Harpooned - Japanese Cetacean Research Simulator
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Harpooned is a free PC game I made with Torque Game Builder.
Download it at the website: http://harpooned.org
Trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR4KN6EfX6M
Screenshots: (click for larger version)
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It's time those bastard whales were thought a lesson.
i applaud you, good sir. \m/
Who knew whales ate almonds?
It's a little weird that the wake follows the boat, but I totally understand the limitations of doing a proper wake. The wake animation you did was great btw
ElysiumGX - that's exactly it. And I deliberately used a genre of game that's popular in Japan too.
By the way - press F5 in game to see all the fancy debug stuff like force vectors and collision bounds. It'll give away all my secrets but it looks cool hehe :-)
good game, btw, any chance of getting it translated to Japanese?
I'm missing powerups and speed, endbosses ands schools of dolphins crossing by and such things, but that is just if you look onto the gameplay only
Wowzers, what kind of programming knowledge does this take? I've got the urge to make a side scrolling platformer.
good game, btw, any chance of getting it translated to Japanese?
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Not much code knowledge Justin. It comes with a basic sidescroller to get started.
Makes me want to start doing some TGB stuff again.
ElysiumGX - that's exactly it. And I deliberately used a genre of game that's popular in Japan too.
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Hmm, maybe in the mid 90's!
I would have to say upfront that I am for this games message, and I like your work conor so don't get me wrong. Translating this into Japanese would have zero effect on Japanese people, because they just wouldn't get it. To Japanese people unversed in what we think, eating whale & dolphin is just fine, and the irony of the games text wouldn't work. People don't give a hoot and whale burgers are popular here.
SEKNeox - I agree, from a pure gameplay point of view it's very simple. But I wanted to keep it short so I could complete it in a reasonable time (it took 5 weeks to make).
Hawken - That's kind of disappointing, I was considering doing a Japanese translation (if I could find someone who'd do it for free). What I don't get is how legitimate Japanese scientists can allow their government to call whaling science. Why are they not protesting in the streets?
Pior - thanks, it was important to me that the game be fun so that people wouldn't just play it because it was controversial.
And yeah..people have been whaling way back then.
Pior tu sors ===========>
Yes hope number of download can help to reduce this problem...
Maybe this game can be really famous and remember to the world Japanese do nice games but bad thing too...
I remember Tidus (FF10) killed some rabbits too.... joke!
Reedit : Hell I forgot --_-- : This is a good work!
-caseyjones
What I don't get is how legitimate Japanese scientists can allow their government to call whaling science. Why are they not protesting in the streets?
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It's thinly veiled as whale meat is quite popular here. Sure save the whales, but kill each other right? For all the bad it causes, to my mind it's a whole lot less evil than sending soldiers around the world to murder thousands of human beings. Still we make games about that but do we really have a message with the other type of killing simulators?
Besides, those are 2 completely different issue that shouldn't be compare. Both are terrible. Because we kill other human doesn't make whale killing any less evil. Same goes for the other way around.
There are estimated to be around 10,000 Blue Whales left on Earth. Which do you think would be a greater loss, the death of 10,000 humans, or the death of those last 10,000 Blue Whales?
I will personally go out and save a whale if you make a binary that works on my mac
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=367869
essentially you could argue that the comparison of 10.000 humans compared to the last 10.000 doesn't hold up, both are just lifeforms (same reproduction also), but for most will relate to their own kind when it comes to value of life than the other.
Just like people of any specific country, national identities do the same to values.
I think that by calling this huge ship out to the ocean in the name of science as a cheap 'in your face' dirt hack towards an 'happy! no more questions' international community (this issue has been around for years) is inevitably going make someone point out: "But you are STILL killing whales with it!"
Great idea to play that thing, love the end of the levels, meat for further research lol great use of a game
I don't know about the awareness of 'things that could be quantified' in Japan and how public opinion is voiced and processed, but maybe we'll see some riots there, when realized that all the whales are gone, and they are not growing back, unless captain kirk ...
I'm curious, how did MSN got a hold of you?
Awesome...
JesseMoody - it's much easier with an analog controller as you have more control over the ship's motion.
http://kotaku.com/346958/satire-for-the-weekend-harpooned
I haven't played it yet - but I'm downloading it as I type
Just wanted to drop in and let you know (if you didn't already), I was watching G4 (TV Game network channel in US) last night for only a few minutes and they start talking about Japanese Whalers and a new game called Harpooned
It lasted about 5 minutes with them eventually going into how it was a bad thing 'cause it made whaling look fun, at which point they dragged a cow carcus out on stage and started 'harpooning' it with broomsticks. There were about 10 guys in black masks along with the two hosts. This went on for about 5 more minutes until the end of the segment.
So you got coverage for 10 minutes on cable.
I'd love to know if anyone has a recording of the segment, or if it's available to download. I don't get G4 here in Australia.
I haven't looked but a lot of the content on G4 gets posted on its site. I bet if its not up yet, it will be soon. Hopefully you won't have to sit through too much mind numbing idiot speak to find the bit your looking for.
http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/index.html
I showed it to a few friends, but I had to explain the satire of it to them. I guess there's always going to be dumb people who misinterpret it.
I think they did get the satire of it. But they are susually a pretty smart @$$ show to begin with and they tend to make fun of everything. I actually thought it was a pretty good segment for that show. They talked about the popularity of it on the internet and showed a bit of gameplay. Actually sounded like the host really enjoyed it, but like I said they are smart @$$es so as evrything it turned into comedy. If they don't like a game they wouldn't have played it up that much, they would've said something like "It's OK but this and that sucked, don't waste the bandwidth..."