The Stew Boy
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Please forgive me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember there being some two-player levels at some point in SubTerra. I may just be being stupid, but I cannot find them in this freeware version. Have you removed them, Radiant?
Edit: And by the way, I also remember having 'editor music'. I can't find that either.
Edit 2: And also by the way, in the Credits and Thanks screen, Isi&Zozo are mentioned twice. Is this intentional?
Edit 3: Minor typo. In the Information - Editor instructions, Icons and Commands, it says that the Skewling explosions can be seen with F1 key. It's the F3 key.

[Edited by The Stew Boy at Local Time:05-19-2005 at 11:46 AM]

silver
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There are some levels with a second 'you' controlled by a different set of keys, but they were never really intended as "multiplayer" (though if you both crowded around the keyboard, I guess they could be). Such levels are rare and widely spaced and it wouldn't be much fun for the other person to wait around between 'em.

Someone should do a whole level set of levels with a 2 diggers specifically timed and intended for having someone else sitting next to you. That would get played by about 1 pair of people. Ummm. I mean, that would be interesting.


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Radiant
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2 & 3 noted, thanks.

regarding 1 - yes, there were some extras to the game in V1.0. However, the game engine was rewritten nearly from scratch for V2.0, and since (after some questioning) it turned out that nobody actually used those extras, I have never bothered implementing them in V2.0.

Originally there were some 2P levels accessible from the main menu, involving racing through a maze, a variation on the game ChuChu Rocket, and a pong thingy.



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Darkmatt
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Can you please release those as stand-alone levels Radiant? It wouldn't hurt.

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Well, no, because the engine no longer supports them. In particular, splitting the screen in half so that two players can move independently.


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jockmo42
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me and a friend made many 2-player levels in 1.0, sad to see split-screen gone, though...

(sorry Radiant, couldn't help myself)

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Radiant
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jockmo42 wrote:
me and a friend made many 2-player levels in 1.0, sad to see split-screen gone, though...

You did? Please mail them to me.


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jockmo42
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sure, i'll see if I can find them, they're kind of spread over 3 PC's

EDIT: I see I've piqued your interest, Radiant.
Planning something?
Or do you just want to see them?

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Given sufficient interest I would consider making time to put back the splitscreen feature.


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jockmo42
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Sweet!

I'll get them to you as soon as I can, but I may have to recreate some because I think one of my friends computers got fried...

I'll see what I can do.

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