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Read October 13, 2006, 02:37:16 am #0
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Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
CLEAN ASIA!

News: The game was recently featured on mainstream gaming website GameTrailers.com, with 1800 views already!

The eyes of mankind has decided to leave their hosts and take over the earth. Their first move was to escape to the moon, where they developed their hostile weapon technology. Ten years later they return and forcefully take over some prominent countries in Asia. Thailand and New Korea has both succumb to the hostile threat, while China insists on dealing with the eyes themselves and refuses any helping hands from around the world.

America sends a pair of pilot twins with extroardinary sixth senses to battle against the evil eyes. They both have designed their own space ships that seems to be about the only thing in existance that can be used to battle these terrible fiends.   

TITLE SCREEN



THAILAND LEVEL



NEW KOREA LEVEL



CHINA LEVEL



It has three levels and two selectable ships (with distinct controlling differencies and weapons/abillities), fourteen bosses and around ten regular enemies.

I haven't bugtested it thuroughly so that might be a problem. The China level is nearly unbeatable, I haven't even gotten to the boss myself, so that's probably where any bugs would show up. I've tested the boss a lot, though, so it might be fine.

I've worked my butt off on this damn game, so you better like it  Angry

(Official contest download link is the attachment to this post)

Unofficial Download here: http://64digits.com/users/cactus/clean_asia.zip (5.5 megs and res change!)
Mirror1: http://www.quickfiles.net/304014
Mirror2: http://www.mediafire.com/?82dymv2dyim

This file may be updated if I find any bugs after the deadline... Or something. So I guess judges should get the attachment instead Tongue
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Read October 13, 2006, 05:35:30 am #1
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Re: Ad Nauseam
Welcome aboard cactus! Hehe, we really should make another random plant generator. Anyways did you use my Bullet Hell GML engine or did you code this differently?


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Read October 13, 2006, 01:14:04 pm #2
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I coded everything myself, of course  Grin

I guess I should release a demo soon, these screenshots don't do the game justice. But I won't  Angry
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Read October 15, 2006, 09:26:52 pm #3
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Hooray, I've finally got enough to release a solid demo... Grin

What's in it:
-Profile creator (profile isn't saved yet)
-A sexy menu (only start and quit work so far)
-Five powerups
-Two cool songs (by Lizardking and Paledeth)
-Seven enemies
-Lots of sexy graphic
-Some sound effects (more will be added)

FIRST DEMO DOWNLOAD (1,5 meg)



The difficulty curve is heavily unbalanced in the demo, the enemies appear at random. This will be altered in the final version, don't worry.
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Read October 15, 2006, 10:02:29 pm #4
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Re: Ad Nauseam (now with demo)
That was pretty fun! I liked the syringes and such. It could be said that I was "under the influence" of your game. Another POPPENKAST original.


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Read October 15, 2006, 10:04:20 pm #5
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Re: Ad Nauseam (now with demo)
Wow that was weird. In a good way.
It's a bit hard but you already stated that you'll work on it so it's fine.
Keep it up :)

Maybe you shouldn't change the resolution.
Messes up the windows and -for some people- the desktop icons.

By the way: Both, Lizardking and PaleDeth have uploaded music on modarchive.com.
So you can include Paledeth in your post there ;)
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Read October 15, 2006, 11:01:29 pm #6
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Re: Ad Nauseam (now with demo)
Yeah, I will make the resolution change optional (and not default). I know people hate that, but the game looks much better when it isn't stretched or windowed Tongue

I found PaleDeth's e-mail adress (I hope he still uses it), so yeah. Lizardking has for some reason only included his home adress... I guess I'll have to write him a letter if all else fails. We even live in the same country, so it wouldn't be that much of a bother.

I'm glad you liked it, I'm a fan of both Edge and Hyper Wars. I hope your Epileptica Forte will be as good as those, although I must say that I don't appreciate the style you have chosen as much as the styles your previous games has had. But screenshot can be deceptive, and I trust your skills.
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Read October 16, 2006, 02:55:43 am #7
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I honestly think you have this in the bag. No offence meant to the other contestants angel but this is hot.

