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Psycho Boy 3D (beta)

Developer:

Patbert

Platform:

Windows

Date Added:

Mar 15 2005 08:29 AM

Updated:

Aug 15 2005 01:16 PM

Similar to Paper Boy for the Amiga except instead of throwing papers you throw bricks in full 3D.

Includes the old favourites (dogs, cars, unexplained ramps) plus some new obstacles (nuclear power plants, falling trees, bouncy castles, ice, snowmen etc).

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UPDATE: 16/Aug/05 Added loads of stuff: Online highscore, eye that shoots lazers, penguins, two ghosts, lava, tombstones & more. Enjoy!

UPDATE: 31/May/05 Added sound effects, reduced font size, added railings on right side of road.

UPDATE: 6/apr/05 Reduced difficulty again.

UPDATE: 20/mar/05 Made the difficulty level a little less brutal. Let me know what you think!

This is currently beta so it's a bit rough around the edges, there's no music or adventure mode yet but that'll come soon. This is also being submitted as my final year project at university. More details can be found on my developer journal.

Game programmed in Dev-C++ and uses OpenGL. Models made in Anim8or. Textures made in MS Paint (yay!) and Gimp. Uses some code from NeHe and some sounds and textures from 3DCafe.

Check back again for the complete version. Enjoy!

Select Arcade Game to play.
Left Arrow key - move left
Right Arrow key - move right
Up Arrow key - Accelerate
Down Arrow Key - Brake
CTRL - throw brick
ESC - Pause
F1 - toggle fullscreen

AIM: Hitting a house adds 1 to your score, completing a level doubles your score.

AVOID: Holes, dogs, falling trees, thin ice, snipers (avoid the crosshair), cars, hitting nuclear plants, and bricks that have been bounced back to you.

TIP: Dogs can't get past fallen trees, you can't be snipered while in the air, don't throw too many bricks.

Win 98 and up, 128mb RAM, nVidia GeForce MX200 graphics card and higher (at a guess)

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Patbert
Mar 15 2005 09:35 AM

Hi.

I welcome all comments about the game. It's not very polished at the moment, I hope to add music, sound, and an adventure mode (where the levels are loaded from a file, not randomly generated like arcade mode).

I'm submitting this as my final year project for university so I hope no one minds if I reprint some of your comments in the writeup (which is due soon. ack!)

Rob Loach
Mar 15 2005 03:32 PM

That's... interesting...

I couldn't get past the first level. Reminds me of Paperboy and is probably just as difficult.

Ainokea
Mar 16 2005 05:00 AM

Love it, it reminds me of playing paperboy but better.

mozie
Mar 16 2005 01:22 PM

I only passed level 1 two times. I liked being able to move so far ahead, maybe even too far. Too many things chasing you I think at times, and getting them off your trail requires some skill at times. Cars are big, I guess thats ok, but maybe none in the sidewalk/frontyard areas.

I liked the jumps, thats fun. I liked being able to stop and throw, made it easy to figure how it will hit. It seems to be a little easier some times if you get right next to the houses and throw from there as often as possible. Nuke, Co. houses are funny.

Good luck! Keep it up.

Patbert
Mar 17 2005 01:56 AM

Thanks for all your kind comments.

The difficulty curve is pretty steep at the moment, I'm going to balance out the level. At the moment all levels are the same difficulty, they just get longer each time. There's a few tricks to playing that make it easier: brake often, knock down trees (dogs can't get past fallen trees), if you need to destroy a sniper house brake the house before it and throw a brick, and use ramps as much as possible (while in the air you're immune to dogs, cars, and holes).

Thanks for the suggestion with restricting cars to the road, good idea.

Rixter
Mar 18 2005 11:07 AM

Wow, that is a hard game, really cool though. I like how the houses fly away when you hit them, and the nukes are awesome :). I would like to be able to move a little further to the right, I keep trying to dodge holes on that side but I can't. But it plays well and looks good, nice work!

benzwong
Mar 23 2005 03:05 AM

Wow! Awesome game concept! There are so many things that the player must take note of at the same time, very challenging. I've not played paperboy before so i cant make a comparison, but i can say that i've truely enjoyed it. Very addictive.

Guest
Mar 24 2005 09:44 PM

I thought that It was a rockin concept, with rockin art. Of course, the only game I've been able to make so far was in 2 dimensions.

