Potential software used by popcap to make level paths

[cuteio14]

Apr 14, 2016 17:29:35 GMT Elder God of Salt said:

Email Newsflash:
I STILL DON'T HAVE ANY REPLY FROM POPCAP! US WANT ZOOMA PATH EDIT SOLUUSHON RAIT NAW! US WANT IT PLES
WEE WONT MAEK ENY $$$CAZH$$$ WEE PROOMEEESSSS
sorry for big text and bad grammar i was mad (and the big text and bad grammar was intended)

Today i don't feel like replying that email
I just wanna lay in my bed

Don't feel like revealing Zuma path files
So leave me alone and go away
'Cause today I swear I'm not telling it forever
No-no at all!
TELL US! TELL US! TELL-TELL-US!
No-no at all!
TELL US! TELL US! TELL US!
Fine i'm replying.

(That parody tho. And it's the lazy song by Bruno Mars.)

So yeah nothing.

Still alive. They uploaded Bejeweled videos.

[Bobik]

Well, we can edit Luxor paths now... But knowing how to edit Zuma paths would be great too. In fact, I prefer Zuma to Luxor. Zuma has just better gameplay and that's the most important thing to me in the sphere-matching genre.

But, well, nobody knows when we posess the knowledge of editing Zuma paths, if ever..

[Maxalien12]

Or is Popcap cheating?

[cuteio14]

Jun 2, 2016 22:04:26 GMT Maxalien12 said:

Or is Popcap cheating?

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[Domi2005]

I have an idea!
We should contact Jason Kapalka, the designer of Zuma Deluxe!
He could help, if he has an e-mail address.
I don't think that Popcap would cheat just to make paths, they should have a tool
or at least the simple knowledge of how to make Zuma paths.
I get ANGRY, too, because of this problem!
I will try to contact Jason Kapalka right now!!!

[Domi2005]

Jason Kapalka's e-mail address ([e-mail]) doesn't work.
I can't contact him in other way probably!
If you can, congrats. I'm under 13, so I can't use Twitter, Facebook or anything similar to that.

[cuteio14]

Jun 4, 2016 18:57:21 GMT Domi2005 said:

Jason Kapalka's e-mail address ([e-mail]) doesn't work.
I can't contact him in other way probably!
If you can, congrats. I'm under 13, so I can't use Twitter, Facebook or anything similar to that.

If you wanted to have twitter and facebook, you must have an adult watching you.

[Domi2005]

I'm pretty sure that we would need PopCap Framework, if we want to make Zuma paths, since that's
the engine they used for their games. If we can get it somehow, maybe this problem will be solved!

[konisbored]

Jun 5, 2016 7:06:01 GMT Domi2005 said:

I'm pretty sure that we would need PopCap Framework, if we want to make Zuma paths, since that's
the engine they used for their games. If we can get it somehow, maybe this problem will be solved!

If it is Popcap's own framework making these files, I sincerely doubt they will hand the knowledge over to us, for all sorts of business/legal reasons. Especially since EA bought it off loll. 
I know for a fact that Zuma Deluxe was based off the Puzz Loop series (actually almost every game in the genre are) so I'm curious as to how the Zuma engine is made from that game. It's a wild shot.
EDIT: according to Wikipedia Popcap Framework was shut down and replaced in 2009 with SexyKanji. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopCap_Games
Whuuuppppp.

[cuteio14]

Jun 6, 2016 1:25:25 GMT konisbored said:

Jun 5, 2016 7:06:01 GMT Domi2005 said:

I'm pretty sure that we would need PopCap Framework, if we want to make Zuma paths, since that's
the engine they used for their games. If we can get it somehow, maybe this problem will be solved!

If it is Popcap's own framework making these files, I sincerely doubt they will hand the knowledge over to us, for all sorts of business/legal reasons. Especially since EA bought it off loll. 
I know for a fact that Zuma Deluxe was based off the Puzz Loop series (actually almost every game in the genre are) so I'm curious as to how the Zuma engine is made from that game. It's a wild shot.
EDIT: according to Wikipedia Popcap Framework was shut down and replaced in 2009 with SexyKanji. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopCap_Games
Whuuuppppp.

WHAT THE???

