Dan Bradbury DanBradbury

In today's episode we are going to create a pause effect that can be easily implemented into any game you may be working on. For this example we are going to build off of a minimalistic side scroller with only a few active objects.

Source code hosted on Github (pull, fork, or whatever you would like).

To implement the effect we will have o_player (this would be any control object in your game), trigger an event that creates o_pause which will handle all the logic for the effect.

o_player is the easiest part to implement so we should just take care of it first.

##Resources

##Art Credits As always I am getting my art from OpenGameArt.org and again I have found some really talented people posting their work for people like me and you to use.

o_pause

Side scrolling in GameMaker can be implemented with little effort. In this episode we take a step back from 2014 and take a look at how a 2d side scrolling games were implemented 20 years ago. Due to limited hardware, developers had to use smart memory management techniques to create the games that they wanted. In the 80s the best games were being made for consoles like the NES since they could support memory on the game card. In the early 1980s the standard graphics card for PCs; the CGA was not capable of even creating a satisfying 2d side scrolling effect. The Color/Graphics Adapter was IBM's first graphics card with a max resolution of 640×200, and support for 16 colors, and 16 kilobytes of video memory.

For a more more details on the CGA read on here.

This card did not have the capabilities to create the smooth side scrolling effect that NES and

##Bonus Read

Grooming Notes

Dynamic Generated Transaction API documentation

Promote Self Serve Token best practices
Update transaction_id information

Acceptance Criteria

Required to be Updated

Network Level Accounts

Grooming Notes

Pausing a Campaign

The ability to pause/unpause a campaign (including afiliate campaign customizations) so that traffic can be temporarily stopped to that specific campaign and turn it on at a later date

Acceptance Criteria

Campaign Specific

Affiliates can apply to paused campaigns
Users can only pause campaigns when a campaign is active
Demonstrate a campaign can be modified when paused

iOS Distribution

Prequirements

iOS Export
Game up to Apple Developer Guidelines
iPad OR iPhone
Mac device in the same network as your development machine

Before getting your game onto that App Store you need to send your game to Apple for verification. The process of doing this can be quite confusing. The goal of this episdoe is to try and explain the process and make it a little bit less painful.

	set nocompatible " be iMproved, required
	filetype off " required

	" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize
	set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
	call vundle#begin()
	"
	" " let Vundle manage Vundle, required
	Plugin 'gmarik/vundle'
	Plugin 'lsdr/monokai'

	"arg = \"rr_dev-pc_TECH-337_gemify_models\""
	"arg = \"rr_test-pc_TECH-337_gemify_models-default\""
	"arg = \"rr_test-pc_TECH-337_gemify_models-sample_data\""
	"arg = \"rr_test-pc_TECH-337_gemify_models-sample_data\""
	"arg = \"rr_dev-pc_TECH-337_gemify_models\""
	"arg = \"rr_test-pc_TECH-337_gemify_models-default\""
	"arg = \"rr_test-pc_TECH-337_gemify_models-sample_data\""
	Loaded suite organization_membership_test
	Started
	Error loading Marshal file /Users/danielbradbury/Documents/Invoca/web/test/fixturesdefault.marshal: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - /Users/danielbradbury/Documents/Invoca/web/test/fixturesdefault.marshal

	JIRA link: https://ringrevenue.atlassian.net/browse/STORY-902


	STORY-902:
	Pausing a Campaign
	ORIGINAL ESTIMATE: None
	TIME SPENT: None
	Problem:
	If customers want to pause a campaign, we currently coach customers to suspend the
	advertiser or affiliate, which has negative connotations. The other option is to