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Thank you for your memories. I’m very glad and proud that my game influenced on someone’s taste. When S2 was released, the Polish internet was quite small. We were using mostly news groups on the usenet to share our software and get some help. That was amazing time. S2 was popular mostly on those groups and leaked into the internet cafes and school labs. I enjoyed creating that game so much. It was much fun to get ideas from other people and give them what they want. And modem… well… probably some first versions of Sadist 1 was even uploaded by my modem 33.6. It was absolute torture.

Wow! Thank you for everything you’ve done! I’m so happy, you know, that game really is 26 years old and it was rusty and forgotten for a long time. I’ve never believed it will rise again. But thanks to the English translation and a bit of promotion (from people like you or Saberman), after many years some new people can play it and have some fun. I hope everyone will enjoy this little sunday massacre ;)

Thank you for your comment :) I hope you like the game. The video shows only a small part of the game possibilities!

Thank you very much! And I appreciate the game video :)

Fantastic idea. There were many games of this type, I remember Zenji for Atari and C64. But this one is a bit different, because it more like puzzle. Looks super cool. Some leves are quite easy, some are tricky. If there were more colors or bigger board, it could be even more challenging. I found a little bug. When the game is started, sometimes a sound from the title music stays in the background and never stops.

Dzięki za ten miły komentarz! Takie dziś są najcenniejsze. Cieszę się, że dostarczyłem przyjemnych chwil i wspomnień. Ja już dawno dobiłem do 40 ;)

Haha, I thought those colors and letters are a part of game. And after some time on the right side of screen a vertical line of viruses appeared. That killed the player’s defence. But on the other hand, it was quite interesting disaster.

Yes. The problem is at the beginning. If you don’t have a chance to take over large territory, you already know that you will lose. So there is no need to fight further. And in well balanced game, it should be still possible to work a solution to take over bigger area and win. Another idea is to add some walking machine that will go and destroy a few viruses until it will be itself destroyed, but this will allow to get a part of ground. Or maybe your own anti-virus that will spread and fight with virus when they will touch each other. You could produce anti-virus for money. Well… I think this game is a great start to enhance it and make it very nice strategy game. But of course its minimalism is an advantage so there should be not many new elements to keep it simple and fun. It’s your game, so it’s up to you :).

It would be nice to have some more options here. I’ve built a fortress with drills inside and virus cannot go inside. So it’s good. But I have too little drills and have no more place to put more drills. So the game is over but still I earn money. In that case there should be some way to destroy virus or building to try to get more area for building. Maybe some big bomb destroying bigger part (maybe random diameter around 5-10 fields) and it would destroy virus but also buildings and walls. It could be a disaster when there is no empty space on the screen. Or maybe it could be something the player should buy for lots of money? This is really good idea but it could be enhanced to something that lets you play longer and give an ability to fight with virus. Currently it only depends on who will be faster at the beginning. After that there is almost no fight. Well.. I’ll leave you with a bunch of ideas :)

Very nice little game. Simple but clever. It’s a good idea to use the water flow algorithm to make a game where you must save people from that water. It could be developed more to add new elements, but still this one is worth a try.

Check out Xagon, if you don’t know it. It is really good old game!

Kind of Qbert clone but it more reminds me a game for the Atari 800 computers named Xagon. Very nice, indeed

To jest najlepsza wersja Sokobana, jaką widziałem. Wreszcie wiem, że brakowało mi ciągnięcia paczek i życie stało się prostsze ;). A do tego zrozumienie koło 5 etapu, że tych małych ćwoków można zabić zamykając w ślepym zaułku zmieniło postrzeganie całej gry ;)

So cool idea! I love it. It is really something fresh. At first I thought it’s just another game where you have to prepare meal for the customers. But no, this is something completely different! :)

It would be a good idea to add some sound effects to the game. Could be alternative for the great music. But the games should have also sfx :)

I typed the same on YT but: Damn, this soundtrack is so addicting. I haven’t heard such great tune for a loong time. Awesome! The game also is very nice and interesting. I’d like to see the full version. Don’t leave it unfinished.

Great!

Hey, this is quite interesting game. It has some Starquake elements, but not as much as I thought. That’s a very nice game. I recognize the Fury of the Furries part - change of the characters, and of course a rope! This is good. Oh, I found little bug. If you attach the rope to the “lift” from the bottom, and it moves, the rope stays in the origin place. So the lift runs away :) Good game! Thanks :)

PS: Oh, there’s another bug. In options, if I change resolution to 320x192, I see smaller screen on the original bigger one and the game hangs. I use Firefox browser. I tried the other link, but it’s the same.

