Harvester

Harvester

Glitch Babe 2014 年 4 月 4 日 上午 10:32
Here's hoping for Darkseed 1 and 2 down the line
It's a shame there were only a few attempts at adventure games like this. I mean sure this and DS2 have their share of flaws, but damn if they aren't fun.

You always were a kidder, Steve.
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grimwold 2014 年 4 月 4 日 上午 11:03 
Wow yea they really were freaky games. I loved the first one. It must have been the the first game that really stressed me out.
45 2014 年 4 月 4 日 上午 11:05 
You don't want darkseed stop lying.
Glitch Babe 2014 年 4 月 4 日 上午 11:13 
引用自 Fiesta 45
You don't want darkseed stop lying.

Fiesta 45, did -you- kill Rita?
field1701 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 12:10 
I'm still waiting for the Gabriel knight trillogy.
MasterJim 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 12:43 
引用自 Hovering Sombrero
It's a shame there were only a few attempts at adventure games like this. I mean sure this and DS2 have their share of flaws, but damn if they aren't fun.

You always were a kidder, Steve.

Shame DS2 requires windows 3.1 because of the menus ;/ (damn it)
I would love to see DS1 tho, if i recall that runs on dos.
最後修改者:MasterJim; 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 2:11
Danksama 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 1:15 
If you don't mind, I'm going to water my lawn for the next week or two. (Or something along the lines of that, can't remember the quote exactly).
TylerF 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 1:26 
I could see Night Dive releasing, at least, Dark Seed 1 on GOG and Steam. DS2, as MasterJim said, is a Win3.1 title so that won't happen right away, but apparently there was a project going on to port DS2 to SCUMMVM. Not sure what happened.

引用自 field1701
I'm still waiting for the Gabriel knight trillogy.

You can get those on GOG and add them to your Steam library, depending on how truly interested you are in playing them.
最後修改者:TylerF; 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 1:28
General Plastro 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 1:37 
Darkseed... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that game has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up ending
Luigi 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 2:51 
引用自 Hugoroy
引用自 Hovering Sombrero

Fiesta 45, did -you- kill Rita?

HEYY YOU MISSED PAL

Shrimp baby
FirstUtterance 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 3:25 
As others said, Dark Seed 1 is more likely, because DOSBox. Shame the music in the DOS version sucks so much, wish there was a way to transplant the Amiga version's far superior soundtrack over (I could say that about a lot of games released on both DOS and Amiga actually). I guess I COULD play the Amiga version but Amiga emulators I've tried run like ass so it's not worth the bother.

Dark Seed 2, maybe that game is best left buried in its Windows 3.1 (or 3.2, whatever) grave, not necessarily because it's a bad game (I never played it and so wouldn't know if it's good or bad, also I never watched the whole Retsupurae so I don't even know what most of the game even looks like) but it's one of those games that's been resurrected just to become a meme factory, a branding that it's never gonna shake off. RP has riffed on lots of games but it's that one that seems to have really struck a chord with people the most. But not in a way I can see anyone bothering to actually buy it for the purposes of playing it and enjoying it since all the fans seem to universally agree the game's a piece of ♥♥♥♥ (all I gather is that it's like Harvester with its bizarro, ultra-campy Twin Peaks-lite nightmare world but with a worse protagonist and bad digitized animation instead of FMV, but has some neat H.R. Giger artwork thrown in to give it some flair).
最後修改者:FirstUtterance; 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 3:27
Glitch Babe 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 9:15 
引用自 FirstUtterance
As others said, Dark Seed 1 is more likely, because DOSBox. Shame the music in the DOS version sucks so much, wish there was a way to transplant the Amiga version's far superior soundtrack over (I could say that about a lot of games released on both DOS and Amiga actually). I guess I COULD play the Amiga version but Amiga emulators I've tried run like ass so it's not worth the bother.

Dark Seed 2, maybe that game is best left buried in its Windows 3.1 (or 3.2, whatever) grave, not necessarily because it's a bad game (I never played it and so wouldn't know if it's good or bad, also I never watched the whole Retsupurae so I don't even know what most of the game even looks like) but it's one of those games that's been resurrected just to become a meme factory, a branding that it's never gonna shake off. RP has riffed on lots of games but it's that one that seems to have really struck a chord with people the most. But not in a way I can see anyone bothering to actually buy it for the purposes of playing it and enjoying it since all the fans seem to universally agree the game's a piece of ♥♥♥♥ (all I gather is that it's like Harvester with its bizarro, ultra-campy Twin Peaks-lite nightmare world but with a worse protagonist and bad digitized animation instead of FMV, but has some neat H.R. Giger artwork thrown in to give it some flair).


I want to say that Dark Seed 2 is a bad game, but at the same time it's a good game... for the same reasons. DS2, for me, is the Plan 9 From Outer Space of video games.

The protagonist is a pathetic little worm that everyone hats, the dialogue is cheesy and delicious, the puzzles get so crazy that it almost feels weirder than Gabriel Knight 3's cat-mustache puzzle, the antagonist's design is just... it's a beautiful package. It's a game that is awful, but in such a way that it comes right back around to being completely entertaining.
DenDen 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 9:25 
http://youtu.be/2m8u4zv3k2E

That will be all.
最後修改者:DenDen; 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 9:25
H.U.N.K 2014 年 4 月 4 日 下午 10:30 
darkseed was an awsome game i'd allso like to see it came from the desert and all the other cinemaware games on here that'd be cool
DrMcCoy 2014 年 4 月 5 日 上午 2:25 
引用自 TylerF
apparently there was a project going on to port DS2 to SCUMMVM.

Yeah, that was me.
https://github.com/DrMcCoy/scummvm/tree/darkseed2/engines/darkseed2

The problem is that I didn't start with reading the disassembly, but instead reimplemented it as I saw fit. The file formats were common or easy enough to deduce by looking at them with a hex editor and fuzzing. So I thought I could be quicker this way.

This worked beautifully until I reached the scripts. Though basically plaintext[gist.github.com], there are two basic types of them, each with blocks that somehow, I think, run simultaniously. I never quite figured out how exactly, so while the game is "playable" (graphics, sound and videos work; you can walk around, talk to people, pick up objects), the scripts deadlock early on (when entering the mirror maze in the carnival, and after speaking to the fortune teller), each time apparently waiting on another script block.

In addition, the scripts have several numerical parameters I also haven't figured out, some of them probably flags/bitfields. Among them is the scaling for the walkmap: the walkmap is a black/white bitmap, one color for walkable parts, one color for non-walkable (with occasionally colors turning up), but obviously not a 1:1 mapping to the game screen.

What I would need to do is basically restart from scratch, with the disassembly. When I realized that, I abandoned that project (for now?), and went to work on one of my other projects (of which I have far too many). I might come back to it in the future.
最後修改者:DrMcCoy; 2014 年 4 月 5 日 上午 2:27
Aza 2014 年 4 月 5 日 上午 5:37 
引用自 MasterJim
Shame DS2 requires windows 3.1 because of the menus ;/ (damn it)
You can install Win 3.1 on DOSBox. It runs pretty well and you can even use the good old game shortcut in startup folder trick to start the game on system launch to make an automated DOSBox installation.
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