Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!corton!mirsa!kish.inria.fr!buffa From: buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Need help with Blood Money Message-ID: <10306@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 28 Feb 91 09:38:12 GMT References: <45765@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: root@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: buffa@mirsa.inria.fr Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis Lines: 80 Nntp-Posting-Host: kish.inria.fr In article <45765@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, student@covax.co.iup.edu (student) writes: > > I honestly tried to persevere in this game, but it is just too darn > annoying! The player's ship is stupidly large, and you lose most of your > (rather useless) shield if you even nick the background. This is a game for real arcade fans, not for beginners who don't know how to master a joystick. You'd like a game where you never die ? My opinion is that Blood Money is one of the best shoot'em'ups for people who are a bit trained with this kind of game. The only bad point is that you can not try directly levels 3 and 4. I finished in two days the two first levels. I really think you should start with an easier game of this type, like SILKWORM, which is too much easy for me (finished in an evening), or Battle Squadron which is very easy too. "The player's ship is stupidly large, and you lose most of your > (rather useless) shield if you even nick the background." -> Have you ever played in the real arcades ? The authors wrote this game for people who usually spend money in the arcades, so the difficulty level is about the same as the games in the arcades. For crying > outloud, why does the ship move so painfully slow?! The ship is not slow. I think the controls are perfect. (I KNOW you can get > speed-ups, but it's not worth it, since the extra speed makes you die > faster when you hit the background!) True. And of course, you lose all your > weapons when you die, as if the game weren't hard enough. That's the challenge. I usually finish the first level without loosing any life, and even manage to buy 3 or 4 extra lives. Level 2 is easier than level one, and it's possible to complete both levels 1 and 2 with only one life. Sheesh! > One other important thing... Why isn't the bullet movement smooth?! What ????? > This is an Amiga, after all, not a cheap PC. Are you crazy ? Blood Money is one of the best shoot'em'ups on our machine, and I'm crazy about this kind of games, I played many of them: Datastorm, revenge of defender, R-type, X-out, Z-out, Silkworm, Battle Squadron, Anarchy... Have you seen the PC port ? Have you seen the Atari port ? This game has a slow scrolling but very fast sprites and gigantic levels, also, my opinion is that the playability is excellent for shoot'em'ups fans. The game is difficult but at least the two first levels are feasible. Granted, this thing's got > the graphics and the sound, but the gameplay rots! I don't agree at all. Try an easier game, a game matching your capacities. Try Silkworm or Battle Squadron. Don't try R-TYPE, X-OUT, Z-OUT, Anarchy, Datastrom, you'll find that there is no good game !!!! Train yourself first, and criticize after. > Whew... Anyway, the reason I'm posting is to see if anyone knows > where I can get the Blood Money boot program that boots it with infinite > lives. It's about 80 bytes, I think, so would someone be kind enough > to tell me where I might find it? As always, thanks in advance! A game with infinite lives looses all its interest. Try first to master it, and if it takes too long then try the infinite lives, but Blood Money is the kind of game where you die after ten seconds during 15 minutes of trying, but every day you progress. If you don't, it means that you should try only reflexion games! !! -- ------------------------------------------ Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 ------------------------------------------