I found another glitch.. T.T

I was on the trading quest minigame, and I got some broken glass. For no apparent reason, I went into the bigbuildinginthecenterofNSV and then suddenly the pre-finalboss cutscene plays! You know, the one you get when you go inside the final symbol in the cave.

After the cutscene, I'm suddenly at the final boss and I'm forced to quit without saving 'cause you can't save at the final boss. Now I have to redo all the trading again.. *sob*

XP

This game is so entertaing! I cant beat it worth a cowpie, but still, good job! i just got past the helicompter boss thing, it took FOREVER

When I come to the bad samosian village, I can't move, but those turrets' explosions scoot me around. So I downloaded the replacement file, but it's still not working. Am I supposed to merge the replacement and the original somehow, or should I just re-download the full version?

How many points do you need to get the crystal in the NSV tower?

took a while to get through the first part. But it is exelent!
9/10

See, this is exactly why I need people to play the game. That ONLY happens if you go to that building straight after leaving ONE particular other one in the village. Fixed.



So, you came from the east, watched the NPC run away into the village, and then still couldn't move? Or did this happen somewhere else?



Please make this one a bit more subtle. It might be better to preserve the secrecy of exactly what happens for a little longer. Mind you, nobody knows what the good ending does yet...



200. On the others you'll need to get some score on the hardest difficulty. N.B: In the mountain lodge, you want the top floor, not the ground floor.

It was right after that. I walked left to where he had run. Once the alarm sounds, I can't move.

Can anyone help me with the boss with the pyramid in the center (lights)??? I suddenly did SOMETHING (I dunno what ). And then all the lights stopped moving, I hit one and now I don't know what I have to do ...
BTW... I am invincible... :P and I don't know since when...

try entering the village from a different direction...


did you fix the problem with loading a file after the main boss has ben beaten? I don't wanna have to go through the game again to finish all of the quests and such...

OH, and what's with the glowing Samosa symbols on the main screen? They don't appear on my file after i beat the final boss

--thanks, OH, do you have names for the bosses, that i can put in the walkthrough, or should i just name them according to what they're like?

also, do you have any images you'd like to be put into the banner?

durnit. i am at chapter three, and still no clue where to find the first wallet upgrade, i thinnk i really need it.

edit: bug. when i shot the flask across the river and accidently went into the next screen(not the battle) i went back, no ship. i press enter where it is supposed to be, it asks me to embark. when i pressed yes, it kicked me out of the game... !@$%! and i didn't save very recently either. not that it mattered where i saved last i think...

Never mind the boss... but apparently I was invincible until I had like -100 health or something at the end boss, which is btw really really hard...
Question: how do you beat that boss in the 4th round? Sometimes when I shoot at it it moves (like it is hurt) and sometimes not... I hit him a few times and then the shield went away, I hit him with the sword, and did this like 7 times... do I have to do this 10 times?
BTW this game looks very and very familiar, Srehpog... Inspired by Beyond Good and Evil?? (and I want an answer) ...But your game is good

That's normal. You need to find a different way into the village or the security system will definitely kill you.



Please send me your .sav file as soon as possible.



- Yes. I think I updated it too...

- That's odd. You may have to send me your .sav file unless I can fix this myself.

- No names yet; I haven't decided.



Wallet upgrades happen in the New Samosa Museum (top floor of the Library). Talk to the NPC at the desk.

- Fixed.



Do you mean you died when your health reached -100?

I assume by '4th round' you mean the Electric Triangle Of Doom? If you stand inside it, you'll be safe from one of the boss's attacks, and also be able to shoot it. You'll see it move when you do, as you did. When you've hit it eight times (I think) the ring on the floor will disappear and you can run up to the boss's head and use your sword. Repeat a few times, as you have. If it's not dead after seven or eight actual hits (because it flashes you out of there anyway if he wakes up while you're too close - the triangle shou;ld speed up, look for it), then there's a problem. I think the boss works though, I'll test it tonight.

BG&E? The most obvious similarity I can think of is with the Flask boss and the DomZ serpents....but I never did reach the game boss. I'll see if I can find a picture of him...

Odd, i still get the same problem...


OK, i'll email it to you


Alright, i'll just go with the flask boss, or the helicopter boss, or whatever, until you come up with some. No rush though

--Arao

Hey can anyone tell me where the missing kytri crystal is? I have 9 kytri crystals:

Srehpog, you said that the building south of NSV and the building left of the Mountain Lodge is a secret... In what way a secret? And can you give us at least a (perhaps cryptic) hint how we can reveal the secrets?
And how must we use the phone???

I've only played a little bit of this but it looks very good. I'm guessing you did all the artwork yourself? No wonder it took over 2 years!

It has a lot of nice little touches that make it "feel" like a classic Nintendo game.

Great job.

Darn it got so caught up in writing. I should have deleted the post myslef but I have been away for the weekend. Next time I'll be more careful and just not debate game endings on the forums.

200? I've gotten like 265 pts. and still no crystal, and it's the last one I need! Then I'll need a new obsession, I mean game.

