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Author Topic: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game  (Read 18889 times)

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Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« on: July 06, 2006, 03:58 PM »
The same friend that pointed me to Armadillo Run now guided me to http://withinadeepforest.ni2.se/ . It's a great oldschool type of platform game with simple but beautiful and cute graphics, great atmospheric background music, cute sound effects, and a simple enjoyable gameplay.

Warning: you can waste a LOT of time on this :-*
- carpe noctem

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2006, 07:03 PM »
absolutely fantastic.

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2006, 02:32 PM »
I completed the game a bit earlier today - it's been one of the better experiences in a long while. It might sound totally whacked out, but I'm rating it up near Half-Life 2. Obviously it's in a completely different league, but I had at least as much fun playing this as HL2 - which says a lot! I guess I really miss well-done retro games :)  :-*  :-*  :-*
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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2006, 02:45 PM »
Just finished the game myself. Its tough but wholly enjoyable.

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2006, 09:11 AM »
i'm almost done.. have everything but last ball.
as eoin says, it is tough and frustrating at times, but very compelling and very very well balanced game which keeps you playing to see what's next.

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2007, 02:53 PM »
I downloaded this in the summer when I had no internet connection at home and e-mailed it to myself and then forgot what it was because I had saved it as WADF. Finally played it and it is absolutely charming! I'm not very far, but I love all the little creatures that add to the personality and life of the game. Not just the enemies, but especially the ones that don't affect the game. The little villagers in the tutorial level, the caterpillar that follows you, the little blobby thing that peeks up from a platform like it's scared of what's going on. Even on the menu screen there are things that fly around and butterflies and everything.

It creates such a greater level of immersion. Like this fantasy world actually exists. It's so fun! And the best thing about it is that the graphics are so very simple.
« Last Edit: January 05, 2007, 02:55 PM by Deozaan »

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2007, 02:55 PM »
deozaan be carefull, this game can take weeks to complete and you have to be working on programming your game, not playing this one!

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2007, 02:57 PM »
I haven't played it since I heard about the Jay is Games contest. :) I just wanted to tell everyone how impressed I was by it in my short play time yesterday.

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2007, 03:04 PM »
gotcha.
and yeah you hit it on the head - it really draws you in deep, its a great game.

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2007, 08:56 AM »
Hi, reviving a old thread I know but I thought this was relevant- A new game, Knytt, from the creator(s) of WaDF has been released recently. It's not at all on the scale of WaDF but is still very atmospheric and a pleasure to play.

Knytt v1.0.1

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2007, 09:16 AM »
Oooooh, nice!

Thanks for letting us know. I'll have to try not getting sucked into this after work, or I'll never get to bed ^_^

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2007, 09:23 AM »
It's a good thing so that it's a short little game ;)

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2009, 06:45 AM »
Thanks for the link and info. I absolutely love this sort of game. Especially since I don't need to read a 200-page manual to play it.

Now if somebody could just port M.U.L.E. so I could finally retire my old Commodore-64 I'd be a truly happy man. (C64 emulators are all well and good, but nothing matches the feel of the original hardware.)

c64mule.jpg

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« Last Edit: March 01, 2009, 06:47 AM by 40hz »

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2009, 08:34 AM »
Thanks for the link and info. I absolutely love this sort of game. Especially since I don't need to read a 200-page manual to play it.

Now if somebody could just port M.U.L.E. so I could finally retire my old Commodore-64 I'd be a truly happy man. (C64 emulators are all well and good, but nothing matches the feel of the original hardware.)
 (see attachment in previous post)
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have you tried space h.o.r.s.e. ? I hear it's a m.u.l.e. evolution. I never played mule so i cannot say whether it is an improvement or they ruin it etc. but I had fun with that game a while back when it came out
http://www.shrapnelg...ames/SH/SH_page.html

other community attempts:

http://www.codenautics.com/openmule/
http://uber.netfused.com/
http://www.puzzud.com/
« Last Edit: March 01, 2009, 08:42 AM by iphigenie »

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Re: Within A Deep Forest - oldschool game
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2009, 10:38 AM »
...have you tried...

Nope.

Didn't even know such a thing existed.

Thanks for all the links.  :-* I'll have to give them a shot soon as I get this client project I'm working on off my desk...