#ludumdare client by Jorjon

made by Jorjon for MINI37 (-)

For the non-game category, I made an IRC client for #ludumdare channel. Still unfinished and rough, with some bugs, but I plan to finish it in the future.
First you have to setup your nickname on the starting screen. Then it will try to connect to #ludumdare. From there, press Enter to chat.
You can show the names of the chatters pressing N, and bring the console pressing F1 (to execute IRC commands).

NOTE ON RELEASE: The game can't be played on a browser, it is a problem related to flash sockets. I provide the only playable form at the moment: a zipped swf file. I'll work for the WebSockets option as soon as possible.

Flash Zipped	http://www.jorjon.com/minild37/minild37.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/minild-37/?action=preview&uid=5268

Feedback

Jedi

30. Sep 2012 · 13:36 UTC

Hmmm. I really like this idea but I tried it a few times and couldn't get it to connect. After I entered my nickname, it said "connecting..." but never progressed. Nothing was being blocked by my firewall, and I turned on viewing of allowed packets to confirm at least that it did establish a connection to an afternet address on port 6667.

ratking

02. Oct 2012 · 15:30 UTC

Yeah, it's a pity. The idea is very cool, but the connection just fails. I get this error after a minute or two:

TypeError: Error #1034: Typumwandlung fehlgeschlagen: flash.events::SecurityErrorEvent@51c9eb1 kann nicht in SecurityError umgewandelt werden.
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::Socket/onTimeout()
at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/tick()