Here is my SpeedHack 2007 entry, Fury of the Sky God:

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The address that I linked to last night seems to be having some problems, so I have re-uploaded the file (with the source, as well, it previously only had binaries) to cellosoft. Here:

win32 binary+source: http://files.cellosoft.com/zeratul/fotsg_bin.zip

It builds fine on MSVC2005, mingw32 and Linux, and just requires Allegro and the loadpng library (as well as libpng and zlib, naturally). Optionally, you can use fblend on Windows to make some effects faster.

The game is rather nice!
I like the graphics and the little details, like for example the peasants swimming back to their island when they fall into the water.

I got only 140 points in my first try .
I think I'll have to exercise a bit more!

Your game inspired me to look back into FBlend. Can the library load PNGs from DAT files? (Cool game, by the way, though it will take me some time to get used to the controls as well.)

This is my favourite game entry so far. The visual effects are great and the game itself is quite fun.

Hint 1: Take your time... especially at the start, you have plenty of it. Find a good group of people of the kind that you need to capture and wait for a gate to wander above. Then simply throw them up and the gate will capture them.

Hint 2: Make sure that there are no priests near the area you are sucking people from... if necessary, scare the people away (and into water, if you must). Priests never run away from you.

Hint 3: You are immune to gates while time is frozen - you can use this to your advantage by dragging several people directly over the gate, releasing them, and leaving the area before the spell is over.

Hint 4: The same goes for projectiles when fighting demons - even though THEY are immune to time stop, you can just ram into them while carrying peasants to harm them, during a timestop, since there's no risk of you being hit by their incoming projectiles. Just beware that all the projectiles spawned during the spell will start moving at once after it's over, so you might get the screen flood with them.

Yes, although the transparent sprites are usually visible regardless of resolution, so it doesn't matter that much, I think. It runs slowly here, though, because Normal Resolution already nearly maxes my XP 2200+ .

What has practically been giving birth to evil?.. that's right.. religion!

(in regards to Kibiz0r)

I must be in a minority. I did not enjoy this game. The graphics are nice, but that's where my enjoyment stopped. It seemed to go a bit too fast for me. The text was obnoxious and it didn't seem to add to the gameplay. I found the "old English" (in quotes because it's not really old English, but people commonly mistakenly call this style that. I don't recall what the style is called) to be obnoxious to read. I never enjoyed playing Ultima because of this.

The graphics and music are good, and there's some interesting graphical effects. If the resolution is too low, there's not much room to see what's going on.

Also, it would be nice if the titlescreen (or a help-screen) would show which are the priests and which are the types of people you want to send to hell. Otherwise, I have to work this out myself.

The game can be expanded by having more types of people (eg people who are immune to the sucking (unless the time-freeze spell is active) but try and grab hold of people who get sucked to prevent them from being sucked into hell).

AE.