Week 70 - Free Games for the Weekdays - Igneous

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Week 70 - Free Games for the Weekdays - Igneous

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Started 14 years ago by wizzard_of_ozz2004
Latest reply from notblocklox

wizzard_of_ozz2004
Games Master
Today's game is an excellent platformer titled Igneous. Here's just a quick little synopsis from the developer:

Igneous is an action platformer where you play as a tiki totem trying to escape from a raging volcano. By running and jumping, players have to navigate their way through dark caverns, forge raging lava rivers and cross crumbling bridges to make it out of the inferno alive. With stunning graphics and intense physics, each level is a new challenge to overcome. Easy to pick up, but hard to master, Igneous is an adventure you won't soon forget! Escape!

HOLY WOW!!!!! This game is beautiful.......and incredibly hard! The whole pace of the game is like playing Sonic. For fans of Sonic, this is a game for you. That being said, the recommended specs are rather high (this truly is a beautiful game...one of the best looking graphics I've seen for a free game.) So long story short you basically just run and try to dodge various objects that are flying at you from the back and front of you. The hardest part is when the bridges start falling apart and you have to jump from one to the next. You'll just have to either play or watch the video to understand. The following are the System Specs:
You will probably want to break out your 360 controller for this one. For those of you without a 360 controller, you'll have to stick to mouse and keyboard as there is no other support for gamepads. By the way, you don't need the high end graphics card it's just recommended. My Nvidia 8800 did more than great so even the lower end graphics (6000 and 7000) cards should be adequate. Don't expect much in the way of music. It's basically just tribal type music with lots of drumming and bass. For those of you who have Sub woofers, I'd turn the bass down a little. All said 5/5 from me, and definitely one of my new favorite games from this project.

http://www.igneousgame.com/
Posted 14 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Thanks Wizz; I always look forward to yours and rO's selection. Looking forwards to checking this out. :)

edit:

wow, this is a very well made game. I tried it using a keyboard and Mouse (couldn't be bothered digging out my X-Box controller, lol, and found it easy to play even with the keyboard, so don't be put off if you don't have a controller. (I'm not saying the game is easy, lol) I was really surprised when the game opened up and I found myself (well my totem) in a 3D environment. This is definitely one of the better freebies that's been posted over the length of this project.

Get this game

Posted 14 years ago #
thenameipicked
Member

Dang....nearly impossible. This game has a 1-2 second lag on any key I press, making reactions nearly impossible. (The fact that there is no acceleration also makes my problem bigger...well, there might be acceleration, but I get up to top speed with even the smallest key press)

Posted 14 years ago #
notblocklox
retired

Thanks wizz, again a game with great art work!
But there are 2 things I can't understand:
1. How can anybody be/play so fast? :P
2.
"tribal type music with lots of drumming and bass. For those of you who have Sub woofers, I'd turn the bass down a little."

Why should I turn down the the bass? It's the perfect music for Sub Woofers (Sorry! To my neighbours)

drumminglox

Posted 14 years ago #
wizzard_of_ozz2004
Games Master

It really is a great game and surprisingly good graphics for a free/student made game.

Graylox, I love bass myself...it helps to fully immerse myself in the atmosphere of the game/movie. However, this game was a little too much bass for me. Maybe if there were a little more music involved it would have been better. I encourage more people to give this one a go.

tnip, did you try changing some of the graphics details in the options menu? If you hit the escape button, you'll have the ability to change them. I didn't much care for the motion blur, but when I turned it off I liked it less lol.

Posted 14 years ago #
WillGraham
Member

sweet! Thanks for playing our game ;)

Posted 14 years ago #
MadDogTen
Member

Wow, It is a really good game. Thanks for telling us about it.

@thenameipicked - It worked fine for me.

Posted 14 years ago #
notblocklox
retired

Hi, WillGraham, welcome to the GOTD forums!
It's always a special event when a developer visits us. I'm sure when the friends of our fabulous games crew come back, they will be pleased about
the honour of your visit. ;)
I had much fun with Igneous, I like the colours, yes, and the drums, and of course the wild race, only my fingers or my brain or both are a bit too slow :P
Thanks for the pleasure and good luck for the coming games.
graylox

Posted 14 years ago #
thenameipicked
Member

WillGraham, have you gotten any other machines to reproduce the same bug I am getting? Everything worked, except that when I pressed a button, it would move about 2 seconds late. I try to keep everything up to date, but I am assuming that because it is built from the ground up, I wouldn't need to keep anything up to date...besides .net maybe? (Mine is current) Oh--and I am running windows 7.
Thanks!

Posted 14 years ago #
wizzard_of_ozz2004
Games Master

Will, thank you for such an incredible game. If you enjoyed seeing this one, wait till you see what I have in store for today *laughs maniacally*

Posted 14 years ago #
reverseOrder
Member

Thanks, Wizzard. It looks good but unfortunately I couldn't get this game to run. The game gets to the "Select your difficulty" screen. After selecting the difficulty, the game causes my computer to crash and restart.

Posted 14 years ago #
WillGraham
Member

sorry thenameipicked, I've never seen that happen and really have no idea why =\.

Posted 14 years ago #
byront
Member

pardon my stupidity, but i dl it installed it on my laptop, hp dv7,vista home premium, 64bit, amd turion X2 duo core mobile RM-72 2.10GHZ,4GB ram,radeon HD 3200 graphics, I tried to start the game and Kaspersky found a keylogger and shut it down even before i could. the game looks fun, but i guess my questions are; 1. is there a keylogger and what purpose does this serve? 2 what if any chages to my laptop should be made because i find it difficult to play any games? WillGraham I would like to thank you for putting this game out there for all of us to play. i just wish could. Any and All help is always appreciated, Graylox,wizzard_of_ozz not enough thanks can go out to you and to all the others here for your commitment.

Posted 14 years ago #
thenameipicked
Member

A keylogger is a program that reads every key you press. It can be dangerous, because it can record passwords/usernames and send them to somebody who doesn't have your best intentions in mind. However, with games, you are usually really safe, because games need to read the keys you press in order to work.
I am guessing you are getting the error because you have heuristics on Kapersky on. Huristics is a method that tries to discover other types of malware, but also produces a lot of false positives (warnings that really shouldn't be). See if you can turn that off. Finally, if that doesn't work, right click on your icon, open the file location, (basically figure out where it is), and have Kapersky make an exception for this program.
Hope that helps!
EDIT: If none of this works, go and try to update your drivers (graphics card first, as that would be the most likely)

Posted 14 years ago #
byront
Member

thenameipicked: Thank you. i have disabled the heuristics on Kapersky. I will have to re dl the file Igneous i think kas nuked it into oblivion. going to try and update graphics card now and give that a try.

Posted 14 years ago #
notblocklox
retired

Thanks, noryb for your friendly words. I hope you can play this game now; I have Kasper too with the heuristics on (though it can be very annoying) but I didn't get any warning with Igneous. Good luck.

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