Right just played a little bit into the demo (not that far)! I like it may have to purchase the full game! Controls are nice and smooth. Although the 3rd person camera views are a little awkward via keys (idea! Would it be possible to implement mouse to control the view and firing?) Oh and also when in this view if your moving diagonally and firing your cannon don't shoot diagonally.

Ah, everyone is asking for it, I guess I better do it.
For now, I noticed on some linux distros, if you hold alt+arrow key it changes which workspace you're in. And I think you need to do that to strafe in Helena. It's a little awkward, but I also made Q and E strafing keys as well to help with that.

Anyway, yea.. heh I'll see if I can get around to adding mouse support. I was trying to make the FPS kind of like DOOM originally, that's why I left it out in the beginning.

Have you thought about trying to sell it in the Ubuntu Software Center I think it would make an ideal game for it there priced at your $2-5.

Also noticed when moving diagonally it doesn't jump or doesnt seem to want to. Jumps are much more responsive when moving forwards backwards left n right.

I think when you are pressing up and left at the same time you can't jump for some reason. The other diagonals should work.
I can't figure it out, there's nothing in the code that should be preventing that. I don't know if it's a limitation of wxWidgets or what...


Oh, I didn't even know you could sell games in the Software Center. I suppose I could polish it a little more and submit it for review...

After speaking to Tweakedenigma on X-Chat regarding the Ubuntu Software Center he had this to say:-

<tweaked> There is no official channel yet
<tweaked> Emailing Jono might work
<tweaked> [email protected]
<tweaked> Phone Mobile: +1 415-658-1738

Hope it helps! Apparently there is no channel open to submit games yet but a number of games are currently available to buy. Maybe they followed this route!

Welcome to the forums Brandon be sure to stick around!

The Linux community are very forgiving, so don't let a few hiccups put you off :)

Be sure to send us over any "press" releases regarding your developments so we can do articles and reviews :)

http://linuxgamecast.com/2011/04/l-g-c-b-reel-%E2%80%94-helena-the-third-v1-02/

A go, given it.

From the author...
I didn't realize this was like a show you did. Anyway, I'm honored!

Glad you liked that :)

I was just trying to think of some ideas for the game. What would you guys of multiplayer arena levels? Like deathmatch levels with powerups and such?

Well upon trying the demo i get a seg fault with an error message saying

"failed to load resource image"

Thanks for giving it a go liam. Sounds like it might be a permissions issue. If you don't mind could you try chmod on the entire directory giving it read/write privileges and see if that helps? Otherwise, it's cool, thanks for trying the demo out. I'll see if I can address this in the next update.

Odd it works now not sure what happened there. Running via terminal gives that message but the 64bit file works now :).

So giving it a little test, will test properly later.

Just thought I would post a little teaser screenshot of world 2.
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Oooo looks pretty.

Well I thought id post this little speed run I did on Helena the 3rd level 1 on one of our old builds
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And here's a video from me.

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P.S. I like the music Rusty :)

V1.14 is out! :)

V1.14 contains the following new features.

Full 3D mouse aiming.
New enemies added to the game.
Additional mouse sensitivity options.
Completely redesigned world 2.
Variable jump height
Gun bob in FPS
Destructible blocks

A Youtube friend of mine, Drackbolt, posted a let's play of Helena The 3rd!
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I really need to get around to giving it a good playthrough! I will eventually, but then again the more time i wait the more awesome it seems to get :D

Ah, I don't blame you honestly. The current version is more for people who remember Blaster Master, and just have to play the game we're making now. I'd say in a month and a half or so, we should have the game pretty close to it's final state.