ANN: Playable Heroes Demo

[filharvey]

I've uploaded to pjio.com a playable version of Heroes.

Heroes (http://www.pjio.com/game/Heroes)

This is a demo of a PC game which is similar to Puzzle Quest.

Thanks

Phil

[ZuluBoy]

Does not work on my machine.
The pjio windows says "Launched! Click the close button when finished", but the windows is empty.

[Indiepath]

Does not work on my machine.
The pjio windows says "Launched! Click the close button when finished", but the windows is empty.
Should work ok in IE, i'm posting a Firefox fix in the morning (UK Time).

[Nexic]

Doesn't work in IE 6, same as the above poster.

[ZuluBoy]

Should work ok in IE, i'm posting a Firefox fix in the morning (UK Time)
I have tried on Firefox 2.0.0.3 and IE 7.0, and it did not work in both cases.

[Karja]

I had some difficulties getting it to run in IE6 (after I noted that it wouldn't work in Opera 9), but I got it running at last. The trick for me seemed to be to not switch windows - when I do that the IE window freezes at the state mentioned above.

I must admit that the game was a bit less polished and fleshed out than I thought it would be...but I still couldn't help playing just another round, so it's definitely addictive. That is, until heroes.dll crashed on me after I'd played half a dozen rounds.

[filharvey]

Thanks for the response.

Yes, we are trying to finish the polish on the game. Please let me know what you think needs improvement. As for most of the graphics, I did have to reduce quality, mainly due to the size limit imposed by pjio.

Also where did the crash happen.

Thanks

Phil

[filharvey]

An Update has been uploaded which will hopefully fix any loading problems people get.

Thanks

Phil

[ZuluBoy]

An Update has been uploaded which will hopefully fix any loading problems people get.

Yep, it works now.

I have tried the game, and here is my feedback:
- You should add a tutorial. Without a tutorial, some players like me might think that the game is just a standard match-3 game although, by looking at the UI, the game seems to be more than a simple match-3.
- The graphics are ok, except the gems which have some artifacts at their borders (probably because they are not correctly blended with the background).

[filharvey]

A tutorial is in progress.

As for the gems, yes, there is some anti-aliasing artifacts that we are in the process of cleaning up.

Also some of the graphical artifacts came from down-rez'ing the graphics to fit in to the memory limitations of 20megs. The orginal graphics are all 32bit, where as the demo is all 256 colors.

Phil