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[Transportation]

[spoiler]On the final level near the end in the maze, I somehow managed to end up on top of the screen after an eversion, letting me run along above it like the Super Mario Bros underground level.  I didn't see what happened if I ran over the flag...[/spoiler]

[spoiler]This occurs when your hit box is inside another object. Namely, eversion inside a bush.

Is this intentional? World 8 has a cloud staircase near the start that lets you climb to a platform with bushes on it, making it extremely easy to exploit. Also lets you bypass the corridor of enemies that takes 5 million years of waiting. Very useful. [/spoiler]

Also this is a great game, the true ending was awesome, etc.

And I'm pretty sure I've spent most of the game's time on:
[spoiler]1.) Fucking claw bridge and those curvy jumps after it. This is what usually happened:
Claw bridge -> curvy jump left -> bounce off enemy's head to skip the other half -> everse -> die hilariously at curvy jump right. So much hate for that level.

2.) This has been mentioned, but jumping into one block wide corridors. Seriously, like 10 minutes total.[/spoiler]

[Zaratustra]

things fixed

hovering flag in world 3
pit you can't get out of in world 5
inacessible 3-4 portal after you die in world 7
Window title changed to credit author by name.
double jump bug
huge log file
pause key

things to be worked on

Support for widescreen modes, if only letterboxing.

things that will not be changed

"Press Fire" reacts to 'Z', and perhaps enter.
Basic controls listed on the title screen. Nobody reads manuals

[Brentai]

Suicide key would still be nice.  Just in case, and also for fun on the later layers.

[Catloaf]

Now Hands make a worse noise, but don't actually come up from the pits.  EASY MODO GLITCH?!

[MadMAxJr]

Started playing.

Rage is all I can see.

[Zaratustra]

I fixed the hands. I have brain problems.

[JDigital]

Odd graphical glitch in world 1, with a white square on the spawn point:
http://i38.tinypic.com/2cy4hl4.png

If I start at the right and make my way left by jumping off the guy's head, I can get stuck. This is probably a minor issue because you really have to try, and drowning puts you back where you started.
http://i38.tinypic.com/2cyr5w6.png

I still get stuck here. I suck at jumping directly up.
http://i33.tinypic.com/kbyuex.png

Perhaps the title could show the most recent level?
http://i33.tinypic.com/wgpaww.png

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[Zaratustra]

VOTE BITCHES

[Zach]

What're some of the other games that are worth downloading/playing/voting for?

[Arc]

Why would you ever want to play anything else ever again?

Staying on the homeboy safe side, I voted Eversion only. The torrent includes all the titles, so why not go wild and download them all?

And only seed Eversion.

[Zaratustra]

Verge will probably win the competition because it looks so much like Cave Story.
From Primordial Egg is a fun 10-minute romp with clever enemy AI.
Herbert West in 'Carrion Re-animating!' seems to be good but I didn't play it yet.

[Catloaf]

Verge will probably win the competition because it looks so much like Cave Story.

I just played Verge.  It's not nearly as fun as Eversion.  It goes the depressing route rather than HOLYFUCKWHATTHESHITAWESOME route.  One could argue that they have the same story.

EDIT:  Did not realize all games were on the same theme.

[Brentai]

Verge will probably win the competition because it looks so much like Cave Story.

Too long with no continues.  Granted, it's difficult to actually die-die unless you suffer a Total Caring Failure, but you'll note that I did.

From Primordial Egg is a fun 10-minute romp with clever enemy AI.

Cute little beat-em-up that becomes total absolute bullshit the moment the enemies get guns.  They can sap your life away within seconds from offscreen.  Oh, and it crashed on me a few times.

Herbert West in 'Carrion Re-animating!' seems to be good but I didn't play it yet.

Its production values are impressive but of course that's no level playing field at all.  As far as gameplay goes it's a straight-up nyeeeeeeeeh.  Some sort of one-stage Lemmings thing that's long on flaws and short on fun.

[LaserBeing]

I liked From Primordial Egg, but that might just be because I really like stomping. Once you get to the gun guys just don't even bother killing though. Just charge blindly through the level as fast as you can and you'll be free.

Carrion Re-Animating looks slick at first but it is in fact very terrible.

Lost in Eldritch might have been interesting if there was an actual game there instead of just a severely crippled Knyttlike. This Cursed Rock is comparable in both graphical quality and shallowness, but you might as well play through them both if you're bored, since they're so short and easy.

The unbelievably lazily-titled My Game isn't interesting at all to play but it does have a really neat aesthetic going on, so it's worth checking out just for that I guess.