[konisbored]

Jun 6, 2016 1:52:24 GMT cuteio14 said:

Jun 6, 2016 1:25:25 GMT konisbored said:

If it is Popcap's own framework making these files, I sincerely doubt they will hand the knowledge over to us, for all sorts of business/legal reasons. Especially since EA bought it off loll. 
I know for a fact that Zuma Deluxe was based off the Puzz Loop series (actually almost every game in the genre are) so I'm curious as to how the Zuma engine is made from that game. It's a wild shot.
EDIT: according to Wikipedia Popcap Framework was shut down and replaced in 2009 with SexyKanji. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopCap_Games
Whuuuppppp.

WHAT THE???

"The PopCap Games Framework is licensed under a proprietary free license. The PopCap framework powers casual games such as PopCap's own Bejeweled and Sandlot Games' Cake Mania. The framework only officially runs on the Microsoft Windows platform, although some games have been ported to the Mac using proprietary conversions of the framework. A community-supported effort is under way for porting the framework to Linux as well. One such effort is TuxCap,[9] which additionally makes use of PyCap,[10] wrapping the SexyApp API in a Python layer. A community forum for the PopCap framework[11] has helped developers and improved on the last official release of the framework. As of July 27, 2009, PopCap have finished their developer program. Community efforts to modernise the framework have culminated in SexyKanji,[12] which wraps the SexyApp API around the Gogii Games Engine (formerly the Kanji Engine), introducing support for new features and many different platforms, including Android, and iOS (iPhone/iPad). The Gogii Games Engine is a commercial engine, so developers must pay to acquire a license to use it (unlike the original PopCap framework)." - quoted from Wikipedia with references.

It means that the framework originally made by Popcap still exists, just that it has been repackaged as a separate commercial framework, sort of like how the free Game Maker 8 was repackaged as the commercial Game Maker Studio. Same situation there, the old framework is outdated so you probably have to use the new one. If it's a commercial framework software problems can occur.
We actually have a Mac/Linux port of the old Popcap Framework here: sourceforge.net/projects/tuxcap/
There's a forum for the old framework here: forum.fischeronline.de/
And we still don't know if the Zuma engine is even in it in the first place. Sighhhhh.

[cuteio14]

Jun 6, 2016 2:11:08 GMT konisbored said:

Jun 6, 2016 1:52:24 GMT cuteio14 said:

WHAT THE???

"The PopCap Games Framework is licensed under a proprietary free license. The PopCap framework powers casual games such as PopCap's own Bejeweled and Sandlot Games' Cake Mania. The framework only officially runs on the Microsoft Windows platform, although some games have been ported to the Mac using proprietary conversions of the framework. A community-supported effort is under way for porting the framework to Linux as well. One such effort is TuxCap,[9] which additionally makes use of PyCap,[10] wrapping the SexyApp API in a Python layer. A community forum for the PopCap framework[11] has helped developers and improved on the last official release of the framework. As of July 27, 2009, PopCap have finished their developer program. Community efforts to modernise the framework have culminated in SexyKanji,[12] which wraps the SexyApp API around the Gogii Games Engine (formerly the Kanji Engine), introducing support for new features and many different platforms, including Android, and iOS (iPhone/iPad). The Gogii Games Engine is a commercial engine, so developers must pay to acquire a license to use it (unlike the original PopCap framework)." - quoted from Wikipedia with references.

It means that the framework originally made by Popcap still exists, just that it has been repackaged as a separate commercial framework, sort of like how the free Game Maker 8 was repackaged as the commercial Game Maker Studio. Same situation there, the old framework is outdated so you probably have to use the new one. If it's a commercial framework software problems can occur.
We actually have a Mac/Linux port of the old Popcap Framework here: sourceforge.net/projects/tuxcap/
There's a forum for the old framework here: forum.fischeronline.de/
And we still don't know if the Zuma engine is even in it in the first place. Sighhhhh.

These tools made me stuck to ZUMA again!

[Domi2005]

Here's the download link for the framework:
sourceforge.net/projects/popcapframework/

It's for C++, so it needs programming knowledge.
We are probably still stuck!

[Elder God of Salt]

It's like 3 months already and i still don't have the key. Popcap is really cheating

[cuteio14]

Jun 7, 2016 9:44:10 GMT Elder God of Salt said:

It's like 3 months already and i still don't have the key. Popcap is really cheating

And as you did not notice, you're a treasurer.