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It completely depends on the class, of which those in the multimedia department are strange...
Programming, math, humanities, soc, etc are all tested.

Well, I have been quite busy with schoolwork so far this quarter.  I haven't done much from some music work, a bit of spriting and implementing object dragging in the lorn editor.  Maybe I'll get a chance to get ahead on coursework some time, but till then Im afraid things will be very slow for me.

Thanks kalan.  The gui has been particularly slow progress, though I would wage if I stopped trying to make everything i it aestheticly pleasing I would be near about done by now.

hmm, any chance you'll add a rpg/shop mod?

So the game is something like a Megaman Battle Network? If so, I'd suggest having attacks that hit diffrent patterns of squares like the various sword attacks in that game.

Well, I still don't know what the problem in that regard is, though its a game maker error as opposed an error I created.  I finaly came up with a fix for the slope error which was a real no brainer.  The problem was i was detecting the walls in front of slopes before the slope would move you up, and simply switching the order of the horizontal and vertical movement collision checks didn't do anything.  As such, the solution was simply to add an extra check during the horizontal movement for slopes before checking for walls.