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Sun Stories

June 28, 2007 –
October 29, 2020
This entry was deleted.

Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.

Author Comments

(UPDATE: Thanks for reviews. See below the response to critical control system)
Game Goal: Feed the Sun with falling stars to grow and light the world.
Controls: All the keyboard
Tutorial: Follow the instructions when select a new game. You will need to do the actions to go the next tutorial page. Don't worry, they're short and easy.

With this I tried to create a new different game experience based on the use of full keyboard. It's more than possible that not everybody will like this game, but once you get the controls of the game, you will be immersed in a great universe for a while.

A video of a level done: http://www.youtube.com/v/
NXWUNNXJq04

Again, thanks to the great work of Ximo Ferrer with awesome art and Daniel Martin for the beautiful sound melodies.

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(UPDATE: Keyboard controls issue)
I designed this game based in my knowledge of typing with the keyboard. I remember when my mother imposed me to go the typing class when I was 12 years old. Now I'm 31 and I must agree that my mother was right to do this. I understand that for people who has not this knowledge it would be terrible controls, but I have choosen the most natural control for people who knows to type with two hands on the keyboard. Sorry, but I'm not going to change the control system, it's the core part of the game design.
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(UPDATE 2: I have been thinking about it... and although I don't like this decision, I have enable an alternative control with ARROW KEYS (I feel to have sold my soul to the evil :(
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(TRICK)
The sun has memory, if you press the keys of the letters you see in the screen, the sun will remember. I want to say, you don't have to wait to catch a falling star to press a new key, could be said that is some kind of combo.
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(UPDATE 3): Really, thanks to everybody for the feedback, in the last update(soon will be available) I have repaired the multiple apparition of the same letter in the screen.

Reviews

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Okay, good game. I'm a good typist, so following the keys was easy. My major beef? The objects thrown by the black hole NEVER disappear. This means in a matter of moments the ENTIRE SCREEN fills with those damned astroids, making ANY movement without hitting a handful of them IMPOSSIBLE. Plus the fact that there is no way to stop chasing a star once you hit the key takes from your points for control, as it always seems to chase the letter that is FURTHER away (if 2 of the same letters are on the screen). After three rounds of watching my time run out because I couldn't GROW fast enough to keep up with the MULTITUDE of astroids slamming into me, I got seriously annoyed and gave it up. Which, ultimately, is why I must blam this game, which I don't normally do. I only do that to games that frustrate me, and this one did just that.

IF you make a sequel, PLEASE, for the love of GOD, SPEED UP how fast the rocks are thrown by the black hole, but make them DISAPPEAR when they leave the screen. Hard? sure, no problem. Impossible and irritating? blam.

Make them learn to type!

I thought it was interesting, and the controls were fine for me. Typing is a valuable tool that can land you a job if you want it.

My only real complaint is that it gets repetitive quickly.

Fix Pause

Yeah, fix Pause. The time keeps going while it is paused and when you unpause the time is lost.

<deleted> responds:

Thanks for the information. I have sent a new version with this bug solved, I hope that it will be updated in the next days.

Good game, I liked it.

It was confusing at the start, but after you get used to the game it gets better.

The bonus was cool and I liked the Sonic: The Hedgehog style music.
Fun to play and challenging.

cheers,
-Dan

Fun.

That game was fun, though it probably would have been more fun if I didn't have to look at the keyboard for ever freaking key. Oh, and I gave it a 3 for violence because of exploding Astronauts.

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