You need some extra help in making it as in the programming so its not just you. By The way i know Seth and The Scorpio is helping but the are helping with bits that are important but they can't really add anything unless you program something extra. Like if you add a drill that makes you go drill down 100x faster and lets you drill down 2 rows of squares at the same time then seth will be able to draw it for you.

So Mabey If someone you know someone can help you with the programing then you might get some more time but then again you have done such an excellent job with it so i am not sure what i think you should do.

Anyway xgen has forgotten about motherload unlimited and will not bother you anymore unless there is advertising on there site. Oh and i know about xgen forum posts you have made and they are very important because thats the way i found this site in November 2007 seths signature.

Oh And I still do play mlu i just got put off it when i got to 30000 feet and i lost my ice nine and that earthquakes filled up my hole. Oh thats another thing i was wanting... if you every make another motherload unlimited make sure that you let people keep ice nine when they save.

Oh one more thing in my last post i was not being negative i was just thinking that it was the end of motherload unlimited. Sorry if i offended you or something i didn't really know what you meant about the negative thing in your last post.

Also i have been wanting to know about your cheats for so long if its not to hard could you please email me at lest one cheat (i promise i won't tell anyone or give hints and  i won't post my high score (if its not disabled by the cheat) and i will not even tell seth (but i am sure he knows) so could you please email me some or one at "12padams@gmail.com".

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Oh one more thing in my last post i was not being negative i was just thinking that it was the end of motherload unlimited.

It would not be the end of MLU even if i dropped dead all of a sudden. Like i said, you still can play the game... geezzz...
... and i dont need to tell you the cheats, cause some of the people on the high-score list used them and they didnt even have to ask me or guess...

i am playing the old one and its great i was just saying the development seems to be dead.

Oh ok sorry i did not think you were going to give me cheats. I will try to guess them myself

you really dont have to guess. It doesnt take brain surgery to hack into Pentagon, it shouldnt be so hard to hack into MLU either...

it seems like you want me to hack your game...

Anyway i am asking a question when you look  for the parts of the superboring ship. is it possible to acciently blow one of the 5 parts up?

yeah you could, but you shouldnt. You could though blow up the cargo bay cause its not that important.

but if you blow up one part of the superboring machine you won't be able to finish te game...
or does the part come back or something?

I believe you can finish the game without the the cargo bay.

I dont know. I kinda started working on a new MLU (different planet), but got overwhelmed by the code while changing it. Here is my bad coding practice OMG. Its really hard to come up with something different and knowing it would work.
I dont know about releasing the code to SourceForge. If i have trouble deciphering my own code, i would imagine others wont fair better.
Side note: do you still want me to do that Kali program? I have some free time now, so I can actually start working on it.  

Well, as already mentioned, im making a new version of MLU with a different gameplay. I wasnt gonna reveal the name (of the planet), but ill do it anyways: Crematoria.
For those who dont know where the name comes from: It is mentioned in the movie "Chronicles of Riddick". The planet is a dead world with scorching day-time temperatures that melt the surface and frigid nights (something like you have on mercury, only more extreme). Here is a vivid illustration of what the players are gonna be facing:
http://api.ning.com/files/bUPn4OCmm9H-jf3tUl6EKRctIDkvBJHGhfkAaolriQRcG-7-TvfYClxcO82KVNXDNdQWmW9uWM4PrSo0H-BFGNMwN8USexSZ/crematoria2un1.jpg
Yeah, lighting strikes and acid fumes. Since a lot of movement is gonna be on the surface, it will be lots of fun.
There will be five (instead of one) bases. Most of the gadgets and upgrades are gonna be the same. There will be fields of minerals. The field itself will be more dynamic.
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Seth, are you still interested in making graphics? I need a few...

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I hope the surface won't be as flat as it was in MLU1.

Well, its quiet difficult to do hills and valleys in a grid based game. I would need to generate filled curves of slopes or have images of several curves stored (too much filesize).

1. Can you do a somewhat dark sky that i can put in continuous motion? That means the left edge must be connected to the right edge. Put black clouds there with images of lightning (if its not too hard), like in the photo.
2. I also need a stand-alone base (with both right and left edges; not like the one you made with the right edge off the screen). Make it have a protective shield or thick walls.
Ill pm you private details.
3. I need an image of glider equipment. The ship is gonna glide on the surface (via levitation or air cushion). Also has to be with jets. Make it so that I can draw the image on top of the digger (as an attachment). Change gadgets.jpg: instead of "Jet Booster", change it to "Jet Glider", price $5,000.
4. I need an image of an ice rock. Its supposed to look like ice and be very hard.  

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I prefer the ground being dark/black so its different from Martian orange ground.
The sky should be 800-900 pixels wide, make it hills and mountains only. Plus i need several separate atmospheric features (clouds, lightning, acid rain, a volcano, etc).
For the bumpy ground, when you redo the soil (i want it dark) make it ~60x60 pixels with bumpy edges. I also need all the little ground shapes redone in the black color theme plus the smootz  ;)

Also need an animation (~5 frames) of flowing magma. (horizontal and vertical)
Thanx  

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The little ground shapes should be rough-edged? Or are we still using the smooth edges in the tunnels?

Make it rough edges, Ill see how it works out.

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60x60 tiles are PNG-8, right? Are we using a variety of them, or are all 60x60 tiles exactly identical?

Quality should not be the main concern with the ground. Make 6 different blocks of the same texture.

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Frames aligned horizontally or vertically?

I dont need separate frames anymore. Just make one 50x160 strip of magma (JPG). I need it be very featureless. Or make it so that  any 50x50 block of it had the right edge join the left edge and upper edge join the lower edge (if its not too hard). I dont want  it to be very blocky.

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I assume that the weather bands are each 800~900 pixels wide. separate. Do they go UNDER the mountain layer (looks good with clouds) or ON TOP of the mountain layer (looks good with acid rain) or BOTH?

For a stormy cloud I was thinking of having a small (~100x50) "piece" of cloud with some transparency. I could draw them on top of each other and so control the visibility factor and shape of the cloud.
The mountain layer would have the sky regions completely transparent. So first i draw the sky (with blends if necessary) then the mountain layer and then any clouds/atmospheric stuff. Three more things:
1. I need a lightning (one frame).
2. I need a piece of mountain slope 250px high at about 45deg.
3. I need a 150px high small volcano with magma flowing down its sides. The crater should be 50-70 pixels in width.

Hey. if you need any kind of a website, I can do one.  

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