In what way was it not constructive? I like the party menu, I don't like the rest. I wouldn't want to have to work through several menus every time I start up the game (Difficulty, Mode, Shoe size, Sexual preference and whatever else he put in there). The Rescue the Train (which he always called "Bring the Train Safely Back to Cactus Canyon") is where the rift between us started. I didn't like the idea. I don't prefer things that shut down most of the shots in the game for too long. I didn't want to include it. Once I rejected a few other of his ideas, he decided he'd just make his own version, with blackjack and hookers, and his own bad ideas ... and you know what, forget the blackjack and hookers.

Some of Andre's ideas are great - like the lit beer mug (which he won't sell to anyone that isn't part of his club). Many of them are overdone and tacky - like the bolted on train toy with the blinking smoke stack, or the topper with running water that sounds like some kid is constantly peeing in a stream. He just wouldn't accept no for an answer on anything.

If I've learned anything in all of this, it's that I'm NOT altruistic enough for open source. I admit that. I still haven't made peace with the fact that he took the nuts and bolts of everything I worked on for a year and bastardized it so soon after I built it (I know, I did the same thing to the original CC, but it had been YEARS since work ceased on it).

Cactus Canyon languished in it's (generally agreed upon) unfinished state for a dozen years and nobody did anything. I finally get up the gumption to try to make something cool out of it, and when I get to the point of showing it to everybody some jackass trips me and stands on my back to say "Hey guys, look what I did to Cactus Canyon".

I know, I know, it's open source, he can do whatever the hell he wants and this stupid ginger can't say anything about it. "Fully Legit" and "Cool" aren't interchangeable in my head, but maybe I'm just dumb.

I wanted the source code to be available so people could learn from it, so maybe I should have used GPL or something -- not that it would have stopped Andre from doing what he did because I'm not exactly going to go after anybody with legal force for using my code whether it was open source or not; he just wouldn't have that excuse to crutch on.

So after watching the PAPA finals on PAPA.tv today, I decided to make some adjustments to some of the rules.

All the players seemed to just be running for stampede, and since I made 3 polly modes there's more to do along the way, so I decided to try to give the player more of a reason to actually shoot for them. So now, the two side ramp modes, if won, add 250,000 to the base stampede value, and the main (original) save polly mode, if won, adds 500,000 to the Stampede value. If all three are complete when you get to Stampede, the shots are worth 1 mil & 2 mil instead of 250k & 500k.

Additionally I adjusted the loops a bit so that when you're in showdown, shots to the loops will go fully around, rather than stopping the pops. So you can't farm bonus multiplier -- since that seemed to be another common (boring) tactic.

I'm somewhat tempted to cap the bonus x, since reaping a huge multiplier instead of playing the whole game seems kind of lame. Only make it go up to like 10x and then after that give out some paltry amount of points or something.

Ha. I can't math. That would be 1.25/2.5

I know, I'll make this an option. Configurable cap amount. Off by default.

Prodded Bowen about CCC on the PapaTV live stream and he said he'd like it if the super skill shot was able to be turned off via settings. I know it won't do much to sway his overall option of Cactus Canyon, but still.

Done. Committed to the github.

/wipes hands on pants

Yes, but it would have bugs.

Yeah, my cheap web host seems to be down again.

The company is "ProvisionHost" - my sites only there because I have a bunch of free credit for web hosting due to a screw up on their part.

Clearly it would have to be Betty Bart. Come on now. I made dmd bits for a female bro already, I need a saucy southern sounding lady to record audio for it.

Bowen hates cc. Not sure he'd be thrilled to be implanted.

There is no female villan voice in the game currently, so having it match anything isn't a priority. The 2 female characters that exist now are polly and the bartender chick.

Fishing for audio help.

So, I need to find a female voice for Betty Bart - if anybody wants to take a crack at it, here's some sample stuff you could record and see how it goes.

1. Betty here to show these boys how it's done.
2. Are you a mama's boy, Sheriff?
3. This ain't over Sheriff!
4. Don't you know it's not nice to hit a Lady?
5. You're kinda cute, for a law man. (Messing with his head, you understand, right?)
6. (Some exclamations, like "Hey!", "Ow!", "Watch it!", "That Smarts!")

And on a related note, I could use a handful of 'expressive' bull sound effects. I realize that's a tall order. Angry grunts, heavy exhales, pain, that kind of thing. From a Bull. Everybody has stuff like that saved somewhere, don't they?

It did not.

Nothing so far.

Well, she's a rough, hot, criminal in the old west. So definitely more on the low/seductive end of the scale.

Sara doesn't strike me as the outlaw cowgirl type.

I think it's supposed to be harder when closed. But yeah, it's not really very effective.