Vitrum - a challenging 3d platform game.

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Vitrum - a challenging 3d platform game.

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EDIT #2:
Choose the price to get your Vitrum copy and help charity (Child's Play):
http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum

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EDIT:
Vitrum is available now!

You can play all the stages, collect all shards and unveil its secrets!

Get it here:
http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum

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A couple of friends and I are developping this game called Vitrum.
We're just starting our indie game company, 9heads, and we are working really hard to get noticed and spread the news about Vitrum.
We'll release Vitrum and work on our level editor in order to release it too, so people will be able to create their own stages and share them on the web.

Vitrum is a 3D, first person, puzzle/platform game.

The main character is an android designed to convert energy from crystals into powers. The android can absorb energy in each of his hands, allowing him to combine different powers. One of the coolest powers is the ability to invert the gravity, because it's 3d and because the player can freely choose when and where to use it!

Vitrum takes place in a desert laboratory full of different colored crystals. Some crystals grant powers, others are harmful to the android.

The player will have to figure out how to use the crystals, solve the puzzles and finish each stage in Vitrum.

Features:
- Each crystal color represents a power, explore each color and discover every power the android can execute.
- Combine powers to solve more difficult puzzles.
- Explore 3D gravity inversion, materialization of crystal platforms, super high jumps and other powers.
- Avoid radioactive crystals, death crystals and others.
- Collect crystal shards to unlock Insane stages.
- More than 45 stages.

We already released a demo, so you guys can download it and give it a try! =)
http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum

Our engine uses Ogre, Bullet Physics and only free/open-source libraries.

Vitrum is on Steam Greenlight, we'd appreciate if you helped us get accepted.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... d=93152650



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Website: http://www.9heads.com/
Vitrum: http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/9heads
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/9headsGames
IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/vitrum
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thx for the images. it is interesting.
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Wow, you guys have done a great job on this. I watched the video and it looked nice. Are you using 'Gorilla' for those tutorial/hint screens throughout the game?
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Thanks for your feedbacks!

We're using a holographic screen shader we developed on those tutorial screens. We just need to create a simple image file (colored text over a white, semitransparent background) and the shader animates it as a holographic screen! =)
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Very cool!
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Oh wow... I love the look and feel of your game. One thing bothers me, though - the ceilings seem too low (IMO). Otherwise, great job so far! How long have you guys been working on this ?
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Looks great and seems like a cool gameplay idea. Definitely something I would like to play :)

I wanted to try it but it doesn't start with wine:

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wine: Call from 0x7b82c872 to unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.??0?$basic_stringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@H@Z, aborting
err:module:attach_process_dlls "OgreMain.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\Users\\martinpreisler\\Downloads\\Vitrum Demo\\Vitrum Demo 1.131.exe" failed, status 80000100
Will try this later on when I get to a machine that has Windows.

btw, the zip demo folder seems to contain a lot of libraries that aren't used. It could use some cleaning. Also, don't forget about this clause in the MIT license:

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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Mind Calamity, we started working on Vitrum in February (actually it was on December 2011, but in February we trashed every assets we had and started it all over again).

kulik, Vitrum will run on Windows (Windows 7 recommended), also, every library in Vitrum's folder is used, and all the licensing docs we need are included in the Docs folder. If you spot any other problem, please, let us know so we can correct it.

Thanks guys!
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Played the demo, it's cool, kudos! The lights seem to somewhat flicker as I move, are you aware of that problem?

Regarding attribution:
You are right, I missed that folder. MyGUI and CEGUI aren't attributed though. CEGUI folder has every dependency attribution except CEGUI itself.

Examples of things that aren't used and are bundled (there are definitely more than these):

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OgrePaging.dll
OgreProperty.dll
CEGUINullRenderer.dll
CEGUIOpenGLRenderer.dll
CEGUIDirect3D{9,10,11}Renderer.dll
3 of the 4 CEGUI image codecs (I won't bother finding which one)
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kulik, you're absolutely right, we missed those license docs and libraries, I'm fixing this right now. Thanks again!
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I couldn't find an option to invert mouse so I played it only briefly, but it is looking good in my opinion.
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We'll add this option probably in the next demo build! =)
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Wow, the game visuals are brilliant!

I like this logic games, sometimes the authors have great ideas!
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Kinda reminds me of metroid of way back. Good work, but maybe add some creatures that attack :)
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Vitrum demo just got updated guys!

