Secret projects and Canadian vacations

Well, I’ve had the secret project completed for about two days now, but I haven’t been able to get a hold of Synthlight since then. Once I can reach him, secret project #1 will be unleashed and I’m hoping #2 will be finished in the quite near future as well. Right now, I think Synthlight has been on vacation in Canada gambling at casinos. Hopefully he’s winning money instead of losing it and not doing any heavy drinking or illegal things. But, anyway, the first project is done, it just needs to be added to the site.
Also, this Saturday will be your last chance to vote on your favorite FFR song/step file. Keep those votes coming!

Minor Fixes

Finally fixed the problem where Funk songs #2 and #3 would not load for some people. This should all be working again.

Made a minor change in the preloader that displays the percentage of level load from 0% instead of fading it in around 5%. Apparently this caused some dialup users to think the song was not loading.

No revision changes as these were minor. Just don’t forget to clear your cache and reload.

W00t?!? Another update?!? OMFG!

Just so you people know, we’re working hard on the first secret project. After having a day mostly to myself yesterday, 50% of the project is now completed. Then immediately following the completion of project #1, work on the second project will follow immediately. So, the way it looks, you players will be receiving some good stuff fairly soon. Next time we update, unless something comes up, project #1 should be completed. Unitl then, vote on your favorite FFR song (song itself and step file) and keep the suggestions and input coming.

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.