Saira 1.1 is released!

Since the release of Saira a few different things have been pointed out by various users.

* ESC is not close enough to A,S, and D. I will add a customizable key that closes the PDA and Puzzle devices.
* The fly power is slow on some PC's. The reason is that I released Saira before MMF2's hardware acceleration SDK was out, so the extension that displays the graphical fly power effect is not optimized enough. For the fly effect I'll replace it with regular 'active objects' which means that it will become impossible for level designers to customize a different fly effect. I guess it's worth it to avoid the extra resource usage though.
* Some spelling/grammar mistakes pointed out by PONTO.

[mod]added links for easy access
Edit, new link: http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Saira
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didn't you want to update the credits for Looki too or something? Just wondering.

If you are willing to, I may add another suggestion:
Save the radio station not when the ship lands on a planet, but when Tab is pressed. I often open Saira just to play pinball and change the radio station, but then I close the game and it never gets saved.
It's a really picky thing, but if it doesn't take too long it's probably worth it.

Now, I don't know how difficult this would be but...

Let's say (some) people begin to create their own episodes.
The way thing are now they're all placed in the Saira root folder. This will be a bit messy to browse through.

Would it be possible to alter the structure in a way like knytt stories where we have a level folder. Making it

Saira
 +- Data
 +- Editor (if you download it)
 +- Settings
 +- Episodes
 |  +- Nifflas - 000 - Teleporters
 |  +- LightningEagle - 000 - Some level
 |  +- ...
 +- Saira.exe
 +- Settings.exe
 + Saira.ini

Hmm.. I just realized. This would probably require the Editor to be rewriten at some points too. I guess it's more difficult than I expected...

I can't do that. Anyway, Looki is in the credits now too, I'll get the 1.1 build done today or tomorrow then it will all be peace and happiness!

What about my suggestion concerning the radio frequency? Do you think you can do that?

Perhaps for 1.1.1, I have to start out by quickly addressing the critical things.

I think you should make the movement faster. I think it's a little to slow, like it takes over a second to turn around. Perhaps speed it up?

I don't remember exactly where, but in one of the instructions/tutorials near the beginning of the game, there was something about a "wall on the left" when the wall was actually on the right.  Did anyone point that out already?

As far as suggestions go, one thing I was kind of disappointed in was when I realized the camera has limited memory.  I wanted to take pictures just for fun of my favorite creatures and locations throughout the game, in keeping with the character of Saira being a photographer.  But it turns out there isn't much room for "just for fun" pictures when you also have to leave room for pictures of clues.  It would be nice if the camera held more photos.  (Not a big deal, but just something I thought of when I started playing.)

Yeah, I agree with that thing about the camera memory...

I don't remember exactly where, but in one of the instructions/tutorials near the beginning of the game, there was something about a "wall on the left" when the wall was actually on the right.  Did anyone point that out already?

...
Actually, the wall IS on the left.

I see the new build is done, but the site is not letting me download either version, Niff. You need to check that again.

- A few spelling/gammar errors were corrected

Is grammar spelled wrong on purpose? 

I can't seem to download it either. The old version can still be found though:

http://nifflas.ni2.se/content/games/Saira_100.exe
http://nifflas.ni2.se/content/games/Saira_100.zip

Sorry about double post, but it's the easiest way to attract attention.  

I've found the problem.

The new file name doesn't contain underscore but space instead.
The link on the website, however, still uses underscore as in the prior versions file name.

Links:

http://nifflas.ni2.se/content/games/Saira 110.exe
http://nifflas.ni2.se/content/games/Saira 110.zip

Quote from: back seat astronaut on December 13, 2009, 23:10:22

I don't remember exactly where, but in one of the instructions/tutorials near the beginning of the game, there was something about a "wall on the left" when the wall was actually on the right.  Did anyone point that out already?

...
Actually, the wall IS on the left.

Spoiler: What you have to do (click to show/hide)

You have to gain some momentum to run up the wall to he left, step in the power-up liquid, then travel back to the wall to the right (which is taller) and use the fly power to reach the top

Ah, you're right.  I must have thought it was referring to the right wall at first, and burned the notion that it was a typo into my memory, and then still remembered there being a typo even after I realized there was another wall to the left! 

Never mind me and my brain malfunctions...