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Geek Culture / anyone remember a floating robot Physx game in TGC language?

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tiresius
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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 04:01 Edited at: 19th Aug 2012 04:02
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What the title says...

I see this new game on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/211180/
I could have sworn someone made a demo or a small game with this concept in DBPro/DarkGDK using Dark Physics a long time ago.

Anybody know what I'm talking about or am I crazy?


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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 12:50
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I don't remember a TGC game, but Thrust was the same...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOl2swTtheM

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Van B
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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 14:10
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I'm sure Dark Coder made a game exactly like that, can't remember the name, but it was a winner in one of the TGC competitions, maybe even the first PhysX comp. I'll post back if I can find it.

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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 14:21 Edited at: 19th Aug 2012 14:22
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Flyhard by Stephen Downey, it was an impressive show of PhysX:



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MrValentine
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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 14:43
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I remember that game... And I believe its in the additional DP download files... Ive played it... Very clever it was...

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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 15:23
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That really is impressive for a one-man project. Shame the video is such poor quality.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 16:13
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It looks quite a lot like the game in the OP. Very cool!

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tiresius
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Posted: 20th Aug 2012 05:53
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Yes I knew I wasn't crazy. Thanks guys!

Having a little floating robot solving physics puzzles seemed like such a great coincidence that part of me hoped this new game came from the same person. But not likely.

Was Stephen Downey ahead of his time? or is this one of a subset of puzzler games, with other examples?


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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 20th Aug 2012 11:44 Edited at: 20th Aug 2012 11:45
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Quote: "Was Stephen Downey ahead of his time? or is this one of a subset of puzzler games, with other examples?"


Well, like I said at the beginning it is a variation of Thrust, which is a very old game. I don't think you can be ahead of your time with games anyway. Not unless you invent a new technology to play them with.

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Posted: 20th Aug 2012 14:03
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Heh, yeah it's like Thrust and a load of other games from like 25 years ago

Anyway, look far enough back (I mean quite a while back) and I remember code posted here that was like a 3D Lunar Lander. Infact search for Lander. It's pretty much exactly the same physics and didn't even use Dark Physics or any plugins if I remember rightly. So wanted to use it for something but never got round to it.

Also I downloaded some code a little while back that was practically a 100% remake of Zarch/Virus. Amazing stuff. I found it on the Blitz (Blitz3D code) website, but all the code is there so wouldn't be impossible to port to DB. Think is called Z_Virus_V2 (I can dig it out if you want it).

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