Hi-Score Confusion

Because of some of the confusion surrounding the top scores, I will be changing the way it works so that hopefully the confusion is eliminated. Right now you are only able to enter your name if your score is greater than #11 on the scores for that song. This brings about some confusion only because you are able to view the #50 and people are wondering why if they get a #28 or #39 etc…etc.. score that they cannot enter their name.
Well today I am changing this so that you can enter your name if you are within the top 50 but you will only see the top 10 scores from within the ‘end game screen’. You will still be able to view all top 50 scores from the games main screen as well as the upper right frame.

Did that make sense? I think I confused even myself.

Something a little new

Something a little new for tonight. For once the update is with the FFR page itself and not the actual game. You will notice that you can check the hi-scores quickly and at any time by clicking on the corresponding song in the upper right frame. The game still plays like normal and nothing has changed with it’s operation.

Preloader #2

Version #2 of the song preloader is up and active. It is not quite where I want it to be but it is getting there. Hope you enjoy it.

Graphic Changes

I couldn’t help myself. I felt this incredible urge to change the look of the in game graphics. Please don’t hurt me. I just cannot leave anything alone for long.

Arrow Changes

As an experiment I have changed the arrows and some of the animation that goes along with the arrows. Do you like? Dislike? The CPU usage is a little higher with the new arrows but not by much. Voice your opinion on the FFR forum via the link at the top of this page.

Funk, Well Done

The good news is that I have finished the other 3 songs for the funk section. The hi-scores are empty so get in the list before the pro’s like 87x, ducknoodlesoup, codedontgreene (to many to mention) rack up the hi-scores! The bad news is that we are still working on the new pre-loader. We will finish it as soon as possible.

New Forum

For those of you interested or who would like to drop by and say hello, I have created a temporary (maybe perm?) FFR forum located ->HERE<- (no longer valid since the new xqsite went up in late November)

Wow!

I am just floored by all the people who have been playing FFR. We are averaging about 1.5gb+ of transfer bandwidth per day.

Tomorrow we will hopefully be putting up a new version with lots of updates including the new preloader system for the songs and an additional 3 songs for funk and 1 song in the next genre of music. This means these songs will have fresh untouched hi-score tables!

I have been entertaining the thought of erasing the hi-scores once a week or day but then having a master hi-score list that is updated everytime the daily or weekly hi-scores are erased. Thoughts anyone?

I also wanted to note that it is possible this game will not play smoothly on a PIII400mhz or slower because we are pushing the Flash engine’s pixel capability pretty far. I have noticed that on my PIII600mhz it runs at almost the full 30fps and that on my P4 2.2ghz machine it has no problems running + lots of room to spare. I am sorry to those who have the slower machines. We will do what we can to lower the cpu requirements but cannot promise those requirements will change much.

Thanks to everyone who has played the game and spread the word about FFR. We will continue to update the graphics and quality of the game.

Hi-Score Change

I will be fixing a slight bug tonight. The top 50 hi-scores available from the main screen do not work if you exit a level and then try to view them. You can only view them when you first enter the site or when you refresh. I will see if I can get that bug out of the way.
We are fully switched to our new dedicated box and it seems like everything has propagated correctly. If you find any bugs or the piece does not load correctly for you, give me a hollar.