4bidden Fruit

Contests 4K Game Competition - 2009
#1

Enough retro for the moment - put on some ambient sounds and taste 4bidden Fruit

http://www.hayles.demon.co.uk/4K/4bidden/screenshot.jpg

Sometimes the 4K limit is a good thing - I could happily have gone on playing with this for ever!
Genius idea from the people at Q-Games

#2

Works well here, but not really sure what I’m supposed to be doing other than madly flying around?

Cool graphics tho.

Kev

#3

You have to catch all 20 crescents. Bust a few purple prowlers to release pollen for seeds. When a seed is flashing move onto it to make it grow. Then you can jump onto it to explore new areas.

Hmmm… Maybe I need to make the seeds grow automatically…

#4

Nice style, reasonably fun. Are there any enemies (I didn’t play for very long)?

Slight nitpick: not really crescents.

#5

Wow. Left 4k Dead has finally met its match!

Do you think you could make the background image follow you around a bit so that it gives a sense of depth? Something like the background being offset from its current position by x/2,y/2 where x,y is the flying thing’s position.

#6

I never thought I’d have some much fun playing this! :o Brilliant! :slight_smile:

I was on the 18th crescent, I saw it was right at the top, when my whirly blade got stuck on the right hand side of the game (not hitting any trees or anything). I could go make it go up an down, but it would only move left and right by about a pixel or two. :frowning:

#7

Same thing happened to me, except I got stuck on the left. I believe that my spinny thing went over the barrier on the left and then landed too low on the wrong side.

But this game is very very cool. I didn’t want to stop playing once I figured it out.

#8

Awesome game! I think I’m addicted. :wink:

#9

wow, great game. Try to enable anti aliasing to smooth out the tree shapes

#10

Excelent Eden implementation in 4K.

Much better than the one I was working, I got caught in the rope implemetation.

Indeed, this is a big match for L4KD.

#11

Pretty nice gfx. I like the clouds!

#12

Few slight mods:

  • Garden is now bigger.
  • Two new plants (one really hard to reach!)
  • Plants are smoother (but full aliasing is just too slow)
  • Stuck-in-edge bug should be gone.

They’re very wide crescents! :stuck_out_tongue:

#13

“Congratulations!”

I like it - nice use of fractals in a rather bizarre abstract world.

Is the background also generated from a fractal?

note.

Noticable drop in framerate as more of the plants are burst, presumably you arn’t performing any kind of culling on what you draw?

#14

Oooh… very surreal. I like it. :slight_smile:

#15

Very cool graphics style

BUT THE 20TH CREST IS REALLY ANNOYING ME NOW !

#16

Winner!

I got all 20.

#17

They’re just crescents as the limit of their width approaches the radius? :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway cool game, managed to (without getting stuck!) beat the game first try. Took a while, but I didn’t feel like it was excessively long. And every time I missed a shot, I could just look at the pretty trees again, swaying around. Agree with very surreal and (mostly) relaxing. Something very compelling about this. Very nice :slight_smile:

#18

Excellent game!

#19

A few little tweaks:

  • Bit easier (free plant to start).
  • Should play sightly smoother.
  • Touch of parallax added.
#20

Ahh… parallax, I’m glad someone knows the right names for things.
The game is sensational! Definitely quicker to finish now, but still long enough to get into and enjoy. ;D