Go play the winnie-the-pooh flash game I wrote!

[jack]

I can't remember if I've pimped it before, but: go play the winnie-the-pooh flash game I wrote!:

It's set ten years later, when CR and Alice[1] are about 16, and due to a clumsy mistake CR buys a cursed present for Alice, sending them to an alternate dimension where they face unresolved issues from their childhood games :)

It's aimed to be squarely in the tradition of Chip's Challenge. ie. top-down-tile-based push-things-around action/puzzle, but with fewer more complicated enemies rather than many simple ones (also see Deadly Rooms of Death)

There are 10 levels so far. Apologies for flash, see the poll below. Move with the arrow keys, press space to continue from message screens. Click the buttons on the right to jump to a level. There is a reason everything's so violent, it's not *just* gratuitous.

Walkthrough for level one: Walk down, walk left into pooh. Read the text. Start again. Walk down, walk right, walk left.

I'm sure most of you (hi Simon :)) have more extensive computer games written, but I enjoyed writing this. It is very much, what I had time to do, and left when I didn't have any time. One thing I may do in the next few months is polish it up.

Which of the following would you most like to see me do? (Vote for one option, or more only if you want to).

My name is and I think you should:
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Replace flash with C (for windows andlinux), or another web language
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Optimise flash code making it smoother
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Make the game turn-based instead of real time. (Or give an option one or the other.)
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Sometimes you can't tell if CR is going to move. Show this visually.
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Add UI. Eg. an intro screen, score chart, instructions, level progression
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Design more levels!
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Design more characters (currently there are CR, Pooh, Small and Piglet)
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Rework the metaphysics to make it more consistent.
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Write more consistent flavour text. (More puns? Fewer puns?)
---DefinitelyIf you have timeNo, don't bother Add live action animation of characters Can I play Christopher Robin? Can I play Alice[1]?

Comment:

[1] Who is CR's kickarsier sensibler contemporary best friend, now sort of girlfriend, not nurse. Apologies for misreading canon.

Comments

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I'M STUPID AND I'M STUCK ON LEVEL 5 AND THIS IS GOING TO GIVE ME NIGHTMARES AND I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you. I'm really pleased someone feels strongly about it (and actually plays it :)) even if badly...

Honest, all the evil violent stuff will be resolved eventually (though not within the levels written so far). And I'm sure you'll figure it out, there's not that many things you can *try* on that level :) *hug*

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I like, but I keep dying on later levels because the keys get stuck - you either need to fix that or do a save game!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You can skip to any level by pressing the buttons on the right. Saving within a probably won't ever be allowed.

There definitely is a problem with the keys, but on most people's computers they're not actually failing, just not well designed.

CR moves at the same time everything else does, which means that if you tap and release a key during a tick of the universe it's not clear if he should move afterwards or not. Currently he doesn't (see the entry on making that clear with graphics).

The easiest way I find is to press a key and hold it down until he's moving. If I want to walk continuously (eg. to run away from pooh down a twisty corridor) I hold a down right until he starts moving into the square I want him to go up from, then switch instantaneously to up, holding that, etc.

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I understand. There's one of the ladybird levels - 9? - where you need to dodge around a lot though, and that's when I kept dying.

Don't you dare make Piglet mean!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

The one with the gigantic pit at the left you have to dodge back and forth on? Yes, that's really tricky. I plan a route in advance and then concentrate on excecuting it, and it's still hard for me :) (Of course, I can't see -- I don't know if your computer does have a problem mine doesn't or not; nor if my explanation helped at all or not.)

But yay, someone else on level 9 :)

Don't you dare make Piglet mean!

ROFL. He's only got a cameo here, there aren't any proper levels with him, just a teaser trailer, without *all* the animation. He is evil, but as you've hopefully seen (a) in a more duitiful and sweet (if ominous) way than pooh and (b) he's been corrupted by Disney and the confused subconscious of a 16-year-old boy -- part of the plot is you (as CR) really want to cure that!