Doesn't work well for me either, with a Radeon x1400 Mobility, 1.83Ghz Core 2 Duo and 3GB ram. Getting a really slow frame rate, far below 1FPS.

No, not going to work on it anymore.

Looks and sounds great, but I didn't find it very fun to play. Agreeing with the above comments as to why it wasn't fun.

I've been working on this on and off, but had too much other stuff going on to get it polished up enough to complete it for the competition. In what is done you control an elephant that puts out fires.


Controls
Move - Arrow Keys
Fire Water From Trunk - Space

Press A to generate a new area.

The map generation was pretty good, but I just didn't have the time to add in all the game play and sprites(the elephant shooting water isn't finished). I had it so that you re-fill your water by being in water, but this was omitted for testing, and I did not re-enable it in this release as there would be no indication of how much you have. So this is just more like a look at what may have been. 

**REQUIRES XNA 2**
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EDIT: Could I get the correct tag put on?

I like it do far, controls are good. Just need some sort of score or goal, and maybe a way to save your plane so you can challenge others to beat your score with that plane?

I'm probably in, I hope. If I have time and a pretty good game idea I'll have an entry. I already have a map generator done after this evenings experimentation.

That was a bit purpose, I noticed that while playing, but didn't want to remove it. The idea was that as the game got tougher(which I didn't have time to implement), you could focus your attention on those spots. However since I didn't have time to flesh things out, it can make the game pretty un-balanced.

RE: Saint's review of my entry
Thanks for the review. Couldn't have put it better myself, if I had another week there would have been stages and obstacles to keep things interesting. And the mines appearing would have been tweaked a little.

Having just had time to read the forums, I see that may be the case. Such a shame.

Yeah, the game is a bit pointless, and repetitive. Originally you were going to have seperate missions on different maps. It was going to be a little more realistic, but I didn't have nearly enough time to get that in place, it was too much work to have to program pathfinding A.I, collision detection and to get enough graphics done.

We didn't choose XNA because we wanted our games on XBLA, we chose it because it made developing our game really easy. We chose it for a ton or reasons:

- C#
- lots of resources available (community/tutorials/sample code/great documentation)
- no low level details to consider (device initialization, etc)

Same reason I went with XNA. My only other experience was with Aleggro, and that was a huge pain. It's such a shame Microsoft have totally destroyed the deployment of XNA based games on non-dev ready machines. I have 2 friends who both have Vista, and only one got it going even though they went through the same steps.

Updated the post with a better Read Me, so hopefully the game makes more sense now. Anyone got any feedback on it?

You're talking about people who comment on Kotaku... most of them are complete and utter idiots who just go about looking for something to type about in ALL CAPS!!!

I love the Metroid theme, fun game. Very funny.

Bit later than expected, had some real life things to do and bugs to get rid off.
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It's only a small file, a few mb.

I love the Space Invaders ship, a compete change of pace.

4120 was my High Score

Great game, really love the randomness of it all. Leads to some interesting situations.

It's pretty much done now, I want to add in some more sounds, as it's a bit boring at the minute. High Scores are in, so are the crowd and the Grand Marshall of the event... I'll leave that a surprise.

I should have it up in the morning(GMT), just want to make sure it's all a ok.

Couldn't beat the first level. A 1 second time limit while playing with  a trackpoint isn't easy.

The ZIP is corrupt.

Oh my. That's absolutely amazing. I rarely have a clue what's going on, but I love it! The sounds and graphics are excellent, controls are great, everything about it is brilliant! I love it.