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Access Phenomenon - Beta release
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09/19/05 14:35
09/19/05 14:35
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Access Phenomenon - Beta release
Hey All Here is an early beta demo of "Access Phenomenon: The Land of Lies" Hosted by Rebel Planet: http://rebelplanetcreations.com/workarea/Access1.exeMany thanks to Andvari for the animations, Hanzo for the character models, Ambassador for the Music/GUI/character noises and the beginning narration, Light_mystic for sound effects, Dex for textures and various models and I think it was Loopix's models that I used for the weeds. Rest of the work was done by myself, all the programming/level design/game development. This demo contains puzzles about the NIV bible, and a copy may be required to solve the puzzles. The story is fictional, but the story refers to God at places, this material may be offensive to some, please keep in mind that it is all fictional. Some of the sounds and music are .ogg files, if you don't have it already, you'll need to install the .ogg codec, you can find it at this link: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-ogg.htmAs this is a beta version, there's still lots to be changed. Please keep in mind the following: -You can skip non cutscene dialog quickly by pressing Esc -You'll get an error if you attempt to load one of the games that already appears in the load game screen, make sure that you only load a game that you have already saved yourself, even better, save over every slot as soon as you can to stop any errors happening when you load a game. -Most of the bible clues are incomplete, if you get a clue saying "And God said let there be light, and there was light" the book is not Genesis, as Genesis actually doesn't have that as a clue. It simply means that I haven't had the time to find verses for that book, hit the ? box again to get the order that book is in the bible. -Remember turn down water quality and vegetation density/visibility in options menu to increase performance. I haven't tested the demo on slower PCs. A bug that might occur on the slower systems, is that text moves really really slowly when it appears on screen, if you encounter this problem, let me know and I'll see if I can upload an update which will hopefully rectify this problem. --------------------------------------------------------- Some screens from www.accessphenomenon.com     
Last edited by AccessPhenomenon; 09/20/05 00:28.
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Re: Access Phenomenon - Beta release
[Re: DavidLancaster]
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09/21/05 11:24
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One thing that I just noticed without playing (Remembered it  ) In the temple, theres weeds growing out of... stone floors? Maybe add some holes around them to reveal earth underneath or else you got a whole new type of weed 
Jimmy died, today, he blew his brains out into the bay, in the state of mind, its my own private suicide.
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Re: Access Phenomenon - Beta release
[Re: Towelie]
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09/21/05 11:48
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Great demo. I wouldnt pick anything specific as a bad thing, maybe odd jumping (slow falling next to walls). I allways look at overall feeling and this looks promising. If i had a crit id say the game looks too bright for me, maybe darken it a bit? Oh yea and definitly implement a way to stop conversations, those long chats really kill my mood
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Re: Access Phenomenon - Beta release
[Re: r00tsh3ll]
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09/21/05 12:14
09/21/05 12:14
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Great demo.
I wouldnt pick anything specific as a bad thing, maybe odd jumping (slow falling next to walls).
I allways look at overall feeling and this looks promising.
If i had a crit id say the game looks too bright for me, maybe darken it a bit?
Oh yea and definitly implement a way to stop conversations, those long chats really kill my mood
Someone else mentioned the slow falling against the walls. How do you get that to happen? I've tried jumping against walls many times and the player falls at the same speed as normal. I'm not sure how to duplicate the problem.
What about pressing Esc in dialogs? That wont stop the convo but will stop the typewriter effect and just instantly place the current text there to skip. If you keep pressing Esc you can skip most texts quickly (except for cutscene text). Or would it be better to add another button to stop the dialog instantly?
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Re: Access Phenomenon - Beta release
[Re: ex]
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09/22/05 00:01
09/22/05 00:01
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Very nice and very smooth. Good job so far for certain.
When I placed one pumpkin on another they both would shoot off into the air, seemed a bit strange. Very nice game though.
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Re: Access Phenomenon - Beta release
[Re: Locoweed]
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09/22/05 00:59
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Someone else mentioned the slow falling against the walls. How do you get that to happen? I've tried jumping against walls many times and the player falls at the same speed as normal. I'm not sure how to duplicate the problem.
While I have yet to try the demo, these symptoms seem similar... are you sure you multiplied your movement variables by time? Perhaps, to duplicate it on your computer, force the framerate down - fps_max = 30;.
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Re: Access Phenomenon - Beta release
[Re: DavidLancaster]
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09/22/05 01:46
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When I placed one pumpkin on another they both would shoot off into the air, seemed a bit strange.
Thanks for that I've got it fixed now.
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In the Right wing of the temple I did the hanging part where you dodge the blocks tryign to push you off. Well, I got to the last part and went all the way to the wall to be safe, then the block pushed me off and I jumped and somehow managed to go through the wall.
Hooah! I've got this bug fixed now as well. It was caused from holding the space bar when you fall or drop from hanging onto a ledge, if you do so you'll jump immediately. Thanks.
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While I have yet to try the demo, these symptoms seem similar... are you sure you multiplied your movement variables by time? Perhaps, to duplicate it on your computer, force the framerate down - fps_max = 30;.
Unfortunately this isn't the issue, everything is in sync with the time variable. I've forced it down to 10 fps and it still wont work. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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