pennmom
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Post by pennmom on Jul 25, 2021 15:57:18 GMT
ashmoor, I posted the game in the Gamehouse thread as well :)
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Post by ashmoor on Jul 25, 2021 16:16:06 GMT
pennmom, thanks! SynthpopAddict, In JMS Summertime you can buy butterflies and song birds for your summer time estates. I get it though, who does not like the fish and the Atlantis vibe? I am really proud of the map I've made for this game, here is a teaser:
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Post by SynthpopAddict on Jul 26, 2021 13:39:52 GMT
LOL ashmoor, yes, I suppose it is all what you'd prefer more, but I'm a puffer fish online after all! :P The GH video did show a very brief flash of your map, but the pergolas, gazebos, and other elements looked like they'd been covered with white cloths. Your map designing skills have sure come a long way since the days of JM Twilight 2, which is when I think the map first got introduced, or maybe it was JM Royale 2. I remember being really impressed with the one you made for JM Origins because of the 3D elements.
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pennmom
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Post by pennmom on Jul 26, 2021 14:53:05 GMT
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sisinka
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Post by sisinka on Jul 27, 2021 13:44:56 GMT
Hi, I'm new here..
I found several bugs in various JM (match 3) and JM Solitaire games, presented some on steamforum, sent some to Jörg Henseler by email.
For example (Jewel Match Solitaire 2 CE):
1) This is a bug that is common to all bonus solitaire games with "Stock". In these games I can move cards from Tableau Piles or Waste back to Stock (face up). Then it's easy to complete the games dishonestly. Affected bonus games:
Klondike by Threes Spider Two Suits Lady Palk Ali Baba Acme Unlimited Trusty Twelve Giant Lanes Twenty
and maybe? (I haven't played these games yet)
Scarab Diplomat Double Line Thieves of Egypt
2) Help to "Acme Unlimited" is not complete. In file "MiniHelp.AppScreen" there are missing tags for texts: ACME_2, ACME_3, ACME_4.
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I have all your games on the BFG platform. Any chance of game patches appearing there? Jörg wrote me "The bugs can be fixed for the Steam version, but not for BFG version", that makes me pretty sad that I won't get a fix, since I bought the games on BFG. I don't want to buy the same stuff on Steam a second time.
Any chance of becoming a beta tester? Jörg offered it to me once...
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Post by SynthpopAddict on Jul 27, 2021 14:17:42 GMT
Welcome to the woods, sisinka ! If you're in contact with Jorg Henseler, he's the president of Suricate so would be the person to ask about beta testing the solitaire games. Interesting bug you noticed with the solitaire games as I wouldn't have caught that either. ashmoor just happens to work with the company but he and I have been friends for a long time. Long story on how I got into the testing of all the M3 games they put out, but I don't beta the solitaire games and like yourself had noticed that the previous CE one before Summertime had quite a few glitches.
What glitches were you noticing with the M3 games? I've beta'd every one of them since 2015 and they all play wonderfully on my PC.
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sisinka
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Post by sisinka on Jul 27, 2021 16:26:43 GMT
Jewel Match Aquascapes CE:
I think the animation of "ATOMIC TILE" (from file stone_atomic.png in ..\images\hidef_tiles\) is very slow - compared to JM Origins - Palais Imperial
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Post by SynthpopAddict on Jul 28, 2021 16:15:12 GMT
I don't remember that happening in Aquascapes CE in either the beta or the final release version. Atomic pieces generate right away on my PC, and the "atomic cloud" trick (hitting an atomic piece generator with arrows to give yourself a huge block of atomic pieces) works right away too. The atomic piece generators themselves do rotate much more slowly than the generators did in Origins, but would think it's because Aquascapes is under water, so they wanted to convey the extra dragging effect water would have, but that's just me.
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sisinka
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Post by sisinka on Jul 29, 2021 12:49:39 GMT
Jewel Match Solitaire Summertime - this is standard or collector's edition? Or (if standard): will there be a CE version of the game?
