Maxi

Probably waking up to some weird noises and seeing a shadow flinging itself across the room! Turned on the light and found out a bat had managed to sneak in before I closed the windows.

Safe to say it scared me senseless along with the huge panic of how to get it back outside :p

F.A.O Mr SensiRAM

I just tried out your game but it didn't work out to well for me, I'm running on Windows 7 x64Bit if that makes any difference. Anyways here is the error log for you:


ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [28/04/2010 5:12:11 PM] System.InvalidCastException
- Specified cast is not valid.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.VerifyRequestedPrivilegesSupport(String requestedExecutionLevel)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadApplicationManifest(AssemblyManifest deploymentManifest, String targetDir, Uri deploymentUri, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, Uri& appSourceUri, String& appManifestPath)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadApplicationManifest(AssemblyManifest deploymentManifest, String targetDir, Uri deploymentUri, Uri& appSourceUri, String& appManifestPath)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.DownloadApplication(SubscriptionState subState, ActivationDescription actDesc, Int64 transactionId, TempDirectory& downloadTemp)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.InstallApplication(SubscriptionState& subState, ActivationDescription actDesc)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
No transaction information is available.

Not sure if it's my end or your end but either way I hope this helps you game creating progress. Good Luck!

Maxi Live (long time listener but just not consistent)

Thats a little harsh tbh... The same amount of work went into them as the Halo maps and they can charge that much for 3 maps. Yes they didn't want to MS insisted on it maybe its the same for frontlines? If not then everyone would be OMG! Why does frontlines have 4 maps for 400ms points but halo is 800 ms points for 3 and they are alot smaller! Etc so I guess Microsoft is trying to keep the peace.

Yep frontlines ain't great, but they still deserve the money if they are making 4 large maps for the community, game devs ain't free ;)

Oh sorry :D I thought they had one going in the forums? Well sorry I just mean all the effort they have put in to hype it up even little things in the webcams etc

I'm guessing they have no right to complain/stop work (contract already signed with the publisher) just they aren't going to be very happy as they are very passionate guys. Bungie.net could be a little shakey on information in the coming weeks depending if this becomes a dispute or if the reason was seen as valid by Bungie.

As people have said before, if this is MS then they could of been using Bungie as a backup if Sony or Nintendo had anything special to show at E3 and as they didn't have too much MS will leave Bungie for a while and use there other titles as publicity.

Hopefully there is a good reason for all of this and Bungie staffers won't be too angry with the decision and continue to work for an even more spectacular announcement. Sorry for the confusion Xav de Matos, I should of really said random viral advertising? :)

I wonder if Bungie would be able to/considering postponing the project for a while as a strike against their publisher. I mean if they have spent a few months prepping up the ARG and all the team working extra hard to get it ready then the publisher to say cancel! wait a while. Surely Bungie will want some extra pay to cover for the extra work. Just a thought :)

Looks better now but I'm still not a fan of avatars. I want to see how friends lists/invites etc are displayed in the guide button best not be some avatar waving at me saying come play! :D

Main sales dashboard = kiddies and lame stuff. Guide button for hardcore gamers please ^.^

peter_walters at hotmail dot com if you got one going :)

I love how dustin bums all this GOW stuff. Whats he gonna do when the franchise dies? (a long way to go I know). GOW was a great looking game but as for story it was mediocre, the online was bugged = mediocre and that action was fairly repetitive. Hopefully now that Epic have seen how well the franchise has done they can spread their wings abit and create something special :D

Not holding my breath tho :P

I've been away from podcasts for a whiel so I've missed quite a few of your episodes :( MP3 player died + lack of internet due to moving house. But now I'm back but I'm just wondering what happened to knuckles?

Also is Alex a new Fanboy staffy? Thanks for the podcast guys.

That was great last night. Gamertag - Maxi Live

Apart from when Dustin stole our Mongoose on Rocket Race so it was left "with a pinky on the back" ¬¬

Great games!