Hazard Ball

This game is fabulous! A great indicator that visual effects aren''t everything; this is some rock solid gameplay.

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yeh really fun, the only thing i didnt like is the movent of the cursor on the menu screens.....

apart from that well done, fantastic game

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Original post by deal
yeh really fun, the only thing i didnt like is the movent of the cursor on the menu screens.....

apart from that well done, fantastic game

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FUCK ! i never played such fun game in along time .. NICE WORK.. like said the movement of the cursor look like it lags

Wow, this game kicks ass. I seriouly wish I could make a game this fun. I''ll post something meaningfull after playing more...

Truly, a professional, addictive, and great game! Well done.

Amphetamine

Ok, here is what I noticed.

1) if you get the first grey key, and then die, you still have 1 key, but the key comes back. This means you can have like 4 grey keys in the first level. (not sure if you want that or not, but I thought I''d bring it up)

2) I skipped the whole first level by using the jump pad to the right of the start point (and my speed stuff) to jump strait down (over the blue wall around the exit) and then I just left the level without getting any keys. (took about 10 lives to do it)

3) (without cheating)I couldn''t beat the first level because I kinda got stuck after I got the grey key, some shield thing, and a bunch of other stuff. I think the only thing left was to somehow break the crumbled blue wall to the left of the start point, but I couldnt'' find a way.


How this helps. Like I said, this games kicks ass. I like the controls, but I also dont like the mouse in the menu screen. It moves in an annoying way.

HAHAHA, I found the secret warp in the second level! Your secret is safe with me.

I'm still a little unclear about what everything does. I get the keys, but what does the blue squiggly thing do? break the crumbled looking blue wall? how? Also, what does the yellow/black stripe item do? Somehow I beat both levels without figuring this out.

Nevermind, I read the hints for level 1 and I get it now.

That game is crazy fun though. I want more demo levels! I'm a good bug finder (I think the key thing was a bug)

[edited by - Pseudo on January 4, 2003 11:42:20 PM]

Sweet, replies!

MENU: The menu is getting to people, I'll get that sorted out for sure (its one of them things where "it works fine on mine")

Amphetamine, Metal Typhoon, deal, vtwin: Thank you so much for your kind words! It means a lot and makes it all worth while!

Pseudo: Thank you for your comments and the beta testing there well lets see how I can help you..

The keys problem, I had a thought about this and decided that if you die getting a key or something then I'll let you keep it. But at the start of a new level, your inventory will be wiped. Do you think thats ok? or should I clear the inventory on every death?

and congrats on finding that warp!! Nice one

[EDIT] You must be getting good at it! I didnt think about the ability to jump to the exit hheheh! [/EDIT]

more help for you all:

To break walls you need to have the powerup (the trails indicate you have a powerup). When you are in powerup mode you cant be crushed, and you can smash (certain) walls by hitting them at speed.

The blue squiggly things in your inventory are regenerators. if you fall, you can quickly use a generator by clicking the mouse during the fall of death. you will be spawned back up to the surface

The yellow and black thing in your inventory is a "construction tile", this allows you to build over gaps. To build a tile you simply hold the left mouse button while travelling over the edge.

The shield things are elemental protections they all have different effects..

Sorry I didnt wait till the manual was done before releasing, but I hope this cleared up a few things.

another note: the game levels put you in the "deep end" I have a good friend working on some tutorial levels which will build up knowledge of all items! but if you play it enough you will begin to understand it more. Im also here for questions and everything else

[edited by - Genaside on January 4, 2003 12:08:20 AM]

I think you should do it one of two ways. Either wipe the inventory when you die (and on new level), OR make is so the items you got aren't still on the map after you die. The reason I say this is because on the first level I got both keys, and then died just after breaking the blue wall. So when I came back, I still had 2 keys, and beat the level. (that was fine because I earned the keys once) BUT THEN, on the second level, sometimes you need multiple yellow/grey keys. like in the upper left of the start. You can get one pretty fast (lower left of start) but the other is harder to get. So with the current keep-key feature, I could just get the first key, die, then get the first key again (and have two keys) and open both yellow locks without ever getting the second key.

now if the first key was gone after I died, then I would still have to find/get the second key.

oh yeah, almost forgot. Did you get what I meant about skipping the whole first level using hte jump pad? you might want to move the exit area down one block so you cant do that.

[edited by - Pseudo on January 4, 2003 12:14:30 AM]

I hear you, but I still think its a fair to keep inventory. Its not going to be easy to get through the game if you traded all your lives for keys in level 8 or something

I understand you clearly about the jump pad. I could move the jump pad up to an edge so its not possible to get a run up in that direction. Thanks for pointing that one out!

I''ll have to make a note to that for any upcoming level designers :D

Looks good so far! I''d like to suggest that the mouse-button functions be available on the keyboard. I seem to have a little more control when I use the arrow keys, but I need to switch to the mouse to get past certain areas.
Primarily, it seems to be a puzzle game. However, once you know what the powerups do, the demo levels weren''t particularly puzzling. I presume that future levels will be more focussed on puzzle-solving?

Oh yeah definately going to have more puzzles and routes to go etc, these levels are quick mockups by myself.. the keyboard controls are in there (space and b) its in the readme.txt

Thanks for trying it

personally i think the best way to handle the keys is to let you keep keys on death and no key respawns.

Beer Hunter: You sound like I did when first playing it. It takes a little getting used to using the mouse, but eventually you find it much better, especially when dealing with ice etc...
Yeah, I''m currently cooking up two tutorial levels, I should have one finished by Monday at the latest. They''re more closed in than the demo levels, and also should have some interesting puzzles.


So, once the level passes Genasides approval, I''m sure you''ll be seeing it. ^_^

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the keyboard controls are in there (space and b) its in the readme.txt

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Hehe, oops.

btw i loved the ice !

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Original post by Pseudo
HAHAHA, I found the secret warp in the second level! Your secret is safe with me.

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I found a warp which allows the player to beat the level in under a minute. Is that the secret warp of which you speak?

This game kick ass. Well done.

I have one question about how you made it though. How''d you actually draw and animate the ball? Cause I couldn''t find any sprites for it in the data directory so do you use a 3d model or something?

Its fun, well planned out it seems, and addictive. Good job!