At chickendude's suggestion, you won't die immediately upon hitting a hazard or getting too close to a nuke.  The problem was how to make this work because of hazards such as water and lava.

I finally decided that the player will jump in the air upon touching a hazard, like you see in some cartoons.  Hitting any hazard will make you lose a shield, so the shield count have been raised to 5.

The exception will be the city in the clouds level (level 12).  Because the player dies from falling off the clouds and descending toward the earth in this level, it doesn't make sense to have him jump out of the way of "gravity"

There were some students in my Russian class who had some problems with the way I taught.  But instead of bringing their problems to me, they brought their problems to one of their friends, who would share the problem with me and not disclose who the others were.  This is quite appropriate in Russia.

Even though it could happen in America, from what I know it's not appropriate, especially in business.  Am I correct?  I want to address this to my students who hope to do business in America.

I agree with all of those. (except I like the big worlds)  I especially agree with the death one since the levels get really hard once you reach the volcanoes.  I'll see what I can do.

As a rule of thumb, you're too close if the enemy is 16 pixels \ one tile away.

EDIT: I'll just take the deaths as shields.  A water death or nuke death will take a way a shield.  Did you find yourself running into grizzles quite frequently?  If so I'll do 6 shields instead of the usual 4 to take into account water and suicides

This would be awesome to port to Ti calculators

Cool, I hope you can find some down-time. This program has some really awesome potential.

Just as you said that I got some down-time   I don't know when I will be finished, but I have 140 words left to add.

By the way, when a game automatically saves an application variable is created.  If you play using the appvar "RussianO", you should see an appvar "rUSSIANo."  But on my calculator, the appvars are invisible!  They're there, I'm just not seeing them in the Memory menu.  Does anyone else have this problem?

Sorry, I didn't have much time to check new updates, I'll have to check the topic again in case I missed any beta to test when I have more time. It might be hard, though, since there are 2 people on me who want me to test their programs lately

Oh, no worries, there have been no new updates ever since my "news post" about Slova.  But I think it's pretty much done except for my language pack.

Quote from: Hot_Dog on February 23, 2013, 10:05:48 am

I'm teaching again

Teaching? What do you teach? How do you like it? I've been thinking about teaching a C/C++ class at the local community college here.

Hope you're able to find time to finish Slova.

I teach English.  I'm living in Russia as a teacher, and it's fantastic!  But the classrooms and classroom management are definitely different from the US

Quote from: Hot_Dog on February 23, 2013, 10:05:48 am

I'm teaching again, which has slowed down my progress with the Russian language pack.  (I know that at least two people want it, and I want it to be good rather than just "thrown together")

If i'm not included in those two people, then three

Lol, I remember that you and Xeda want it

I made a Swedish version. I didn't test it in gameplay much (since I'm a bit bad at this game ), but I think it should work fine. Is it a problem if I used spaces in the English or Swedish words?

EDIT: I decided to get rid of the spaces in Swedish words since they weren't especially necessary (the only one that actually needs it is "hej då", but spelling it without a space should also work). The updated version also contains a minor font edit (upper two pixels of regular size Ä and Ö) to match the TI-OS font, and a new set was added for weekdays.

The only problem with spaces is possibly the in-game font.  Usually underscores would be better, but I might have forgotten to include that in the manual.

Thanks for the font!  I'll test it myself as well.  About the game's difficulty, do you think I need to tone it down?