Name: Seamus Finnigan Homepage: None Yet From: Felton CA Date: Fri Oct 4 17:11:35 CDT 2002 Comments: I like BROOMSTICKS , and i can create a truely 3D scenario with MORFIT 3D WebDesigner(www.Morfit.com)(OOOOhhhhhh!) Reelee Interesting, Ohhh Yeh and i can do the quidditch field

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Oklahoma Date: Fri Oct 4 17:22:46 CDT 2002 Comments: Holy Cow!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome improvements paul!!! Really awesome!!!!!! So much more realistic!!! Are you going to post the sky and broomstick pics. on the website? Because I have got to get those for my full version. --Daniel.....Great Job!!!!! Thanks Daniel! Yes, I will make those available soon.

Name: HPOTTER Homepage: REDRUMCLAN From: USA Date: Fri Oct 4 19:42:10 CDT 2002 Comments: Dear paul, why wont my players work? the ones made by other people are transparent but mine are white in the back!!! help!!! HPOTTER Open your gif image in the Windows Paint Program and set the transparent color to white in Image->Attributes.

Name: HPOTTER Homepage: REDRUMCLAN From: USA Date: Fri Oct 4 19:45:37 CDT 2002 Comments: dear paul I almost forgot when are you going to have the next charecter contest? HPOTTER I'll have new contests sometime soon.

Name: HPOTTER Homepage: DRUMCLAN From: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! Date: Fri Oct 4 19:49:14 CDT 2002 Comments: When Are you going to have the next sky contest too? HPOTTER Yep. :-)

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Fri Oct 4 19:57:34 CDT 2002 Comments: I don't mean to underestimate you or anything Paul, but did you draw the mountains and lake (background) from scratch? That is some amazing stuff! I have got to learn to draw like that! The problem I have is when I draw on paint, under the microscope it would look terrible and real fuzzy. But whenyou zoom out to normal view it looks awesome. I don't know haow people draw that good. I did not make that background. The backgrounds are called skyboxes. Do a search on skybox and you will find examples and tutorials. Many times, they are made with tools like Bryce and Poser rather than drawn by hand.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Fri Oct 4 19:59:58 CDT 2002 Comments: I am not going to use this on your website like the other person did, but how do you make the font do those effects on the enrty? HTML code? He used the marquee tag.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Sat Oct 5 17:50:03 CDT 2002 Comments: Are there faster brooms in the revised Broomsticks 3D? Do you have sound yet? Soon? Remember to make me a super fast broom! :) Thanks! Daniel, no, not yet. I will make sure to do that for the next release. :-)

Name: Ted Kendrick (you know, the ancient guy with the JL characters) Homepage: DCU Animated From: A place that I enjoy Date: Sun Oct 6 19:06:24 CDT 2002 Comments: Hey Paul, i see that the site is coming along fine. I always like to check back here to see how it's all goin'. Nice game exept for BS3d. I mean, the graphics are great but you're on your own. You should have two teams facing off at each other. Like in the old broomsticks game. But add 7 on a team like in the books and movies. But, all in all I would say they're both coming along real well. Later, Ted Kendrick Thanks Ted! I do plan to add a computer opponent to br3d. However, teamplay could potentially make the game very complicated. We will see...

Name: Ted K. Homepage: DCU Animated From: Somewhere Date: Sun Oct 6 19:08:13 CDT 2002 Comments: P.S. Paul, You need to change the date. It's October now. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! (September 28) Thanks for reminding me. Happy Birthday!

Name: Benjamin Epstein Homepage: From: Texas Date: Mon Oct 7 21:48:18 CDT 2002 Comments: Hi again! Broomsticks is still a great game! I noticed that you put up a new demo version--is there a way to upgrade the full version to the new version? Thanks! Benjamin, good question. I will get that together. Email me to remind me.

Name: Matthew Davis Homepage: N/A/Y (Not Applicable...Yet!) From: Australia Date: Mon Oct 7 22:52:04 CDT 2002 Comments: HIYA HEYA HOYA BOO! Sorry, I'm a little hyped up. About the upcoming Broomsticks 3D Sky/Broom contest, if it's a sky contest, how would it be possible to make one? Do you need a special plug-in for Bryce or something? Oh yeah, I've started work on a fantastic character set for Broomsticks. Fans of Kirby, be ready for Kirby's Mega-Mix, made exclusively for Paul Rajilich's Broomsticks. (Mega-Mix is also a Remix of all of the tunes from Kirby's Adventure I'm working on) As for JVM, I'll check it out. I still have to get home yet. See, I'm at school at the moment. Oh well, got-sa go-sa! Bye...-sa! That's ok. :-) There are tutorials on the web. Do a search for "skybox". Cool, I look forward to seeing those new characters. It has been a while since someone sent in characters.

