Gloomy Nights and Living Dead

ZeHa · Post by **ZeHa** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:50 pm

Hello!

I'm glad to present our nice game Gloomy Nights and Living Dead!
It's been developed by my girlfriend and me, and we tried to combine our love for horror films with our love for old computer games

The result is this game. It was originally written in Visual Basic last year, but then it had quite a few bugs in it which made it crash without reason etc. We found PureBasic then and thought about re-coding the whole game. It was a lot of work of course, and it's not always encouraging if you know that you may write just everything from scratch, but we think it was worth it

Now, I don't want to talk too much, as it would cost your playing time

Direct download: http://www.gloomy-nights.de/download/gloomy.zip

You can also visit the game's website: http://www.gloomy-nights.de

If you still find any bugs, please report them.
The game has got 100 levels, so be sure to have a LOT of fun

MrMat · Post by **MrMat** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:19 am

Nice work! Thats a fun game!

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:04 am

Welcome to the Purebasic forums.

npath · Post by **npath** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:08 am

Nice job. Reminds me of the old Commodore 64 days.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:54 pm

I'm lovin' it!

Nice "drawn pixel per pixel" graphics, cool "ghosty" music, time bonus, new enemies types in further levels, pretty intermissions, end-of-level monster, scoring screen, gore

...

You mixed parts of many my favourite games (80's arcades) into one, great!

Would you add some more bonus, just to make it a bit more various, such as a "speed walking" (Buble Bobble red shoes anyone?) ability to shoot more than one bullet (Bubble Bobbel candies), or even harder to kill / unkillable enemies?

ZeHa · Post by **ZeHa** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:41 pm

Blade wrote: You mixed parts of many my favourite games (80's arcades) into one, great!

Well then, you could try to guess which game was our main inspiration

Blade wrote: Would you add some more bonus, just to make it a bit more various, such as a "speed walking" (Buble Bobble red shoes anyone?) ability to shoot more than one bullet (Bubble Bobbel candies), or even harder to kill / unkillable enemies?

These ideas are good, but not in this version anymore. We programmed it for the second time now, and now we'll just leave it this way

but we already thought about a sequel, perhaps we'll give it a few more extras!

Thanks to you and all the others for your nice comments

ZeHa · Post by **ZeHa** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:29 pm

We updated a little thing...

On some notebooks there was a problem with the 320x240 fullscreen mode... so now you've got the choice between fullscreen and window mode

And, please... if someone gets it through, post it here

By the way, the last 10 levels have another (secret) design!

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:43 pm

Completed! Nice ending music...

ZeHa · Post by **ZeHa** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:58 am

Blade wrote:Completed! Nice ending music...

Okay, I trust you

but don't tell any details about the ending

Dready · Post by **Dready** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:18 am

Hi, I'm the other one who created the game

@ Blade:
WOW... how did you reach the end so fast?

Probably it was TOO easy for you

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:32 pm

When I reached the 50th level I was going to quit, but you talked about the latest ten levels, so I had to see them!

Thanks to the console-style pass codes I could play it for 15-20 minutes every now and then... reaching the end wasn't too hard...

I'm still happy about your work, a similar attention to details isn't common in a "free" game.

@Dready, you are not Jennifer nor Christian, right? so you software house has three people! wow!

I'm waiting for your next game!

Dready · Post by **Dready** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:55 pm

Hi Blade!

I am Jennifer, but you can call me Jenny

I always (or mostly) use the nickname in boads, so that I don't mix up anything

so... ZeHa = Christian & Dready = Jennifer

Allright?

But we're happy that you like our Gloomy... We are always thinking about more games, programs and even comics

So stay tuned... we'll go on working hard for Dr. Wuro

sec · Post by **sec** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:28 pm

Thank you, I will bring this game to my friends.
ZeHa: I will, again thanks

ZeHa · Post by **ZeHa** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:36 pm

Well you can play the game as you want, however it would be nice if you wouldn't spoil what others might still expect to see :roll:

Dready · Post by **Dready** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:42 pm

That's it... if everyone knows those things before he found out them on his own, there's no surprise anymore. :roll: