Flash -> Standalone

[anonymous]

Terry, you should put together an article on how you made the standalone versions of VVVVVV with resources, tips, problems you've faced, etc.
Would be immensely helpful to myself and other developers looking to do the same.

Also interested on your thoughts on selling the game and the various services you used.

[Terry]

You can find out pretty much everything I know about that here:

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=10106.msg311683#msg311683

[anonymous]

Yeah i've seen that but it's incomplete...
Such as how you hid the right-click menu completely? The fscommand method doesn't hide >about and >settings like VVVVVV does.
And i'd like to know what you ended up doing about stuff like Icons and swfsecurity that you mentioned.
Also i'm sure there's things you've learned concerning Linux that would be helpful to know....keeping the Windows version working suitably in Wine seems to have led to a few updates.

[Terry]

Oh! Come to think of it, I did a little more than just that...

I used a tool for windows called Versiown, which allows you to change a few things about the compiled flash projector, including removing the right click menu completely.

As for SWF security, I got some advice from some flash developers and ended up using a basic version of Kindisoft's obfuscater. I've got no idea how well that really works.

As for Wine compatibility, all I've done is make sure the game always starts in a window. Everything else just worked! (I did try a lot of different things to get the game working on Linux, but none of that actually worked out so unfortunately I don't really have anything helpful to say about that.)

[anonymous]

What about the Mac version?

[Marlon]

I'm using Dcomsoft's SWFProtector for all my project. This SWF Protector can work with MAC. You can download a free version here www.dcomsoft.com