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Kain
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Hijacker: First Contact is a side scrolling/overhead 3d shooter with a twist: you can take over every enemy ship you encounter by locking on with your tractor beam and "hacking" into their ship systems. Use this and other special abilities as you blast your way through over 50 action-packed levels!


For those of you who don't remember, the demo of Hijacker took 2nd place in the RGT Competition a while back. The full game has finally been completed and its on sale now!

If you're wondering whether its worth the 17 MB download, just listen to what some of the beta testers had to say:

"OMG it's superb!"
"I love the game, great effects, nice balance"
"The basic game is fairly standard horizontal scrolling stuff but the addition of the hijacker mode adds so much extra depth to it"


The full game is just $9.95!

So give the free demo a try, and let me know what you think!

Download: http://www.shrikesoftware.com/hijacker1.exe







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WOW!!! That's amazing!!

The special effects are excellent, and that hijacking thing - simply amazing!

A job well done!

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Posted: 6th Jun 2004 12:24 Edited at: 6th Jun 2004 12:30
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And here is a clickable link so there's no excuse not to try it now.
http://www.shrikesoftware.com/hijacker1.exe

[edit] Wow. Indeed a really nice game. Why doesn't it work in win XP without being simulated as Win98/ME?

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Because its written in DBC and that has issues with XP. Not on all machines, but just some so I figured its best to put that message in there.

Thanks for the comments guys, I hope to get a few more

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WOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!! I upgraded the beam gun to it max........ Good game


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this game reminds me of tachryon(that might not be spelled right) for the PC

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I see Seems I always see better programs coming from DBC instead of DBP. Good luck to you.

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Posted: 7th Jun 2004 01:04 Edited at: 7th Jun 2004 02:44
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Looks very interesting. Downloading now...

It was great! Very well presented and highly addictable. I played it for nearly an hour . I sure hope this game makes you rich, mate.
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Posted: 7th Jun 2004 05:45 Edited at: 7th Jun 2004 09:35
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Sweet game!!
To bad im broke or I would buy it!

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Does the retail version have the option to increase the reolution? The game looks cool. but my video card cuts out parts of the screen at anything under 800 by 600.

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hmm well I could add that option in. I tried before but changing the res caused it to crash on most people's systems.

If you're really interested in buying it I can throw up another download with the res increase.

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Im not sure if setting the display mode removes loaded media. You should add a option before starting the actual game. 3D scenes are enlarged automaticly and the rest should just be centered or blitted at the top-left corner (this way you dont have to change the button codes and such)


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sweet game!

your link
http://www.shrikesoftware.com/hijacker1.exe


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Hmmm???
Everytime i try go in the bonus lvl on first mission it crashes =/

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yes I'll buy it for $10 if you can get at least 800 by 600 res.

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I like it. It is obvious that a lot of effort went into making a full story line and gameplay experience.

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Troan, did you read the ReadMe file? If you're using XP then it has a suggestion to fix that problem. I too had that (except with every level) problem, and the thing the ReadMe file suggests fixed it for me.
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Lost in Thought, I'm sorry but I wasn't thinking when I said I could throw up a demo with that option in. I forgot about how text is repositioned on different resolutions and such. I can't really rework all of the text, and I'm also out of string (DBC has a low limitation for those who don't know). Sorry, I wish I could help you out and I could use the sale

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@Troan- me had problem to compatability change fixed it


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Posted: 9th Jun 2004 04:43 Edited at: 9th Jun 2004 04:46
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Oh well. It looks like a great game anyway. Try and remeber the ones who can't display 640 by 480 in your next game If DBC has screen width and screen height commands you can program your text to auto position for different resolutions.

[Edit] You can program it to do that without those commands too.

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Hey i beat the demo yippe!!
O yea I did fix it. The bonus lvls are fun.


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Well in the full version you get to play through the other 20 or so levels in that mission and once you beat them it unlocks the ability to play another 25 from the alien's side

/shameless plug

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This game is amazing. Period. Run-of-the-mill tech talk is not worthy of this game. This game has achieved perfection.
Best I've seen come out of DarkBasic.
Submit to showcase!
And you could easily sell it for more than $9.95!

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Damn, looks nice. I may buy a copy, but after I buy the new Rush CD.

