Charlie Foxtrot & The Galaxy of Tomorrow

[cosmicr]

hey I just played the game. a great game. I love the writing and (mostly) original jokes.  A good game obviously inspired by space quest(even the name itself is a take on Roger Wilco), but no doubt you are a fan of sci-fi and parodies. Although the (somewhat) original music was good, I found it to be a bit annoying and simple at times, as opposed to being catchy and getting stuck in your head.

With such excellent writing and programming skill, and obviously the motivation to get games complete, have you considered getting a more experienced artist on board for your next project. I'd love to see what sort of game you could make if you could just step up the quality a couple of notches.

once again, well done!

[Mordalles]

i had a blast playing the game.  and i really loved the manual as well! and a special mention goes to the jumping yoda animation, i loved it!
thanks.

[P S]

Ace rocks!

[Guest]

Possible bug

Spoiler

I knocked down the satellite dish, but when I go to open the door to the lab with the card it says the door is already open but it's not.

[close]

[Guest]

Very nice game. Enjoyed it and liked your use of all those known characters.

[pat]

my congralutions to you. I just finished the game and I can only say  awesome job!!! loved it.

[Snake]

Baron!
I only played for a few minutes last night - got to the old guy in the cell - and I love it so far. I had a feeling this would be one of my new favorites!

When I play some more I'll give you more congrats!

I can't wait to get a chance to play through the whole thing!


--Snake

[Ozzie]

I only played it for a short time, but this game is great fun!!

[Snake]

Hey,
I played a bit more and just keep on loving it! This is a great game, Baron, I hope you come out with more like it

I loved the scene with Ace and the arcade game slaps the cats ass! May I ask how the hell you made that game? I kept looking at it going, how in the the hell did he make the asteroids come AT the spaceship and the player able to dodge? It must have been a module or a plug-in, right? You've done a great job, man

This is definately one of my favorites,


--Snake

[Baron]

SNAKE:  Thanks for the complements!  I'm very proud to say that I programmed the arcade game from scratch, but I borrowed the idea from a Flash game that I got addicted to last summer.... .  It's mostly a short Repeatedly Execute code.  The gist of it is updating the co-ordinates of the asteroids every game cycle so that they all get one or two pixels closer, and then I have another function that shifts every asteroid one pixel to the left every game cycle if your mouse is far enough right (with faster movement the more extreme the mouse position), and vice-versa.  This gives the illusion that they're coming at you and that you are dodging them.  I'd be happy to share the source code for it if you think you'd learn something from it.

BUGS:  I'm getting closer to finding the cause of those obscure bugs.  A recent error report by Eva was most helpful -I think I know what's going wrong, but I need the time to check the code over and I have next to no spare time these days.  I expect to have a revised and hopefully bug-free version up by next Monday.

EDIT NEXT MONDAY:  Got 'em!  Solved the mysterious game freeze on the grass bug, and the isolated invisible door bug, both on planet Primordia.  I have not seen any reports of unresolved bugs, so hopefully version 1.3 is completely bug free!

EDIT OCT 14 2007: A few minor niggles and glitches have been resolved in the current version 1.41.  Enjoy!

[Troggle]

This game was very funny!  I found no bugs.  Thanks for a great game!

[GarageGothic]

Congratulations on the mention over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. The reviewer calls it "The best adventure game I’ve played in a long time" and the puzzles "far better put together than anything in the last two series of Sam & Max".

[Jared]

And big thanks for bumping this thread - I've just dl'ed it and it's a great game so far. Very, very fun. I'd never heard of it until I saw this post..

[SSH]

And big thanks for bumping this thread - I've just dl'ed it and it's a great game so far. Very, very fun. I'd never heard of it until I saw this post..

You should check out the pick of the month, then

[Snake]

Baron!

I've been working on my game so much lately I haven't yet finished this!

I would just like to say again that it is a brilliant game - very funny and keeps you wanting more.

I hope to see another adventure starring Charlie It's a great little world he's in and would like to see more of it.


--Snake

[Baron]

Yes, all the recent exposure is very heartening!  I guess it just took a while for the game to percolate through the internet and into people's hearts.  I thought the review was pretty fair, even bordering on generous with regards to the compliments on the writing.  Still, it's very good for downloads, so I won't be complaining.

My ambition to create a Foxtrot sequel pretty much died when I ran out of time due to two jobs, recent fatherhood, house renovations and a correspondence course.  It was hard to stay focussed on a full-length project for so long even without these distractions -my games hence forth will almost certainly revert to the "medium length" category.  Will Charlie Foxtrot ride again?  Perhaps.  But not for so long, and certainly not any time soon. 

I always thought it'd be kind of fun (not to mention a tremendous compliment to me!) for people to make their own Foxtrot clone games, kind of as a cloning spoof on a cloning spoof.  Game makers would be encouraged to push the parody envelope without actually compromising their artistic integrity, just as I've tried to do.  Maybe I should release some clone walk cycles for just such a purpose....

Baron

[kajlin]

This is really a great game! I like it! What do you plan now? 

[pinokio]

-Will a free-thinking clone be able to overthrow the conformist empire that created him? 
-Will he be able to track down and join the rebellion through a galaxy as zany as it is dangerous? 
-Will you be able to keep your sides from splitting while playing this zany parody of galactic proportions?

If you are curious about finding out the answers I suggest you try:

CHARLIE FOXTROT
& THE GALAXY OF TOMORROW 
 

      The story is about Charlie, a clone's clone that just has to be himself.  Help Charlie flee the Empire of Conformity, track down and join the rebellion against it, and fulfill his quite unclonelike destiny!  Travel through worlds as zany as they are crazy, defy danger and convention like there's no tomorrow, and throw your funnybone to the solar wind in this wild, epic adventure!


SCREEN SHOTS:  First here's a picture of Charlie about to steal the Millenium Bug from a Conformist space station. 

This is Charlie wasting time in the scuzzy Burger Bar on the planet Aridis.

And now he's talking to Oxar the Grunge on the post-apocolyptic puppet world of Marf. 

DOWNLOAD NOW

GAME NOTES:
       -5MB zip file expands to about 49MB size
       -1872 sprites
       -62 rooms
       -hundreds of animations
       -thousands of witticisms
       -25 original and adapted musical pieces
       -built in "Retry" function for players that keep dying
       
**This is a full length game and will probably take you two hours or more to finish.
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EDIT:  I thought I'd hype the game a little more with a screen shot montage:

[pinokio]

Sorry I thought the music background was terrible.

other than that I got stuck with trying to get past the 2 clones.

I liked some sierra games but each time you needed to buy the hint books from them .

I prefer games with multiple solutions to one puzzle.

[Dualnames]

I have to agree the music isn't top notch, but really Baron has designed so many rooms you just can't hit it to him that the music isn't top notch. an excellent game overall. Has many movie easter eggs and candies..