Release Head Over Heels


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This is my new port HeadOverHeels from http://www.headoverh...al/en/gallery/2


It's an allegro based remake of the original Spectrum game, and is programmed by Jorge Rodríguez Santos.


If you don't know nothing about this game, you should visit this link (by the same author of the remake..)


http://www.headoverheels2.com/drupal/en/node/2 .Inside there are all the info also about the original programmer (Jon Ritman).


Main feature of this remake are :

  • The "pixel-art" style graphics.
  • The game resolution is 640 x 480 pixels.
  • The isometric engine casts shadows.
  • In the biggest rooms, a camera "follows" the character.
  • The game can be saved when you eat the reincarnation fish.
  • Available in no more (and no less) than twenty languages: Afrikaans, Bable, Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin (yes, in Latin too), Polish, Portuguese (both Portugal and Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish (both Spain and Americas) and Valencian.


On my recompilation i have only made the game run in fullscreen.


The keys are configurable on main menu.


Download at http://repo.openpand...rheels-1.0-6540


Here some Pandora screenshots:


screen1.png



screen2.png



Enjoy :)
 
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Oh man, this takes me back, looking forward to trying it again on Pandora. I'd love to hear the thoughts on the merits of this game from someone who hasn't played it before.


It was rightly considered a classic in its day. :)
 
This game is surreal. I like the levitation to go to different rooms. Beautiful,cartoony graphics too.


Very strategic.


I am assuming keyboard buttons is the only control mapping yes?


Cheers to that then.
 
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yes i recall that this is considered a classic albeit a tad frustrating in places.Must give it a try though.
 
In the first post added a link for anyone who didn't know the story of the game.

I am assuming keyboard buttons is the only control mapping yes?
No . You can use the pandora buttons. On main menu select Keyboard and change the assigned buttons.
 
You could copy a default config with buttonmappings, that make sense to appdatafolder on startup.
 
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I played this to death on the Spectrum, got to get me a Pandora, so many quality titles available now.
 
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