Rescue

One dark night, the people of your village were taken by monsters.

To save them, you must enter the caves, and face the deadly Wumpus and Grue. You have agility and rope, but nothing else.

About

Rescue is a 'homebrew' game written for the Pandora handheld.
It was written for the Feb/March 2011 Pandora Homebrew competition, and has been gradually improving since then.
It also runs on PC Linux, Mac and Windows.

It's quite hard, but can be fun and a big challenge.

Download

PC Linux, Mac, Windows: rescue.zip

Open Pandora: get it from the repo

• on Linux, run rescue-linux.sh
• on Mac, run rescue_mac_x86_64_exe
• on Windows, run rescue_w32.exe

The source code is written in my language Cz.

Screenshots

Video Demo

Controls

Esc  -  exit game
Q    -  restart (press this after you die)


D-pad  -  move

(Y) - jump

(B) - use rope / lengthen rope
(A) - wind up rope
(X) - cut rope


E  -  music: next track
W  -  music: previous track
P  -  pause
M  -  toggle music
S  -  toggle sound effects



shoulder buttons  -  zoom out / in

U, H, J, N  -  look in that direction

Esc  -  exit game
Q    -  restart


W, A, S, D - move

enter   -  jump

L-shift - use rope / lengthen rope
L-ctrl  - wind up rope
C       - cut rope


E  -  music: next track
R  -  music: previous track
P  -  pause
M  -  toggle music
N  -  toggle sound effects
F  -  toggle fullscreen


O, I  -  zoom out / in

arrow keys  -  look in that direction

You can change the keys by editing keys.txt.

Hints

This game is difficult, at least I think so!

• You can kill monsters by jumping on their heads a few times.
• You can climb, with diagonal up / down, and push strongly with diagonal down.
• You can jump higher, with down-jump-up, like crouching first.
• Take a captive outside to a flowery patch of ground to finish the rescue.
• You can completely recover if you don't get hurt for a few minutes.
• Your rope can be useful, learn how to use it!

I hope to release Rescue++ in Two Months™, with levels, physics, puzzles, and space travel.