Hmm, another glitch. I entered the water maze with the big octopus thing again, and I was able to go through the damaged engine sequence. The octopus didn't appear though, when I got to its room. Maybe you should block off the cave off once you beat it.

BTW, being a cephalopod fan, I love that boss!

errr...is anyone alive/living/playing this freaking awesome game/reading this other than me/bothering sreh with bugs/etc...or is it just me?


anyways, made progres on walkthrough...this is heck though, trying to make maps...hey sreh/anyone else, would you know an easy way to make a map of some of the areas?

also, sreh, when you update the file, on the main post, could you put the most recent update date? it can tend to be confuzzling at times.

--arao

hmmmm, so you get the wallets at the museum... and where would i find one of the items i need for the museum? all i did was get to chapter 5, go through the piramid a little and noticed it is fsking hard... and i have gone back through pretty much each area to find something for the museum, but still got nothing... meep. so it got annoying and i accidently deleted it when i downloaded something new that would edit my desktop, but now, im just in heck.
yeah, how on earth do you get to those two buildings?
is that a code for the belt machine that you use to get to the flask boss?

What your looking for is biomatter. One piece has been reveled all ready in this post so I'll repeat it here. Head two screens north of the NSV village (screen with the bomb shop). There is a circle of stones in the middle of the screen. Bomb them and then wave your sword over the gray discoloration in the the center of the stones to get your first piece. I'll leave finding the other 7 pieces to you. One thing though there is a bug that may prevent you from getting one piece. Srehpog knows about it, but I don't know if it's fixed in the current version.

No thats not the code for activating the belt machine. You'll be kicking yourself when you find out what it is.

Srehpog, you shouldn't set the resolution to 640×480, because when my screensaver appears and I want to continue playing, the screen is black. Also it is better to make screenshots when the game is set to window-size.

Also at the final boss, there doesn't appear a blue triangle as you mentioned, however it does appear for 1/3 of a second... after I go back from the pause-screen to the fight. Also in that same round the fps is 4!!!! How is this possible, Srehpog? (While the slowest moments in the game where 12 fps...)


A few other similarities: the final boss looks a bit the same (but you said you never reached it, what a coinsedence!), the collecting of pearls/kytri crystals, the sneaking in the lighttower and... The factory boss is a goop that can possess material: intent can also possess material...

Do you already have found out how I become invincible?

And as mentioned before by somebody else: at the shooting minigame in the NSV-tower I reached a maximum of 235, and guess what... no kytri crystal.

This is very odd. The code says >200, I tried it myself and it worked. I'll try and see if and when the wrong variable changes, but.....I really don't know. I'll look.



Hmm, that's not a glitch as such, although I agree it makes no sense. I thought players would prefer to play the D2 sequence again as many times as they liked, rather than only do it once. Perhaps I'll add a secondary reward afterwards...



- Just a lot of print-screen, I think.

- Yeah, I will do. I'll update soon when I've fixed the Kytri glitch.



I can't really have a final version in anything other than 640 though. You don't expect to alt-tab console games, so this should be the same. It's just too small in windowed mode, especially on big resolutions.




The drawing event involved in making the triangle appear used to be dependent on FPS. I didn't think the whole battle would run at <15... 12 is certainy VERY low. He's just a resource-hungry boss. I've removed a lot of graphical fancy stuff since he was coded, but it seems to run slowly in there on some machines anyway. I'll debug it with an object count...



I found the ending in the DomZ fortress too boring and green. I never reached the end boss. The collection of an item is central to nearly every adventure game - in BG&E they're compulsory, in Ark they are not. It's like heart pieces in Zelda. The lighthouse stealth section is small and mostly because I just really wanted a useless stealth section. Most of BG&E is stealthing. And wasn't the factory boss more of a monster than a general....thing? Intent is so much more than just 'goop'.....



Yes. If you have something a certain way, it happens every time too. Don't ask.



Very, very odd. I'll keep looking.

Update coming soon - just need to fix these couple of bugs...

Okay, but still, the boss doesn't appear when you get to its room.

BTW, just wanted to let you know, your "celebratory artwork now sits proudly as my wallpaper.

Hmm... correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't >200 mean less than 200? Shouldn't it be more than 200 or <200?
Just a thought. Anyway I'll keep trying it. Might be that I'm at the end of the game or something, although I don't see how that has anything to do with it.

I found two 'bugs': the snow is in different rooms moving in different directions, AND in the right area of the North-West Village the background (not the foreground) moves (when you watch closely).

And one very little question: is the HappyGamingAssociation-card useful for something during gameplay?

um, i already knew what the code was for the belt machine, its COFFEE, i meant if the number was supposed to do anything, like enter it into the belt machine and you get something perhaps after defeating the flask boss?

The place to enter the 1800 number is the mansion in the north. There's a table on the ground floor of the mansion with an old phone on it.

I found some sort of bug i think. I was in the village just after you get off the ship, and I pressed the menu screen button, and this happened.



Just if that helps

Sharky

mmm, i see. i'll try it when i redownload it when i am done sitting on my fat lazy butt.

