Hey there. Welcome to my topic on Hydro Hydra :-)



Hydro Hydra is game i've been working on for quite a while now.
It is built on the same game engine as Dust and Rocks 2.

The game:
You are put into the role of a tentacle creature that has to eat other creatures in order to evolve and face bigger challenges.
The game is split up into stages. At each stage you have to have a certain tail length and eat a number of creature of a certain type in order to pass the stage. When you do you get to select a upgrade and more creature types are revealed over the game.

Sound and Music:
The sound effects are from SoundSnap.com.
The music is made by Anthony Antfactor.

Feedback and bug reports:
I'm very interested in hearing about game design ideas aswell as bug reports and specific/overall critism.
In general all comments are welcome, even if you think the game is shit :-)

I hope you try the game and have a great time and perhaps leave some comments :-)

- Scarzzurs

This is a really fun game. It kind of reminds me of the demo videos that have been released for Spore.

I'm not very far yet (I just unlocked the pirahanas), but the game is very intriguing for some reason, and you've set up a cool atmosphere

yep same here cant see the end ?

@Scarzzurs

The game would be alot more fun if there was consequence to it.. once I found out the pirahanas can't actually "kill" you, the game felt kind of pointless, making the goals more of a "matter of time" instead of an actual challenge

I would love for you to expand this game to include more creatues and objectives, it is a great start

Very cool, game. Played till the end.
Was a little slower when the tail grew to 100.
I was using the openGL, I saw a light jump when my tail grew by 1, when my tail was long.

Thanks for testing it fletchergames and zammbi :-)

Yeah, the save feature has been suggested before and i should definetly look into it at some point. :-)

I'd be really great if i could get some comments on the comparison of the three versions. Again, some people have been unable to play the applet version and have had luck with the standalone version, so i was hoping to find out if this is generally the solutions to the problems i've had before, or if the previous successful tests stand alone...

- Scarzzurs

Hmmm, maybe... The game uses little to no System.exit() calls and i was able to test it pass the situation you described, so there's a high change it's a native crash like you suggested.

Can you tell more about the situation in which the crash happened? Also, when i've had a native crash, a log-file was generated in the same folder... Did you get such a log file?

- Scarzzurs

@Scarzzurs

I dunno if you remember me from #lwjgl irc but I was playing your game again and I have new comments:

* Blue fishes almost always manage to escape from me, at the beginning I could think "I am too slow to catch them, that is the reason", but after some upgrades and time they keep escaping. For someone not so used to play games, it could be a bit frustrating.
* Parasites are confused with the game background, it is an aesthetics detail but could affect game play a bit at the beginning. When you show the tutorial screen about them it is not clear what is the parasite, all that I see is a blue box with some spots of different colors :S
* Maybe you could pause the game when pressing Escape key.
* I feel like it has a slow start.

Sorry I didn't join your forum but I don't want to create more Internet user accounts.

Are you still working on this game?

@arielsan

Hey, thanks for the comments. :-)

While I not developing this particular game any more, you're comments are not wasted as I am working on the sequel / a remake.
I believe many of the issues you're pointing out has been fixed in the new version (and hopefully now that have read your comments, I won't do them again). :-)

I'll see if I can make a thread about it here sometime in the near future and drop a post here about it too.

- Scarzzurs

My fault, I played the Hydro Hydra Evolution first when you asked for someone to play it on #lwjgl irc, then time passed by and I wanted to play it again and I went to your page and played Hydro Hydra (not evolution) thinking it was the same game. Now that I played evolution again, it is really better than the other and you have already fixed a lot of stuff I put here.

Looking forward to test it again.

Cya.

Now, I'm confused. Can we get a link to the correct game directly?

That was extremely hard to find! The link on the picture in the main post is kind of dead also.
Now, I play this!

At some point in level three the console began spamming:
Excessive think-step: 0,010s => ~1 time(s) allowed.
It got a little laggy, and as it spammed the "0,010"-value increased to 0,02, where it was too laggy to play.

It's really great game though! What happended to the instrutions?

For debugging purposes, heres my specs:

Java Standard Edition, version 6 update 20 (build 1.6.0_20-b02).
Windows 7.
I have a quad-core AMD processor, with a 2GHz clock rate.
I also have no idea what information you might want as for the graphics card.