Interesting games with technical problems

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 20:16

It works fine for me. I mean, it runs fine for me. It's just terribly unexciting.

Post by **Chroelle** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:21

I will try to look into that one. IT looks really cool. I am guessing these guys always went for boarding the shiops in Pirates! instead of just canonning them up.

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 0:22

Zombies

A turn-based strategy game abou zombies? That really sounds promising. But unfortunately the game doesn´t run on my computer (I have no idea why)...

Game is available for Windows and Mac.

Download: http://www.codenautics.com/ZOMBIES/

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:51

Bear Go Home

"Bear Go Home is a very cute, far eastern styled, side scrolling platform game, aimed at casual gamers. Players must help Bear find his way home but, without direct control over the bear, they must influence his movement by stretching and squeezing him to keep him. The highly intuitive control mechanism adds to the fun and quirky game play to maximise the accessibility of the game while providing great depth for more experienced players. The truly stunning and unique art style and original game play sets Bear Go Home apart from other games."

Sounds really interesting and I like the graphical style (or at least what I can see from the screenshots), but the game refuses to work on my computer...

Developer: Phoenix Seed

Download: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=330

Download size: 70 MB

Year: 2007

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:17

Have you found instructions for it anywhere? It doesn't come with any, and seems pretty much unplayable without them. Pressing various keys primarily makes the game go into strange modes without graphics... Seems unfinished.

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:38

Pater Alf wrote:Zombies

An extremely strange game. Nothing wrong with the concept or the engine (except poor camera controls). It just needs some missions or something. As it is, it's a huge board of dudes and zombies. You recruit the dudes and kill the zombies. Game over, do the same thing again. If you take your time, you have overwhelming numbers and weapons and the zombies stand no chance. Not much of a point to this one. But it's a lot better than Épée...

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:30

Scythe wrote:Have you found instructions for it anywhere? It doesn't come with any, and seems pretty much unplayable without them. Pressing various keys primarily makes the game go into strange modes without graphics... Seems unfinished.

I found a statement of one of the developers and it seems the game is still a bit unfinished (but on the other hand seems to work for many people, because you can find various statements about it throughout the net):

"Hey guys cheers for the article and helpful comments.

We do have plans to make an installer for the demo, but we ran out of time during the competition.

If you are having problems installing the game you need to install the latest DirectX Redistributable and the Visual C++ 8 Redistributable. Both of them can be found on microsoft's site. You will also need a mid level GFX card (Shader model 2.0 and above). Also the demo runs better on multi-core CPUs. (This may solve some of the problems with getting the other Dare games running).

Like I said we hope to have a complete installer so you won’t have to download these in the future.

Cheers again,
Chris."

I will keep an eye on that game and see what´ll happen to it in the future...

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 22:20

Tempo

Looks amazing (and I like the idea of a heroine that is bound to a wheelchair), but when I try to start the game, I just get a plain white screen and a soundtrack (which is beautiful by the way).

Story:
"Two civilizations in internal conflict. One is annihilated. One survivor remains. Tempo is a 3D platforming and puzzle solving video game featuring a psychically gifted heroine bound to a wheelchair but with telekinesis and spectral projection abilities that more than make up for it. Navigate detailed and immersive environment full of perils on your journey to save your race."

Developer: Jesus Flores Garcia

Download: http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entry2008.php?id=319

Download size: 120 MB

Year: 2007

Gameplay video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856HWH_UaGU

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 13:21

The good news: It works fine for me.

The bad news: It took me 10 minutes to finish (that included a few mistakes and retries). Still in development or just a demo?

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 16:13

Looked at the homepage of the developer and it seems it's just a demo. But I can't find a hint if the whole game will be freeware as well...

http://www.jesusflores.es/

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 14:23

Vektor Space

The sport of Vektor Space combines elements of strategy and action as contestants steer hyper-modified hover vehicles in an enclosed arena. Each hover vehicle, also known as a vektor, contains a Flux Drive, allowing the vehicles to make dramatic turns. The hover vehicles also distribute a Flux byproduct behind them that resembles a transparent wall, which is called neon. By forcing other vektors into the neon left behind a vehicle, a contestant can damage his opponents’ vektors. Gradually, the damage compounds, destroying the vektors. The last remaining contestant wins the match.

