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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: karlito on Thu, 04 December 2008, 18:55:12

Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: karlito on Thu, 04 December 2008, 18:55:12: The project I have been working on (http://www.altitudegame.com/) for the past year and a half is getting close to being complete.

It's a really fun (yes im biased) flying game that runs on MAC, LINUX and windows. Our current beta tester base is very limited in the mac and linux users so I would love it if any of you mac/linux people checked it out. Even if you don't enjoy games I implore you to give it a shot (it's a tiny 50mb download) and most people get at least an hour of enjoyment out of it ;). The game runs on anything so dont worry about your hardware specs.

Thanks for your time, opinions and (hopefully no bug reports)

Karl
http://www.altitudegame.com/
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: secularzarathustra on Thu, 04 December 2008, 19:13:51: I'm a linux and I'll give it a try later on today, I'll post back with thoughts if you like.
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 04 December 2008, 19:35:35: Looks like a modernized version of Sopwith. I'm there. (With the Windows version - my Mac barely runs at all, and my Linux box doesn't have X installed.)
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: Busty on Thu, 04 December 2008, 20:05:31: Nice game graphics, runs flawlessly on my MacBook with OS X 10.5.5., but i didn't like the steering behavior at all.
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 04 December 2008, 20:57:37: I'll check it out later as well.
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: karlito on Thu, 04 December 2008, 21:22:08: Quote from: Busty;13713
Nice game graphics, runs flawlessly on my MacBook with OS X 10.5.5., but i didn't like the steering behavior at all.

glad it worked.

what kind of control scheme would feel intuitive to you? Lots of new people have problems with the controls at first but outside of using a game pad with an analog stick i cant think of how to improve it. Note: game pads with analog sticks aren't sported yet... game pads work but are treated as digital input instead of analog ATM.
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: wellington1869 on Thu, 04 December 2008, 21:26:00: Quote from: bhtooefr;13711
Looks like a modernized version of Sopwith. I'm there. (With the Windows version - my Mac barely runs at all, and my Linux box doesn't have X installed.)

I remember sopwith! That was a fun game...
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: Busty on Thu, 04 December 2008, 21:48:03: Perhaps I played too much R-Type on the C64, but left and right for up and down is hard to get used too. I assume it should be the pitch from the perspective of the pilot, but I personally just didn't like it.
Would it work with my Competition Pro Joystick?
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: bigpook on Fri, 05 December 2008, 14:59:03: cool game, works fine in ubuntu 8.10
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: bhtooefr on Sat, 06 December 2008, 17:43:02: Suggestion for the tutorial: Add in a bit on how to play the team games.

I've seen some low-level players that didn't have a clue what they were doing on team games.
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: bhtooefr on Wed, 10 December 2008, 00:04:06: Just filed a bug report...
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: karlito on Wed, 10 December 2008, 00:44:30: Quote from: bhtooefr;14101
Just filed a bug report...

I'll take a look at it. Thanks.

Also I definitely want to beef up the tutorial but I hate the risk of making it too long and boring.
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: xsphat on Wed, 10 December 2008, 03:29:07: Quote from: karlito;14108
I'll take a look at it. Thanks.

Also I definitely want to beef up the tutorial but I hate the risk of making it too long and boring.

So make each section skipable.
Title: My Filco has been busy *shameless self promotion*
Post by: bhtooefr on Wed, 10 December 2008, 08:57:58: And, that'd be a good idea as it is - I'd like a mode where you could skip straight to the shooting bots part, if you just want to get some quick XP.