 'Edit Comment'.
For those of us who still have extra buttons, my suggestions are a 'Toggle Sound' button and a 'Screenshot' button.
Kristopher Windsor |
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PrayeR
|  | | ppc :)
hi SZ,
any news about ppc version? or You won't port BoD on ppc? |
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Sena
|  | | Instant Restart
I have a T3 and it's so annoying holding a stylus in my palm (as in the one ON my hand) so i can tap the screen without damaging it straight after i die. I reakon there should be a feature, like what appears after 3 seconds after u die, that allows u to push (for example) down, and you can instantly restart |
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marc
| | | PayPal
ok were can i buy bike or die with paypal? what site please reply |
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The Two
| | | when
hey sz, when are you coming out with the neww bike or die? |
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Jordan
|  | | Proxy support?
I would really, really like proxy support in the client itself so I could upload from my treo. All web traffic on my treo has to use a web proxy (getmorespeed.t-mobile.com:8080) -- heck, it's easy enough to hack on a hard-coded version just by recompiling and changinge whatever connect calls are made to open directly to that domain name instead of actually resolving bike.toyspring.com, but then send the rest of the request the exact same way).
Anyway, I'd really like to be able to upload from my Treo. Thanks. |
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Ruben
|  | | Invalid Recordings
I think that it would be cool as well as useful to invent a way to erase a record on the level that you get a time rejected if you´re not able to beat that time that was rejected. |
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Ideas
) doesn't praise the new "Summer Pack" and proposes making a new levelpack, which could be played by everyone but is still fun and entertaining. while i doubt that it is possible for a custom pack to gain a similar number of players as the builtin one, such "Newbie Pack" could help introduce new players.
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