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[d3sphil]

The Unnatural

"The Unnatural" is a very hard dodging game based on the song "The Unnatural" by CCIVORY. My goal was to have the player experience how awesome I felt the song was. In the game, you control a block that must dodge lots of stuff for the duration of the song. I won't ruing the experience. However, you cannot die. Instead, your score increases each time you get hit. The goal is thus to get the lowest possible score.

So, I made this game for a class at school. I was browsing 8bitcollective.com when I came across a song I really liked. Well, I had to come up with a new game for class in just a few days, and felt inspired to make a game based on this awesome song I found. "The Unnatural" is the resulting game. I got some positive feedback from some of my friends so I decided to fix a couple bugs and share it with the community. I've taken some advice from the Feedback forums and think it is now done.


Key Points:

• Dodge everything.
• Get the lowest score you can.
• Brought to you from the Hi-Fi Pixel Collective.
• Made in 4 days, so sorry if there are serious bugs.

Requirements:

• OpenGL with frame buffer objects (I think OpenGL 1.5+).
• Any modern processor should play it fine.

Downloads:

• Windows (XP/Vista/Win7)
• Mac OSX 10.5+ Intel Only

Website: www.idlecode.net/theunnatural

-Philippe

PS. My lowest score is 53.

[mcc]

I enjoyed this a lot! The core mechanic was fun, and I like the idea of a game that's set to a song like a music video.

It maybe was a little longer than it needed to be. A strategic 30 second cut in the song during the early, "easy" part might improve it? I don't know.

You might want to put the controls on the menu screen or something. I didn't read the "help" screen until afterward so I didn't actually realize while I played that the "fast fall" mechanic was even there. (Also even after reading the "help" screen, I don't understand what the "precision" controls do. They seem to behave exactly the same as the arrow keys.)
Very happy to see a mac version ^_^

[d3sphil]

Perhaps making the help more explicit would be a good idea! I know I never read help screens.
And I think you are right about the length, a bit shorter would be better. I'm not very good at audio editing though. Might make the game more bearable too =).

Anywho, thanks for the response. I'm happy to have a mac version too, since that is what I coded it on .