Created by digipen programmers. Looks good. Refuses to work. After clicking launch icon all i see is "ERROR" message displayed on taskbar. Cant be maximized or anything, the only way to close it is via task manager.

http://www.vektorspace.com/

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 14:59

Works fine for me and seems to be a game that is quite ok. It's similar to "GLTron", but the perspective (camera angle) is much better, you play against up to eight opponents, you can control your moves much better and you can choose from four different vehicles or create an own one that can be upgraded during the game...

Post by **Chroelle** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 19:02

So lets get that one submitted Pater Alf.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 0:17

Propero, Kleptocracy and PHLOP.

Reasons:

Propero - game works, but screen is all black (except some lights visible in the distance)

Kleptocracy - I dont have proper video card

PHLOP - problems with fmod library, installing doesnt help and game doesnt want to detect the program, placing files in game folder helps only a bit, I still get error message, this time that path is incorrect or sth

PROPERO

Propero is a futuristic racing game featuring dynamic music and numerous graphical effects. It is a senior game project at DigiPen Insitute of Technology and has been developed by Happy Brain Games. HBG is comprised of Damon Thompson, Jason Runta, Ben Barrett, Pat Laukaitis and Matt Wilson.

Propero is a single player game where the player races against numerous AI controlled racers. The game was heavily influenced by the popular Nintendo64 game F-ZeroX.

http://www.digipen.edu/GameGallery/websites/Propero/

KLEPTOCRACY

"Kleptocracy!" is a cartoony, fast-paced action extravaganza! In "Kleptocracy!" you play as a thief involved in a competition with his peers to determine who the best thief in town is. A tournament has been arranged for the thieves to all enter the local acclaimed museum and obtain as many items as possible within the time limit. They will have to evade the many patrolling guards as well as the intricate security system. Luckily they're armed with several gadgets to help.

"Kleptocracy!" was developed by a team of three programmers and four artists from DigiPen Institute of Technology over the course of eight months.

Team: Andy Vella, Charlie Burgin and Colin Sipherd

http://www.digipen.edu/GameGallery/webs ... eptocracy/

P.H.L.O.P.

P.H.L.O.P. is a physics-based puzzle game that entices the user to play and replay each puzzle to come up with innovative and fun solutions. It utilizes the very best of next-generation graphics, features a robust physics system, all wrapped in a usable and feature rich user interface.

Gameplay Features:

Tons of levels built in, and the ability to create your own.
5 unique and stackable objective types, for 120 possible combinations!
8 widget types to play with, including gravity switches and accelerators.
Spectacular physics engine brings your creation to life.
Fun for all ages.
Infinity + 1 possible solutions for each puzzle!

Team: Chance Lyon, Brian Kircher, Thanh Nguyen

http://www.digipen.edu/GameGallery/webs ... /index.htm

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 23:09

Kleptocracy really looks cool, but I have the same problems with my video card...

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 18:29

FLIGHTGEAR

The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.

Features over 20000 real airports and accurate terrain worldwide.

And I cant get it run. I dont hav some fancy stuff as usual. Most likely.

http://www.flightgear.org/

http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:09

"Flight Gear" works fine for me and it seems to be a great simulation (at least for thos who like this kind of stuff). I think I will open a thread for it as soon as I find the time...

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 14:07

One digipen game as usual and one not.

BEMPU

Original pinball, sort of anti-pinball in fact, with moving targets, round tables and multiplayer (!!). Looks good.

http://www.digipen.edu/GameGallery/websites/BEMPU/

FREEDROID CLASSIC

FreeDroid Classic is a clone of the game Paradroid which was released on Commodore 64 in 1985.

In this game, you control a robot located within an interstellar spaceship consisting of several decks connected by elevators. The aim of the game is to destroy all enemy robots by either shooting them or seizing control over them by creating connections in a short subgame of electric circuits.

The final version came out in august 2003 and runs on Linux, Mac OSX, Sharp Zaurus and even that strange Windows wannabe of an operating system.

http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/info.php

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 21:20

Aquadelic GT
Hexcentric
Cityban
Fiend
Cartouche

Too many games... Descriptions later.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 13:51

Mad Truckers.

Looks similar to Highway Pursuit. I lack proper graphics card to play it, as usual.

Developer: GameTop

http://www.gametop.com/download-free-ga ... -truckers/