Simplification Quest
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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My entry for this compo is a platformer.
I used C++/Allegro 5 for the development, and the Gimp for the graphisms.
You need to install Allegro 5 (http://allegro.cc) in order to get the game to work on Linux (I did not manage to buid a static version).
Here's the synopsys of the game:
"Year 3015 (300 years after the singularity).
Thanks to technical progress, humanity evolved, day after day, until mankind turned to pure intelligence lifeforms, communicating with each other thanks to a worldwide network, simply called The Network.
They gave up every form of physical life, and every human simply lived in the Network.
Peace was universal, the Man was immortal, and mankind was thriving.
But one day, coming from another galaxy, the evil Potator arrived to Earth.
Potator didn't like peace, so he hated the humans.
One night, Potator hacked into the 10 SuperServers, base of The Network, disconnected it, and then left the Earth, to let the Earthlings die.
With The Network shut down, men were just brains in a glass sphere: they were vulnerable, and totally defenceless.
Every hope was lost when The Vertebrate appeared. He was just a child, but unlike his kinds, he had a skeleton.
The Vertebrate was condemned. Having a Body meant that he was doomed. He was going to die.
One day, consulting the knowledge of the elders, on the 1000 years old Wikipedia, whose database was implanted into every newborn's brain, he made a discovery that was about to change his life.
The SuperServers renfermed the power to modify his DNA, reducing his physical influence on Earth, until only his mind was left, living forever in The Network.
He then decided to go to the Knowledge Bunker, where the SuperServers were stored, and to face the perillous traps that were placed there by Potator, in order to restore The Network, and save his life.
He was warned by an Elder that, as he reactivated more SuperServers, his perception of the world would change, and his physical ablilities would be reduced, minimalized."
I used C++/Allegro 5 for the development, and the Gimp for the graphisms.
You need to install Allegro 5 (http://allegro.cc) in order to get the game to work on Linux (I did not manage to buid a static version).
Here's the synopsys of the game:
"Year 3015 (300 years after the singularity).
Thanks to technical progress, humanity evolved, day after day, until mankind turned to pure intelligence lifeforms, communicating with each other thanks to a worldwide network, simply called The Network.
They gave up every form of physical life, and every human simply lived in the Network.
Peace was universal, the Man was immortal, and mankind was thriving.
But one day, coming from another galaxy, the evil Potator arrived to Earth.
Potator didn't like peace, so he hated the humans.
One night, Potator hacked into the 10 SuperServers, base of The Network, disconnected it, and then left the Earth, to let the Earthlings die.
With The Network shut down, men were just brains in a glass sphere: they were vulnerable, and totally defenceless.
Every hope was lost when The Vertebrate appeared. He was just a child, but unlike his kinds, he had a skeleton.
The Vertebrate was condemned. Having a Body meant that he was doomed. He was going to die.
One day, consulting the knowledge of the elders, on the 1000 years old Wikipedia, whose database was implanted into every newborn's brain, he made a discovery that was about to change his life.
The SuperServers renfermed the power to modify his DNA, reducing his physical influence on Earth, until only his mind was left, living forever in The Network.
He then decided to go to the Knowledge Bunker, where the SuperServers were stored, and to face the perillous traps that were placed there by Potator, in order to restore The Network, and save his life.
He was warned by an Elder that, as he reactivated more SuperServers, his perception of the world would change, and his physical ablilities would be reduced, minimalized."