Name: STEPHEN Homepage: From: MD Date: Wed Oct 9 15:28:02 CDT 2002 Comments: HEY PAUL REMEMBER ME? SORRY I DON'T SIGN EVERY MONTH NOW. DID U EVER PLAY THE SIMS? THAT'S A COOL GAME. OH YEA I'VE SPENT ALL MY TIME PLAYING BROOMSTICKS AND BROOMSTICKS 3D AND PLAYING THE SIMS. I GOT UNLEASHED AND IT'S COOL. CAN U E-MAIL ME TO ANSWER ME PLEASE There have been several Stephens. Which one are you? :-) I have not played the Sims, but it does look cool. I should try it out. I'm glad to hear that you are playing my games!

Name: Dougall Homepage: From: Australia Date: Wed Oct 9 16:03:41 CDT 2002 Comments: Just visited the site again, its awsome! I didn't think you had any time ;-) PS: How do you do an HTML comment? I don't have any time. I squeezed in a few hours a couple of weeks ago to make those improvements. Comments are started with <!- and ended with ->.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Thu Oct 10 21:20:24 CDT 2002 Comments: It would be cool if there were other items that you could find in the castle. I don't know what they could be though. You know when you get the invisible broom, what exactly does it do? I'v gotten it before, does it make you invincible to the blck balls for a little while. Also Paul,when you have time you should give the red and black balls more roundness like you did on reg. broom. (put a little shine on the edges). Can we call the balls by their real names when talking about them in this guestbook or will that violate some copyright thing? Daniel, I do plan to add other powerups in the future. The invisibility makes it so that the balls do not know where you are. I do plan to improve the graphics for the balls and brooms. You can use the real names in the guestbook. I just can't use them to promote my game.

Name: Dougall Homepage: From: Date: Fri Oct 11 21:05:39 CDT 2002 Comments: I like Daniels idea. You could have a door and a key or the first broom or you could get levels of control and it could start out hard and get easier and easier. Oh, and by the way: HELP!!! I got a computer for my birthday and br3D dosent work on it and I'm not allowed to use dad's! Can you help! Pplleeaassee! Hmmm, what kind of graphics card does it have (right click on desktop, choose Properties and hit the "settings" tab)? You may need to download OpenGL drivers for the card. They should be on the website under support.

Name: Matthew Davis Homepage: N/A From: Australia Date: Sun Oct 13 21:37:21 CDT 2002 Comments: To that inconsiderate person who swore: What's wrong with you? If you wanna swear at someone, make sure you're swearing in the RIGHT guestbook. Honestly, Bin Laden is at the Tellytubbies web site. Go swear at them, they deserve it!!! PS: Paul, it's october now. Thanks for reminding me Matt. I will fix that ASAP.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Oklahoma Date: Tue Oct 15 19:30:44 CDT 2002 Comments: Paul, I am finally going to try to make some skins but I have a question...When I open a skin_.zip file it shows two folders "Texures" and "Texures". Why does it have 2 copies of the samething? Do I edit both of the files or just one? Also to edit the picture(of a skin) can we edit the pictures on paint, save them as a .jpg and then paste the file in the "Texures" folder? To edit the sky, do we need a file from you (I didn't notice if there were "Skys" on the Broom. 3d menu) or is it all ready there. Let us know when the contests will begin. Thanks! The best way to work with the skins and skies is to extract the zip files into the Broomsticks3D directory. You don't need to zip them back up until you are ready to send them into to me. The engine will pick up the files when they are unzipped. Let me know if you have any questions...

Name: Ted K. Homepage: DCU Animated From: Texas? (Who Knows?) Date: Tue Oct 15 19:52:24 CDT 2002 Comments: Paul, first of all you need to add HTML. It'de be a lot cooler in the guestbook. And second, Multipull teames wouldn't be that hard. I can imagine it might be hard for you cuz you're doin' all the work. But it would be kinda' interesting. You know what I mean. Thak you For Your Time, Ted Kendrick HTML should work in the guestbook. I think the gameplay could get complicated. If there are multiple human players playing over a network, it might be ok. But if there are multiple computer players, its hard to make them smart enough to play as a team.

Name: Dougall Homepage: Broomsticks Ha HA! From: Date: Wed Oct 16 04:17:35 CDT 2002 Comments: Whats New?...

