N v1.5 Poll: Platform

[GamingWolf]

The cheese stands alone.

[origami_alligator]

What about splitting up the game and the NEditor/userlevels?
In other words, build the in-game levels and highscoring for a browser and have NED and userlevels in a standalone application.

[Rose]

What about splitting up the game and the NEditor/userlevels?
In other words, build the in-game levels and highscoring for a browser and have NED and userlevels in a standalone application.

The problem I see with this is that there are plenty of people (myself included) who, when playing the in-game levels, have absolutely no intention of highscoring.

I enjoy being able to play even when I don't have internet access (like, say, on a long car trip to a relative's house or something). Definitely stand-alone.

To take away part of the game during periods without internet access seems a little silly to me. Unless I'm missing something major, it just seems like standalone application works better or the same as a browser for all major aspects of the game while keeping access easier.

[PivitParkour26]

It doesnt really make a difference because most people know how to get online games offline
Lol
so to save us the trouble you should put it as a stand alone app

[PONTO]

Incidentally, I have come to really hate Adobe and Flash (my rant about this would be too long and too off-topic for this post). If you're doing a rewrite, perhaps consider a different platform. (PyGame? Maybe something else with SDL, or maybe even just OpenGL?) I don't know how different AS1 and AS3 are, but perhaps they're different enough it's not any more difficult to port to a completely different platform (or the extra difficulty is worth dropping Flash for).

That echoes my thoughts, but I think it's probably hoping for too much. I guess it would make the savegame functionality substantially easier to handle, though.

[raigan]

We're sort of stuck in Flash in that it's not really possible to make it look the same in anything else, we'd have to switch to bitmaps/sprites which would almost certainly not work as well. Also we definitely want to have an in-browser version so that we can wipe out those stupid unlicensed "ngame" web versions once and for all :)

[Fraxtil]

If Linux support is to be expected, standalone all the way. Otherwise, I'd at least like 1.5 to be ported to Flash, if not built in it from the start.

[Ferox]

Both. I want to play without wifi but want to get rid of all of the 30 episode n-games all over game sites such as arcade town.

[Unreality]

I have already shown raigan a very raw demo of NReality on facebook but they haven't replied.

[Izzy]

I have already shown raigan a very raw demo of NReality on facebook but they haven't replied.

Progress! <3

[sayko]

Standalone application.

[na]

When N was first released, the Flash player wasn't fast enough for it to run smoothly in a browser; also, web-based games were much less popular and sites such as Kongregate/etc. didn't exist. These days, it seems like a lot of people don't mind, or even enjoy, playing their games in a browser rather than as stand-alone programs.

Since we have no idea where everyone stands on this, we figured we'd ask :)

[unoriginal name]

When N was first released, the Flash player wasn't fast enough for it to run smoothly in a browser; also, web-based games were much less popular and sites such as Kongregate/etc. didn't exist. These days, it seems like a lot of people don't mind, or even enjoy, playing their games in a browser rather than as stand-alone programs.

Since we have no idea where everyone stands on this, we figured we'd ask :)

You have a bright future here.

[N+ja]

I HATE the intire community of kongregate. I select Standalone. (i chose browser but after i thought it wasnt a good idea.) If N was on Kongregate I wouldnt play even if this was the last game on earth. Then id like Portal 2 even if i saw the spoiler....

[Kablizzy]

Why not both?