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[Mocker]

I like the combination of the graphics and the interesting backworld/frontworld mechanic. This looks like it could be really elegant when everything comes together.

[Saint]

Almost there! We'll be aiming to have something playable by saturday afternoon (UTC) and then update it with some music, new content and possibly some optimizations on sunday evening. I hope you all will like it =)

[Saint]

First public build downloadable!

Windows binary:
http://www.ekermo.se/proj/backworld_0_7.zip

... Please let us know what you think

[Saint]

All done. See first post.

Also, we put up a video to wet your apetites;

[jotapeh]

Wow, wow, WOW. This is great. I get serious Braid vibes playing this. So well executed, beautiful, ahhhhh  

PS. Thank you for an OS X build 

[hammedhaaret]

oh my.

this is brilliant. I will play this first thing tomorrow, if I can even sleep now.

  hammedhaaret

[Inanimate]

Wow. This is absolutely amazing! I'm loving every minute!

[Saint]

Thanks, glad you like it =)

PS. Thank you for an OS X build 

This makes me especially happy since I spent some 4 hours fighting XCode in order to get it running, at the end of which I, frustrated and tired, thought "well, this was a waste of time since no-one is ever going to play this version".  Glad I was wrong 

[Juha Kangas]

I'm also glad

Would be interesting to hear if any of you got stuck on particular levels (and such). Or maybe that discussion is better suited for the feedback forum later.


Also, big thanks to all you people who made the awesome assets that we used

[Perrin]

This is really good. Just played for a few levels up to Cryptic Caves where I got a little stuck. Will play some more of it later. Think you've done a really good job of coming up with more than one interesting way of using a central mechanic. Very Nintendo, and that's a compliment.

Very pleased you did an OSX version, meant I could play it on my main machine. Even my comp entry was Windows only sadly.

[feeblethemighty]

This game doesn't work on my computer.  Probably because of the stupid INTEL integrated graphics chip.  Stupid computer.  I really wanted to try it out.

 

[Juha Kangas]

This game doesn't work on my computer.  Probably because of the stupid INTEL integrated graphics chip.  Stupid computer.  I really wanted to try it out.

 

Saint will have to give you the tech. specifics, but you're right, it unfortunately doesn't work with Intel graphics. :/

[feeblethemighty]

Actually what happened was that the game booted up fine, but the menu screen was black instead of the white that was in your screenshot, making it really hard to see what i was selecting.  Then when i started a level, the game stopped refreshing and then the character smeared across the screen.

[Perrin]

One bit of feedback, I could have been doing something wrong but it seemed to me like your menu was controlled with the arrow keys but the game was controlled with WASD. Seemed odd.

[Saint]

Actually what happened was that the game booted up fine, but the menu screen was black instead of the white that was in your screenshot, making it really hard to see what i was selecting.  Then when i started a level, the game stopped refreshing and then the character smeared across the screen.

Huh. That is very odd.

I have not had the chance to test the game on any intel GMAs but it is true their GL drivers are kinda poor so I did not really expect it to work. It seems the hardware actually claims to support the features needed, though - otherwise it would give you an error message on startup. If I find a machine with a GMA I'll see if I can work around it, for now I'll just have to apologise

Great music you did, by the way. If you got to the levels you might've at least heard "Precarious Precipitation" played on the map screen 

One bit of feedback, I could have been doing something wrong but it seemed to me like your menu was controlled with the arrow keys but the game was controlled with WASD. Seemed odd.

Yeah, I meant to make it so that you could control it with both - thought I did, too, but perhaps that was only for the map. Lack of time, etc.

Sorry!

[Fifth]

I've only played a bit so far, but it seems really nice, and has got a lot of clever stuff going for it.

I am getting some odd graphical errors, though.  Mostly it's just an extra area on objects that's filled with garbage, but on the "floating cages" level there was an odd bug when painting:


I was trying to paint towards the center of the screen there.

[Saint]

I've only played a bit so far, but it seems really nice, and has got a lot of clever stuff going for it.

I am getting some odd graphical errors, though.  Mostly it's just an extra area on objects that's filled with garbage, but on the "floating cages" level there was an odd bug when painting:

I was trying to paint towards the center of the screen there.

Thanks for the compliments!

That does look kind of weird. What graphics card are you using? I really do not know what is up with the artefacts on the sprites, but the paint oddity I assume is due to floating cages not being 4-aligned... Does it happen on any other levels? Crazy Contraption, the Chase and Corridors are not 16-aligned, so it would be good to know if those are broken as well.

Again, I am sorry. The GL standard is kind of dodgy and driver engineers are sometimes a bit creative when following it.

[hellboy1975]

This game is cool.  Haven't played enough of the submissions to know if it'll get a vote yet, but certainly will make the shortlist!

[Ivan]

Really great game, guys. It's amazing what you managed to do in a month. You have my awe and my vote!

[Juha Kangas]

Thanks, both of you!

I'll leave most of the credits for the hard work to Saint though, who did all the programming.

Bitworld is really sweet also btw!