Could be a hell of a lot better than it is if people weren’t already opposed to the changes in this one.
“Wahh wahh socialism wahh”
it banned “pre-existing condition” practices
sorry I don’t mean to like, completely and utterly rebut your whole clever detailing of what you don’t like about the bill, it’s just I don’t know a gentler way of saying “oh shut up”
it a pretty damn good bill, for one thing, and for another, it’s incredibly unhelpful to bitch and moan about how one bill doesn’t solve every single problem in the health care system
what do you propose obama do? just sit on it until there’s a consensus on every single point in the thing?
PS UTA fuck you, not just because your ignorant religious republican upbringing is shining bright and white through my intertubes, but because you instantly assume the word combination “twat” + “government” means “Obama”. Because everyone else on Earth must hold your worldview - who else could Syntax POSSIBLY be talking about?
Gotta love Americans. Anyway, I’ll be able to work on this again, so anyone who’s interested can join in. Phlakes, I lost a lot of the graphics you sent me, as they are on a harddrive in some dank storage area somewhere. It’d be nice if you could resend me them. I’d also like to know what your progress was before you lost it, as it might be recoverable. Gotta say, I’m a little impressed that I’ve gotten so much progress on a game. Most games I’ve seen around here just die. So, any takers?
Here’s all the objects I’ve done.
The new aqua tiles.
Here they are separated, if you’d rather use that.
The metal tiles again.
I lost my awesome Sterile tiles, but I’ll Prnt Scrn them out of the demo, if it still works.
EDIT: Which it doesn’t.
Oh yeah… Think I saw those earlier in the topic. Wasn’t sure if you had more or not. Thanks to GM8 I can use the solid red forcefield you made.
Just finished these, now they’re lighted and real pretty-like.
Improved a lot of these.
Hmm… Only things I noticed any different was the “weak block” and the spike. I like the changes made to the Aqua tileset though. Nice work!
UPDATES
Here are some changes/improvements/fixes we’ve made to the game:
Fixed Impossible mode
Changed several of the pointless “filler” levels
Tweaked the speed/jump height on the character
Changed the game info
Improved the graphics (Thank you Phlakes!)
Future updates on the agenda:
Music
Pause button
Multiple save files
More detailed environment
If you are interested in helping out:
Level designers
Glitch testing + fixing
This game has gone too far for it to die. I’m ready to give it a huge boost, but I need your help! Anything from comments to being part of the team would be extremely helpful! 4 years in the making. Not bad eh?
Sup bitches.
The graphics for the Aqua area have been (almost) COMPLETELY overhauled. Just take a look at this nice little comparison between a really old version and the newest-
And for the biggest new feature regarding the graphics, the tilesets now include every corner and connector possible-
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After-
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So look forward to more completely updated areas in the near future.
Amazing work as always. Hopefully, you’ll be able to do as good a job, if not better on the next area. The Nova area.
I’m looking forward too it. I’ve never really done tan-ish desert kinds of things before.
Very cool. Can’t wait for the next demo (has a PC now) If you need more level ideas, just let me know. I have WAY to much free time in school nowadays.
It would be great if you could design me some new levels. I’ll pm you the engine when I get the chance.
Another day, another massive update. The Nova area is now also completely redone, and almost all sounds are new, but you won’t be able to hear those until the next demo.
Here’s some of the new stuff-
Tileset
Destroyable blocks (the broken, ruined ones are my favorite sprites in the game)
Comparison
Another Comparison
Plus new buttons for the title screen
New Demo out: http://www.filefront.com/17684790/Maniac Puzzle.exe
Changes:
Press P to pause the game, press any key to unpause.
Huge graphic and sound effect update.
Music has been added, but only one song will play. Not a glitch, I simply haven’t given each area it’s own music yet, so the steel area’s music will play continuously.
Impossible mode works, but hasn’t been graphically fixed yet. Pause doesn’t work, and there is no music yet. Feel free to give feedback.
Maniac puzzle was at it’s peak in 2009…maybe in April or May or whenever it was before there were three characters colours. I loved struggling through the difficult and creative levels! There was this one where you controlled two characters at once! Extremlebabblement cool! 
That reminds me, there’s been a whole lot of improvements since that demo, including some major code overhaul and almost completely updated graphics. I’ll see if we can put another demo out so you all can see how close it is to being finished. We have some big plans before the final release, so that’ll probably take a while, and there should be something out while all that’s being made.
Major plans? Like what? XBLAIG?