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[Pishtaco]

Gaarggh just lost my save. I wonder if it was my recycle-bin utility deleting temporary files.

On the bright side, the shock was enough to see me straight through "not as I do" when I restarted, which I had been stuck on for a while.

[allen]

Yeah, don't use CCleaner unless you uncheck multimedia flash player or add an exception to the excluded list. Also the BetterPrivacy addon for firefox will delete your saves as well.

I learned this the hard way with Machinarium..

[birdcloud]

Time trial really needs an instant restart button. Right now I have to go through too many menu options and too much downtime for something that I should be able to do fairly instantaneously.

seconding this

[alspal]

Can you start the game in fullscreen with the full game?
Or do you have to always change it to fullscreen every time like in the demo?

[increpare]

Can you start the game in fullscreen with the full game?
Or do you have to always change it to fullscreen every time like in the demo?

You on osx?  I think he had some teething problems with fullscreen working properly on OSX.  If you bug him in the slightest he'll fix it, though.  (And I think he'd appreciate being bugged).

[alspal]

I'm on windows.

[increpare]

oh, then you totally can.

[alspal]

Cheers big ears 

[Iamthejuggler]

Woohoo! Just beat veni vidi vici.  

I'm now totally stuck on Prize for the Reckless. I just don't get what you can possibly do ... any hints beyond the fact that the name is a hint (which i'm drawing a blank on!)?

edit: Just figured it out. Holy fuck.

edit 2: Oh actually that wasn't as hard as i expected. Yay. Just one more to get now!

[PGGB]

Giant Bomb made a Quick Look and they're stoked!

[Eric McQuiggan]

I'm watching it now! I'm glad they got to the Tower.

[bluescrn]

Really quite enjoyed this - demo got me hooked, played through it twice then bought the full version, played through most of it (I think). Definitely doing something right for me to part with cash for a flash-based game!

I hate Flash with a passion (after seeing so many games that should be a solid 60fps chugging along at 20fps or so in a postage-stamp sized window on a page of adverts, with awful controls). Although flash seemed to be holding this game back a little (30fps or so on my Macbook, and some slight control lag?), I found it a very enjoyable experience

But something about it had the 'magic' of real 8 bit games that usually isn't quite there in lo-fi indie games. Very cool level design, with amusingly named screens, and sweet sweet chiptunes adding a lot to the atmosphere.

And I guess the retro style of graphics makes you really focus on the gameplay, rather than analysing the tech or artwork, as I too often found myself doing as a coder...

The only real complaint I have is that it had me impaled on a couple of very large difficulty spikes (please re-tune 'not as I do'!! - even after figuring out how to do it, pulling it off took a *lot* of attempts...  that screen really needs nerfing!)

I made it as far as 'The Final Challenge', but got stuck at a checkpoint that seemed impossible to continue from, will have to try it again later...

[Eric McQuiggan]

Vedi Vidi Vici was my kryptonite, I probably spent 45 minutes honing my ability to do that one, I felt so good when I ended up making it. Also I didn't really get edge games at the start, then someone said "Think of waves" and it clicked. Also the reckless one was rough, but I knew what to do, so I just had to grind it out.

[Melly]

I literally cried out in triumph when I beat Vedi Vidi Vici.

[C.A. Sinner]

I hate Flash with a passion (after seeing so many games that should be a solid 60fps chugging along at 20fps or so in a postage-stamp sized window on a page of adverts, with awful controls). Although flash seemed to be holding this game back a little (30fps or so on my Macbook, and some slight control lag?)

Uh, I have a Macbook too (a three year old one, in fact) and I didn't have any "lag" whatsoever.