The Clatter of the Keys has a neat concept and is actually pretty fun for a typing game.

The only IF in the competition worth playing is Theatre of Cruelty. Although Sleep does feel like Lovecraft in the sense that it has a stupid gratuitous "twist" ending that you can see coming pretty much from the moment you start reading (might I add: a twist that I'm pretty sure I've already seen in at least two other, much better IFs).

I actually quite liked NecroFodder. Kind of a weird mix of Nethack, Lemmings and Kingdom of Loathing I suppose.

Verge is pretty nice I guess, but anyone who feels obligated to give all the games a fair shot before voting can rest assured that, forum loyalty aside, Eversion actually is the best game of the bunch.

[Zach]

Other games tried, Eversion voted! Thanks for the summaries and suggestions. I don't know how tight a ship that other forum is, and figured that this was the best way to avoid charges of box-stuffing.

[Brentai]

For completeness sake, I tried all the games.

8Sound: Some sort of screamer.
31BR: Not complete as far as I can tell.  Nip-style Dialogue Option Game.
Afterlife Consequences: It's really what it sounds like.  Except the game is so fucking terrible I can't make it much past the first jump.
Bird Mansion: Requires registration, so fuck it.
Dark Matter Planet: Sort of like I Wanna Be The Guy, only everything's invisible.  And you only get four shots.  Ever.  I don't know what the fuck is up with the ending.
Death Lights Dancing: A rowing simulator.  Right.  You can't really turn as far as I can tell so, uh, have fun with the flying baby heads I guess.
Defect: Would count as Games as Art, except you only really have two possible actions and the game sort of takes one of them away from you.  So it's not a "game" by even the broadest definition.
Doorror: Probably pretty good, but not my thing.
Endless Cavern: I cannot fucking play this game.
Hassle: A joke.
Hideous Sounds in the Dark: Hunt-the-Pixel-by-Sound.  Also, shitloads of things trying to kill you.
Insomnia: Almost kind of a neat idea - you're constantly getting more tired, which makes you run and jump slower.  In practice this means you never have the slightest idea whether or not you're going to make a jump, and it doesn't help that the game's pretty unfair no matter how awake you are.
Invisible Armies: Shooter.  Exactly what it sounds like.  Fuck that.
Lost in Eldritch: Like a Metroidvania with terrible, terrible controls.  Human beings are not automobiles!  Worse yet is that most of it seems designed to take advantage of the sucky control scheme, sooooo yeah.  Points for the stated goal of the game being "overdose on hallucinogens".
My Game: A joke.
NecroFodder: Don't do webgames, probably fun.
Never Opened: A Robotron-style shooter with really awkward controls.  Has some merits but overall, no.
Pitchblackoids: Invisible Asteroids.  Oh, also, invisible enemy ships shooting the motherfucking shit out of you.
Planets Form'd: MORE invisible shit.  Features a soundtrack consisting of a baby who won't shut the fuck up (there seems to be a reason for this, but fuck if I've got the patience to find out what it is).
Queer Village: Hee hee.  Er, um, I really don't know what the game's supposed to be about; it seems innately either unfinished or broken.
Sinister Names: Archive corrupted.  So much for that.
Sleep: Tiny but decent IF game.  I don't know how to get the last point.
Strange Visit: Pointless house tour.  Gets some points for being the only competent 3D entry without an obvious budget.
The Clatter of Keys: Actually pretty good!  Basically a typing tutor, but the idea that you're actually playing as Lovecraft doing hack work is clever.  The only other thing in the compo I'd vote for, really.
The Museum: Put it this way.

>decipher hieroglyphs
You use your 1337-h4xxor coding skills to make a demo that impresses the hieroglyphs so much it reveals it's true message to you. It says "buttocks".

I sort of wandered around picking up shit until basically walking out the door with a sum total of 0 points.  Also I made the text-to-speech engine talk dirty to me.
Theatre of Cruelty: I'm not installing Z-Machine to play another IF game at this point, sorry.
The Lake: Another rowing simulator.  Yes, really.  This one works, but there's not much payoff.  Special thanks to #pantsu.
This Cursed Rock: Crashes after the title screen.
What Hatches from Primordial Egg: Another IF.  Done with IF.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go make A.L.I.C.E. tell me what a nasty boy I've been.

[Kazz]

If you're going to do IF, you should first be able to write grammatically correct F.

[Zaratustra]

You forgot Uneksians. It's an Oddworld clone with world art by yours truly.

[Brentai]

Er, doesn't seem to be in the torrent.  Huh.

[Zaratustra]

that's cause the boy uploaded it wrong then spent a week off the internet.