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Bullrushes Final
http://cogsci.mcmaster.ca/~peter/ludumdare/midwinter_ld13.zip (Windows/DirectX 8/VC6)
Bullrushes is a pretty game in the artistic style of Okami (a PS2 title), where everything is drawn with a brush. The player creates paths of light to guide little fireflies by illuminating bullrushes. When fireflies come close together, they excitedly mate and burst away, leaving a new firefly in their wake. Once enough fireflies have been born, the player must help guide them back to their tree stump hollow.
Artistically, I wanted to do something very different this time, taking a minimalist and abstract light on the theme (roads/paths). I wish I had more time to add a japanese-themed simple score (maybe I’ll add one later). An interesting fact — the game was created over about 26 hours, instead of the normal 48.
I’m very happy with how it turned out, and had loads of fun doing it.
(Quick edit: I nearly forgot to mention, the bullrushes will only attract nearby fireflies — those that are about 150 pixels away. If the fireflies aren’t moving towards the bullrush, you’ll have to find a closer one to light their path! Similarly, the fireflies will have to be guided very close to the middle of their tree stump nest before resting inside).
Tags: bullrushes, final
Er, Avast reports your zip has the “Win32:SkiMorph [Cryp]” virus in it. o_O
thanks for checking and reporting that!
unfortunately (or, actually, fortunately!) it looks like it’s a false positive, according to this forum post: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=39274.0
just to be sure, i scanned it with 38 virus scanners from virustotal. only avast and GData (which uses Avast) picked it up, the other 36 were silent. just for fun, I installed Avast, and it seems like it thinks my compiler itself is an infection waiting to happen… either avast is better than everything else by far, or it’s making a false positive on my compiler and anything compiled with it..
here are the results, just to ease your mind
(http://www.virustotal.com)
thanks, though! it’s important to be safe!
Antivirus Version Last Update Result
AhnLab-V3 2008.12.6.0 2008.12.06 –
AntiVir 7.9.0.42 2008.12.08 –
Authentium 5.1.0.4 2008.12.08 –
Avast 4.8.1281.0 2008.12.08 Win32:SkiMorph
AVG 8.0.0.199 2008.12.07 –
BitDefender 7.2 2008.12.07 –
CAT-QuickHeal 10.00 2008.12.08 –
ClamAV 0.94.1 2008.12.07 –
Comodo 708 2008.12.08 –
DrWeb 4.44.0.09170 2008.12.07 –
eSafe 7.0.17.0 2008.12.08 –
eTrust-Vet 31.6.6246 2008.12.05 –
Ewido 4.0 2008.12.07 –
F-Prot 4.4.4.56 2008.12.04 –
F-Secure 8.0.14332.0 2008.12.08 –
Fortinet 3.117.0.0 2008.12.07 –
GData 19 2008.12.07 Win32:SkiMorph
Ikarus T3.1.1.45.0 2008.12.08 –
K7AntiVirus 7.10.548 2008.12.08 –
Kaspersky 7.0.0.125 2008.12.07 –
McAfee 5456 2008.12.06 –
McAfee+Artemis 5456 2008.12.06 –
Microsoft 1.4205 2008.12.08 –
NOD32 3670 2008.12.08 –
Norman 5.80.02 2008.12.05 –
Panda 9.0.0.4 2008.12.07 –
PCTools 4.4.2.0 2008.12.08 –
Prevx1 V2 2008.12.08 –
Rising 21.07.02.00 2008.12.08 –
SecureWeb-Gateway 6.7.6 2008.12.08 –
Sophos 4.36.0 2008.12.07 –
Sunbelt 3.1.1832.2 2008.12.01 –
Symantec 10 2008.12.07 –
TheHacker 6.3.1.2.179 2008.12.06 –
TrendMicro 8.700.0.1004 2008.12.08 –
VBA32 3.12.8.10 2008.12.07 –
ViRobot 2008.12.6.1504 2008.12.06 –
VirusBuster 4.5.11.0 2008.12.08 -
note: i fixed the three white boxes on the bitmap/screenshot of the title screen. the gamma on my monitor displays them as the same, but it looked much different on other’s computers.