Guest
Mar 24 2005 09:45 PM

Oh, I forgot, I wish you would've included the source, I would've liked to have learned from it.

Guest
Mar 25 2005 01:45 PM

Psychoboy is one of those games that manages to marry classic arcade style game play with a three dimensional interface in a way that gives the game a whole new lisce (not sure of spelling) of life in a way not too distant of mario64. A very nicely polished 3d engine as well as coulourful, humerous artwork makes this game a nice piece of eye candy which is the icing on the cake. Well done that man :)

Guest
Apr 16 2005 12:28 AM

Its cool man! I managed to get through stage 1 before I knew how to control it, then once I found out how to control it, it became difficult to get through stage 1. Weird eigh...??? Well done mate, its a great game. -Dhani

Guest
May 13 2005 08:38 PM

Yeah man, some sounds, polished textures, ability to move further to the right to avoid those huge holes. Great job, you the most part right the gameplay! its was tight and controlled. And I could dodge when I needed once I got the hang of it. Great job. And good luck.

SiKaNrOnG
Jun 01 2005 01:24 PM

CRAZY! 666 downloads!

wiggyh
Jun 06 2005 02:28 PM

This is a great game, I remember playing the original paperboy this is much better.

To the people playing: I discovered that after level three if you just focus on surviving instead of hitting houses, you last longer and since your score doubles with each level you get more points.

mike74
Jun 07 2005 06:50 AM

Very cool. Just out of curiosity, how long did it take to make?

Mike C.
http://www.coolgroups.com/zoomer/

EnemyBoss
Jun 07 2005 05:35 PM

Excellent work! Its fun and funny too. Most of all, it has that classic Arcade feel that I miss in pretty much all games out today. The textured 3D surfaces are nice and clean, and the game works on my old Thinkpad T20! Its projects like these that remind me how necessary indie games are.

Patbert
Jun 17 2005 08:59 AM

Quote:
Oh, I forgot, I wish you would've included the source, I would've liked to have learned from it.

When its finished I'll include the source with it. It's still a bit messy at the moment. [wink]

Quote:
Yeah man, some sounds, polished textures, ability to move further to the right to avoid those huge holes.

Good point, you are constrained by an invisible barrier. I've added in some railings along the side to make it clearer.

Quote:
To the people playing: I discovered that after level three if you just focus on surviving instead of hitting houses, you last longer and since your score doubles with each level you get more points.

Shh!

Quote:
Very cool. Just out of curiosity, how long did it take to make?

I've been working on it slowly since september 04 but most of the work was done between february and march. It's the first game I've made with C++ and OpenGL so it took me some time learning that. I'm still working on it now, but not as often (get ready for online highscores [smile]).

NickGeorgia
Jun 19 2005 10:21 AM

I liked it. Very fun, but difficult sometimes. What are the big snowmen for? hehe

Patbert
Jun 19 2005 02:40 PM

Quote:
Original post by NickGeorgia
I liked it. Very fun, but difficult sometimes. What are the big snowmen for? hehe

The snowmen are just obstacles really, they also block bricks and can be used to stop dogs. Originally the game was going to have three stages: normal stage, ice stage and halloween stage. But I haven't designed the levels yet so its all just randomly generated.

kbiro
Jun 23 2005 05:01 PM

Really liked the game. Reminded me of paperboy, only better, because it has an interesting 3d feel to it [smile]

P.S. LOVE the houses! Especially the igloo!

Programmer16
Jun 28 2005 04:03 AM

Thats a pretty good game. IMHO, much better than paperboy (but I suck at that game.

Keep up the good work!

PS: Is there anyway that you can remove the cheaters from the highscore board?

NoMonkey
Jul 29 2005 02:31 PM

Very fun game. Collision detection on the pot holes could be a little better, but then again, I wouldn't have made it to level 4 if they were true to life.

All together it is great.

Keep it up!

Guest
Aug 01 2005 03:44 AM

Fun little game:) I like the concept:) Damn Nuke Co. buildings!!! (impressive explosion though)

Guest
Aug 10 2005 12:23 PM

Pretty sweet game, I have been looking into programming and this is a fun example

Guest
Aug 10 2005 02:22 PM

Nice work! I would add an option to jump. I haven't seen a link to download the source, it would be nice to put the source code available. Thanks