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The stats by end of July (as of July 29th):
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I learned yesterday that I should not expect obviousness.
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I am using a DocumentClass and no timeline code in a one-frame game.
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The Piece o' Eight Game II

Basically it’s the first game, but this time it has a goal. Still on the experiment road. I am a bit excited. I wonder what the best weekday is to push it into the world. I think I’ll go through the mochibot stats to find something.
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As far as I know, the incorrect handling of the right click on a ‘mouseenabled = false’ movieclip is a known bug with few available workarounds. At least, it puzzled me for several hours.
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Well, I have to give a positive statement about game distribution with mochi’s service and little self efforts. Apart from the fact that the game was made in three hours and it really is no masterpiece, it got round quite a bit. At least I was amazed.
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By checking the domain your game is played on you can provide the player with certain features which then make your game exclusive to a site. How about adding a ‘BloodMode’ (in a way that is unsuitable for Mochi) when played on Kong or AG?
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The Piece o'Eight Game

Basically it’s the thing I wrote for the shared objects tutorial. Just added some other graphics. It is my approach to begin the experiment. That ‘game’ won’t get any good score, on the other hand: it’s just a test.
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In the ‘Main Index Template’ (index.php) just add the following line have an Adsense ad between the post end and the comments.
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This topic came up some days ago with a lot of interesting possibilities especially for flash games. One shared object holding several variables you can load from every game. What could that mean? A regular player of your games gets secret levels, special items or skills for playing a game more often. Or let the player compare his actual score to the scores he achieved in other games you made, if these are comparable. Or an adventurelike game where one has to solve puzzles in external games or where achievements in other games control the plot.

Alright, enough of the dreaming, let’s go to where the action is:

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