Jonathan Blow uploaded Nicewrench, which is a remake of Flywrench minus the instant death and with an added collecting aspect. I know that he didn't give himself a lot of time to make the game ("This game was written in 2 days or so, during February 2008, while jetlagged on a trip to Copenhagen") so the movement isn't very finely tuned, but I found the game to be much more frustrating than Flywrench. Death in Flywrench isn't supposed to be punishing, it's just an affirmation of failure after which you are instantly thrown back into the level. Nicewrench deals with failure in a way similar to Punishment, in that you're bounced backwards and forced into a situation that often makes it more difficult to overcome the obstacle. You end up facing the wrong direction and you've lost all momentum. In some cases, the positions of the lines have changed so that you're forced to retrace your steps through a different configuration of lines to get to a point where you can fly through the original setup at an adequate speed. The addition of the collecting aspect doesn't really make sense to me either, although in some games collecting things can be rewarding. There actually were collectibles in an earlier version of Flywrench. It also allowed you to bounce off the yellow walls whether you were rolling or not, and you were given a rank based on how many orbs you picked up, how fast you completed the level, and how many times you died. I eventually found all of these to be pretty obnoxious additions that left you with a game you never really mastered, since you only replayed sections if you reloaded the game. In terms of movement in Flywrench, you only control subtle changes to your ship's momentum so the open ended nature of checkpoints and bouncy walls accentuated this lack of control. Anyway, it was cool to finally play Nicewrench and I'd be interested to see how it would evolve if it were developed further.
Cowboyana is pretty much done. I'm going to upload it on the 15th, and if you're in Brooklyn you can play it with my gamepads. It's two player, and can't really be played otherwise. Jordan Stone and Evan Pritts did the music, which is primarily acoustic.
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I WON'T BE ABLE TO PLAY COWBOY GAME
Looks nice. I hope you get to run along the tops of the train cars, as in the NES game North and South.
Looks epic.
Big fan of your games.
Excited level +192529859285
@tapewrom - running across the tops of traincars is a big part of the game. There's also drinking, duels, and horseback riding.
Which gamepads? PS3, XBOX 360? Or does it matter?
You can use whatever type of gamepad you want and just run the included joytokey software. I've been using snes controllers converted to usb.
What about keyboard
how to play with keyboard
the controls are in the readme file
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