A different shoot them up :

- If your toxic dream (mouse pointer) is enougth strengt (big), you can catch one human, move him, and he will be convert to an overdimensional tentacle when you realease the mouse bouton. They kill human instead of you.

- Tank tentacle grow up, fighter's tentacle grow down, others grow left.

- You follow your dream, tempting to increase your materiality by catching the human souls, but if bullet hit you on your eyses, she decrease.

-> THIS ORIGINAL VERSION IS IN THE SOURCE FOLDER



Thuesday 25 : I've fixed the final score bug and credited Stencyl and Gimp, but cannot solve fullscreen mode. The original folder can be downloaded here :
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ntxuoa2zpkaot32/AADZf4odoHTbjrvjh8uF7iJWa?dl=0

->THIS LOW DEBUG VERSION IS THE SECOND LINK : THE ".flv flashplayer (recommended)" (WITH REDUCED GRAPHIC RESOLUTION).
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE .FLV AND THEN PUT IT DIRECTLY IN YOUR BROWSER (THEY ARE USUALY ABLE TO PLAY .FLV) , BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE SURE HAVING NO FREEZE, IT'S BETTER TO PLAY IT ON A FLASHPLAYER INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER.
FREEZING HAPPENS ONLY IN THE HIGHTEST SCORE, WITH THE INCREASE OF THE NUMBER OF SHOOT.




Thursday 27 : As asked, Cthulhu Fhtagn can now be played directly with your web brother on Kongregate. I apologise for the delai, it's the first game i've finished, all is new for me.

During devellopment, I've only test this on flash player, but online fluidity is down, there's jerk, so I've change graphic resolution and somme other thing but it's not enougth.

Friday 28 : I've solve the freezing by reducting bullet's number, but this force me to change the logic for an equal difficulty. For me, it's more than the autorized debugging (sorry)... and I still prefer the original!

-> THIS IS THE "KONGREGATE (SLOW)" VERSION




Sunday 31 : Detailled instructions.

You're Cthulhu and you've ben invocated on the Earth... And you want to stay the longest you can! The begining is difficult, you are not totally incarned, also you can make a 1000s game before a 100s game. My best is one hour long - on the net, with all the freeze that happens sometimes...

Each time a bullet hit your eyes, your reality decrease, and you become darker... until you disapears. But each time you eat a soul, she increase.

It's a bad idea I've had, but the mouse control your movements and your attack in the SAME TIME! I will change it in the future, make that when you catch one human, you don't move, but during the contest, this have to stay. So don't try to escape the bullets, it's just impossible, remember instead that you can win life by eating souls.

Your mouse pointer is the dream you use to reveal your horrible truth to humans. Bigger your dream power (from 0 to 6), bigger the pointer... But each time you use it on human, your dream power fall down. And each time you click, Cthulhu move, even if you don't want.

Catching one human cost 2 dream dot, increased until 5 if he is veteran (in yellow). Each human that has left out comme back right powerfull, and as a mesure that the game progresses somme new arrivals will be veteran directly.

If you've not enough dream power, you can't catch human. In future version, I have to show the catchable human, but today, just take care to the pointer size.

CATCHING HUMAN CONVERT THEM : They discovers the multidimensional nature of soul * and are transformed into extradimensional tentacle. It's those tentacle that killl humans

If you've not enough dream power, you can't catch human. In future version, I have to show the catchable human, but today, just take care to the pointer size.

Catching human only CONVERT them : They discovers the multidimensional nature of soul * and are transformed into extradimensional tentacle. It's those TENTACLE that KILL humans : You are not fully incarnate, you can't kill directly. The conversion advent only when you release the mouse, so you can move the human before.


So the real challenge is to manage the tentacle creation :
- Creating tentacle each time you can be interesting, but save your dream power also.
- Using veteran costs too much, but sometime you've no choice. It's better to "save" one human from tentacle just for change him onto a new tentacle.
- Tank and Fighters gives Vertical tentacle, ideal for killing helicopter. Helicopter or tank are good for the faster figthers.
- It's better to place the tentacle at the right, but sometime, place him onto a band is better.
- When you place a tentacle, place Cthulhu behind, and click behind him : also you can move him back at the same speed that the tentacle, and he will be just at the good place for eat the soul.
- If you can, catch the human where there's soul to eat, and not where you want to place the tentacle : you can keep the prisoner as long as you want.


I must confess that I have not really planned all these tactics when I was creating the game.


* Read the four Lovecraft's "randolf Carter" novel - in french, they are intelligently grouped in the collection "demons and wonders" : The Statement of Randolph Carter - The Silver Key - Through the Gates of the Silver Key - The Dream Quest of Unknow Kadath