Rejected by Steam

[disciple]

Cheers, I did look there but quick scanning through the blurb thought it was the old SoC, one of the comments even mentions having played the game for years.

Trying to be constructive, I can't help thinking you need to sort the website out a bit, still being a bit confused with the SoC landing page I clicked the visually more obvious and arguably more intuitive 'download' link at the top of the page which took me to a page where there was no way to buy the 2012 version.

People really are lazy fucks, if anything takes more than a second thinking time you're losing customers.

I'm not a visual designer, but I'd be tempted to completely clean that page up, dump all the text, maybe swap out the images for a youtube embed, those images show nothing. Then stick a big nice looking and concise 'Buy Spheres of Chaos 2012 now' or something right below the video (not above). Maybe fade out the background a bit, it's just a distraction.

[bcass]

Bought this today. Absolutely gorgeous in motion. Shame there's no online score table though. Used to play the original on the Archimedes. It was one of those games that you knew no other home computer could do justice to at the time.

[sack]

so there's 3 Archie owners in this thread then.

is that all of us?

[bcass]

Some very fond memories of the Archimedes. I wish someone would remake Cataclysm. Another game that everything else at the time would struggle to pull of.

[sack]

Some very fond memories of the Archimedes. I wish someone would remake Cataclysm. Another game that everything else at the time would struggle to pull of.

hmm... now you mention it there might be an iOS project in that... Although I'd quite like Hamsters - it's fun, quite fast paced and humorous despite the dripping blood here-and-there.


Whatever happened to Tom Cooper anyways? Last I heard he was doing a version for palm PC-type things and he seems to have vanished...

[bcass]

Some very fond memories of the Archimedes. I wish someone would remake Cataclysm. Another game that everything else at the time would struggle to pull of.

Holy shit! It's coming to XBLIG!

[Whiteball]

Some very fond memories of the Archimedes. I wish someone would remake Cataclysm. Another game that everything else at the time would struggle to pull of.

Holy shit! It's coming to XBLIG!

I never saw the original as I never had an Archie, but on seeing a video of Cataclysm a couple of years ago I always liked the idea of doing something like that. As I was just starting out programming then though I never got around to it.

Still good to see that it may be coming back in what looks like its original form more or less....

[bcass]

Yeah, it's a carbon copy of the original, even the audio. I think those are pretty impressive real-time water physics for a machine released in 1987. I never saw anything like that in any other game, on any other platform.

[sack]

Impressive physics?

The simulation itself isn't *that* impressive - it's just a far more fine-grain version of the Boulderdash rock physics, but the quantities being shifted around on an 8mhz machine are impressive

[bcass]

It's a water simulation. Looks pretty physical to me. Eitherway, it's very impressive.

[sack]

it's plenty good enough for what it does - it gives a very solid, predictable feel of water flowing. It's just an incredibly simplified way of doing it. But that's the point at the end of the day - doing things well enough to get the feel right and keeping the speed up whilst you do it.

nobody wants physics accuracy to 60 decimal places at 10fps...

[bcass]

And it's out:

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Produ ... 0258550b54

Make sure you buy it and rate it so we get to see the promised sequel.

[Space Cowboy]

so there's 3 Archie owners in this thread then.

is that all of us?

I've got a StrongARM RISC PC, but - alas - 'tis in a cardboard box at the moment and hasn't been powered up in a while. But it is kind of an Archie, right? Kind of?

[sack]

so there's 3 Archie owners in this thread then.

is that all of us?

I've got a StrongARM RISC PC, but - alas - 'tis in a cardboard box at the moment and hasn't been powered up in a while. But it is kind of an Archie, right? Kind of?

pretty much yeah.

Although when RISC OS is fixed up for the Raspberry Pi then there ought to be a few more Archie-ish things out there

[Muttley]

Maybe there's still hope: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07 ... reenlight/