Help My Cat! Direct download links.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Not directed at you personally, but it really messes with my OCD when people post links to a thing without actually posting about what the thing is.

More than 20 years ago, i had this idea for a game, but technology of  that time didnt allow me to realise it, now, over 20 years later,  technology have catched up with my dream... well, not really.

Over  20 years ago I had my first realisitically achievable game plan that i  was planning to make with Easy Amos. However, it became part of the  endless pile of unfinished programs that so many programmers are  familiar with - until today!

Today finally, the childhood dream  of a game have become reality. And what is great is that I happened to  make most of the graphics already back then, as well as the plan was  both complete and good enough, that I was able to follow it with only  small amount of changes.

I would say this is about 80 percent  like it had been, had i been able to make it already back then. Although  naturally Hollywood-language, which i used to finally make this, hadnt  been around then yet.

Musics used in game already existed at time  I made the plan, and I am quite convinced I had used exactly the one,  if not both of them then too.

This should have quite authentic feel to what early 90s teenager (or younger) could have got out back then.


I hereby present you:

Help My Cat!

Short gameplay video

A  small Platform Puzzle Adventure game, where you aim at getting a cat  down from a tree by using stuff lying around (bit like point'n'click  adventure in platform way). It takes maybe 30 minutes to complete, and  less than 2 minutes if you know the solutions to puzzles.


You may download it from Indiego! appstore:  http://www.indiego-gaming.com/marketplace for free under the "Games/Adventure"-category, available for AOS3, AOS4, AROS, MorphOS, PC, MAC, LINUX.


I  chose to use Indiego! appstore, since basically I wanted to have a  webpage dedicated to this game, but i wasnt willing to use the time to  make it, at least not yet, and I didnt want a simple link to dropbox  either.

Indiego! gave me good middle solution by providing a  little page for the game, plus an easy way to publish the several  different versions of the game. Without Indiego!, I dont think I would  have got this published yet. The knowledge that there was such a  suitable solution to my publishing problem existing actually gave me the  last push to do the last missing things for the game and get it finally  ready for release. Hence, I like to give special thanks to Indiego  appstore as well, although i didnt credit them in game.

Also thanks to Hypex and Barana for giving me feedback in final testing phase.

There, I fixed that for you.    Cute game, BTW!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Quick Q:  I downloaded the OS3 version on my A2000 (had to copy it from my PC since the links don't work under IBrowse, "file not found", no big deal, haha).   Got the large "Help_My_Cat!.exe" file.  Tried to run it from Workbench and from "boot with no startup-sequence".  Both were no bueno.  Trying to run it from Workbench locked up the system, trying to run it from "boot with no startup-sequence" came back "Could not find version 0 of datatypes.library" error message.  Does this require AGA to play or is there something obvious that I'm missing?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@Oldsmobile Mike.

Sorry, didnt come to my mind to point out that since it is Hollywood product, it requires GFX card when played with Classics.

It might also be bit power hungry for Classics. I have not tried it with classics, so I have no idea what the requirements are.

There is no reason why this game couldnt have been made to work with bare A500 (as it originally was intended to be Easy Amos game), but Hollywood doesnt support that possibility.

My A2000 has a Zorro II Spectrum gfx card and the latest version of P96 installed.  Also an '040 and 72MB of memory.  Might not be a PIV or an '060 but it's no slouch, for a classic system.    The game didn't even attempt to run, in any case.

Perhaps a list of requirements in order to run the software (i.e., specific libraries, drivers, etc.) might be in-order?    I am not familiar with Hollywood.  Does it need like, I dunno, a "Hollywood.library", or something?