LA Games Compo #5: Vital Light

The Dark Prince · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject: LA Games Compo #5: Vital Light

Well, the physicists among us seem to have some trouble finding their voice, but the optical experiments of last month have inspired you to study further it seems with the tremendous and challenging Vital Light (The link is to the CD32 version, but we will be playing the A500 version).

A game of placement, reaction and little people who live inside the computer. Last month we used colours of the rainbow to kill creatures, this month, we use them to destroy blocks. Oh, and the colours aren't actually a spectrum of colours, but you get the idea. I'll let the game speak for itself (and it will....ooooh it will), but have a gander at this:

The method of play is fairly straightforward, but I'll have the instructions scanned soon enough..

Rules
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This round of the competition starts now(10th August) and will end the 31st of August, 24:00 (midnight) GMT
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Score as many points as possible in one player mode.
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Post screenshots of your high score in this thread, (it would also be nice if you could scale them a bit, but don't worry if you can't).
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Don't cheat! - I will be forced to zap the bricks of your house to a similar colour so they EXPLODE! (Errr....and for those who have houses made of other materials - I'll zap them too.)

Dowload the game:
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Here you go.

Current Scores:

Remember that new members are always welcome to play and get down to blasting dudes!
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Predseda · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

It doesn´t seem to work in my WinUAE (predefined A500). Could you specify the working configuration? I can see only cracktro and the the game stops loading on track 11 and only black screen is there... Sad

EDIT: It is silly, but the game stops loading on track 40 in A600 config... but the result is the same - black screen...

I tried the other versions that are to be downloaded from PlanetEmu, but no one works for me (?)
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Zagrebo · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:23 am Post subject:

Belgarath · Amiga Junkie Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 472

It will work with an a500 config except it needs more memory. set 1mb chip and 1mb fast and it should work fine.

sydney · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:

Here is my first attempt, anyone know how many levels there are?

What about continues? I think no, even though I used em for the above score Wink

22747

shteev · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

No continues, then? Here's a no continues:

30,570

Bit fiddly, this game. Lots of disk swapping on my version too. Is there a one disk version anywhere without those rubbish heads on it?
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sydney · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject:

To avoid the heads, and a lot of disk swapping, select 'no' when asked if you want to connect to the mags.

Zagrebo · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject:

I think my score came to around 11,000 and that was using all three continues Embarassed

I clearly need more practice, especially if we're sticking to one continue.

Jams · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:47 am Post subject:

i am colour-blind Big Eyes

BF-Medic · Newcomer Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Norway

Uhm, I can't get the game started....I have mounted both the disk images, but "insert disk 2" is just appearing, and nothing happens...what am I doing wrong?
Long time since I last used WinUAE Confused

sydney · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

BF-Medic · Newcomer Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Norway

BippyM · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject:

This one isn't garnishing much interest.. I had a quick blast the other day, score was quite low.. but I'm gonna play more and practice a bit before I post a score!

shteev · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject:

I'm progressing very slowly, my own learning curve is far shallower than the difficulty curve of the game itself.

Monsieur Le Dark Prince, post something! I need a benchmark Razz

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The Dark Prince · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:

Well, I have been away for a tick, which is why I haven't been saying much, and I also carefully forgot to bring back my original of Vital Light and all instructions, which I'm a tad annoyed about.

Anyway, after a brief search, there don't appear to be any instructions around. So I guess I'll just have to write down what I remember, should someone need instructions. Does anyone?