Hi guys, noobie here.

I've just registered on this (very entertaining) site, and have decided that, as a former decent games player, I'll take up the challenge (must say that I wish I'd found the site earlier, coz I'd have loved to have been involved in the previous games!).

Big problem. I appear to have a malfunction on IA, and wondered if anyone else had the same 'feature'. Whenever I press the fire key, it jumps to the status screen. I can only play the game if I press up whenever I want to fire! I've tried reassigning keys, v2 and v3 of CCS64, but no joy. Any ideas?

It's not so bad on the first coupla levels, but when you swap to the bottom screen it's a real pain in the arse !

Anyways, first score was 10120 (I'll post a screenshot when I hopefully can play it properly!).

Cheers guys.

Doh!

Cheers. I actually had both controllers set to the same keys. No other game has complained so far.

Time to create merry hell! Well, maybe get blown to bits numerous times trying (I never did understand this game, and I'm not much the wiser having read the instructions! ).

Maybe I'll come good in the next round.

Cheers Foo Gen.

Ooh, cool!

I've just managed 28000 ! Much improved. And still another week to go!

G

Alright Geenius, welcome to the Games Comp. You're joining us at a good time, we've been playing some excellent games this year, and now we've all got the hang of not voting for Pooyan I'm sure we'll be playing many more


I just had a quick troll through the IA thread at the LLamasoft LLeague
http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopi...torder=asc

Didn't find much there, apart from this:

moobaa wrote:

Remember, kids: there's two pause modes to play with. Hit F1 to enter the main pause mode (MIF - Made In France), then RUN/STOP (END on CCS64) to enter the wonderful DNA mode

Can't find this DNA mode thingie, but had some fun with MIF. Keys I've found taht do something: 'M' and 'Space'[/quote]
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Hey, you. Dumbass. Yeah, you in the tank. Cosy in there?

DNA is just a demo that Yak originally released onto Compunet, along with Taurus/Torus 2 (which features the fractal music generator used on Iridis Alpha's titles page and the plot effect used for the background in Voidrunner and a couple of demos with Gilby in 'em) and you can only change the way the chains of eyes move. Made In France was apparently written on a ski-ing trip and is pretty much based on Minter's own game Deflex and the keys are M and N to lay reflectors with the idea being to bounce the trail of colours into the ball.

Oh and for a little more hardcore IA knowledge, how about these little snippets;

1) To get through the first bonus stage in a hurry, simply hammer up the left side of the map, you'll need to stop and get a run up at one hill but after that it's a straight run through.

2) If you wait for the game to drop to demo mode and drop into pause, it'll "forget" and give you control of Gilby when you unpause and anything that was unlocked for the demo remains active! =-)
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I just had a quick blast at the game right the other day and achieved a ludicrously low score (about 2,000 points or so). I found it so confusing it was almost frustrating. I've downloaded the docs, so hopefully I will be able to properly enter the compo in a couple of days. But, anyway, I feel this game doesn't quite convince me... and I tend to like Minter's work...
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This has to be one of the most confusing and strangest games I've ever seen. I've read all the comments here, read the instructions and am still lost. Having fun though.

Here's my attempt: 16,100


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What are the exact rules on unlocking worlds? I thought you have to complete thee waves on the preceeding planet and the next one gets unlocked. Yesterday i wanted to try and unlock all planets but after completing about 11 waves on each side of planet 3 the next one still didnt get unlocked (the later waves on world 3 get pretty nasty btw...).

I see. Thanks for the information Shteev.

Change of tactics



229,620 - Everything's getting very surreal this late in the game. And level 1.16 has overload like you would not believe.

I've stopped worrying about where I'm going all the time and just let the warpgate take me where it feels like. I've made a note (I love writing things on paper, me) of difficult waves that I need to watch out for, and check every time I warp if either gilby is going to end up on one of them. Also check my energy bar to make sure it's not too high or too low.

And Lickeys are now my friends. How'd have thunk it? They eat your energy so slowly that I find them very handy for resetting my energy bar at halfway. I'd practice getting away from them before you try this tho

I had another crash yesterday during a bonus wave, so I've started saving my game as I enter them. I did have to restart a bonus wave during this score; I hope y'all don't mind.
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Hm, game never crashed here. I am using Winvice and the original Iridis Alpha version. Maybe because i still haven'T managed to complete bonus round 4?

It used to crash on my real C64, but that's probably because I was playing the ZZAP! megatape version saved to disk with a Super Snapshot. Haven't seen a crash in Vice yet.
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I'm using the original version, from the link in this thread, and CCSv3.0

CCS tends to crash if I switch around between programs when I'm running it, but I've found it stable if I don't.

Occasionally on the bonus screen you can get stuck in the black areas. Usually you can get out of this by firing continually in one direction. But sometimes, when I'm on the extreme left of the screen, this rapid boinging seems to trigger the crash. The whole screen (except the sprites) glitches for a second or two, and then the game locks up.

I've had this a couple of times since the start of this round, and remember it happening every so often before that too.
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Updating my personal best, now at 91310

I got up to this stage with these bubbles and I kept overloading. It only took about two shots before Gilby was full of energy!


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PLayed it second time and got 1,300.

4600 in my second time...

I don't understand the game, I don't like it very much.

But i will play more times and I'm going to read the instructions jeje
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I have never been playing this game before. Thanks a lot for the walkthroughs people have been giving!!! I normaly don't like Jeff Minters games. But this must be his best one.

I have been giving the game about 10 tries and here is my best score:
19'080

I still can't work out the 3rd wave (i.e licker heads) despite trying the shoot the squares and turn the other way and zoom off to aviod the heads. I managed to do it by fluke once and got like 20,000 or so but now all my scores are around 3000.

And it looks like such a wicked game as well
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sorry fellas, I've been away helping out with a new project, so I havent had a chance to play this one yet.... I'm gonna get crackin on it now!

Shteev, I may not catch up this round.. but I swear one of these days I'll manage to keep my score above yours till the end of the comp! heheh
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