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Read October 16, 2006, 03:17:51 am #8
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Re: Ad Nauseam (now with demo)
cactus, this is great.  There's a lot to like so far.  The style works really well, and nice choice for music.

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Read January 23, 2007, 02:13:25 am #9
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Re: Clean Asia (Ad Nauseam scrapped)
I've been secretly working on another game for this competition, since I decided that Ad Nauseam wasn't the way to go. See first post for some further details  Wink
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Read January 23, 2007, 05:04:38 am #10
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Re: Clean Asia (Ad Nauseam scrapped)
Quote from: cactus on January 23, 2007, 02:13:25 am
I've been secretly working on another game for this competition, since I decided that Ad Nauseam wasn't the way to go. See first post for some further details  Wink

Poor Bill he has so much to report on. Haha. I like your style it's loose and dynamic.


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Read January 23, 2007, 05:29:09 am #11
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Re: Clean Asia (Ad Nauseam scrapped)
Quote from: Pixel_Outlaw on January 23, 2007, 05:04:38 am
Quote from: cactus on January 23, 2007, 02:13:25 am
I've been secretly working on another game for this competition, since I decided that Ad Nauseam wasn't the way to go. See first post for some further details  Wink

Poor Bill he has so much to report on. Haha. I like your style it's loose and dynamic.

Hah... it's a pleasure, and games from both of you help make it so Smiley  I do at times regret not spending more time working on games... maybe I'll change the scope of the2bears blog to my own development.  cactus - I have to admit I'm sad that Ad Nauseam won't get finished (at least for now) but I can't wait to try out the new game.

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Read January 29, 2007, 12:00:19 am #12
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Re: Clean Asia (Ad Nauseam scrapped)
I've got two out of three stages completely done, as well as everything except for highscores and scoring. So, I should definitely be able to submit a full version with no/few bugs on the 31st.

The game will have about ten smaller enemies, 14 regular bosses and one mega boss that will take you guys ages to beat. I've never spent this much time on a game before, and I hope it won't have been in vain.

I bet you were expecting further teasers, right? Ha ha! None for you  Angry
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Read January 31, 2007, 11:05:15 pm #13
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Re: Clean Asia (Ad Nauseam scrapped)
Okay, the game should be finished now. See first post for details. It's a bit hard, but with some training, you'll do just fine, I promise  wink2
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Read January 31, 2007, 11:53:04 pm #14
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Re: Clean Asia (FINISHED!)
This. is. great! Awesome job guys. Love the music and the visual style. The controls may not have been the most intuitive ones but after a few trial runs it worked out just fine. There's one feature I'd like to see added though: selectable windowed mode / fullscreen. I had trouble with the fullscreen as it messed my running vnc session and the game was hard to play with the taskbar sitting over the bottom part of the screen. Not sure why this happened but still, a possibility to select a windowed mode would be nice. Command line trigger, perhaps?

Anyway, love it. Definitely a keeper.
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Read February 01, 2007, 03:20:19 pm #15
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Re: Clean Asia (FINISHED!)
Thanks  Grin I might add windowed mode if that's something you really want...

I fixed a few bugs on the China Level. Didn't update the attachment (Official competition dl link), but the Unofficial download link has been fixed  Tongue
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Read February 01, 2007, 04:34:49 pm #16
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Re: Clean Asia (FINISHED!)
TOO. GOOD. This is seriously one of the best shmups I ever played.

