New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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Everyone's had this except Bob then, who playtested with infy lives and will know the gameplay inside out. When I was on this level I had 1 life left and started using (a LOT of) snapshots. Might means the bug is death/restart related?
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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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I used snapshots and kept 2 lives at the bot-left of the screen, so I snapped after losing a life somewhere along the line.
I've also tried jumping at the exit from different places to see if it makes any change, nope, just ends up in a crash to reset (sounds like a great name for a band)
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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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I think it's downright unfair of you lot to be playing this game in a different manner to myself. :)

I have a suspicion I've done something to the code in generating the final version which is a compressed single block If I play through to level 5 on the uncompressed version it doesn't appear to crash on entering the exit.

I've uploaded the uncompressed version along with a snapshot (.szx) before entering the exit on level 5.

http://www.thefossilrecord.co.uk/wp-con ... /debug.zip
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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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Cheers Bob, good ending!

Great wee game, level 5 is by far the hardest.
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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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Glad you liked it. Everyone's been very charitable with my wonky code - which made level 5 a lot harder than I ever intended it to be. :) Guess I'll have to do a post competition release now.
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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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It works... yay! Nice ending too.
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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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Just downloaded. In the 1st attempt, I couldn't reach second screen... off form, definitely! :lol:
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Re: New Game: Thoroughly Modern Willy

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I've updated the download link in the first post with a fixed version which doesn't crash out after finishing level 5.
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