Yes! That’s what I meant about more 3D objects. Still looks like original balloon, but it’s not flat.

I see that you updated your game and most of my tips are included! Thanks a lot. That made the game better, I’m sure about it.

Understood :). Look at my profile or website, how many unfinished projects I have… haha!

Of course, it’s your game. You don’t have to promise anything :). I gave you only a bunch of my tips, nothing more. I will follow your game so if you make next version, I’ll certainly try it.

Wow! A very nice HERO remake. It still has the original mood but is extended. Good job!

Hi again. I have some thoughts I like to share with you.

• There’s no window mode. Fullscreen is nice, but not always the best. I like playing in smaller window.
• After enabling CRT shader the blur strenght can be set but it works only on the title screen. Even when I set blur to minimum, it is visible in the game and makes my eyes hurt
• The plane should tilt to left and right when turning, not turn like a car. I’ve seen some early video of the game and you had it there. I don’t know why you changed that but it was better.
• The animation of tank is too slow according to it’s speed when moving on the bridge
• Flat objects made of big pixels looks cool. But I would like to see them more 3D. It could be still made of pixels but in all 3 dimensions. For example, the baloon now is flat “pie” but it could be a pixelated sphere. Especially when I see the heicopters with rotating propeller, it’s in third dimension. Oh, just like you made zeppelins!
• Balloon moves to fast. Check the original River Raid. Balloons are the slowest obstacles.
• Also, the ships are a bit too fast. Maybe it could be faster on the further levels but at the beginning it should be slower.
• Fuel is running out too fast. When I slow down, it’s impossible to fly one level from bridge to bridge without refueling. It was possible on Atari game.
• Your bullet should move left/right along with the plane. It was the Atari mechanics and it should be here.
• Keyboard should be available to redefine. I don’t like shooting with space, rather would like to use ctrl key.
• Whole menu should be controlled by keyboard, not only mouse. I can pause game with escape key, but cannot unpause it with keyboard. When I play with keyboard, I don’t need to use mouse in the same time.
• Changing the camera view is very important, but you should add some more views. The most important is allowing to view the game from the top, giving you the feel and look closer to the original game. Or even an isometric view like in Blue Max game whould be nice.
• Like ‘puzzud’ wrote in an other comment, you should take care of some optimization because the game sometimes has hiccups
• Waves on the river could be more distinct. Water looks like clear blue but it would be a nice effect

This is not complaining. I hope you don’t take it like that. These are some thoughts from me after a short time of playing. I really like your game and would like to see it still developing.

• Extended objects are outstanding idea! I love the mines, shooting ships etc. Still more could be added but it’s great now.
• Also the bosses are great!
• The whole game is made very well and it’s the best RR remake I ever seen. Really good job!

I also made a few remakes of old classics from the 8-bit, so this one is very close to my heart. River Raid was one of the first computer games I ever played when I was very young and still play it quite often. I will download it and play it with big pleasure! Congratulations

wow! Great news!

yes, I did! :)

This is really fantastic game! Some fresh ideas, good graphics and sounds. Great! And those detailed animated sprites.. It’s quite difficult, but this was always a standard in the 80’s.

I think there’s too many similar platform games for ZX from last few years but this one looks more interesting than most of them. Maybe some new tricks are the key here, like hiding. I like it!

Lovely game! Riding a melex is the most innovative idea in a golf game I’ve ever seen!

Wow thanks! I also recommend your MULE to my friends.

Awesome!

Oh what a cool idea! Looks very fun, I have to try this. It would be fine if the planets could rotate when moving aside. But I don’t know if it’s easy to achieve for you. I’m sure it won’t look very good with such pixelated graphics, but you could give a try. Good work, anyways!

Yes, it’s much harder. I suggest to use smaller well dimensions, like 6x6 or 7x7 and max depth. Did you see the original DOS game named FRAC? It was a very good game back in the day.

New version coming soon!

Oh, right, FLAT EXTENDED. Sorry, I misunderstood. Try the ‘FRAC’ settings. It’s 3D, quite difficult, but interesting :). Wow, it’s nice to see that you play my game! Thanks!

At what settings are you playing?

Wow! Many fixes and improvements. Congrats!

Nice! I think the best part is when you use the third dimension :)

I’ve read this. The problem with Setris was also because of the similar name to Tetris and the music. It’s funny, but the game has now changed title to Sandtrix and it’s allowed to exists. Well, we will see. If someone from TTC would ask me to remove the game, I do it and can’t help it. But until then I don’t feel I did something wrong if I don’t earn money on it and I give credits to the original author of Tetris.