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Final Flamewar: The Fiver Menace OFFICIAL RELEASE

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After three years of on-off work, relentless bug hunts, and testing, I am ready to release a completed version of Final Flamewar: The Fiver Menace. It's a 42MB download.

I and my playtesting team have spent much of this time dutifully hunting down bugs, but in case we missed one, please PM me (so it can be addressed for the Special Edition release when Phong finishes the 4th Sidequest).

As for discussions about the game, please, NO SPOILERS. There are surprises in the plot, you see. :) If you want, open a second thread marked "SPOILERS" for the purpose of discussing the game.

I'll warn you now that I think some of my writing in the game can get bad at times - stilted, mushy, and such - but it's not that serious of a work, as some of the injokes will clearly imply. The game is meant to be fun, maybe a bit challenging at parts, but I've tried to keep the difficulty level sane.

The controls are simple. Z for action/confirm, X for cancelling, arrow keys for movement. In the Equipment screen you can switch between characters with the right and left arrow keys.

If the thing won't work even after you install it, go ahead and download this zip file and install the RTP packages within. That should do it. Enjoy the game!
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Okay, it's fine.
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*giggles*

Sorry. Can't help myself.
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Aack! You're not supposed to giggle! Chuckle, sure. While sitting in front of a fireplace, reading a thick tome of obscure military history. But giggling? :shock:

Just kidding. Carry on.
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LordShaithis wrote:Aack! You're not supposed to giggle! Chuckle, sure. While sitting in front of a fireplace, reading a thick tome of obscure military history. But giggling? :shock:

Just kidding. Carry on.
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The Duchess of Zeon wrote: What, do you think I'm not a normal girl?
Simply by being on this board, ma'am, you have already lost the right to call yourself "normal". I'm sure Mike kicked the last "normal" person out long before I joined.

And even by the standards of this board, you are, well, <fingers collar nervously>, erm, what I meant to say is, in fact, actually, you are, that is to say, quite normal. Of course. Not odd at all. Move along now, nothing to see here...
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Just a question but... what is this? Some RPG maker title? Involving us fivers invading your univese? :P
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Nephtys wrote:Just a question but... what is this? Some RPG maker title? Involving us fivers invading your univese? :P
No, it's a fantasy RPG based around the people of SD.net and SB.com being forced to unite to save themselves from a vast horde of trolls attacking both boards from Tigerclaw's B5-wank forums.

I'm actually one of the main characters.
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I'm gonna sticky this sumbitch. And, er, move it to the game forum.
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Am I in this? Image

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I'm not sure Spanky.

Oh, er, I've already discovered at least one glaring, huge error, so you may have to redownload the game. I've already told Steve.
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Nice, I'm gonna start playing it in abit.
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There's a patch.

EDIT: Patch removed.

This corrects a couple of minor bugs until Steve can incorporate them into the release.
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Downloading now, Can I be the young cannnon fodder that gets slaughtered in a generic scene without a name mention if you add any content :P :wink:
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DEATH wrote:Downloading now, Can I be the young cannnon fodder that gets slaughtered in a generic scene without a name mention if you add any content :P :wink:
We already have enough death, thank you :P
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Dalton wrote:
DEATH wrote:Downloading now, Can I be the young cannnon fodder that gets slaughtered in a generic scene without a name mention if you add any content :P :wink:
We already have enough death, thank you :P
But do you have Aces? ;)

Regardless of that, finnaly booted it, just to see it worked. Any way to get it to NOT fullscreen? On a 19 inch LCD its... :shock:
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Hit F4. And then if you want it smaller, F5.
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Sorry to be such an idiot with this app but the text gets unreadable on full screen or F4 size, F5 is barely readable. the letters merge together, is this the font or just my screen?
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Ace Pace wrote:Sorry to be such an idiot with this app but the text gets unreadable on full screen or F4 size, F5 is barely readable. the letters merge together, is this the font or just my screen?
Probably that damn font issue again. Copy the game fonts into your windows font directory.
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Fixed version is going up now. Give it half an hour or so to finish uploading.

Fortunately, unless you use the testing event at the beginning that I forgot about, I don't think you have to erase your current save and start over. Unless you're not far into the game, then you might as well make sure.
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It's up.
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Game font installer

Install that font if you're having problems reading the text.
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HUZZAH!

Now, to get down to actually playing the game I've been waiting for.....
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Has a list been compiled of all the people in the game yet? I think I will download it this weekend when I have access to broadband. :)
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Goddamnit - how the hell do I get the note to Graeme in Ehs'bee?

edit: by Graeme, I of course mean Steve. I think. Shit.

edit again: nevermind, you slack bastards just turned up late for the fight.
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