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[increpare]

The Hero Saved Me



A little rough around the edges.

Windows  zip 600kb
Mac OSX 10.5+ zip 600kb
Src  zip 200kb

(was also a something done with the 3-hour poppenkast comp in sight.  due thanks to terry for the windows build and the general chitchat during)

and: happy new year guys (in two minutes)

[Mr. Yes]

alleg43.dll was not found. :[

Don't have it on me.

Looks cool from the screenshot, though.

[increpare]

Oh monkeyballs.  Apologies for that.  It's included now, and should work. 

[agj]

Well, the game is about evangelization of the dying, right? But I'm not quite sure what stance you take on it. Likening a priest, or whatever, to an angel superhero could be taken both as exaltation or as irony. I guess that the character's lack of empathy points in the direction of the latter.

Good work!

[increpare]

Well, the game is about evangelization of the dying, right? But I'm not quite sure what stance you take on it. Likening a priest, or whatever, to an angel superhero could be taken both as exaltation or as irony. I guess that the character's lack of empathy points in the direction of the latter.

Hmm, not quite.  That wasn't really my line of thinking, though I guess that's what it might look like (That or something pertaining to the miraculous assumption, or maybe to the idea that he was saving people from hell (to which people who commit suicide are automatically consigned)).  I used the angel graphic to denote that a person has died (though ; I didn't think); I intended them to add some mystical, transcendental aspect to the game, rather than serve a directly politico-religious function.  Whatever, though 

[PureQuestion]

it's unusual. there doesn't seem to be any goals nor a point. the gameplay is simple enough to figure out without instructions, but as for a major over lying goal? not so much.

[increpare]

it's unusual. there doesn't seem to be any goals nor a point.

The gameplay-mechanic goal is to have there be no falling people left on a level (mechanicswise, when they touch your trail they change into angels and rise slowly up; once they reach the top of the screen, then disappear, and a new person spawns at the top of some other building).

Is this what you were wondering about?

[muku]

The mechanic you described wasn't clear to me either from playing the game. It seemed that the levels ended more or less randomly.

From the technical standpoint, I have to complain about the controls because it seemed that while I was pressing right, pressing up or down didn't have any effect, which was annoying. Otherwise, the controls would have felt quite satisfying.

As far as content is concerned: as intriguing as always, and as puzzling. Now that you mentioned the heaven/hell thing, I can sort of read it in that way, but it's still strange... so the hero's power really is redeeming people/sending them to heaven? I don't buy into Christian dogma, so the entire heaven/hell/redemption thing doesn't resonate much with me. Whatever, I probably don't get it, as usual.

[increpare]

The mechanic you described wasn't clear to me either from playing the game. It seemed that the levels ended more or less randomly.

That's unfortunate.  I guess it's not reasonable to expect it to be too clear.  I only implemented it as a level-completion condition on a whim (I couldn't think of anything I liked more), so.

From the technical standpoint, I have to complain about the controls because it seemed that while I was pressing right, pressing up or down didn't have any effect, which was annoying. Otherwise, the controls would have felt quite satisfying.

Yeah; I toyed about with the controls.  You actually can change direction, so long as you're not travelling at full speed in a particular direction.  I didn't find it too annoying, and didn't have too much time to experiment with it.  Technically, I was playing around with using integer-centred movement routines; rotation, and the like, can be sort of awkward in them, so it was a little hackish.

As far as content is concerned: as intriguing as always, and as puzzling. Now that you mentioned the heaven/hell thing, I can sort of read it in that way, but it's still strange... so the hero's power really is redeeming people/sending them to heaven?

not really, no; what I meant to say is that that's exactly not something I had in mind at the time, heh.

[equalsP]

It was fun and interesting, but I think there should be some way to lose, like a time limit, or you have to have a save/death ration above something. Also, all the levels were exactly the same except for the colors, maybe spice it up with different kind of dying people(?) or something so that each level has some kind of personality, and maybe some kind of progression through the levels too, like when in London the hero mentions he heard that Tokyo was in need, or something like that.

Gameplay wise, worked good except 2 things I noticed.
- Sometimes people would fall through my trail, probably because they body didn't intersect the trail because of the frame rate (?)
- When going left or right, to go up you need to let go of the direction button. It would be more fluid if you could hold left/right and press up/down at the same time, instead of having to let go and then push it again.

[salade]

it's an awesome gameplay idea, but it feels like more can be done with it. for such a short development time however, well done.

also, fells somewhat like it should be played with the mouse.

[Luilak]

I agree the controls feel a little awkward.

Other than that, really nice idea. I'm becoming quite a fan of your games, increpare. Abstract, requiring quite an open mind. I love it.

[increpare]

- Sometimes people would fall through my trail, probably because they body didn't intersect the trail because of the frame rate (?)

Actually, the collision detection is very weak; it doesn't check if someone has passed through the trail at all, merely that they have gotten within a distance x of one of the vertices in the trail.  So, if you're going too fast, you pass through.  However, to the extent that this discourages people from hovering about at the bottom of the map, I didn't worry about it.

[Reiss]

os x 10.5+ version crashes on launch?

sad 

[davr]

FYI runs fine on linux if you comment out line 2 & line 854.

Interesting little game, though a bit short. I think it has potential. As for improvements I mostly agree with previous comments. Condition for winning is not clear, I just thought you had to save a certain number of falling people, until I read all the comments here. You need to add a way to lose (without potential to lose, winning doesn't feel as exciting). And the controls are decent enough, but could use a little tweaking to feel more natural.

[increpare]

os x 10.5+ version crashes on launch?

sad 

Oh?  What system are you running?  And...any errors left on the console?  I'll check it out later...

FYI runs fine on linux if you comment out line 2 & line 854.

Yeah, I should have #ifdef'ed tem out, because I manually removed them for the windows build as well.  Most/all of my stuff is easily linux-compilable, I just don't have space for a linux partition at the moment

[Corpus]

Crashes on launch for me, too (as did Lacrimosa).

I'll PM you the crash report.

[increpare]

mac build should work now.  Thanks for the bugwhatsit corpus.

(Will get about to fixing the Lacrimosa build later on tonight).