Elvish Pillager's New Game!

[Elvish_Pillager]

I felt like coding a game today, so I whipped up a totally black-and-white, abstract-but-cool game for all your amusement(s). The game is also GPL'd, obviously.

Dang, this has got to be the first black and white game in years. I miss them.

The gameplay is a little slow but rather entertaining. The beast against which you fight is tricky and doesn't give you opportunities too often; sometimes, it even uses surpirisingly good tactics, considering the ridiculousness of its mind(s).

By the way, make sure you read the Read Me before you play - otherwise, you will stand no chance.

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I bet you thought this was an April Fools' joke, eh? Ha ha, tricked you, 'cause it isn't! Below, I have provided a screenshot, the source code, and a binary for Mac OS X. Don't worry, admins, they're less than 150 KB total.

[Invisible Philosopher]

Getting it to work on Linux, this worked for me...

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$ gcc -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/SDL/ -lSDL -lGL -lGLU -o NALILL *.cpp

(...after fixing a non--standard C++ usage and changing the #includes to use <GL/...> instead of <OpenGL/...>, and getting rid of some useless files generated by OSX. I've uploaded the result of that.)
... except that the bullets on the main screen were practically invisible (glPointSize() isn't working? the program should use glGetError()/gluErrorString() and log what any OpenGL errors are...), but I won anyway.

[quartex]

Not a bad little game. Interesting premise and a different kind of gameplay than most arcade games. Good Job.

[sparr]

neat. took about 10 minutes to beat it. the only bad part is how slow progress is when youre 'chasing' the beast

[Elvish_Pillager]

thanks!

Indeed, chasing the beast is a little slow. Dodging bullets and/or trying to propel yourself off them is a good way to pass the time.

[Disto]

I felt like coding a game today, so I whipped up a totally black-and-white, abstract-but-cool game for all your amusement(s). The game is also GPL'd, obviously.

Dang, this has got to be the first black and white game in years. I miss them.

The gameplay is a little slow but rather entertaining. The beast against which you fight is tricky and doesn't give you opportunities too often; sometimes, it even uses surpirisingly good tactics, considering the ridiculousness of its mind(s).

By the way, make sure you read the Read Me before you play - otherwise, you will stand no chance.

...

I bet you thought this was an April Fools' joke, eh? Ha ha, tricked you, 'cause it isn't! Below, I have provided a screenshot, the source code, and a binary for Mac OS X. Don't worry, admins, they're less than 150 KB total.

Nothing for Windows .

[Elvish_Pillager]

You could try to compile it yourself...

[jonathantan86]

Interesting game. I just repeatedly press space in the hopes of destroying an elbow and tried to move my diamond towards those elbows...did not succeed though. Too many bullets.

[appleide]

neat. took about 10 minutes to beat it. the only bad part is how slow progress is when youre 'chasing' the beast

You should play it a second time, then it will only take 2 minutes.

Thanks for the fun, EP!