Hello everyone!  Dirty work out of the way first, version 1.09 of Elephant Quest is out!  Clear your cache on your browser to see the newest version.  This will resolve these issues:

• Umbrella quest fixed (no longer gives you another umbrella on reload)
• Trophy quest fixed (no longer hides your trophy, actually a problem attached to the umbrella quest)
• Map fixes for some browsers (some browsers have strange off-screen click rules, I need to investigate more)
• Elephant names hidden on loaded Save Game (saved game issue)
• Area 12 walls climbable
• Area 25 walls climbable
• Area 31 jumping challenges fixed
• Old gun trails removed on new area
• Area 42 ghost block patched

Some of these issues (specifically the first two) are not resolvable unless you do a NewGame+ or a New Game, since your save game has to be rewritten fresh for questlines.

If you find any more issues please feel free to list them, I really appreciate all the feedback I got on the last post.  I am still working on the strange “jumping into terrain” bug, I have no clue what it is but I’ll keep going at it (I can’t replicate it for the life of me… strange, strange bug).  I need to find a computer that is capable of it.

Okay, beyond that… better news is that Elephant Quest has today reached 500k plays!  It’s on the road to a quick million and I’m really happy about that.

And in other news….

Yes, Exit Path 2 is starting pre-production soon and I am starting to field beta testers right about now.  There’s a few issues I really want to nip in the butt on this version of Exit Path and I’ll need a good group of people to test this stuff.  You can sign up for beta now, and I’ll be picking a few good people to join the beta team for this project.  I can’t reveal too much about the game quite yet, but hopefully you’ll sign up and get to see the goodness sooner!

I’m actually working on another project as well at the moment.  It’s going to probably be the return of another animal friend (not Elephant this time!) and it will probably be a lot of shiny.

Enjoy your weekend!

Let’s do this mullet style: business in the front, party in the back.

Exit Path beta was a huge success.  People found a ton of bugs to get sucked out and overall the reception for the game was more than positive (which is always a relief to me).  600 beta testers we’re invited to the first wave, which helped us squeeze out the bugs while maintaining a good server load.  We logged about 280 multiplayer games over those few hours, with some users hanging on for dear life on the server a good hour after the game was gone.  Top users were breaking Level 10 of 40 MP levels by that time.

I am opening up Beta Phase 2 to the general public on Tuesday May 18 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Pacific Time [GMT -7:00] (Check your timezone!) for additional testing.  IT WILL BE FABULOUS.

site: http://armorgames.com/exitpath/
user: betauser
password: an-lops-of-u

We’d love you to come into the game and check out my labour of love.

Yunholoman (Andrew at the AG office) and Danny Boy (Dan at the AG Office) are currently the multiplayer leaders with 15 and 18 levels apiece.  I think I am number 4 or so.

In other Flash news, I got picked up in an interview with Dan (CEO of Armor Games) on Joystiq!  Yay!

IN LESS IMPORTANT NEWS

Bagel made it onto ICanHasCheezburger.com yesterday.  I didn’t submit the photo but someone else did.  It’s pretty awesome.

I have reached Level 20 in Modern Warfare 2.  My Kill/Death ratio is 1.01.  I’m feeling pretty good about that.

Mexican food for lunch today.  Can’t wait.

Life’s been busy. Can you tell?  No blog post in two weeks?   I’ve got some big stuff coming up in my life over the next few weeks, I can’t wait to share.

Ding ding ding, time to sign up!  Exit Path beta has officially started fielding beta testers.

http://armor.ag/exitpathbeta

If you would like to know more about Exit Path, click here.