Description: Seeing as my WoW account is suspended thanks to being hacked by a keylogger, I've had a lot of spare time to work on other projects in an attempt to relieve myself of boredom. Having reformatted my PC, I came across a game I had created years ago whilst going through my backup files...
It's the first ever project I actually had the patience to stick with and fully complete, using the lovely "GamesFactory" toolkit - I've been working on games, mods, maps and programs for years, but I never honestly stuck with any project beyond 50% so this is very special to me. I decided to honor it with a trailer / special movie of it's own as my 100th YouTube movie submission. People may or may not like it, but to be perfectly honest I don't give a damn what others may think as this is "my" game, which I made for the sake of saying I finished something, for myself, not others - The good side of that is, it's free and available to download if people "DO" like it (And it's smaller in size than this actual movie file) so feel free to give it a try if you like retro breakout games or clones.
Anyone who uses the GamesFactory will tell you that the first thing people make when starting out is generally a Breakout clone, as they are simple to forge and can be a good learning curve to start with - However I wasn't ready to just make any old breakout clone and then dump that genre for greener pastures, no sir...
The day of it's release it was hailed as a complex, colorful, well presented little game with a solid structure and decent gameplay... However, people often had the same single complaint - The game was WAY TOO F*CKING HARD!
I play it often, to pass the time when waiting for movies or projects to compile - The fact that I'm it's creator doesn't help - This game can destroy me within seconds, but thats what I wanted.
On top of being devilishly tough, I worked ultimately hard to ensure that no matter how many times you play it, you can re-hash it to make it seem different every time - This is apparant in the configuration, giving the Breakout clone a heavily stat based feature where you can assign your bat & ball with a multitude of abilities within a certain 'stat point' cap - There's literally a hundred ways for you to mess with these features and none of them are fool-proof against the varied nasty levels, which can be played at 6 different difficulty settings, all of which have a profound effect on both the level and your Bat&Ball.
All the while, I managed to figure out how to get statistics to log allowing for a scoreboard & ranking system to tally up your progress after every level, which is nice.
All in all, for a simple Breakout Clone, it's pretty neat - If you like tough retro games, that is.
Feel free to check it out and comment - The file (and soon, this trailer movie in full quality) will be available at: http://hosted.filefront.com/RopeDrink
You can download the game (Scroll down and select the "MehPongPlanetarion.RAR" file, or click: http://files.filefront.com/MehPongPlanetarionrar/;9492468;/fileinfo.html
You can also find music from the titles soundtrack (ie. the non-midi music, I made it all myself using EJAY, half of them are already uploaded to YouTube, too).
Infact everything in the game was made by me, the backgrounds (Terragen & Photoshop), the sprites (Photoshop), title themes, all the mathmatical equations and sums that make up this little package with exception to a handful of TGF Midi Files, SFX and sprites from the package.
Hope at least one person out there likes this project, and thanks to anyone who tries it out, or rates this movie high.
