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Miner8009er
Developer   deerslyr1
GenreRacing
PlatformWindows
Downloads291

About: You are a miner in training. Finish as quick as possible, but also design the perfect ship to fly through the mines of "wherever."

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message deerslyr1     
 Posted - 6/16/2005 1:42:25 PM
This game was created as a year long project. Initially it started as a team of three, but quickly got boiled down to me as the primary developer. Please provide me feedback and let me know what you think.

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message mike74     
 Posted - 6/16/2005 4:56:05 PM
Very slow. I get about half a frame per second on my home computer. I might try it again at the library, which has faster computers, if I remember.

Mike C.
http://www.coolgroups.com/zoomer/

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message deerslyr1     
 Posted - 6/16/2005 4:59:30 PM
Interesting, tell me about your computer and I'll try to duplicate. I have no problems even with on-board graphics cards.


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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Battagline     
 Posted - 6/16/2005 8:27:19 PM
I had no performance problems at all. It ran smooth as glass for me. The controls were a bit awkward, and I was force to look through the instruction manual. Looks like it could be kinda neat, but it was really hard to manuver.

Take my control advice with a grain of salt. I love the controls in my game but many people hate them so I'm not an expert on good gaming controls.

[Edited by - Battagline on June 17, 2005 5:27:57 PM]

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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message deerslyr1     
 Posted - 6/17/2005 2:06:43 PM
The issues I have primarily heard have been control related. The issue is that if you are able to flip your axis you are actually flying upside down or backwards, but since all of my models are perfectly symetric your eyes can't distinguish. That's why I provide the hint to pull straight back when you start while firing the booster. This levels you out and make the controls much more straight forward.

Wes

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