Thruster 1.0 Released

[Vilmos]

Thruster 1.0 Released! Merry Christmas, have a free game from me.

Thruster is a fast paced cave flyer where the goal is to reach as high as you can without crashing while eroding the landscape with your thruster. To do so you will need some fast reflexes and a good eye.

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Featuring:
- Three different game modes
- Two difficulty levels
- High score tables with replay - You can watch previous games and see how the high scores were done. High scores will be tracked online soon.
- Beautiful backgrounds by Mentis and Mrpropre
- Three included mp3 tracks with the ability to add any MOD or MP3 files to the tracklist.
- More than 2K particles in play at once
- Alpha blended explosions

Installation:
Included in the zip is an installer program. Just run ThrusterInstaller.exe and hotsync.

How to play:
Fly as high as you can, erode the landscape with your thruster.
Joystick moves left/right, the more you push the faster your ship turns.
Blue/Yellow/Right Trigger is the Thrust button.
Function is pause.

Customization:
Add music in MOD or MP3 format to /palm/programs/Thruster/sounds
Make sure the filename isn't huge, max of 256 characters including the full path to the file.

Credits:
Programming - ANDREW KEARNS
Music and Art - MICHAL WISNIOWSKI
Art - MRPROPRE

Thanks to the author of Spout who gave me the inspiration to make this game. Thruster is 100% new code done originally to enter into the DCEmu contest, but unfortunately that contest was cancelled.

Thanks also to all the testers who kept me going.
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[ZodiacfreaK]

Awesome! Thanks Vilmos. I love spout I can't wait to try this out! Have a very Merry Christmas.

EDIT: I just added it to the games library on ZodiacresourcE

http://www.zodiacresource.com/Tapwave2.0/title.php?c=Action&t=Thruster
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[Age]

Thanks Vilmos,

Awesome game. The install to card option in the install program did not work for me. I manually installed all of the files to my SD card with the folders names listed in the ThrusterInstaller configuration setting file.
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[wayrad]

A very challenging and visually attractive game! Nice music too.

I can't select the "Controls" option in the Main Menu. Is it going to be enabled in the next version?
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[mentis]

Yes, a Merry Beleated Christmas everyone . Hope you like our game.

First, I am glad you like my music Wayrad . As you may notice, we took some of our inspiration from Rez, and I tried to use a similar style with the background images and music (especially the in the song "Beaconrift"). You can grab the mp3 files out of the directory for the song names, as they are complete with ID3 tags.

The game itself is not 100% complete. As such, some features have not been implemented yet. One such feature is the "Controls" menus. We will continue to work on the game and get it into as completed a status as possible.

Until then, I hope you enjoy it. And one a couple of tips for everyone...

1. When I first played the game, I wasn't all that drawn to it, but it's deceptively simple. Just keep playing for a little while (ten minutes maybe?) and soon you'll realize just how addicting Thruster can be .

2. If you are having trouble playing, you can also view the replay which comes with the game. This will show you how the pro (Vilmos ) plays it and demonstrates very good techniques which you shouuld strive to learn.

P.S.: Hey Jammy, I don't suppose you'd like to make a video of Thruster for us?
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[Jammy2049]

[mentis]

Well, not sure. I guess I'll leave that up to Vilmos .
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[HuwSy]

ZodiacfreaK so you know the link on your site to thruster is wrong, it takes me to a 404.
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[ZodiacfreaK]

[Vilmos]

Actually that's an anti-leech error. I'll add the site to the whitelist.

edit: Fixed, link works now.
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