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High score competition #35: Bump 'n' Jump
DrFrag:
Still a way off the high score, but I do a little better each day.
223,882
Maybe I won't reach Comtek, but I can either make him sweat a little or make him put in the effort to get a higher score. >:D
saurian333:
LOL...I haven't had much time to play, so my scores will probably never get that high. Having decent controls would help, too; best I've got is an old-school Gravis Pro (classic). It was a ---smurfette--- to get working in Win7 since M$ decided to drop gameport support with Vista for some reason. Luckily an enterprising fellow released a little package that solves that. My Shadowblade with a PlayStation2-to-USB adapter is detected, but the stick won't work with MAME for some reason. ??? It works fine on Ubuntu. Man, do I hate Windows.
Anyway...so yeah, my hi-score so far is like 13k. :laugh2:
saurian333:
Say, if anyone is out there tonight...had a question on this game.
People are talking about making it through a level without running other cars off the road. Can someone give me a tip on how this is even possible? Every time I've tried this, it seems that cars will hit the wall and give me points even if I haven't touched them. If that counts as a car wrecked (which I honestly haven't quite determined yet), how can one possibly finish a level flawlessly when the cars basically smash themselves?
This is a really hard game to do on one credit; it really does require memorization of the levels. That long gap that requires a double-jump in the second level snuck up on me the first time.
By the way, thanks to Ginsu Victim (is he still hanging around the comps?) for starting the trend of linking to the previous comp threads, and to the rest of you for continuing it! I've spent the last few days reading through the old competitions from #1, and it's very entertaining! I only signed up for BYOAC about a month ago now (lurked a lot a couple of years ago), and spent most of my time in the project forum until recently, so I hadn't seen the comps before; now I'm addicted! Lots of cool games I've never heard of. It's making me realize how much I suck, but it's still fun. ;)
DrFrag:
If you don't touch any other cars for a whole stage, you'll get the 50,000 bonus for sure. They can crash on their own and you're okay (like if they run into a pile of dirt), and as long as you don't see the points value show above their explosion you'll be fine. Landing on cars is bad.
Make heavy use of the jump button. Especially at the start of the first stage, where that annoying white car and the blue ones home in on you.
Comtek:
keep an eye out on the left alot of the jump have a road to the left
if the road if full width you can also jump off the screen and land on the other
side of the screen but only when the screen is widest
i spend more time in the air than on the road :)
I can't even get close to the score must have been a fluke only make 150,000 lately