Hi.

I think Terraformers is great. I have bought the full version, and the storryline is great. There is a lot to explore on the planet but not much action.
It takes a while to get used to the navigating system, but it's great when you got used to it.

Yeah. You are right. Have you tried playing it with 5.1 surround? It's really awesome. There is great surround sound in the game.

Well this is odd indeed. i finished the tutorial course and got the bit of story about taking the spaceship to Telos 2, and then appeared to be in what I assume was the game, I thought the demo should've ended at the end of the tutorial? it must be a rather large demo, sinse I managed to get myself lost and die of energy depletion, ---- though mostly because I spent too much time playing around with three tone wheels.

so first question is, how long is the demo? before I got entirely stuck in the code lock room, ---- I suspect from trying to get through a door I'd already been through sinse the gps objects list makes no distinction betwene different doors.

My second question is how do you save a game? there was nothing about it in the manual or keystroeks list, but I assume there's a way to do it.

thus far the game seems much more puzle/exploration than shooter, though I'm sure if I'd played for longer I'd have encountered these robots of doom mentioned in the communications message.

I love the examine area key, a very nice atmospheric touch, and the interface is good, ----- probably the first successful example I've seen of an audio game in 3D which can give multiple coherent signals at once for the same object, and certainly a very nice nav system, ----- though the lack of an ability to side step is really quite annoying when aligning yourself to objects that your already facing, but are a litle to one side of you.

If someone can inform me reguarding the saving, I'll try things again and probably will end up buying this game. If I've inadvertantly got it already, I'll inform the devs and send them some cash sinse there are no messages about the game being freeware, and with their recent affiliation with 7-128 I'd hope pin interactive are stil active even if they've not exactly been pumping out the games recently.

http://www.pininteractive.com/ is the link you want. Hope you like the game as much as I did, even if I'm slightly confused at the moment.

Ah, well I'm glad I haven't accidentally hacked the game. I certainly hope your right about the saving, there's nothing about it in the keystrokes list, but myabe they offer more full docks with the full version which explain saving and such. I'm on my laptop now, but when I get back to my desktop I'll give it another go.

Well jayde, I was impressed thus far, ---- particularly by the ambience, location descriptions and nav system, though I'll probably see if I can completely finish the demo before i actually shell out cash for the full version, ---- and for that I'll likely need the ability to save, owing to me forgetting about energy levels.

At risk of increasing your relation to a simian nephew jayde, i could suggest that this is a bit of poetic justice on you.

Put the bazooker in your backpack with the delete key, then press the space bar when your close up to the communications device to interact with it.

One thing I do wonder about jayde though, is can terraformers be registered on two computers? Not that I wont' bother buying the game if it can't be, but it would be nice to have it playable while on the move.

I'd guess because it's done by a zip file which you just extract to the archive of the downloaded gamee there's no problem with registering it on another machine, but I'm not sure.

I hope to be able to spend some more quality time with the terraformers demo either tonight or certainly tomorrow, assuming that my work, Startrek, Doctor who, writing for this site or various others or any of the other bezillion things that keep cropping up don't crop up!

As I thought, which is good news. All the more reason for me to sit down and give the demo a good hammering tomorrow when my brain has recovered from today (I'm a litle shattered at the moment).

eddit: well it now is tomorrow, and I obtained the first computer part by the radar tower, thus finishing the demo.

Very nice indeed, and I'll deffinately be opening up my wallet for this one (in fact I might just head over to pin interactive and take care of that now).

My only slight disappointment with the demo is that I never got to take on one of these dreaded robots.

I went in to the warehouse east of the com device to grab a load of sound keys, and found a robot in the room north of that, but had no ammo for my bazooker so bravely ran away (sinse i didn't fancy being robot fodder). I was hoping to find some ammo down the western route, but after I'd done the litle puzle with the tone wheels and got the computer part from the radar station, as I headed north in search of more amo the demo ended, ---- which was slightly annoying sinse I would've liked to do a bit of slaying.

Oh well, as I'm forking out the cash for the game there should be plenty of robot pounding for me in the future.

the only two facts about the game in general that get on my wick are 1: the inability to sidestep (though the game seems quite forgiving in terms of how close you need to get to objects in order to interact with them), and the fact that when you've ggot two or three objects of the same sort on the object list, ---- such as doors or tone wheels, there's no way of knowing which one is which accept by coordinates. It may just be my utterly horrible spacial location abilities and sense of direction, but if I don't check the coordinates everytime I go through the door and then look at the list, I end up going out of the same door I came in by.

Nevertheless, I like the game, --- and I really wish pin interactive could do a terraformers 2 or other game using the same engine, sinse while I certainly will buy it, it sadly doesn't sound like a long game.

can someone please poste a walkthrough here please?
I'm stuck because so menny doors lead to the same please and a few rooms are just clones of the previous room