TIGSource: WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing

WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing

Derek Yu — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:38:00 +0000

It’s still quite early in development, but I have to mention Omar’s Orthogonal Oyster Outing, the follow-up to Omar’s first tremendous oyster outing. If only to support charon and get him even more juiced about finishing this bad boy. ‘Cause it’s that great.

The original game, which pitted Omar against a town full of zombies, was an enjoyable action RPG “lite,” that had a number of interesting mechanics, like searching/securing buildings and fighting infections. O^4 so far seems to be that game, but with totally sweet minimal 3d graphics that can be zoomed and panned (using the mouse or the numpad).

The controls at this point are a bit obtuse and require that you have roughly 3 hands – you move with the arrow keys and aim with the mouse, but to shoot, you have to press the Spacebar. ‘Enter’ will get you into buildings. You can see the rest of the controls (and edit them all) by opening up “oooo.gei” in Notepad. This is a good way to get the game running in a window, as well.

Alse, be aware that in certain “omigod zombies”-type situations, Omar may start “panicking,” in which case you will temporarily lose control of his movement!

(Thanks, Alehkhs, I got it! Via Puppy Buckets.)

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by ok

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:28:50 +0000

this is good, similar to survival crisis z i hope this improves.

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by Karzon

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:42:36 +0000

First one was great, and I’m glad to see the author’s still at it.

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by MrMan

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:48:02 +0000

Amatures, I just slap the space bar and enter key with my wang.

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by colonp

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:33:31 +0000

it’s autoaiming like in the original for me. Has anyone actually gotten mouseaiming to work?

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by Prio

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:26:30 +0000

Obviously you are missing the idea. See. lowers his head and rests his chin on the spacebar Ungh… argh… here we go, perfect. It may take some practice to be able to see the screen properly. But this is part of the Amazing GamePlay, of course.

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by Jay

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:56:08 +0000

zombies: yay! sucky controls: nay :(

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by Professor

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:05:05 +0000

To exit the game, press Alt-F4. I also didn’t find basic movement controls in the oooo.gei, so I presume you can’t change them at the moment. Don’t worry, The control scheme is not finalized yet and will undoubtedly be fixed.

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by Xion

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:35:03 +0000

This is freaking awesome. Can you change the controls to move though? I’d much rather use WASD. Or is it just the controls for other things wot’re changeable?

Also, how do you exit?

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by Zulgaines

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:57:44 +0000

I have three hands, so I’m really getting a kick out of this game.

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by haowan

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:53:38 +0000

I just got completely owned :(

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by Mischief Maker

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:39:44 +0000

Yeah, but it’s really weird when the ladies ask you to talk dirty to them and all you say is, “… .”

"WIP: Omar's Orthogonal Oyster Outing" by MrBig

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:34:51 +0000

O*4 looks very neat. Something about it reminds me of the old Shadowrun games for the SNES and Genesis but with graphics that almost mimic Paper Boy 2 for the SNES (smaller sprites of course). It has a “good” nostalgia feel to it. Hopefully the finished product will have tighter control and perhaps an elaborate story… elaborate in comparison to a classic NES title that is (Golgo 13 was pretty elaborate, especially the sequal. As a side note it was the first NTFS NES title to have sexual encounters in it - ok so that’s off topic).

Anyway, I’m Looking forward to this one.