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As a great fan of Jeff's games, I wholeheartedly approve of this game. Or games I should say. It definitely has the same atmosphere, if a touch less steep in the difficulty curve, which is nice! But as soon as you get through the trainer stages, things really come alive. 
And thanks for allowing to quit the level announcement page. That helps to keep you in the zone :)

I played a serious round of overload for the first time today. Played a full hour, but only made it to 015xxxxxxxx energy. Still proud of my achievement.
The progress is slow at first, but when auto loading and firing kick in, is when the real fun starts. Trying to manage cooling, earning, dumping, buffing and expanding to reach your goal is a lot of fun. I was blasting a ton of lasers, a pool of cooling fans and all sorts of gizmos to maximize energy output. My energy yield buff was up to 19K but I didn't make it. Makes me wonder what else I can do.
This game has a lot of depth and I like it. Well done. And thank you for making it.

Fantastic game! The sound effects remind me of the old Videopac...love it.

haha..it's just that I hear it when I close my eyes now.

I beat Factory just now :) And I still feel like I've not seen all the secrets.

Question, is there an option to turn off the music?

Oh, I've now gone through the entire pre-amble. So sorry I skipped over that in my video. That's down to me being too hasty.

...and I have found one. Hmmmm

I could see one in the PIG-OF-GOLD area. I kept trying the portals there but they all shot me to the start (I guess that's where the exit will be). That means I'm still missing one...I'm so close.

Damn I was down to 2 potties. I found the gold pig secret..ran around for too long and I died :)
Nearly there!

Thanks, I read them. Very useful. Didn't realise about the steel pig mode and the chocolate! Good to know. 
It's a very enjoyable game. I'll be streaming more of it.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheHighlander71/videos

Almost made it...

I will stream some gameplay, hopefully tomorrow. I was knee deep  in some other code this evening. 
I love the game so far. Haven't gotten out of factory so far but it plays very nice.

Yess!! Bought!
Thanks..

ah I’ve waited this long. I can wait a little more 

Yes! Congratulations. Can't wait to have it in my hands...

Is it ever?

Congratulations. Must feel good.

Wow...2025 is the year it will actually happen!

good progress...nice nice

This behind-the-scenes graphics editing..it sounds interesting. You hardly ever see the actual creative process. Nice to read about it.

I've been eyeballing this game for a long time. Can't wait to give it a whirl.

Thanks, I will take that into account. No harm in doing another video when QIE IIo is released in its final form though. 
Frankly the entire Epic from BOH to MAH and KOG and all the others is a story worth telling. It's quirky and intriguing enough, like Jeff Minter's games but with more purpose.

This is one of the most enticing games series available. I have been contemplating making an indepth video about it....

Awesome, thanks!

Liking this game and would love it to be able to run with DolphinDos kernal active.

Also, a skip option on the dialog would go a long way as well :)

Me too. I read a post that the release was yesterday but I think that was an error.

Did I misunderstand that the full version of this game was released yesterday?

Awesome game. I understand it but I don't know why!! Got to level 19 on my first try. Thank you 

I played this in the arcade when I was a kid. This version feels good as far as I'm concerned. 
One little thing I did notice is that in the arcade version, when there's only the slightest wall left between the player and a monster you could still blow it up without it being able to reach you. For me that was a vital mechanic :)

This game and the series it is a part of is worthy of Jeff Minter-like accolades. It has that vibe.

It works but only when I turn off the turbo load/save routines off (@XF-).

Thanks Sarah. Really enjoying ZW2. I've definitely not beaten it yet but I'm really having fun with it.

Saving and loading of the settings with DolphinDos loaded does not work. After saving an empty file appears and a message "save ok" but the drive gives an error. Loading the save file gives a load error and no settings are saved.

Thanks! That helps. I think that's where my main problem lies: solving the first quest. I was assuming the game was saving my progress when it flashes the cartridge symbol. But I guess it's just accessing.  

I'm trying seriously to play Lykia (version 1.1 - EasyFlash) but the saving is causing trouble for me. No matter on which platform I try (U64, Vice or 3dsVice) each time I select "Continue" from the start menu or "Load" from the Run/Stop menu I invariably get the "Wake Up Nora" screen instead of starting where I left off. Am I doing something wrong or is saving just not working?

Well done, I really like it. There's more to it than meets the eye and I enjoy the concept. Recommended.

This may be of assistance: 

Hi Sarah. I'm noticing that saving games to disk while a DolphinDos kernal is installed doesn't work as expected. 

I spent a large part of my youth waiting for good arcade ports of games like Crazy Kong and Galaga. And I was often disappointed about the Galaga ports I found! Galencia was nice, but it wasn't Galaga. THIS is more like Galaga than any other port I've ever seen on the C64. Thank you for making this. I'll be very keen to see the complete project!!

Merry Christmas :)