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This is judge discussion for Back to the past, Slick Competition 2011 entry, remember to vote using this rules: (vote from 1 to 5)

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Here game entry:

Name: Tommy
Email (just to contact you ONLY for this contest): slick underscore compo at rightanglegames dot com
Theme: Androids are not always friends of Magicka!
Entry: Back to the past!
Technology: Slick with MarteEngine using my devtommy branch for enhancements/fixes/whatever
Notes:
+ It's mostly ready.
+ Barely tested.
+ Sources not yet included, will come later.
+ Heavyweight (5.5 MB music file).
+ zip file. Extract and run bat or sh file to start the game.
+ Java 1.6 recommended.
+ No screenshot here, just play the game and enjoy the real experience Laughing

Game link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15008939/BackTo ... hePast.zip

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- Presentation: 6/10
- Innovation: 6/10
- Fun: 8/10
- Theme: 7/10
- Overall: 6/10

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I just wanted to thank you all for your constructive feedback so far!

I will continue to work on the game, add more content, make it a bit easier and make the internal rules (when will you resurrect or not) more obvious.

@pitbuller: after picking up all letters you'll just need to find the exit and walk into it. The exit is gray as long as you don't have all letters and turns blue when you got all letters.
The boxes don't need to be dropped. You can use them to cross acid pools or to stop robots (for a while) or jump high enough to reach difficult places.

@Uberrated: I already have graphics for a more powerful spell and my first idea was that each letter would give you more power or different spells. I will work on that more. Due to time constraints I just made the letters increase your mana and health by 50 (but not more than the maximum of 100).
The soundtrack is from Matt Mc Farland (www.mattmcfarland.com) who offers his music for free as long as you mention his website in your game (for now just in the readme.txt but the mentioning will go into the title or credits screen!).

@Lex: I will look into the sound issues, quite possible that I messed that up

@all: resurrect or die: as long as your magicka has more than 50 mana you will be resurrected and the level will restart. If you have less than 50 mana you will die and the game is over.
Regarding difficulty: I played the first level so often that I manage it with every try - honestly But the second level is indeed difficult

Thanks again,
Tommy

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The source code for the game is now available to download.



Have fun with my messy competition code

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- Presentation: 3
- Innovation: 4
- Fun: 4
- Theme: 4
- Overall: 4

I enjoyed playing this game. Some parts were a bit difficult. I did get stuck in certain places where death is the only way out. But overall pretty good! And thanks for the source code!