Are we really talking about the same glitch? What happened in my playthrough was the following: [spoiler]1. I picked Waluigi to enter World 2-Lakitu Ruins. 2. I picked up a Fire Flower while in the first part of the level. 3. I entered the 2nd part of the level with the moving floor. 4. The Lakitu in this room flies realy close to the ceiling. I defeated it with the Fire Flower. 5. I jumped [b]while crouching[/b] to the cloud left behind. 6. Going into a Lakitu Cloud automatically makes the player stand up; one cannot crouch while riding a Lakitu cloud. Because I stood up so close to the ceiling, Waluigi's head went into the ceiling. I'm pretty sure the glitch specifically has to do with position handling while riding a Lakitu cloud. The error message mentions "vehicle_cloud", which indicates that the Lakitu Cloud is considered a vehicle by the game engine. The error message states "Unknown variable vXsave". Perhaps it is a typo, or the variable name was changed in development and that script was not updated to reflect the new variable name? It does not specifically need to be Waluigi. You need a character that can defeat a Lakitu that is so close to the ceiling that Mario's fireballs cannot reach. I just reproduced the glitch using Wario's dragon helmet, and it works the same way. It can probably also be done with Luigi.[/spoiler] If you decided to discuss a different glitch which is coincidentally also related to Lakitus, then carry on. (I just noticed that this is the start of Page 5. Look on Page 4 if you do not already know what I am talking about.)

We were talking about a different glitch. I was pointing out that when Elyk said Lakitu was nothing but trouble, he was refering to the glitch that I had described in my post. Luckily the glitch I described has already been taken care of.

There were several glitches with the lakitu and his clouds that have already been fixed. I was commenting on how that enemy seems to be particularly buggy.

I didn't play through the entire demo yet, but it seems a bit empty on the sfx side. There's no walking sfx, nothing happens when you hit captain syrup. That battle was a bit boring because there was no feedback when you hit her besides her flashing or when she swooped in from the side. When the train stops on W2-1, there's no sounds for it stopping at all. There needs to be some more love put into adding sound effects.

[quote="TheShyGuy"]walking sfx[/quote] why does it need it

I dunno. Movement in the game is pretty.....boring. It was more of an example than anything though. Stopping a train with the only notification being that the bottom screen wheels move slower is pretty...meh on the immersive side. Wasn't the train in danger? I didn't really get much sense of danger or panic at all during that. It coulda used sound effects, music fading from a more panicked to relief type, and maybe even some subtle screen shaking during the level in general. I'm unsure if I've said something that's already there because I didn't take notes when I was playing. I'll do so the next time and replay some levels. Subtle things have a big effect. In the original mario games, there's walking sfx. So why not?

I'm working on some new ways to use existing objects in the game. This is an early idea i'm working with but I think it could be fun for something. Basically, some of you may remember that if when you beat the MegaMole miniboss, a pipe will rise out of the ground. I'm using that mechanic in a slightly different way thats fairly basic, but could lead to some new and interesting ideas. [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/jifhhf.jpg[/img] Beat the enemies in an area. [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/25a7yiu.jpg[/img] Pipe rises from a pit. [img]http://i61.tinypic.com/i3rt5l.jpg[/img] Progress. Like I said, it's a very small thing, but I'm trying to think up a way to use it that will be interesting, but who knows. That aside, I'm working on a new level. The BG is a place holder until I make the actual jungle BG, but it'll do for now. [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/1fin9x.jpg[/img] [quote="TheShyGuy"]I dunno. Movement in the game is pretty.....boring. It was more of an example than anything though. Stopping a train with the only notification being that the bottom screen wheels move slower is pretty...meh on the immersive side. Wasn't the train in danger? I didn't really get much sense of danger or panic at all during that. It coulda used sound effects, music fading from a more panicked to relief type, and maybe even some subtle screen shaking during the level in general. I'm unsure if I've said something that's already there because I didn't take notes when I was playing. I'll do so the next time and replay some levels. Subtle things have a big effect. In the original mario games, there's walking sfx. So why not?[/quote] I'm a little late to replay to this, but the screen shakes during that entire level, and when you hit the brakes, the shaking calms down as the train stop, and as for sounds, we plan on adding a screeching if we can get someone to make it. The music may be a bit much considering we still need to get the main songs covered, let alone two songs for a tiny section at the end of a single level. Also, which of the original Mario games had walking sfx?

[s]Donkey Kong had walking noises[/s]

[quote="LuigiM9"][s]Donkey Kong had walking noises[/s][/quote] Ugh, I forgot how annoying that sound was.

WOMP WOMP WAH WAH WEH WAH WEH WAH WEH WOMP WAH Ahem. Pretty sure Mario Bros did too.

Be that as it may, it'd be up to Guinea on whether or not something like that would get in, however I think we have larger priorities to handle first anyways.

Well, there was some complaints about parts of the ice BG that showed up at the start of world 3, people saying that it looked solid and what not, so I took a crack at fixing it, and DJane helped with some useful feedback. [img]http://i62.tinypic.com/2vbmwdf.jpg[/img] It's probably worth mentioning that the sky, clouds, mountains, closer mountains, trees, and closer trees are all on different layers, which look really nice with the parallax scrolling (I know this thanks to DJane making a little parallax scrolling testing thing for me).

I hope to see it in action soon, Chaoxys.

This is awsome. Can't wait for the finale game. I have all the demos except for the 2010 one. The only problem I had with this demo was the speeding up of the characters. Has this been changed or will it stay as it is? Keep up the good work.

I believe it'll stay like this or at least similar. The old way was a bit awkward, especially in that you basically hit your top speed right off the bat which also made it way too easy to do your highest jump, effectively making any platforming way too easy and rather unrewarding.

Since NCFC is going on now... what's the new status with regards to release, since the OP says: "So what is the current status of Midas Machine? We've been hard at work lately, and we have a feeling that we can achieve an NCFC 2014 release. Yes that's right, NCFC 2014. Will it be just an empty boast, or will you actually get to play the full game at NCFC? I don't know, to be honest. Life can always throw curve balls. But if all goes according to our plan, Midas Machine can be in your hands-- - I mean download folders - this November when NCFC happens. Let's leave luck to heaven."

^Hm, I guess this is now outdated :/ Thanks for pointing it out. Let me just quickly edit it.... EDIT: And done.

I found these 2 pics today. http://i59.tinypic.com/2jd1jsx.jpg and http://i60.tinypic.com/qzr9z5.jpg Will this game be in 2 player or was it just for development purposes?

Sorry, but the Tinypic links are not working

[quote="RIP AND TEAR"]I found these 2 pics today. http://i59.tinypic.com/2jd1jsx.jpg and http://i60.tinypic.com/qzr9z5.jpg Will this game be in 2 player or was it just for development purposes?[/quote] Chaoxys was showing off some of the new tilesets in his sprite thread a while ago. They're both mock-ups. Actually if I recall correctly they said it absolutely wouldn't be two-player because some of the levels have paths requiring a single character.