Barren – Finally released!

[Pritchard]

*ninja*  Sorry guys - I edited a potential spoiler or two out.  Lachie probably doesn't like that, because it can start flame wars since people get defensive about their post content.  I won't be editing any more, of course.  I think everyone here's hit the same point in the game by now.

[Josiah Tobin]

I know I contributed to it and have already played through it multiple times, but I love this game.
The atmosphere, the style, the abstract story, the uh... The things I've already mentioned to you. Oh well. It's great.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Oh, hi Josiah. Sorry, I forgot to email you the moment I released the game. Hope you won't hold that against me.

Anyway, I updated the original thread with a new download link (version 1.1).

I fixed the bugs reported by nkk and hexdude (first two contain spoliers):

* the bug with the pong game not displaying properly (thanks nkk)
* grey box artifact in the nameless man animation (thanks hexdude)
* some rather clumsy image memory buffers stunts were done in version 1.0. which made the game crash at certain points (ack!); well, at least I fixed it

[Josiah Tobin]

Nah, of course not, it was a nice surprise coming here and seeing the release topic.

[KristopherWindsor]

I'm glad you finally finished this; maybe I can someday finish a few of my previous projects.
I just got back from Disneyland, so my dialup connection will be busy tonight, but maybe if I can find a connection to upload my 4GB of pictures and video, I can download this too.
BTW, this thread is hard to read.  

[DrV]

Finished it (with the help of nkk..er, shhh ) - very awesome atmosphere and witty descriptions... got stuck a couple of times where I don't know if I would've found the solution myself, but with a few hints, I made it.  I was quite impressed by the endlessly filling bucket.

[Leonheart]

A'moment... I stuck for a while here due to critical coding... But, I must spare time to say;

Congratulation!.

[hexdude!]

I was quite impressed by the endlessly filling bucket.

It's not endless, it fills up slowly and overflows, and when it does, you get a special prize if you push space at the moment of overflowing. So watch it carefully. And remember, if your eyes get tired, it's worth it, keep watching.

[Leonheart]

A, ninja. A, Pritchard. A, me. Let's shut down and keep it secret! 

OK, I fisihing the download. I play it.

The first thing I want to say;
 This is make dabooda will scary to rip down due to bmp scambler. 
 And some cryptic way...
 But he still can rip via ogg.....

The second;
 A... little too dark.... here... maybe... i.... need... a torch.... Err,.... better Raise Screen Brightness (I forgot charging the battery)

The third;

#3 I can't many any progress in this game.
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I do deliver walkthroughs to...
"special" friends.

Help! I really needed one!

The fourth;

#4 I can't pause during the game.
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Make sure you put your whole head in
front of the shotgun. Thank you!

That the least funniest things in scary game, lol 

The last;
 I like the filtering effect... Remain me to NES filter. Cool!

[notthecheatr]

Ugh, I'm not very good at this sort of thing.  This will sound really lame, but I haven't even figured out how to start.  Visited all the visitable areas on all four maps, examined and tried to grab everything I could see, and talked to the two NPCs I saw.  Nothing has happened.  Do I need to keep looking for something, or is there something really obvious I'm missing?

[Lachie Dazdarian]

notthecheatr, you have been PMed.

Anyway, there was a version update.

From the updated readme:

Version 1.2 (07.06.2008) - A gameplay critical bug fixed. One of the game triggers wasn't reset properly once you executed it in one game. If you played a new game after that trigger has been changed in any of the previous games or after you loaded a saved game with this trigger changed, you were able to finish the game without having to execute this action that was solved (triggered) in a previous game.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

I'm so proud: http://www.reloaded.org/download/Barren/395/

A bit overrated, but who am I to complain?

BTW, my website monthly bandwidth is very thin! Ack! I mustn't make big (file size) games anymore.

[nkk_kan]

16gb is thin?!

Good review i liked it

and yeah graphics are overrated. They sucked..aye?(just kidding )

And use something better than "behemoth" bmp next time, Gowron!

[Josiah Tobin]

Hey cool, a review! (and a positive one at that!) Congrats

[hexdude!]

Wow, even the negative points aren't so bad (I actually enjoyed the red herrings and difficult challenges)