Say, when fighting the giant bat in chapter 3, did anyone have strange messages pop up, such as "Would you like to quit?", "Would you like to die?" and "Game over. please insert 100 credits."

It's really weird. you can still move around when these messages appear. Can you explain, Srehpog, or do you even know about this? I hope noone's hacking my comp...

That's normal. Those messages are just for confusing you, that giant bat makes them... It's better to ignore them.

I love this game!
I can;t get past the lighthouse, the floor where two guards are standing and 3 guards are walking, it's impossible!

Unless I'm wrong, the reason why he does that is because the graphics will look like crap (ie: stretched) otherwise.

No, <200 means under 200 and >200 means over 200. So, that is a very strange bug...

Edit: Shrepog, can you point out some hints to the two other block puzzles in the first room with 3 block puzzles?

Thanks, I'll fix these soon. The HGA card is useful for playing minigames. Try it.




There's a FAQ for the first dungeon in this topic. There's a link to it in the very first post.

Alright, sorry for the lack of updates - I've been sent a big list of about 20 bugs, almost all of which are fixed now, so there'll be a (hopefully) near-perfect version available soon. I just need to find out why that last crystal isn't working...

Aha! I played the game all over again, and I won that Kytri-crystal of the shooting mini-game. But as it seems to be, I can't get it anymore where I am now... at chapter 6.

Where exactly is the FAQ? I can't find it anywhere on the 10th page...
Also, I badly need a scaled version because I'm not allowed to play screen resolution changing games!

I am very happy to say...

Fixed.

It turns out the NW village quick-draw crystal and the New Samosa Watchtower crystal depended on the same global variable. Get one, and you can't get the other.




Now that I think about it....are you sure about the NWV background moving? I can't see it. Can you provide a screenshot for exactly where you mean?



Sorry, it's on Page 9. Link fixed.

The next version will be non-resolution-changing, for ease of use. Once I've gone through a list of suggestions which have been sent to me (and are therefore quite complicated), I'll upload an update. That should be it for bugs at the moment, though.

Well, look at this: .
Zoom in and compare

Meh...
My walkthrough project is at a standstill until i finish all of this crap i have to do...
in a couple of weeks, i will have all the time in the world to work on it yay for nearly non-stop playing of Ark! O_O

oh, and thanks for making the next version 1024*768...
though, a question, when does the game change resolutions? as it loads? or after loading?

This is an amazing game!!! I have been playing for 5 hours and I just got bombs. I did find a "bug" though:



That really isn't big either, and I don't know if it has been mentioned before. (I am not reading through 16 pages).

AMAZING,
LizardMan

Is true.

And in the room where you randomly pick a treasure chest you can go through the back wall, and I got an error when I got the boat and went to the COFFEE machine and left the screen by land and came back, somthing about error creating boatfollow (somthing like that).

Good game but it really sux to play it and loose an hour of playing time by getting an error.


~Abyss

Have you given any thoughts to a sequal?

Found a very strange bug...but I am not sure if it affects gameplay or not. I got the bombs, went down and defeated the funny turrets, went up and saved again.

When I load this save game, It says that there is something I still need to do in that dungeon, but it reset and the moving statues arent present anymore.



LOL,
Ark 22 - 2
Ark 44
Noah 11

LizardMan

Do you mean the hut in New Samosa with a 3-Chest game? I can't find any holes in the wall there...




If there's ever another chapter in the whole Ark/Samosa story, it would probably be a mouse-and-arrows 3rdP shooter, but I doubt I'll ever do that. There is one other project being worked on at the moment, but it's not far along enough, and far too special to release so soon after Ark. When Ark's properly finished and debugged, you'll see.

As for the update - it should be available soon. For those who don't want to wait...

Getting the last Crystal (and the extraordinary reward):

Open your save file in Notepad and edit the 60th line (counting any blank lines too) from:

1.000...

to

0.000...

This will allow you to replay either the NSV watchtower shooting gallery OR the NW village quick-draw arena and get the crystal there. This should bring your total up to 10, and allow you to get....something VERY special.

Has anyone with all the fossils been to the museum yet? You get something good there too...

Strange, the 61st line says already 0.000... Yes, I counted again, and again: the 61st line is already saying 0.000... so what now? I tried to make the 60st line 0.000 and still no 10th kytri crystal !
And yes, I am very sure I did it all right!!
I'll send you my savefile...
BTW let me guess: that extraordinary reward is an upgrade for my rifle?


Yes, I have... But I don't really need it that much

Sorry, it looks like it should be the 60th line instead. It's the one right after the string'd number/blank line.

What did you think of the questionnaire - is your commission rate high or low? It's not random, you know.

Bug I notices (dont know if its fixed):

Somewhere north of the big town, there's a crack in the walls, possibly a cave entrance or summat. When I got the bombs and cracked it, I walked inside it, and then I was walking through the walls...

Still not working...

I just answered to all the first answer... It doesn't matter what you answer, right?

oh no!
what's ark doing on the 3rd page?!?!?!

but, to avoid looking like i'm bumping this...

Sreh, did you ever fix the bug about loading a completed game?

I have a question: when is the new update coming out?