[Michael Dowling]

I made a game called Flatch. It took me about a month or so to finish and it turned out great. Here's the spiel:

Flatch is a game where you are a bubble generated by a fish's flatulence. You must help Flatch get out of the ocean in one piece. Dodge fish, snakes, seaweed, toxic waste barrels, and black starfish.

Beating the game is a difficult task (even for the programmer of the game) which I challenge everyone to attempt. If it gets too easy for you, increase the difficulty in the options menu.

Get powerups to help you along the way and meet requirements for awards to help you achieve the high score.
The powerups are: pink starfish which will make you smaller (which is a GOOD thing), a dark pink starfish that makes you bigger (a very BAD thing), a bright blue starfish which allows you to kill the fish and rack up on points, and a yellow starfish which kills all the fish on the screen and multiplies the combo level of a blue starfish.

Here's a list of awards you can try to recieve (awards help towards a REALLY high score):
Name Requirement
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King Get 10 perfects
Captain Planet Kill 40+ toxic waste barrels
Martial Arts Get a 25+ combo
Opportunity Get 20+ powerups
Big Boy Get at least 2 black starfish and survive a whole checkpoint's worth

here's my allegro.cc project page (go here for a download and screenshots):
http://www.allegro.cc/depot/project.php?_id=1087

[akOOma]

Whoa, this game rocks. I can't sop playing it.
One suggestion: When you lost a life make the bubble bigger till it collapses...so it will be harder if you only have a few lifes.
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Keep on codin'
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Just another post to increase my rank...

[Guest]

Some bugs were found in Flatch. You need to download this patch if you have downloaded the game already. If you're reading this and you haven't downloaded the game, you don't need the patch - just download the installer.

Patch:
http://www.rpg-dev.net/typosoft/flatch_patch_pre_8_29_03.zip

Full game:
http://www.rpg-dev.net/typosoft/flatch_install.exe

BTW, has anyone beaten it yet and what's your highest score? Check out the Flatch website (even though it kinda sucks):
http://www.rpg-dev.net/typosoft/

[Jihgfed Pumpkinhead]

Fun game; you might be interested to know that it runs adequately on my 350Mhz, 64Mb machine, with video-quality on low and sound off. I just mention it because you recommend a 800+ machine in the readme, if I remember correctly.