Work-On-Your-Game-Weekend 2014

I'll give that a shot in the coming week. I'm also now considering making the clouds a flat color and only emphasizing the clouds in spots where they overlay a building which is floating through the cloud. A bit hard to explain but in my head it looks like it might be good too.

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Oh ho, sounds interesting.

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I think that depends on what kind of experience you want when the Extended Edition finally gets released. The original is 13 years old now, and I'm pretty certain it's aged badly. It has none of the bells and whistles that OHR games pull off as standard these days, and it may feel odd going back to it after all these years; the Extended Edition pulls off most of the bells and whistles, like sound effects, and is, in my opinion, way cooler. If you want to experience what most of the community has experienced, then I would try the one that's currently online (Slime Salad has v1.1; Castle Paradox has v1.0). The advantage to that is seeing how an ugly, self-indulgent game can reinvent itself in the Extended Edition as a prettier, far more self-indulgent game. However, if you want the real experience of what Powerstick Man is and was always supposed to be (according to my skillset), and don't want to know any other version, then I would wait until the Extended Edition is ready. The original is my noob game, but the Extended Edition makes it feel like a noob game (as does most anything made in the OHR nowadays).

I think it also depends on how much time you want to devote to it. The original takes about 3-5 hours to complete on a general run-through, and 7-10 if you're trying to get everything (v1.1 cuts the time down a little by allowing the player to use bus passes to get around town). The Extended Edition is probably double that, though I haven't played from start to finish since I started production on it in 2007. I expect the released version to take a minimum 5-8 hours if you race through it, and as much as 15-20 if you do everything. Though, the likelihood of doing everything is slim since I've crammed it full of side quests and things that are easy to miss if you're not actively searching everything. In fact, the screenshots I posted here are part of a massive sidequest that you're likely never to find if you're not an explorer. The original has very few sidequests you can bypass, and is more about finding items and hidden characters than it is about whole story lines.

Hope that helps. If you want to play v1.1, you can find it in the Legendary Edition package here: http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?t=360. Take note that you have a number of file options in this link. The download for V2 will give you a new vision of the game, but one that's very incomplete, and is online only to show what could have been if I had been more graphically adept when I started the original game. V1.1 is the one you actually want, if you want the original experience.

If you want to see some of what's ahead in the Extended Edition, you can view the two somewhat outdated promo videos (I never did finish the third, but will eventually) here: http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?t=3911

And, I'm generally open to sharing sneak previews of the Extended Edition to interested parties, if you don't mind playing a game with broken sections. Really, it's up to you how you want to play the game.

Afterthought: Actually, after viewing the progress of the third trailer, I really don't know why I've held off releasing it. It's more than adequate to show off the real Extended Edition. I think I'll wrap it up and stick it on here tonight.

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That looks so awesome. I like the restricted path movement style. It reminds me of Super Mario World and Final Fantasy Tactics. So do the paths form and disappear as tags are set on and off? I also like games in which you have a disposable party. It adds a whole new element of strategy to the game. The level regression sounds like it could be neat too.

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Thanks!