I've been playing an awesome game: Platypus

[GedB]

I've wasted much of my weekend playing an awesome game I found in the bargain pile, only cost a pound.

The game is platypus and it's the best side scroller I've played in a long time.
http://www.google.com/search?q=platypus ... 8&oe=utf-8

The whole thing looks fresh and original, with everything looking like it was made of modelling clay. Wallace and Grommit meets Nemesis/Gradius.

Gameplay is perfectly balanced. The clay figure graphic make it look like a kids game, but it is very, very hard. The end of the second level features a massive mothership, the best since R-Type.

The soundtrack features some very high quality remakes of C64 classics such as Ron Hubbard's Thalamusic and Martin Galway's Wizball.

I mention it here because it was written in Blitz Basic. I'd love to see a game of this quality written in PB.

Another reason I mention it is because I just love this game so much.

[GreenGiant]

I wonder if you have the original super-hard version, or the more recent version where it was changed to be easier. Oh and I think the guy who made it's working on another game at the moment http://www.squashysoftware.com/cletus.php Looks pretty impressive.

[GedB]

Thanks for the link.

I really hope its the hard version I'm playing, otherwise I'm pathetic!

[GedB]

The link gives a free playable demo: try it now, everybody!

[LarsG]

...everything looking like it was made of modelling clay.

It is!!! 8O
Antony Flack is the guy.. doing all the graphics (clay-work) and programming (in B3D) by himself..

Very talented guy..

[Kanati2]

Yeah, that is arguably the best blitz game to be released yet.