Depot Games: Zonic the Hog

Current Version: 1.1

Project Status: Maintenance

Highest Popularity: #10 during October 2007

Links: Web Site, alleg42.dll

Category: Platform

Developers: StevenVI

Number of Players: 1

Ports: Linux, Windows

Source Code: Available

Author's Description: It's slaughtering day on Farmer Ted's farm. Unfortunately for him, his prize-winning pig Zonic prefers living and instead decides to wreak havoc on the farm by stealing all the food.

You control Zonic, a fast-running pig who bounces through four levels avoiding Farmer Ted's henchpig while collecting food. If you get caught, it's bacon time!

This game was made over the course of about 60 hours during one weekend for the SpeedHack 2007 competition. Modifications were slowly added afterwards.

Downloads

Name	Comments	Size	Date
zonic-11-linux.zip		427,840	10/06/2007 6:25 PM
zonic-11-win.zip		1,128,666	10/06/2007 6:24 PM
zonic_win.zip	You will also need a copy of alleg42.dll to run this version of the game.	267,284	09/20/2007 9:20 AM

What's New:

1.1
Gameplay has been modified: instead of racing against time you are running away from Farmer Ted's henchpig. If the other pig touches you, you lose food. Run out of food and it's all over.

Also, the drawing routines have been completely revamped. Instead of using Allegro, OpenGL is used for drawing everything. This had the advantage of hardware acceleration, which under Linux has proven to have serious speed improvements. Under Windows, it appears to be a little slower. :(

Fonts are now properly antialiased. :)

Gamepad/Joystick support. :)
(This is somewhat limited. The first set of axes controls movement, the first button acts as hitting "Space" or "Enter", and the last button acts as pressing "Esc".)

When you finish the game it does not automatically load a web page for you. You can load the web page from the main menu, if you so choose.

1.0-SH
This is the original SpeedHack version. Gameplay is a race against time and is hardly challenging. It also obnoxiously opens a web browser when you finish the game.