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Read February 02, 2007, 05:17:16 am #17
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Very very impressive. I love the artistic expression in it. The trip-hoppin' beats only make it that much better!
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Read February 02, 2007, 03:24:30 pm #18
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
News: The game was recently featured on mainstream gaming website GameTrailers.com, with 1800 views already! It's among the first independent games I've seen there  Grin
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Read February 02, 2007, 03:31:29 pm #19
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
I saw that cactus! Including 40+ comments already!!!  Wow!  shocked2  For your efforts in game development, you've been rewarded some great exposure....Keep up the great work!  cool2

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Read February 02, 2007, 03:46:13 pm #20
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Congrats, although this annoyed me -> "Genres: Action".  Action?? What a cop-out.  I hate that lable as it says absolutely nothing about the type of gameplay involved.  Its just the catagory reviewers through games into when they dont have a clue or cant be arsed thinking about it.  For example Tomb Raider comes under action as well, but if you walked into a games shop and asked for a copy of Clean Asia would you expect them to say "Sorry we dont have that in stock at the moment, but if you're into that kind of game I've heard Tomb Raider is pretty good".  Imagine how annoyed you'd be if you got that home and whacked it into your computer expecting a substitute for Clean Asia.  Sorry for the rant, just one of my pet hates.
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Read February 02, 2007, 03:54:53 pm #21
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
I got the scoop on this story. They posted a video capture of Clean Asia, thinking that it was a new Kenta Cho game.
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Read February 02, 2007, 05:25:20 pm #22
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Great exposure cactus Smiley

Of course, the general reaction by some of the commenters is, well, distressing.  Makes me sad that the average gamer is so... what's the word?  Stupid?  Tongue

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Read February 02, 2007, 06:04:07 pm #23
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Yeah, but in their defence I have to say that the graphics look pretty crummy in the video. The outlined bits didn't survive the squished video size very well. I'm still happy, though. It was totally unexpected that they'd put a trailer up for my game. And it's gotten 5500 hits and over 50 comments already!

Too bad they didn't put up a download link and whatnot, I hadn't updated my site with any news for a while, but I did as soon as I found out about how much exposure I was getting. Hopefully, some of the traffic will show up here as well  grin2
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Read February 03, 2007, 07:58:45 am #24
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Congratulations to cactus for winning Shmup-Dev's Shmup of the Month for January 2007, and making it into GMG's February 2007 spotlight as well.

But! There's a lot of other good entries in this compo... so I expect a real tight race to the finish line. Grin
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Read February 03, 2007, 09:44:37 am #25
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
I couldn't finish one single level because it is hard as hell but I like the style of it.
The player is a bit small and oftenly covered by the hud and if there are 100 parts of metal floating around you and the enemy shoots craploads of white bullet dots at your white ship which also is a dot it's not easy to keep track on where you actually are.
Also the 'warning, only ... ships left' message takes a bit too long to dissappear, 1 second should be fine here and you should be invulnerable a bit longer after reviving, 3 seconds should work.

Asides from that it's a nice though hard game that I am sure to keep on my harddrive.
Good job and good luck in the competition. I can imagine you won't do too bad with that ;)
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Read February 03, 2007, 07:20:22 pm #26
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Mr cactus your game stole most of my evening.

GREAT job!!!! Really fun in concept and a good challange too.


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Read February 03, 2007, 09:22:45 pm #27
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I haven't played the game too much (too experimental for me), but does it feature an autofire function?

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Read February 03, 2007, 09:25:00 pm #28
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Well cactus, I gotta personally congratulate you most richly and then some on such a TRULY SPLENDID and original game, and the widespread press it is getting!!!  And I just love the gameplay too, *especially* where you actually use the debris from destroyed parts of the enemies and send them right back at even more enemies and/or their parts... WOW!!!  d=Grin=b

And GREAT music, too... surely one of the best I have ever heard out of any game in this competion!!!  Cool !

I sure hope your game Clean Asia wins real big in this compo, as it has a definitely fascinating learning curve that is to be most appreciated by players everywhere, especially after a few plays!!!  grin2 !
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Read February 03, 2007, 10:32:31 pm #29
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Very bold choices in music, gameplay and graphics for Clean Asia. Truly avant guard. You got my vote for best shmup.
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Read February 04, 2007, 02:17:05 am #30
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Quote from: fsFreak on February 03, 2007, 09:22:45 pm
I haven't played the game too much (too experimental for me), but does it feature an autofire function?