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Post by ashmoor on Jul 29, 2021 13:28:19 GMT
sisinka, It is SE only, there will be no CE. It is probably our most content packed SE ever. Thanks for reporting the issues. If your feedback got to Joerg, it should be taken care of. Regarding fixing issues for BFG releases is tedious if not impossible because they have to put each new version through a new round of QA and sometimes that means waiting in line for several months until their QA team gets to the game, if ever. They put a higher priority on critical issues and bug fixes though. I recommend purchasing on steam in the future. Regarding beta testing solitaire games, Joerg is the man to ask, he handles production and QA assignment.
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Post by ashmoor on Jul 29, 2021 13:31:44 GMT
sisinka, are you interested in testing M3s as well? I get a say in picking beta testers for m3s. I also develop my own mosaics series, are you interested in beta testing in that genre?
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Post by SynthpopAddict on Jul 29, 2021 15:37:36 GMT
Ooh, ashmoor's own mosaics (nonogram) series... I'm not even that much of a fan of those types of games and not very good at them, but Daydream Mosaics rocks! :D
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Post by ashmoor on Jul 29, 2021 15:49:37 GMT
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Post by Valkara on Jul 29, 2021 16:32:29 GMT
It's disappointing that there won't be a CE. I enjoy all the castles I can get, especially as some of them from various games have given me lots of inspiration for a very long story I've been writing for the past nearly 3 years.
There was one castle (the cold, snowy one in the mountains; I don't remember offhand which game that was in) that has been my wallpaper for ages now, and I promptly developed another part of the story where a character would get sent there as a kind of "punishment tour of duty" - not because the castle isn't gorgeous (I'm partial to mountain scenes), but because this particular character loves his creature comforts, which do not include freezing his "anatomy" off at the back end of the kingdom in the middle of winter.
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Post by metmichallica on Jul 29, 2021 21:41:38 GMT
I wanted a CE too for the Summer game even though I already purchased the standard on Gamehouse.
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Post by SynthpopAddict on Jul 30, 2021 14:12:09 GMT
It cuts both ways with CEs vs. SEs. While I would support Suricate by buying CEs of theirs, there's also the element who can't see the point of paying the extra money, plus the last solitaire game just came out 3.5 months ago. With the casual gaming market getting tighter and tighter all the time to where devs are having to crank out games constantly just to stay afloat, they probably can't spend that much time working on a single game anymore or we might get games with all manner of glitches in them because they didn't have enough time to iron out the bugs. :( Game developers like having lives too. ;)
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sisinka
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Post by sisinka on Jul 31, 2021 16:27:03 GMT
sisinka , are you interested in testing M3s as well? I get a say in picking beta testers for m3s. I also develop my own mosaics series, are you interested in beta testing in that genre? Yes, I am. I really like JM match-3 & solitaire games (my wife does too :-) )
I also have the Daydream Mosaics game on BFG (and a few other nonogram games), but I prefer JM games.
---------------------- Bug in map JM Naturescapes:
- the first bonus level isn't "Puzzle level 1" but "Race level 1" as described on the map
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Post by Valkara on Jul 31, 2021 20:05:07 GMT
sisinka, are you interested in testing M3s as well? I get a say in picking beta testers for m3s. I also develop my own mosaics series, are you interested in beta testing in that genre? I would be interested in beta testing for match-3 games.
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Post by ashmoor on Aug 1, 2021 15:29:33 GMT
metmichallica, before the game was even published Joerg expressed his regret about making this beautiful game a SE instead of CE. I am guessing we'll probably have a CE in the style in the future. sisinka, Valkara, OK, noted. When we'll have a new game near beta phase I'll get back to you.
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sisinka
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Post by sisinka on Sept 1, 2021 8:36:57 GMT
JMS Summertime, bonus solitaire Siegecraft: Help file, {Solitaire_2_7}:
At the start 6 cards are dealt face up to each of the 8 Fan Piles. is bad. At the start 6 cards are dealt face up to each of the 8 Tableau Piles. is OK.
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