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Wed Oct 16 19:04:11 CDT 2002 Comments: Uh, Paul. Why is the Broomsticks 3D demo already expired? I will post another one tonight. I was hoping to add more features, but I don't have time right now, so it will be the same as before. :-(

Name: Dougall Homepage: From: Date: Thu Oct 17 02:54:10 CDT 2002 Comments: Paul, I say the same thing as Daniel. Couldn't you just put all of them up for download (and the size oif the files) The new zip files come with the demo, so you should be able to get them all when I post the demo again.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Thu Oct 17 11:00:48 CDT 2002 Comments: Paul, i ammadea broom skin but no matter what i do it will not paste the brrom dkin in the texures folder. it just goes to the Br3d. folder. HELP! Did you try extracting the zip files and just working in the regular directories? Only when you are ready to send the skins to me do you need to zip everything back up.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Thu Oct 17 16:15:26 CDT 2002 Comments: Paul, I am going to make some skins! But I need a favor. I can edit everything but the brooms. I can't do the brooms because my computer is old and cannot save the brooms as .tga . So could I edit the brooms and save them as a jpg. and then e-mail them to you to change to .tga . So you could send them back to me? Will that even work? Thanks! Excellent! If you want to do that, save them as bmp or gif, not jpg. They will convert to TGA better. Also, make sure the background is a solid color so that it can be made transparent.

Name: Hermione Homepage: - From: Malaysia Date: Sat Oct 19 05:09:57 CDT 2002 Comments: Your home page is very cool!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks! :-)

Name: Michael Homepage: From: Wisconsin Date: Sat Oct 19 12:49:43 CDT 2002 Comments: Hi paul, i used to go here a lot but i got a question: is there any way you can create a COMPLETELY free website? I am pretty sure that you can make a website for free at www.geocities.com.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Sat Oct 19 18:57:44 CDT 2002 Comments: This may be a stupid question but, what makes some of the skins bigger than others. Like the ones I did were about 800 kb but some other skins are 200 or 400 kb. Two possibilities are that the individual images are bigger (512x512 vs 256x256) or they don't compress as well with jpg.

Name: Matthew Davis Homepage: N/A From: Australia Date: Sat Oct 19 21:19:55 CDT 2002 Comments: For skyboxes, are there tutorials for Skyboxes in Bryce 5? It's the only 3D program I have. And is there a parameter I have to enter in Br3D to play it without the EXPIRED thing coming up? Probably, did you do a websearch (try typing bryce+skybox in google)? To get rid of the EXPIRED message, you need to get the Full Version! :-)

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Tue Oct 22 15:15:11 CDT 2002 Comments: Did you get my e-mail, along with my skins? My computer is down so i haven't been able to check e-mail. If you haven't recieved it I will resend the email ASAP. Daniel, I did get your skins but have not tried them out yet. Thanks for reminding me! :-)

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Tue Oct 22 15:23:38 CDT 2002 Comments: I downloaded the 3d demo. What do I do to get the skyies and new broom handles to work on my full version? Thanks! I'm going to send you a new br3d.exe. Then you will just have to put 2d.zip and sky.zip in the br3d folder.

Name: daniel Homepage: From: Date: Thu Oct 24 16:05:11 CDT 2002 Comments: what 2d.zip from the demo are you talking about? There is a 2d folder (2 actually) but no 2d.zip.

Name: HPOTTER Homepage: From: UsA Date: Thu Oct 24 21:35:25 CDT 2002 Comments: this is a test... Ok guys, no more JavaScript. It is just interfering with the guestbook.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Fri Oct 25 22:27:02 CDT 2002 Comments: Broomsticks 3d is so much better w/ the latest updates! But Paul I think the broomsticks field may need to be made bigger once you have computer opponent. Yeah, you are probably right. :-)

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Sat Oct 26 10:28:00 CDT 2002 Comments: Sorry about the blank one above. I have some ideas for sound when you add it. 1) When you score a goal it makes a nice "ding" sound (kind of like in the movie) followed by some applause. 2) There is some good background music while your flying outside or on the field, but when you go inside the castle the music becomes darker, kind of mysterious. 3) When you get a new broom it makes a kind of "ping" sound or something. No problem. Those are good suggestions Daniel. Thanks!

Name: Mark Homepage: From: Windsor Date: Sun Oct 27 17:54:10 CST 2002 Comments: Hi i have your full version. How do u make broomstick players and send them in????? All you need to do is edit the players image.

Name: mark Homepage: From: Date: Wed Oct 30 16:33:45 CST 2002 Comments: how do u edit? Any paint program such as Photoshop, Windows Paint Program, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, etc...

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Oklahoma Date: Wed Oct 30 17:57:27 CST 2002 Comments: --MARK--: Just copy the image into Paint or a picture editor. Note: When editing the characters make sure to stay inside the little black squares! Paul: Could you put one of my skins on the skins pg? Daniel, thanks for answering Mark's question. Yes, I will do that. Sorry for the delay.

Name: Daniel Homepage: From: Date: Thu Oct 31 19:30:55 CST 2002 Comments: Paul i got my computer back but we had to completly reinstall windows so everthing was lost. When i reinstalled reg broomsticks it installed fine but when I got to the main pg with the options of speed and stuff, something came up that said "microsoft virual machine" please insert the windows update cd. We don't have one of those cds, can we download the machine thing? do you know what im talking about? :-) ASAP! Hmmm... seems like the Java plugin (the Java Virtual Machine) is missing. Did you figure this out? Maybe upgrading your browser will do the trick...