The download link is the same, and you can find it here:
http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum
ImpScary wrote:I couldn't find an option to invert mouse so I played it only briefly, but it is looking good in my opinion.
We heard you and added the option now, full changelog:

Changelog 1.148.215:
  • Fixed bug causing Gravity Inverter particles not being correctly rotated when resetting the stage.
    Changed scenes ambient music to be streamed from file instead of storing the whole music in memory.
    Added support for Ogre 1.8.1.
    Added Dash sound effect.
    Fixed bug causing hands to be put down when not being able to use a power.
    Added an intro video related to the plot (yes, Vitrum does have a plot).
    Added Shield sound effect.
    Fixed bug causing character to keep it's mommentum after dying.
    Added Gravity Inversion sound effect.
    Fixed some issues with the Dash mechanics.
    Fixed bug causing horizontal doors (trapdoors) not activating objects when opening.
    Fixed music allocation issue.
    Added options to invert mouse axes.
    Fixed bug where bad sound streams coming from audiere were causing sudden crashes.
    Started streaming from file some bigger sounds instead of loading it in RAM.
    Changed components destruction to properly destroy its sound source and sound streams.
    Fixed bug in the kinematic character controller causing the character to stop falling when running against a wall (while in air).
    Changed default volume of sound streams attached to a source from maximum to minimum value.
    Modeled and painted a whole pack of assets (pipes, junctions, etc) in order to enrich and detail each stage.
    Modeled and painted an asset to start the game in (capsule designed to store and transport the android).
    Added pipes to the stages.
    Added starting capsule asset to the first stage.
    Fixed some minor lighting issues in a few stages.
    Properly balanced the difficulty evolution by re-ordering the stages.
    Ajusted the difficulty of the stages (lowered the difficulty of some and raised in others).
    Changed some puzzles to be more intuitive.
    Added more checkpoints.
    Repositioned some crystal shards making the activity of looking for and getting them more satisfying.
    Added 1 more stage to the demo.
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aymar_fisherman wrote:Vitrum demo just got updated guys!
We heard you and added the option now
Thank you, it feels good to be heard! :)
Will download new demo now.
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Please don't take this the wrong way, despite looking like a licensing pedant I am actually trying to help :-) The CEGUI COPYING file is still wrong.

It is important to retain the copyright notices.

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The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
This is the copyright line of the COPYING file:

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Copyright (c) 2004 - 2012 Paul D Turner & The CEGUI Development Team
The entire COPYING file can be found in doc/COPYING in reasonably recent CEGUI releases.

The OIS COPYING file is also wrong, it states zlib/gzip authors as copyright holders of OIS which isn't the case!
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kulik, thank you very much for letting us know about those mistakes, we believe now all the licenses are correct!
This is our first time releasing a game, we never did this before, so I guess we found ourselves a little bit lost on how to gather all the licenses we need.
Thanks again, without your heads-up we would have done things the wrong way.
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Great idea for a game. It has a very portal-like feel to it, but is original enough to stand on its own.
It probably needs some extra gameplay elements to allow for more interesting puzzles, and enemies perhaps, but I really like it already.

Maybe it's better to only show the broken glass when dying from falls or similar. It's rather strange how the glass of the camera breaks when you die from radiation poisoning.
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Vitrum just got released guys!

Now you can play all the stages, collect all shards and unveil its secrets!

Get it here:
http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum
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duststorm wrote:It's rather strange how the glass of the camera breaks when you die from radiation poisoning.
To me, that's more obvious effect because it feels like the glass of the helmet has broken down or rather the head exploded from within the helmet (that needs to be rather bloody) :shock:
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aymar_fisherman wrote:Vitrum just got released guys!

Now you can play all the stages, collect all shards and unveil its secrets!

Get it here:
http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum
Very awesome looking game, I love the look of it. Definitely looking forward to trying it out once I get my Win7 machine hooked up. :D

Is there any chance of a Linux and/or OSX release? :D
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voyvf wrote:
aymar_fisherman wrote:Vitrum just got released guys!

Now you can play all the stages, collect all shards and unveil its secrets!

Get it here:
http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum
Very awesome looking game, I love the look of it. Definitely looking forward to trying it out once I get my Win7 machine hooked up. :D

Is there any chance of a Linux and/or OSX release? :D
We plan on releasing Linux and OSX versions, but not for now. At the moment we're working full time on our level editor, we plan on releasing it, so people will be able to create their own levels and share them on the web. :D
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Now you can pay what you want for Vitrum.

Also, we'll donate 10% of our earnings to Child's Play: http://www.childsplaycharity.org

Visit http://www.9heads.com/games/vitrum to get your copy.
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