Congrats dude, i hope it does well.
Also assuming if a linux version is available, wouldnt it be funny if you made a tas for it?
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I do plan to release it for linux and mac! Not on the 18th, but I think that's my top priority post launch. The biggest hurdle for that will probably be to setup the machines, since I don't have either.
I do though already have pause, frame advance and slowdown built into my debugging tools. Not savestates though. But it's a hard game to TAS because of the elastic rope's nature.
I do though already have pause, frame advance and slowdown built into my debugging tools. Not savestates though. But it's a hard game to TAS because of the elastic rope's nature.
just use libTAS
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't
12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!"
Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet
MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish
[Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person
MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol
Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
This discussion reminded me of an idea that I think has been thrown in the past. Why hasn't anybody created a game that's quite directly based on TASing?
In other words, it could be something like a platformer that you could play in real-time if you really wanted, but is so astonishingly hard that it's essentially impossible for a human to play (eg. because it requires dozens of consecutive frame-perfect inputs, which is essentially impossible for a human to do), and the core idea is that the game, as a core game mechanic, offers TAS tools to advance in the game (frame advance, rewinding, savestates, etc) and the idea is to pass each level like that, and once you have done it, it will replay in real-time the TAS you just created.
When you have finished the entire game like this, you could watch a replay of all of it. And of course there could be an online leaderboard of who makes a fastest completion.
There might be some games that are somewhat like that, but in a rather limited way (eg. being able to slow down and rewind, but no other tools and with no replay after you pass a level), but I'm not aware of a game that's full-on like this.
This discussion reminded me of an idea that I think has been thrown in the past. Why hasn't anybody created a game that's quite directly based on TASing?
I remember seeing such a game posted on the forums in the past - I can't remember what the game was called, but the premise was that you had a 'car' with rockets on both ends, gave you a scrubbable timeline you could add/change inputs on arbitrarily, and it showed the predicted trajectory of your current inputs. It was called something like rctr ('rocket car').
There's also a couple of FPSs along those lines, although I forget what they're called.
I wonder if you are thinking of Superhot (which is based on the idea that time advances only when you move, and as fast as you move, so you can control the speed of passage of time by moving faster or slower, or remaining completely immobile).
It's very slightly like a "TAS game" (and quite fun), but not really to the extent I'm thinking.
Do you intend to release it for Android? I showed your game to several people at work. They liked it, but said they only play on mobile, so they are not interested in Steam or Windows games...
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It is not in my short term plans to release it on mobile, though I have ideas on how it could work very well for touch devices. Maybe in the future?
Anyway, the game has been released today! Be sure to check it out, it feels great for speedrunning!
This discussion reminded me of an idea that I think has been thrown in the past. Why hasn't anybody created a game that's quite directly based on TASing?
I remember seeing such a game posted on the forums in the past - I can't remember what the game was called, but the premise was that you had a 'car' with rockets on both ends, gave you a scrubbable timeline you could add/change inputs on arbitrarily, and it showed the predicted trajectory of your current inputs. It was called something like rctr ('rocket car').
