I said I'd release it before my holidays ended, and here I am with 2 days to spare!

Download The Mighty Stoopid demo (1.3MB, Windows binary only)

Controls are simple; arrow keys to move, Right Ctrl to attack, Space Bar to jump and continue at dialog box prompts. P to pause. While paused, P again to unpause or Esc to quit.

You can change the screen update method in the main menu; using page flipping or triple buffering gives you hardware accelerated blits which keeps the game at 85 fps for me (screen refresh rate). Double buffering is a lot slower for me. If your computer is much worse than mine (600Mhz) then it may not work too good. Please let me know if there's any problems; my hardware accelerating setup is a little experimental (works fine for me though ).

I'm going to mention a few little points about the game, just to answer questions that will inevitably pop up. Very minor spoilers, but if you wish to keep yourself pure, go play the game first before reading on.

I guess that's it. I also guess I forgot some stuff, but that'll do for now Hit me with your comments; I am ravenous for constructive feedback. Frame rate and system specs would be nice too, btw ...</li>

Noooooo!

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Hopefully Chris don't mind I mirror his demo for him

[edit] Well, I passed through him and ducked just before that, so when I stopped, I was passed him and the dude was pointing his gun away from me, and the bullet still hit me.

[edit2] Heh, This is the next big free game, why not

I'll see if I can when I get home.

Maybe when I get home I can beat the first level with out losing all my men?

Can you use the jump kick on ground targets? or could my timing be off?

We want punch combos!

Nah, it should be punch-punch-punch-uppercut-fireball ... oooh, and then add a shoryuken move!

It crashes!

Matthew: Damn. There's a elusive bug in there I haven't been able to track down yet (this is why I was asking about debuggers). It's about as rare as Mew (I haven't seen it in three days), so just play again for now

RP: Yeah, the player's control needs tweaking a bit. It was one of the things I just left for now in favour of releasing a demo within your lifetime Sorry it missed your joypad; the game only has the loosest of support right now (doesn't work for the menu or dialogs right now either ).

You can't keep going until you kill the ship. Watch for a gap in the grenade launching, run under (or just be there in the first place) and hit the red spot 10 times. Then you can keep going.

Oh yeah; I forgot about that. Hang on; I shall remedy ...

I didn't get to play too much, I'm on lunch break. I just got to the big hill where the red-faced guys come to get you. I love how the attacks go - especially the jumping ones Yay!

I thought it was really cool - with the guy in the manhole; after you kill him. Very neato. Good way to keep the player surprised

I'd post a much longer review and all that, but it's off to work I go! Maybe when I get back. Good job.

16bpp/15bpp friendly EXE attached. I'll update the zip now. Thanks for updating, MB

Anyone try it with a joystick yet?

EDIT: Attachment deleted; everyone who needs it has it or can get it from the main zip.

I know; I'm not sure I care to change it yet. If it gets too annoying with the final artwork, I'll do something about it.

Try a better computer? One of the other screen update methods may help, but if your system sucks (and IIRC, it does) then, uh, sorry

Anyone beat the boss yet? The bonus level is where things get really interesting