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Windows binary
Source

Controls

You control the player with the arrow keys and fire the grappler with left control. There is also experimental support for Xbox360 controller implemented. To exit levels, simply press escape.

Hints on how to get the baby to compile in Linux

We use precompiled headers, and the header is called Precompiled.hpp. However, we do not include it in the source, we instead relay on the fact that we can tell Visual Studio to force include a header into each file. The same functionality is present in XCode, so I bet there is a GCC option floating around that does the same. Also, we use Dumb and TMX-parser which sources are not included in the source package.

Have fun!

Edit:
I've updated the source package to contain the complete source, that is with the external dependencies (not including Allegro) and the Visual Studio project files if anyone wants to compile the game themselves. It might also ease how to compile on Linux by looking at the Visual Studio project files. The actual game source is the same as in our submitted entry.

Edit2:
Looks like we screwed up with the TMX-parser license in the Speedhack version. It's not copyrighted by me and Per, but copyrighted by Tamir Atias. Sorry for that Tamir, it was a copy paste error by me.

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Working fine there.

Impressive little game, as Ed said. But unlike him I like the gameboy color style style it has ^^

You are the King of Kings Sr. you have my respects.

Some levels were much harder than others but I beat the game eventually. Very well done.

A lot of the game looks to have already existed before the competition and it was a team of people working on it but it's still incredibly polished and the gameplay is near perfect.

Nice game. Very polished for a three day competition, as usual.

I recognized the gameboy look from the very Darkbits presentation so that explains the color scheme and it makes a great job for the Color Symbolism rule.

An impressive entry for a 3 days competition, as one would expect from Darkbits

The controls seems a bit clunky until you get the hang of it, but I found the game fairly easy to beat. Heard people complain about difficulty, but if anything I found it too easy. The final boss was a panzy, which was sort of a let down.

I have to say it gets a bit repetitive though. Some more interesting enemies/bosses/stages (like the tower) would have made it a definite hit.

[edit] Forgot to add: I thought your approach to the "Color" rule was kinda cheap

Overall, a serious candidate on all categories for this year

We use only 4.4.2. I have never touched 5.

Not sure why I got Allegro 5 references in your code. I redownloaded it, and it was fine.

However, there are plenty of errors like:

"error: ‘It’ was not declared in this scope"

And from where does float2 originate?

That won't help Linux.

It doesn't seem like Precompiled.hpp is included everywhere it needs to be.

Is there some MSVC magic with that? Edit: I see your first post addresses that.

Edit 2:

I got it to compile. The main problem was the missing Precompiled.hpp. I just wrote a script to insert it at the beginning of every cpp file.

There were many other things because C++ is pain in the butt.

Some examples:

Entity::Collides( const CollisionRect& aRect1, CollisionRect& aRect2 )

isn't compatible with:

Entity::Collides( const CollisionRect aRect1, CollisionRect aRect2 )

so any time you try to use a temp value, it complains.

Nested templates foo<foo<bar>> must have a space foo<foo<bar> >.

Let me know if Green Grappler.exe (MinGW / gcc 4.5.2) works for you. It seemed to be correct here, but I don't know what the game is supposed to look like, etc...

After playing through a couple levels, my complaints are:

• It seems way too easy to just fly through without any consideration at all. This is probably some combination of level design and the hook being too easy to blindly use.

  
  

• The graphics really bother me. I hated the Gameboy too. I think you could make everybody happy if you drew graphics in color, but just converted them to the Gameboy colors at runtime as an option.

But other than those things, it's obviously very solid.

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How?

Using the switch and running seems the correct, but I get like 1 hit only, and if I'm supposed to repeat it, then it's a no-no for me. Not patient enough.

From the right side I never manage to hit it!

Only level I couldn't beat so far.

Oh I figured out what my problem was. When destroying reactors I tend to hammer the grapple key a lot. I just had to hold it a bit longer. Sorry. I thought the grapple hit instantaneously.

EDIT: Really polished and fun entry. And with a lot of content as well! Some shared complain with the people I've showed it to is that controlling the grapple does not really give you what you want sometimes.

For reference, this really reminds me of the grapple sections in Super Metroid.