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Review by stevenvi all reviews by stevenvi

This game did not run on my computer, and no instructions were provided to assist in the matter.

The game sets a video mode, then a Windows error message appears. Both the binary pack file as well as when I compile the source myself do this.

Scores: Overall None Artistical None Technical None Genre None

Review by codnik all reviews by codnik

overall: 2. Feels very much unfinished. Still, feels like it\'d have potential with a better worked out story and gameplay.

artistic: 3. It looks cool. The animations are very nice, even the infinite dying one with the butterfly swinging sideways. Exploding people rocks. No insult rule though.

technical: 4. Effects are pretty impressive. Flying around is kinda cool (go way up and look down at the stadium.. some nice fog). It seems not to matter where exactly you aim, as long as it is within the stadium. Score keeps going up... even if you press the button while in peaceful infinite death.

genre: 2. There is destruction, but my purpose for it is nothing else than seeing the animation of the bouncy people.

I\'m not a 3D fan, but this game didn\'t feel so awkward, after all.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 2

Review by BigBrain all reviews by BigBrain

Yeah, a 3D game for TINS 08, something different.

Story:
An evil emperor called Mao Tse Tsung wants to take over the world domination by turning all humans into \"box-ppl\". You are a butterfly and your goal is to stop Mao Tso Tsung by killing all of his box people by creating monsoons (well, tiny monsoons).

Gameplay:
You control the giant butterfly with mouse only (mouse movement controls camera, left moves forward, right creates a monsoon) and the box ppl just stand around doing nothing. There\'s not really something like difficulity, the only way to die is to crash into the floor (and then the die animation lasts until infinity). One bug I noticed was that the \"kill counter\" would even increase if you shot already dead box ppl.
Anyways, the game can easily be \"won\" by just turning around in circles and rightclicking as often as possible and thus killing all the people.

Artistical score: 3
Big bonus for using 3D graphics. Another nice thing is that many things (well, there aren\'t too many game elements though) are animated which looks quite nice. However, on my computer the screen always flashed when I moved the camera which was very disturbing. The intro dialog (only one dialog is a bit few) is just a simple multi-line textprintf\'ish call and it doesn\'t insult the player. The NPC in this case is the evil emperor, but the whole story doesn\'t really seem to be connected with the gameplay at all.

Technical score: 4
The atan2 function is first used in draw_shot and second when simulating the moment, when the monsoon hits the box ppl (which kinda reminds me of my game, just in 3D).
The effect when the box people are thrown through the air when hit looks great, one neat detail.
Yet again a small bonus for using 3D.

Genre score: 2
The game is all about destruction, so this rule is fullfilled.
However, it doesn\'t really feel like destruction, more like \"click the right mouse button and gain more points\", probably because all you can \"destroy\" are the box people.

Oeverall score:2
There\'s not much gameplay here and the rules are only partially fullfilled, so this game only gets two points by me.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 2