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Devil's Tuning Fork: Look Here Valve!!!
ultimakay
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What is Devil's Tuning Fork you ask? It is a game created by 15 DePaul University's College of Computer and Media students for the Independent Games Festival Competition. Taken from Official website (http://devilstuningfork.com/index.php)
What if you saw the world with your ears? Devil's Tuning Fork is a first-person exploration/puzzle game in which the player must navigate an unknown world using visual sound waves. Inspired by M.C. Escher’s classic optical illusion and the echolocation of dolphins, The Devil’s Tuning Fork allows the player to explore a new mode of perception through sound visualization.
As a mysterious epidemic causes children everywhere to fall into comas, one child wakes up in an alternate reality. It is up to this child, the player, to determine the cause of the epidemic and save the other children trapped here. By way of the devil's tuning fork, a magical instrument that allows the player to perceive sound waves, the player must find all the children and successfully escape this alternate reality, thereby waking up from the coma.
And a Youtube video demonstrating the game play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKF_subEMA
Download link to version 1.1, it is free: http://devilstuningfork.com/download.php
I really hope that Valve gets wind of this and does what they did with portal. This game could turn out amazing with valve behind it. What do you all think?
Ps. I am in no way affiliated with this project or the school in anyway, just a guy who thought this was some cool stuff.
Pps. This is my first OP, so if anyone would like to give me some feedback that would be much appreciated.
What if you saw the world with your ears? Devil's Tuning Fork is a first-person exploration/puzzle game in which the player must navigate an unknown world using visual sound waves. Inspired by M.C. Escher’s classic optical illusion and the echolocation of dolphins, The Devil’s Tuning Fork allows the player to explore a new mode of perception through sound visualization.
As a mysterious epidemic causes children everywhere to fall into comas, one child wakes up in an alternate reality. It is up to this child, the player, to determine the cause of the epidemic and save the other children trapped here. By way of the devil's tuning fork, a magical instrument that allows the player to perceive sound waves, the player must find all the children and successfully escape this alternate reality, thereby waking up from the coma.
And a Youtube video demonstrating the game play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKF_subEMA
Download link to version 1.1, it is free: http://devilstuningfork.com/download.php
I really hope that Valve gets wind of this and does what they did with portal. This game could turn out amazing with valve behind it. What do you all think?
Ps. I am in no way affiliated with this project or the school in anyway, just a guy who thought this was some cool stuff.
Pps. This is my first OP, so if anyone would like to give me some feedback that would be much appreciated.
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But this sounds pretty awesome.
Edit: doubly awesome, seeing as you're not actually selling anything. I clicked and was prepared to drop $5 or $10 but it seems to be free.
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I have Visual Studio so I hit debug on the crash message, and got:
Unhandled exception at 0x00406f9c in game.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000000.
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Sounds neat, I'll probably check the youtube when I go home.
I just love to support indie devs so that ideas like portal can get out to the masses.
Edit: If I am doing something wrong it is completely unintentional. Seeing as how it is free I didn't think it would be a problem but will contact a mod first next time to make sure.
Edit#2: Just brushed up on the forum rules, and added to my OP saying that I have nothing to do with the project in any way. Thank you all for straightening me out.
I also don't see why Valve needs to be involved.
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The inspiration behind portal was a groups final project at digipen that used the mechanics that were to be in portal. the game is called narbacular drop and is freeware. It was very rough and limited, but valve hired the entire group. The students then went on to create portal. I think that if a large company got involved like valve did with the students who made narbacular drop, then they could flesh out the concept more and create a great game.
My thoughts exactly.
I loved the bit with the mirror and the gong, but other than that the video basically said to me "it's like you're playing a FPS with a flashlight instead of a gun, except the 'flashlight' mechanic exists so that we can fuck around with cool visuals".
It's a hard enough effort to make something like that at all, let alone in six months: and to make it stable when your approach was rapid prototyping seems to involve another whole mountain of effort that can approach the amount of time it took to create the original work: time that they just didn't have if it was a school project. For six months worth of effort, it's darn impressive! Well done.
Also v1.1 isn't available, only 1.0
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