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[David Pittman]

Finished!

Download: http://www.dphrygian.com/bin/Strange-Visit-Installer.exe (10MB)

[Noyb]

The engine works well, and I didn't notice any major clipping issues apart from the spoiler. The wooden planks used to enforce linearity stuck out as not being large enough to justify being barriers if the player can jump and crouch, and I was disappointed I couldn't leave the path in the first scene. The first part had a good mood to it, but it fell a bit flat near the end: spoiler. Maybe it could be more effective by giving the player a personality through text/audio commentary?

[portabello]

If anyone wants to get download the full 15 minute version of the soundtrack, you can get it here: http://www.zshare.net/download/51732815f434e8e5/

[Melly]

EDIT: Nevermind, found out it's some kind of problem with my video card going fucking crazy.

[Wilson Saunders]

Game worked fine for me. The chains and the music got a little creepy. Towards the end I started looking for cover and sweaping rooms to make sure nothing was behind me. I knew there were not weapons but going through the motions of a FPS felt like the right thing to do. Good job

BTW my graphics card is an Nvidia 7600

[increpare]

doesn't work on my comp at all; just crashes on startup (no window ever visible, just standard windows crashy crashy box).  Alas

[David Pittman]

If anyone wants to get download the full 15 minute version of the soundtrack, you can get it here: http://www.zshare.net/download/51732815f434e8e5/

Yes, this. I trimmed the included version down to 4 minutes because the full length doubled the file size of the game and the game is frankly not that long anyway, but I felt really bad about it.

doesn't work on my comp at all; just crashes on startup (no window ever visible, just standard windows crashy crashy box).  Alas

Eek! If you (or anyone else having crashy crash problems) wants to help me solve it, you can download the Debug executable at http://dphrygian.com/bin/StrangeVisit-Debug.exe. Throw it into the installed folder (alongside the usual exe) and run it instead; you'll get assertion messages and a log dumped to strange-visit-log.txt. I probably can't do much about it now, but it will help get my engine in shape for the next project I do.

[deadeye]

It ran okay for me except I think there's some transparency issues on the blood pools (there's a black rectangle around them) and around the flame on the candle.  And maybe the player shadow, I'm not sure if it's supposed to but it shows up as a black square.

I thought the atmosphere was pretty nice though, and since just wandering around and looking at stuff is my favorite thing to do in FPS games it was pretty enjoyable.  I think there should be more non-combat FPS's.  (Well I guess then they would just be FP's, eh?)

Anyway, not too shabby.  It could use a little work in the texturing and modeling department, but I think you know that.  Also, sliding slowly down the stairs is kind of annoying.  But overall I enjoyed it, so good job!

[Melly]

FPG (First-Person Game), FPE (First-Person Explorer), FPH (First-Person Horror), etc.

Also, got it to work, finally. The atmosphere is awesome, and the simple 3D style of the game seems to enhance it. I was half-expecting to see Alone in the Dark creatures to pounce me at any moment, or some kind of crazy dude. The fact that you never meet anyone enhances the atmosphere. (there needs to be more first-person games focused on solitary environments. I remember that being one of the things I liked the most in games like the first Unreal)

The only problem is that the game lagged for me and had uneven framerate. Still awesome though.

[vdgmprgrmr]

After quite a time lurking, I've decided to post.

This was amazing. I kept thinking, knowing, that there was something behind me, and turning around. Especially in the cramped halls.

And spoiler I had a chill going 'till I got out of the house.

[nayon]

This was great, and the use of sound was awesome too. I was almost shitting myself every second.

[Soulliard]

Really creepy atmosphere. I like more gameplay-oriented games, but I think you succeeded in what you set out to do.

[agj]

This was quite good. Very nice atmosphere. Wish you had taken out the jumping and the crouching and the leaning to the sides from the controls, though, as they're never needed and just clutter up the control scheme. Still, your engine runs great!

[David Pittman]

This was quite good. Very nice atmosphere. Wish you had taken out the jumping and the crouching and the leaning to the sides from the controls, though, as they're never needed and just clutter up the control scheme. Still, your engine runs great!

Thanks, I'm glad to hear the engine is working well for some! I'll still need to do a lot of optimizing for everyone else, though (and probably default to fullscreen mode in the future, as it performs way, way better on some systems).

You're absolutely right about the controls--I removed certain inputs like weapon firing that had absolutely no function in this game, but never did a full pass on it. Several other less obvious things got held over from my main project as well--the gear icon, the profile system (invisible unless you hunt around in the installed directory), the art deco font... Funny enough, the icon is the one that really bugs me, because it's such an obvious thing and I actually intended to replace it but then I totally forgot. Ah well.

[increpare]

just installed directx9 to be sure, but getting the error

Initializing Clock
Console initialized
Resetting display
Initializing Clock
Initializing Direct3D...
Creating Direct3D device...
Assertion failed: "Result == ((HRESULT)0x00000000L)" ()
in D3D9Renderer::D3D9Renderer in c:\dev\engine\code\libraries\3d\src\d3d9renderer.cpp at line 97
Device created.
Creating default render target...