Working Working Working >_<

I kinda took a week’s break from the Internet last week, so if anyone was wondering where I was, I was playing video games and catching up on some much needed sleep. I got back into the groove today, though, and pruned the forums and went through the incoming FAQs I could answer. Also, the new poll on the main page will be used to determine the official #1 song on FFR, so make sure you vote on that, as the results will be used in the future. Also, I know many of you are really getting impatient waiting on Remix, but closed beta testings should be going underway in the near future. We also have a few other “top secret” projects we are working on along with Remix so we should have plenty of other goodies coming your way in the near future as well. Just keep patient and good things will come to you.

40,000+ Registered Users!!!

Just wanted to say thanks to all the 40,000+ people who have cared enough to register here at flashflashrevolution.com. It still amazes me that we continue to get between 500-1000 new members per day.
Thanks to all the people who report bugs and come up with suggestions. We do listen and implement as many of these as possible and will continue to do so in the future as we work hard on R2.

I would also like to thank the many sites that link to us everyday like http://www.addictinggames.com and http://www.techtv.com. There are MANY MANY more that I cannot even begin to list.

Please feel free to post comments with the URL’s that you linked from to get here. I will be building a list of sites that link to us and putting them on a seperate page where you can link to those sites.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Reset Hi-Scores?

Just checking with all the FFR players out there and getting an opinion about reseting the hi-scores tonight. I have not reset these scores in a month or so now and thought some might like the challenge of having to climb the FFR score ladder again. Feel free to voice your opinion. If a majority don’t want a reset then I will leave the scores for another week and then ask again.

Reset Hi-Scores? Yes/No? Comments welcome.

*EDIT* Overwhelming response to reset! Reseting Hi-Scores at 4:00pm CST

More DWI Compatibility

It was a warm sunny and perfect day here in Chicago so what did I do?

I stayed inside and worked on my DWI <--> FFR converter. It now provides the following features.

Fixed double arrow bug in the converter which would deny people combo’s in certain situations.

1/8, 1/16, 1/24, 1/64 and 1/192 beat conversions.

Does not choke on the “!” character and turns the hold arrows into a normal arrows.

Working on support for BPM changes (should be done by the end of the day).

Hopefully this will open up the doors a bit and provide more challenge for those advanced players or DWI creators.

Cheers!

FullScreen Version UP!

If you are logged in, you can click the link on the left nav to launch the fullscreen version of FFR. Remember that it is only for PC users on IE at the moment. Not much we can do about that.

Let it install the plugin

play the game

press ALT-F4 to exit <-- don't forget this!

Please leave comments about the plugin and what you think of the performance etc.

Thanks!

Online Fullscreen Version to Be Released Today!

At some point today you will see a link on the lefthand side under “modules” for the FULLSCREEN version. This will actually switch you to fullscreen mode and lets you play the online game outside of the browser. It does this via a plugin that accelerates the Flash app with DirectX.

There are a couple restrictions at this time though as the plugin is such new technology.

* Must be run from a Microsoft based Machine

* Must be run from Internet Explorer. (Netscape will not work at this point but will soon)

There we be no exit button so if you remember anything remember that you

MUST PRESS ALT-F4 to exit the game. In the future it will be scripted with an exit button but for now it is strictly ALT-F4.

Version .47 Being Released Today!

Time to clear that cache and reload your browsers. There is a new version comming out today. I will list the features below as they are complete and updated. Be sure to check back later today for even more updates.

*EDIT* High Score Box now 2x wide and AUTOMATICALLY inserts your stats next to your name when you have a hi-score. This allows others to see how well (or bad) you did. I had to delete hi-scores for a secret song in order to test this.

*EDIT* Reset “Terror From Beyond” scores. This was due to needed testing with outside people

*EDIT* I believe I have fixed a scoring problem that would not allow some people at a certain point down in the top50 list to add their scores. This never seemed to affect people within the near top 10. Somehow with the new stats mode this got increasingly worse tonight. I believe that I have fixed this problem. Make sure you clear your cache and reload before you attempt any hi-scores tonight. Let me know if you run into any problems. The old way of transferring the data had a limit of 254 characters (approx).

*EDIT* Changed font of Hi-Scores from size 10 to 9 so that we could fit a little more in there, but not much

Big Changes on the Homepage & Bookmarks!

Ok, so maybe you don’t see many changes but the truth is that behind the scenes there were some massive changes last night.

We moved the entire website portion over to a new server which.. well.. is about 10x the power of the old website server. The FFR game has always been hosted on a server seperate and much more powerful than the server that was hosting the website. No longer is this the case as the website is being hosted on a more powerful server also. You will find the page load times and the general responsiveness of the site have increased dramatically. Because of the recent growth in activity, if you tried to login around 3pm CST you would have found that the website (not the game) would be slow to load or refresh. You will find it at lightspeed as of today.

You will notice that our main URL has changed to an easy to remember http://www.flashflashrevolution.com The old URL will stil work but it will redirect you to the new site/server.

Please Don’t forget to update your bookmarks to reflect this change in URL. For those of you who wish to support us, please let others know via forums & emails that our URL has changed.

Thanks again to everyone out there for supporting FFRSo has anyone noticed the speed increases yet?

Optimizing Server

Moved the website to a new server tonight. Please report any and all bugs to Synthlight via PM. I will post more about the move tomorrow morning. Hopefully this should speed up general browsing of the website.

Enjoy the speed!

Synthlight

*EDIT* Anyone notice a speed change in the loading time of pages?