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Downloaded it, and the game is pretty good. Of course, I was weaned on pattern based Japanese-style shooters, so IMO the rest of the game is happening too fast while my other hand is busy on the arrow keys. The controls are kinda slippery too (Some inertia-ish feeling). But I don't mean that the game is bad - in fact it's possibly one of the best I've seen done in classic, and it also stacks up with the DBPro games. Just not my "style" that's all, so the game is kinda hard for me. Dunno, I think it just focused more on fun and different gimmicky gameplay enhancements rather than strict high-score driven play. Great work though, and I want to see more shmups made in DB.

btw, funny how you buy your top-of-the-line gear in a junk shop.

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Downloading now...Very cool!

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How many sales have you had Kain?

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Looks like a great game but the keyboard controls fee awkward for me.

Does the full version allow you to change the keyboard configuration. Perhaps with more playing I would get used to it but I prefer to control my ship with the arrow keys in these types of games, and fire with the left ctrl and shift or alt keys. I know that your game uses the arrow keys for hijack, but I'd like to reassign them to 'w, a, s, d'. I haven't tried palying with a mouse yet (I'm on my laptop).

Also, In the full game can I bypass the title screens quicker.


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Quote: "hmm well I could add that option in. I tried before but changing the res caused it to crash on most people's systems."


I had that problem with my RPG Tutorial. The solution for me was to put all the loading into a gosub, and then have a statement such as

If ChangingRes = 1 then Return

And when you change the res, you simply turn that on so it will come right back after it reloads all the media. I see where you might have a problem with the strings and such - did you hardcode all of the message positions?

Anyhow, amazing game - I hope it sells well (as it should!) And I was wondering, what about 8 Towers? I havent seen it around for a while and I found the gameplay incredibly addicting!

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Kudo's to you - at last a propper oldbie project that got finished!!!

I reckon it must be the first one!

I'll have to download and try when I get a connection at home again, but it looks superb.


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Is the game made in DBC!!!!(Darkbasic classic)
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the nerd,
Please read the thread before you ask a question like that...
His second post states:
Quote: "its written in DBC"


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wow, i was just on ur website and i gotta say- i cant wait for 8 towers. thats gonna be awesome! random generation, new every time! sweet!

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Sorry I haven't been on this thread in a while

Thanks for all of the comments. Strangely, I haven't sold a single copy yet. The prequel (which isn't nearly as good) sold a decent amount but this is a total flop. Oh well, you win some you loose some.

Oh and 8 Towers isn't being worked on now, but it will be soon.

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Make that 1 Sold Copy!


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I would buy it but I have tried everything and I can't get my computer to display 640 by 480 properly Other than that it really is a nice game.

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Thanks for your support Zdenassem!

Lost In Thought, unfortunately its too late now to go back and modify everything but I plan to make all future games compatible.

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Thanks for the great game!
By the way, I've gotten used to the controls. I can see why you designed it that way.

On your way to going platinum!


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Can DBC run in a windowed mode? I will test this a bit when I get home.

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It sure can, but only if it was made with the Enhancement Pack installed.

Other than that, what you can do is, in the same directory as the main exe, create a file called "setup.ini" and in it put:

This will give you a kind of windowed app... what it does is it makes the app run in a window, but still in full-screen, kind of hard to explain till you see it yourself, lol.

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Make that 2 sold copies. Just placed my order. Well done Kain...

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Thanks man!

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Kain, great game, but, for a better marketing appeal, maybe you should look at giving your site a bit of a face lift.

The general layout, and the header image look good, but the text size and font, along with the Maroon/Red title bars don't look the best.

Also, there is ALOT of blank space on a 1024x768 view, which makes the page rather boreing to look at.

Just a bit of a suggestion to maybe help sell a few more copies.

Also, try to limit the news on the main page to about 3 articles, and have all the older ones accessable on another page.

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I really think that this thread deserves to be *bumped* at least once. sorry if anyone disagrees. This game is really well put together. I'll post a review of this game this weekend, and perhaps more people here will be exposed to it.

~zenassem

(btw, I am in no way associated with the development of this game nor it's author. Just suprised that there wasn't much discussion about this accomplishment.)


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Good point zennasem. This game is FAR better than the credit/attention it's getting. The gameplay is incredibly smooth and I haven't run across ANY slowdown which is prone to many side scrolling shooters (including the famous R-Type series). As a happy owner of the full version, this game is a steal at $9.95. You'll certainly get your money's worth. Keep up the good work Kain. BTW, how did you make your ship's shield? Is it a sphere with a scrolling texture? I did something similar in the game I'm working on (just a colored sphere), but it's not near the eye candy level as yours and was curious if you'd mind sharing what you did...

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