Hi guys,

I just wanted to pop in here a moment and comment on the need to have BGT installed to run the game. This is the case at present because it is an open source game, and thus requires the BGT tool in order to execute the code. Users of the lite and pro versions will be able to create executable (.exe) files of their games which, fortunately, will not require the slightest trace of BGT on the end user's system. Smile.

I hope this clears things up.

I have only tried a much earlier version of this game, but it seems you've made a lot of changes to it so I'll go grab the new one a little later today.

Kind regards,

Philip Bennefall

Hi guys.
first off i love this game, i've been playing it since last night and so far have almost completed level3, but it's so hard! lol.
i've tried modifying some of the sounds the game uses to increase ease of play, the rock sounds for instance i found to soft to hear, and the background too loud. i altered both by replacing the rock sound and lowering the volume of the background.
one thing i was wondering though, i looked through the sounds folder and found the pit die sound was .rar where as 99% of sounds are wav. I was wondering if there is any way that i can alter the pit die sound. i have attempted to open the .rarsound, but i get the message that the file is either unrecognised or corupt.
Cheers
Best regards.

I love the cut sceens. so basicallyin the cut sceen you are kidnapped, and you are driven to this place, but then you manage to beet up the goons holding you captive and that's ware the game starts? just curious. Other than that Good Job!

Hi
.og? hmm, it's just weird that it's showing up as .rar in both the 2.70 version i started on, and the newly released 3.0 version. I've tried accessing it with Wavepad and Goldwave but neither program is able to open the sound.
Any ideas how i can access and modify the pit die sound?
Cheers
Best regards

Hi
Unfortunately, renaming the file to pitdie.ogg means that the sound is not played through the game, but the lost life msg is played immediately after you hit the pit.
i attempted once more to access it through two programs but no luck.
Thank you for yor hep.
a few things i would suggest though,
The t key now in 3.o speaks your points when you are trying to grab the bonus item. perhaps this could be revised?
another, sometimes the game is quite impossible to defeat as a spike and pit are literally side by side. this means that there is no way to dodge the spike and leap the pit, one of them will get you. could it be made so a spike and pit can not appear within 3 spaces of each other?
cheers
best regards

Hi nice to here about the changes, though amusingly enough, my keyboard had a miner accident last night and my right shift and quote keys are a litle, ---- mmmm, nackered! (you might have noticed some capitalization and abreviation errors in my posts, but hopefully I'll be able to either get this fixed or get another wireless keyboard soon.

I agree with chase about the relative sound volume, perhaps you could stick his altered versions into the next release.

One other miner point I forgot about earlier, is the installer.

I have all my games installed in a directory called fun program files, so that a, I know where they are, and b, I'm not in danger of removing any really necessary programs when mucking about with program folders.

However, the side scroller installer doesn't give the option to install to a specific location.

I can of course just move the folder and modify the short cuts, but this is a litle bit irritating. Is there any chance of putting this step back in the installer?

If not, ---- don't panic about it too much.

I can do that.

Hey again
Just tried out 3.0 this morning and have a couple of suggestions.
Firstly, would it be possible to make the chance of enemy death by falling into the pit less? I stood by the left edge of a pit and listened and pretty much every enemy falls into the pit. i know a few survive, but it would be very easy to just sit there and wait ffor the enemies to comitt suicide while you wait, lol.
One other suggestion i have is the enemies seem impervious to the spikes that the player must avoid. if the enemies can be killed by the pit couldn't those spikes chop them down to size?
lastly when playing on level 1 i managed to grab a spike evaid bonus item. While this bonus is very useful it can cause an issue. I carried the bonus with me to level2 and was killed off by a pit because of it's volume. could that sound be changed or modified? i was just remembering the hard hats you got on pipe2 blast chamber, they were a looped beeping at a low volume which still left you able to jump obstacles and get bonus items.
Well, that's all for now guys, take care.
Cheers
Best regards

They are not cheat codes; they are actually cheat commands. I don't know how to make a file with them, but they are all over the klanog forum, and a littl bit here too.

The enemies when they attack you, jump back like 2 spaces and then run back and attack again. I wanted to add them retreating from your sword, and I think I will actually make it work.

BGT gives me virus much!