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Download Super Power Surge Spike

Posted by Philip On January - 20 - 2009

So after a long 5 months Team Booty Rock has finally finished our amazing game Super Power Surge Spike. We are very pleased to present our game and always appreciate any feedback. You can send feedback to philip@philipfox.com. Enjoy the game.

DuskJacket:

Alice is a malicious computer virus. As the player, you must help her to infect machines, thwart the defensive efforts of security software, and ultimately seize control of the system. Due to her unique programming, she is able to absorb elemental energy from nearby power sources, such as electrical, liquid coolant, heat, and air. Using these powers alone or in devastating combinations, you must eradicate any traces of security before Alice can complete her infestation. It will not be easy, as Alice is designed to infiltrate extremely secure systems. They are hostile towards any intrusion, and will retaliate with extreme force. You must balance attack with evasion to ensure Alices’ survival.

Features:

16 different attacks with different effects

-Electric attacks: Stun enemies for a short duration

-Fire attacks: Will put a damage over time effect on enemies hit by fire

-Ice attacks: Slows down targets hit by any ice effect

-Wind attacks: Gust of wind knocks enemies away when hit

4 different types of enemies each with unique abilities.

-Electric enemies: Teleport to flank and avoid attacks

-Fire enemies: On death will sap your primary and secondary energy

-Ice enemies: Increased health and resistence

-Wind enemies: Ability to jump for a quicker path to the player

Multiple levels

Multiple Game Modes - Survival and Main Game modes

Multi-stage Boss

Profile system supporting unlimited profiles

Achievement system

High score tracking

Post process effects

Download

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Crash of Doom : Fixed

Posted by Philip On January - 16 - 2009

So ever since Alpha our game has been plagued by a second playthrough crash. This crash has caused us to waste precious manhours attempting to hunt down this elusive crash. With less than a week to go we have officially stomped this crash into the ground with the help of a program called Ensure++.

Ensure++ is a memory profiler/checker made by Parasoft. From what I can tell by watching my teammate Justin use this program is it compiles your code through their program and then profiles the code and the memory your program is using during runtime looking for any errors. It took us two hours last night of using this program to locate where our elusive crash was happening.

I’d like to thank the amazing people at Parasoft for giving us the opportunity to trial their amazing product in an attempt to find this crash. This has truly brought much needed morale to our team during the push to a final build of our game.

Thank you Parasoft.