Comments on: XOR

By: Dan B

Dan B — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:45:04 +0000

Re: User Levels

DL’d the editor and am having a play about, but have encountered all sorts of problems… will email a list … but maybe that’s why you haven’t had many submitted.

By: Andy H

Andy H — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:34:38 +0000

Hmmm…. not sure what the problem is. The XPL files are there, the URL is correct. Wonder if there is a MIME type on the server or something else blocking them?

By: StuC

StuC — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:35:10 +0000

The links are down ? – ANDYYYYYYYYYYYY

We’ll have em back up ASAP.

I am more than impressed with the posted levels. I have to say that the level design s genius and much kudos to the original designers.

I was quite disappointed that we not sent any user levels tho (well apart from DavePs’).

By: Dan B

Dan B — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:40:00 +0000

It’s not a problem at all, that situation only occurs a couple of times anyway… but I thought is was worth mentioning.
Completed now.. and decoded (I Think)… though struggling to match some of the high scores. Shame the replay links on the microsite are dead… I CANNOT see how to save 100 moves on Dolly’s Revenge! Grr!

By: StuC

StuC — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:22:22 +0000

Yea the game mechanics were changed in our version (gosh how long ago did we remake it) – I remember someone actually explaining it in really great detail – We changed it for the masses – so it played more like “rockford” etc.

Hope you still liked our version, we have only had few XOR Fanboy/fangirl complaints and out of the total amount of downloads that equates to about 0.00001% of people.

By: Dan B

Dan B — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:20:56 +0000

Hey Guys,
Stumbled across this a bit back.. Great Work! btw.

Although I think there’s a minor “game mechanics” issue… that’s different to the original.
I wasn’t sure, it being a LONG time since I played this on the BBC, but I think I’ve found some compeling evidence.

The issue is..
Take a Dots Force field, with a fish on top, and an empty square below. Push a Bomb into the field. Bomb falls into empty square, fish falls on bomb… but the bomb doesn’t explode.
I’m sure it used to!

Best example I’ve found is in Penultimate. A little way above the starting positions, where there’s 3 fish in a row, 1 bomb and a “pointless” chicken.
As it is, you need both players to complete that bit, but in original you could do it with 1, and the chicken had a point!
It blocks the masks to the left, when the bomb goes off.

Anyway, not a huge issue, still plently playable, and just a frustrating as I remember… Fantastic!