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LoL, i'm sure were glad you wern't in the bathroom at the time when you were thinking of a name for the game

Nice little game, thank you

chris_b wrote:

freedimension wrote:I know that I'm curious but: Where does the name of the game come from?

There's no special significance to the name - I couldn't think of what to call the game then I saw a picture of some Riesling grapes on the wall in my parents' kitchen with just the word "Riesling" written at the bottom.

Just to let you know, I tried to run your game on a Dell Optiplex and found some problem. When I started it up - it switched to full-screen mode & I noticed the opening logo, then a flash of a small white rectangle at bottom-right of screen, then I was taken back to the Windows desktop with the game app minimised on the task bar. When I clicked the game's task bar button, I was taken back to full-screen mode showing the game menu, but it would shortly go back to the desktop - kinda weird. Maybe it's some graphics driver issue - anyway just thought you'd want to know about it.

Thanks for posting this - I'm looking forward to trying it on another machine.

mskuma wrote:it switched to full-screen mode & I noticed the opening logo, then a flash of a small white rectangle at bottom-right of screen, then I was taken back to the Windows desktop with the game app minimised on the task bar. When I clicked the game's task bar button, I was taken back to full-screen mode showing the game menu, but it would shortly go back to the desktop

hmm.. I've tested on a few machines and not seen this happen. In the game's main loop I call IsScreenActive() - if it returns 0 I free all the sprites and do nothing until it returns <>0, in order to support ALT-TAB switching etc.

It seems like maybe some other program is taking the focus and causing IsScreenActive() to return 0 - maybe something which runs in the tray area of the taskbar if something flashes at bottom-right?

Yeah not really sure what happened there - I should have said that I was running this on an office machine that is pretty 'locked down' from a privilege point of view. I ran it on another machine - same model, config & spec & it was fine (also it was Administrator not locked-down mode). Not sure if that makes a difference. Sorry I can't offer much more help at the moment - given the above, it's probably not a concern. Thanks for making the game available - it's cool!

chris_b wrote:

Andre wrote:@chris_b: the game looks nice. Would be cool to see your game in the Showcase on www.PureArea.net

I'd be happy for it to be added... or do I need to register somehow and add it myself? I couldn't see how

You just need to register a new login (using your email address and a password).

After that you can create new project entries in the Showcase.