Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Aww shucks.

Marveland has been closed just a little too soon. Darn. I never saw that coming!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Hooray, another one.

God, just when you think these stupid kids couldn't get anymore ridiculous. We have a new "game" coming out called Marveland, from a child named Jacob Haitsma (Jacob goes under many different alias, and enjoys preteding to run "companies" for his "clients"). Oh joy. At least this game fails at getting members' interest, so they really can't ruin kid's dreams, but it's still quite humorous. He made a post on VMK Magic (http://vmkmagic.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=305958) and he keeps getting owned by people about legal issues already, and the thread is only a week old.

So here's this video: (Oh, check out his other videos, such as the video featuring his VFK Phisher! (a program that steals your VFK login information) He claims he is an advanced developer, yet he doesn't even know how to mask a textbox, also he has extremely basic actionscript videos favorited. Jacob is a very advanced developer indeed!


Nice; we have Jacob (I'm guessing around 12 or 13 years old by the sound of his voice) filming his monitor with an iPhone. Classy. Marveland's "update" doesn't come until a little later, though, as he's a little excited to show off his company that he created, as well as his fancy template he downloaded.
Alright, so now we're looking at the "game." Queue the background music loaded externally (which, by the way, is illegal. No license has been purchased to use the song, as admitted by Jacob here) Yes! Nothing like hogging resources already in a game consisting of 6 lines of code.

I see a Marveland logo, a crappy toolbar, and even crappier tiles. And what's with that cursor? Isn't that Uvora's?

Let's take a look:

Yep; that's a carbon copy. Is that why he calls himself Carbon (Osnap I just did)? Way to ruin your repuation almost instantly. The first update in, and you're already committing copyright infringement. I can't wait to see what's down the rest of your "game's" road.

Now we have Mr. Programmer over here explaining how the game is "tile-based," or isometric. Now, obviously he does not know anything about isometric programming, as I quote, "That's because it's one image, just, maybe like 25 by 30 pixels." Obviously, you have no idea what you're doing, as you don't even know the size of the images you're using, and you also forgot the main rule of isometric projection: the height is always half of the width. This made me curious as to whether or not you even made your crappy tiles. A quick google image search of "wooden isometric tile" proved you, yet again, did not:

While there's no copyright on these tiles, I find it hilarious that his graphic skills are so bad that he has to depend on these. This really is probably the biggest failure I've seen yet. It's a bigger failure than both Uvora and openVMK, and it's not even closed yet! While Oatman didn't know how to manage for crap, at least he can program. At least Etta does do graphics. At least Nick can make a website on his own. Jacob is just a big fat fail. He literally cannot do the tiniest graphic, and he cannot program.

"OH OH OH OH BU WAIT YA I CAN U SAW MY TEST CLIENT!!!" No. You know how to move a stolen image to where the mouse position is. You know how to make a textbox = "" when enter is pressed. You know how to set another textbox's text and move it up 20 pixels. Yeah, I give you that. But even people who've never programmed before can learn how to do your "client" in five minutes.

"OH OHOHOHOH OH BUT WAIT DIDNT U SEE THE NEW UPDATES ON THE FORUMS!?!! WERE GONNA HAVE A CUSTOME USERNAME AND ROOM TELEPORTATION AND POSSIBLY MULTIPLAYER CHAT!!!!!!!!!" Oh yeah, I did! Congratulations! You think making another dynamic text area, and adding the ability to change the background image is worthy of an "update." Also, you mention that the multiplayer chat is only possible "...due to possible staff impersonation." Haha, that's the saddest excuse I've ever heard. You're just worried if you can get something as simple as that to even remotely work. Even half decent programmers know how to solve your "problem" of staff impersonation.


Speaking of staff problems, word on the street is that Mr. Haitsma was upset with one, so he threatened to infect the staff member with a trojan horse virus called a "RAT." What will he do to members that he gets upset with? I wouldn't download anything from this guy. The fact that he called it a RAT is humorous as well, proving himself a script kiddie, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie), showing he originated from the scum of a little kid "hacker" community where nobody knows how to program. Script kiddies are annoying little kids that think they can hack and program, but they just depend on already written scripts and code (and graphics, as we've found out), much like Carbon and Vortex do.

Best wishes with your "game".
P.S. I'm interested in hearing your rebuttal; I can always use a good laugh.