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

Date: 2006-06-30 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!

Date: 2006-06-30 03:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!