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wourme
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Building World
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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: The Zoo Race |
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You can now see the list of entries in this year's Independent Games Festival. Several of the entries look pretty promising, and then there's The Zoo Race.
This video shows an introduction and some footage from the game.
"No, Hannah. I like books about animals. Those other books are boring to me."
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Perseus
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:40 pm |
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Well this gets my vote for B-game of the year. Heck, it's already garnered a few awards. Heh.
| Zoo Race website wrote: |
| After laughing and teasing her friend Rueben about believing in the Noah's Ark story, then Hannah the librarian has a dream about it. In her dream, her friends are re-shaped into animals and she herself changes into a racehorse and participates in the race "Games of Celebration" after the world flood. But, unknown to everyone, Noah’s sons have created a lot of obstacles on the racetrack for the creatures. These obstacles on the racetrack slow down the participants and include hurdles, glass mazes, Piranha fish, fire geysers, exploding barrels, rockets, cannons, bomber planes and more! "Let's give them a real race, ha-ha!" said Japeth. "Yes and let’s have some fun!" said Shem and Ham, so beware, because this race is so very different. |
Now does anyone dare to actually download this, or its predecessor, and give them a try?
EDIT: I don't! |
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^^^^^
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:39 am |
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Not Only is the game a madcap arcade-style Free-for-all that combines armed combat
and off-road racing with the risk of high-stakes Poker |
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Take It Sleazy
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:46 am |
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| Zoo Race wrote: |
One day Hannah the Horse was racing on lots of green grass. Suddenly she noticed that lots of crows had come out. “Look Cain!”, she declared, “The crows have come out to greet us.”, but just then she noticed that the crows were indeed flying overhead, but they also were pooping lots of poop from above. As the noise and stench came from above, she shouted aloud, “Quick everyone!” “Let’s run into this cave over here!”.
Then Hannah noticed that the cave ending was a cliff that dropped down to a deep river far below. Agggh!, she screamed as she fell down. “Oh those nasty crows”, she said aloud. “If I could just be on the moon, then there would be no more crows, because crows don’t live on the moon!”
Hannah’s Moon Trip:
On another day, however, Hannah found herself on a rocket and then afterwards on the moon itself. While on the moon she heard the faint sound of a bird. It was… It was crows! The crows were on the moon! Yes and their crow poop were there also again, but she tried hard to avoid it.
Hannah Prays:
After the race, Hannah asked the Lord about the crows. “Lord? She asked, “Why were the crows on the moon?” “Crows don’t normally live on the moon, right?” Then the Lord God spoke to Hannah the Horse. “HANNAH, said the Lord. I PUT THE CROWS ON THE MOON. DO NOT BE MAD AT THE CROWS, FOR THEY ARE ONLY A SYMBOL OF THE TRIALS AND TESTINGS THAT OCCUR IN YOUR REAL LIFE. YOU MUST OVERCOME ALL THE OBSTACLES THAT LIFE MAY BRING YOUR WAY AND ALSO TRUST IN ME THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND YOU WILL BE A BLESSED CREATURE.
And that is exactly what Hannah the Horse did. She trusted and praised the Lord all the days of her life. One more thing Lord, Hannah prayed aloud. Now that the race is finished and we are standing here on the moon, then how shall I get back down to earth again?
Then the Lord God spoke again to Hannah the Horse saying:
DIDN’T YOU SEE THAT’SPACE SHUTTLE THAT I PROVIDED FOR YOU UP ON THE MOON? COM’ON HANNAH! WAKE UP! SO, GET NOAH NOW AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND BOARD THE SPACE SHUTTLE AND BLAST OFF BACK TO THE EARTH, AND OH, ALSO, HAVE A HAPPY AND FUN JOURNEY.
“Yes Lord!” Hannah happily shouted and she quickly obeyed. |
This is genius if contrived and magic if it's real. |
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showka
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:19 pm |
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This is a pretty good find.
Although I have to admit I'm a bit more ambivalent to it after discovering it's religious underpinnings. |
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Shapermc
crawling in his skin
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Chicago via St. Louis
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parker
a wolf adventuring
Joined: 31 May 2007
Location: suplex city
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:16 pm |
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On the screen it looks nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - baboons and basset hounds - like a runaway circus. Then suddenly - high above it - an orangutang, a single ape, hanging there unwavering, till a giraffe took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This is no composition by a code monkey! This is a game I've never played. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it has me trembling.
It seems to me that I am hearing the voice of God. |
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wourme
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Building World
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:17 pm |
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I think the video is brilliant regardless of the developers' views toward the story of Noah's Ark or religion in general. In fact, I think this ambiguity is one of the more interesting things about it. I love the way the librarians drop the subject of religious beliefs and secular learning before they really establish any arguments.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the developers intended to create a product for several disparate audiences. |
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Slonie
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:18 am |
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Geez, that was every kind of amazing.
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wourme
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Building World
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:10 am |
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I thought about this movie again the other day, and decided to go ahead and buy the game because it's only $4. (It's worth more than that just for the entertainment value of the introductory movie, which incidentally does not seem to be in the game at all.)
Navigating the shop was in a way kind of a puzzle in itself.
Although many of the game's surprises were spoiled for me by videos long ago, it's still fun to go through the different tracks.
"What else could ever happen to us today?"
I might have to get the first game as well. |
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tiburon
Joined: 26 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 12:06 am |
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my friends speedrun this game
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