That's fixed in the version I posted in my last post

He probably didn't comment mine because it sucks (IMO it's not the game itself that sucks, but the track I provide, because it's too fast. I must do one with more turns, should be much better).

Anyway, forgot about something in the other post. As I mentioned I added joypad support, but I did it blindly (not joypad here), so I'm not sure if the controls are correct. Anyone would be so kind to test it?

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for that, open allegro.cfg and change the line player1 = keyb1 to player1 = joy1

Oscar: I will test it now with my psx controller

[edit] to make the binary zip for here, i only have stock speedhack source. can you post the config file in a code box for me>

FrankyR: is that music legit? It sounds rather like the "raindrops keep falling on my head" tune written for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Getting stuck in the clouds is a definite worry; maybe it should just tell the player they lose when the other guy wins, instead of waiting for both to finish? It's a cool game aside from that; very light fun, and the graphics are awesome

And kentl skipped The [Someword] Virus, too ... sadness.

Edit: Oh, and BAF: Teams are covered in the speedhack FAQ; yes they are allowed. If they weren't, you couldn't have done your project with Peitz, right?

Zaphose said:
kentl skipped The [Someword] Virus, too ... sadness.

Now i don´t follow.. Which word is that? (if you are referring to misspellings i am all past that! which != witch && zaphos == zaphose )

[append]Oh! I got all sensitive about my spelling! I guess my post is so very funny that i will leave it alone anyway! (yes! It´s time to turn on the flamethrower )

Zaphos: I checked out your game now! I missed it when i went through the list. It was good! The enemies made me smile! They are so damn good looking! One suggestion could be to have some kind of floor color and a sky color / picture. So that the walls doesn´t seem to "float" as much.. Otherwise what can i say, impressive as hell!

Bruce Perry: The computer players still race away from me, i have some trouble handling the glider still. But i bet that i can outrace them soon enough! The psycadelic patterns together with the music really sets a mood for the game!

Lohr: I would so love a version of your game in which one does not have to go back to the beginning after losing a 'level' -- it's an awesome game , but it's hard and that makes it a bit repetetive.

kentl: Yay, thanks! About the sky: I had meant to add that, but somehow managed to forget entirely. One of those "I'll just leave that out until the key parts of the engine are done" ideas gone wrong ... oops!
Maybe we should have just done a starscape background. That would at least explain the title screen sometimes reading "The Space Virus" ...

Edit: Oh, in case anyone is playing the official windows binary version, it starts at level 2, presumably because the person who uploaded it (Matthew?) played two levels. So ... select "restart" instead of "continue" if you want to start at the beginning (a very fine place to start). Normally it would just say "Play" the first time you loaded it up.

Thanks. I had all sorts of features planned, such as obstacles and ground, but didn't really get that far. Shooting was in for a while, but I decided it wouldn't really be all that relaxing to include an element of violence.

Yeah. There's also a manual which goes over everything in the manual directory (although it might contain so many typos that it's unreadable).

I was already about to say that they do, but was tempted to check it out from the code after all (shows you how good my memory is ). You're partially right. They can perform a big turn (180 deg) 2-3 times faster than the player. On the other hand, they can be about ~1.5 times slower when doing a <90 deg turn - whereas the player turning rate is constant. But, if the turn is >90 deg, they also slow down a bit so that they won't do a big arc. Oh, and they also accelerate a little bit slower than the player.

It is somewhat possible to follow their movements with correct timing (or was during playtesting) and win the race, but one mistake can cause the horde to zoom right in front of you. Life ain't easy in the Duckie realm, at least not when the horde is searching for a new alpha male.

Thanks again.

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I'll also put up some preliminary reviews on this thread when I get back home.

If it exited completely, it's a crash - unless you somehow pressed Esc twice in quick succession. It should however return to the menu five seconds after the last player finishes the race.

Maybe we should have some voting system as soon as possible (voting system != website - I mean just how to review games and how votes will be counted). Everybody will probably look at other games but I guess not many people would return to them later. I think I could review at least some of them (if not all) but I simply don't know how review should look like.

That sounds like a good idea! At least then people will play all of them before voting.

What it is meant to do is increase the tolerance of the landing angle (but he still does the stumble animation). I agree that it's a bit dodegy because neither of my brothers nor two of my friends who tested it could get this feature to work . It works fine for me though. -I think the key is not to tap it repeatedly because it has a cool-down to prevent it from being abused (and the cool-down is activated even if you do not land successfully).

That's exactly what I had originally but then I thought that I would make it a bit harder for the speed hack release so that you can't complete it in a few minutes with easy. When it has more levels I'll change back to continuing on the level you died on so that it;s more fun .

Bruce:
I had trouble with yours at first 'cause I kept falling out the sky (and looking for an acc key ) for at least ten tries in a row. Then suddenly it clicked! hglider... GLIDER! You have to GLIDE! .. and then I was away gliding through hoops. Cool game - nice work!

Bafsoft
I also had trouble with the mouse pointer. I have a 2.66 Ghz P4, Geforce 4, 512mb RAM so I don't think it's system requirements (or at least it certainly shouldn't be!). Otherwise the game worked fine, nice music and the maps are generated randomly which is nice but why only one map? -couldn't you have had it lead onto another randomly generated map?

Mark
Nice game - maps look cool, it controls fine. Nice work! The "oh no" sound effect is classic .

Zaphos Wow! an FPS speed hack entry cool! The game played well (but the mouse sensitivity was a bit high). I liked the firey ground and the big enemies . Music was sort of FF7 Aeriesish which is nice and relaxing. Well done!

Jcnossen
I like this game! The music really suits the camera tracking ! Although I don't like the "you are dead because you run out of time or had too many collisions" message, and it seemed to all be over a bit quickly .

InphernicProbably my favourite so far! I love the little ducks (which look even cuter if you imagine them as off-colour baby seals ). I didn't know what I was doing but I enjoyed it anyway which is always a good thing! Music suited the game and all the GFX looked cute and went nicely together. Good work!

Oscar Giner Best intro screen so far. The game itself looked a bit incomplete (needed more GFX) although the background is very pretty . I found myself only really looking at the minimap so see where to go - probably once you have more bonuses and things this won't happed as much. Otherwise not bad at all.

FrankR
I quite enjoyed playing your game but then the music got to me and I just couldn't play it any more. Nice sprites (did you draw them yourself?) and the game controls are very responsive so it's easy and fun to play.

Loads of cool entries this year! Good work everyone! I apologise if I've missed any majoy features of anyones games but I will read the readmes and play them all in depth when it comes to voting.

very true. I was going to show an arrow in the main screen pointing to the direction you should go, but finally didin't did it.

I think I spent too much time with the physics engine (this is the game with more complex physics I've ever done), so I couldn't finish other parts.

After trying to remember a bit, the only physics engine I've done before was for a pong, if you can call that a physics engine

In my entry, I based everything on vector forces. When you press accel, what you're really doing is applying a forward force. There's the cinematic force that applies a force proportional to your actual speed. Collisions apply a force in the opposite direction of the collision angle. Can't tell if it's the proper way. I made this up during the competition (and some previous thoughts about this)