You can choose between ships at the beginning, one of the ships does have autofire.

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Read February 04, 2007, 03:09:14 am #31
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Aaaaight Smiley

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Read February 04, 2007, 05:57:18 am #32
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Quote from: fsFreak on February 04, 2007, 03:09:14 am
Aaaaight Smiley

With the ship that blasts around when you press Z.  The blast itself can destroy peices of the enemy and then you hold X and grab the parts.  Then Z shoots the parts at them and its quite fun.

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Read February 04, 2007, 06:06:47 am #33
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Quote from: Matt McFarland on February 04, 2007, 05:57:18 am
Quote from: fsFreak on February 04, 2007, 03:09:14 am
Aaaaight Smiley

With the ship that blasts around when you press Z.  The blast itself can destroy peices of the enemy and then you hold X and grab the parts.  Then Z shoots the parts at them and its quite fun.

I QUITE agree, Matt, and this is one of those beautifully executed originalities that makes this game Clean Asia such a great joy to play, you know that?  Wink !
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Read February 04, 2007, 11:39:40 am #34
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Ooh, good job! I do believe you are the first person to beat it. I didn't think anyone actually would be able to do it so fast. But it makes me really glad to know that it's actually possible grin2
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Read February 04, 2007, 01:23:43 pm #35
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awesome game, unbelievable style
my favorite entry up to date

this will stay in my gamesfolder for a long time Smiley
only thing that annoys me, is that the german keyboard is different to the rest-of-the-world keyboard  (y and z is swapped) Angry

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Read February 04, 2007, 04:46:31 pm #36
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As fot me, I have not beaten the game yet, even though I just said that Clean Asia is a great joy to play indeed, cactus.  So yeah, with enough practice and persistence, I think anybody can beat it.  Wink

Again, a MOST splendid job on the whole game, and I gotta hand you some big-time props for this!!!  d=Grin=b !!
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Read February 05, 2007, 08:45:10 am #37
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 Grin Great Game. best shmup I've ever played. It's so challenging, great gameplay (both ships), gread sound, great grafics just perfect.
i played trough taiwan and new korea but in china it is impossible to play trough i guess.
May make the leve bit easyer in the next version hehe.


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Read February 05, 2007, 10:13:26 am #38
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Thanks for the comments everyone! I'm really glad to be getting so much positive feedback.

Since at least two people have beaten the game (one of them said the game was "Too easy"), and even nearly beaten it with both pilots, the game is indeed completable. It takes a lot of practice and skill, though.

The people who have beaten China reported some bugs that I didn't notice (since I never managed to get to the end of it myself). And I have now fixed those issues in the unofficial download link. Hopefully there is no bugs left, and the game is finally final. But if you get any errors, or spot any weird behaviour... Do let me know  Wink

http://64digits.com/users/cactus/clean_asia.zip
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Read February 05, 2007, 11:08:33 pm #39
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Re: Clean Asia (Featured on GameTrailers.com!)
Quote from: cactus on February 05, 2007, 10:13:26 am
But if you get any errors, or spot any weird behaviour... Do let me know  Wink

Does freezing and crashing XP count? Sad
I finally got around to trying Clean Asia on my main desktop box (Athlon XP 1700+, 768megs of ram, GF2mx400, E-Mu 0404) and I hate to say this but I just couldn't get it to run. Not the compo version nor the new final version. This is a real shame as Clean Asia runs just fine on my laptop and is an excellent game. I really can't even try to pinpoint the cause of this by the behaviour as when I run the game, it opens the tab at the task bar, flashes it and then.. um.. makes windows crawl for a few seconds and then freezes. Keyboard stops responding, even the reset functionality of ATX stops working so a cold shutdown and reboot is the only way to get the box back on it's feet. The first program to ever kill my XP. Cheesy

Oh well, no can do I guess. Love it anyway. :3
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