Although it's sad to not see Nifflas as active around here, since he's very reasonable and a joy to speak with- it's also comforting to know that his attention is still involved in some very great projects (like his new game he just released). One man can only have but so much energy and time, unfortunately. He's absolutely right too, about development. He's basically learned a whole new engine, some complicated programming, and, at least in my opinion, evolved his abilities quite a lot in the last few years with disciplines he was already really good at. He's certainly been busy, and I suspect he would find trying to keep up with a lot of social outlets exhausting.

It's always satisfying to hear what he has to say about his latest games and we can still hope for that, but it will probably be on his time, which is how it should be. And of course, there's not just Nifflas who we could hear more from, but I suspect it's a similar case for a lot of people; there's just lots to do, and sometimes doing it is a better use of energy/time, than formulating a way to talk about it. I know I'm like this as well.

I appreciate you posting this, as well as Nifflas offering some insight; I think it will help anyone who's wondering why it's quiet sometimes.

Nice! They're very good. Turns out you don't need to throw your money away; you have talent.

It's also nice to see you still around, vdweller.

I liked it. As already stated in this topic, there's nice ways to expand or elaborate on this in the future and I honestly hope you continue making these sorts of things. I reminded me vaguely of Knytt Nano, which is always a good thing. I liked how collecting the notes gave you a nice visual effect; that was pretty much perfect from my eyes and really made collecting them neat, rather than just "oh, you got it". I felt like the jumping and some of the animation was rough, but I think given more attention (or just more time, in this case; since you made it for a jam), these things would iron themselves out eventually. Nice job, do continue.

I never really thought about this. Since it introduces a movement-related change, it would need to be implemented such that it doesn't mess with the player's existing movement code. (That shouldn't be too hard, especially if it's tied only to a specific object, but still, the consideration has to be made). Additionally there's the question of exactly how it functions - does it not affect the player when the umbrella is not deployed? Therefore being an exact opposite of the current object, or does it additionally cause her to fall faster without regard to the umbrella, etc? The latter is when it has to be implemented very carefully and while a downdraft is a neat idea, I personally fear for entire screens consisting entirely of updrafts running into downdrafts and navigating between them in a perilous way. As Ego stated, it's actually quite easy for to Juni to fall in comparison with gaining height (even by climbing she's much slower), so the idea of using the object for any sort of navigation besides in conjunction with the updraft object in a confined and challenging series of screens is sort of besides the point. The problem that mainly worries me about using these in a challenge, particularly in conjunction with the updraft is that it's going to be hard to tell them apart. And again, navigation-wise, they don't offer a lot Juni can't do by falling already.

Haha. Sorry! But I did at least remember you! But no big deal; a lot of people aren't around too much. It's a shame some of the other ports were stopped -- I actually wonder if the PSP port would have been useful if at least for the fact the PSP seems the easy to patch with CFW. I regret having not paid enough attention to the homebrew version- I didn't know you had managed to get the custom objects in there. Pretty impressive, even if you call it a 'crude hack' (technically, making Knytt Stories work on a DS doesn't sound like it'd be straightforward or clean to begin with; so seriously, any working attempt is amazing). I too hope that running it on a 3DS flashcart would work, but I don't know of such a card to suggest to anyone, and I admit to generally leaving my handhelds alone. It's good to see you around and that you're still interested in it, if at least to check if there's any compatibility issues trying to run it on a 3DS. Again, though, the original post specifies a "New 3DS", so my optimism of finding a working, reliable flashcart for that is even lower.

I did a bit of testing - surprisingly, changing the UserAgent on Firefox to mimic Chrome seems to replicate the bug. From there I did a lot of digging- and indeed, while a lot of spoilers in almost any topic I could find didn't seem messed up at all, the posts containing the spoilers mentioned in this topic did have the glitch (they look more like what StraightFlame has posted; so maybe the initial glitch Egomassive posted has been 'fixed' (or rather, just changed). That said, again, I'm not actually running chrome, so I don't know how accurate this really is (but it's odd that it replicates some oddities either way). It could be that the bug(s) I report aren't entirely genuine to the real Chrome; but there's obviously still something to this problem.

I did a full comparison on both pages (the Firefox version and the "Faked" Chrome version (which is using the 'latest' version, as reported)). There was only a single difference between them; a javascript call at the bottom of the page which is merely called "smf_codefix()" -- it doesn't really explain what it's supposed to fix, but it does seem to alter post height on a per-post basis, which possibly explains why the spoilers are drastically overflowing into everything else, yet the post size doesn't match like it should, making it unreadable. It might also explain why I'm not seeing it happen on many other spoilers personally, if it's conditional (maybe those posts just got really unlucky). The real point here is that it only appeared when acting like Chrome - there's nothing of the sort in the Firefox version the page, and it's the only difference at all. Considering the nature of that code, it seems like someone was trying to fix a quirk a long time ago and it never really manifested as a problem. It's probably called based on what browser 'needs' the fix; explaining how I can trick it into loading by using a different UserAgent that 'needs it' (Chrome, in this case, apparently). (So as a side note; that's actually a possible temp fix if you can do that on Chrome; change it to 'appear' as Firefox). I'm guessing this code wasn't just added recently, and since Firefox (maybe others?) are absent of the code entirely the other javascript scripts or the php files themselves must dynamically put that there), it should be relatively harmless to remove it from loading for a quick check. Finding where it gets inserted might be tricky; I doubt it's really part of the php or html code by default, though, since it would appear on Firefox too-- it's easier to add things in realtime to a page than remove stuff hardcoded to a file already. So my guess it that it's part of a script somewhere that only gets added based on reported browser -- if it stops adding that code, I wonder if it would fix the browsers that it tries to mess with.

Anyway, just an idea!

EDIT; this is the relevant code:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- // --><![CDATA[
window.addEventListener("load", smf_codeFix, false);

function smf_codeFix()
{
var codeFix = document.getElementsByTagName ? document.getElementsByTagName("div") : document.all.tags("div");

for (var i = 0; i < codeFix.length; i++)
{
if ((codeFix[i].className == "code" || codeFix[i].className == "post" || codeFix[i].className == "signature") && codeFix[i].offsetHeight < 20)
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Awesome! So we can now live our long-lasting dreams of being in outer space piloting a presumably state-of-the-art (and affordable) spacecraft in remote worlds?

...Sounds good to me! The new teaser is neat, although I have to say I'm still loving the first one; the comedy was golden. ..but the montage of various tragic destructions of the player's craft is pretty hilarious too. Best of luck with the release, Nifflas!

Oh wow. Take care man. Your health is far more important than Knytt Stories. I'm pretty sure everyone thinks the same.

This.

The Jack, your health should be the most important thing right now. We'll hope for your return and we'll be wishing you the best, but you don't need to worry about us, we'll be happy to have you back whenever you're able.