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January 27, 2007 - 2:12pm
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Xye portable Beta (puzzle game)

Xye is a puzzle game in which you have to get all the gems. The levels vary in difficulty and solving methods. It can also open and play sokoban files (.xsb)

When I got to portableApps.com today I really liked the way these things work, I was using U3 for a while but it didn't let me just add apps that are already portable and it also hides the folders and stuff.

I figured that I had to contribute with something and also Xye was in the portable philosophy for some time, It doesn't modiffy stuff outside its folder or touches the registry.

I had to tweak some stuff though so I need beta testers.

More info: http://xye.sourceforge.net/wxye.php

Download of portable version: From sourceforge

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January 27, 2007 - 2:39pm
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Thanks man........

Looks like a fun game.....but how do you play it?? I looked in the program and there isn't a help file......I kinda feel like snoopy pushing around a little green ball....

but Great post thanks!!

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January 27, 2007 - 6:25pm
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Yeah

You are right, I should add more instructions, maybe In game ones or something.

There are instructions in the zip but in GAMEINTRO.TXT.

Basically, you just select a level (which would probably be tutorials.xye) and play it.

To play just use the LEFT/UP/DOWN/RIGHT keys. Once you beat a level it will tell you to press + or N to get to next level.

In fact you can press - or P to get to previous level or you can even use +,N to go to a next level without beating the current one.

Also if there is a film icon at the bottom you can press S to play a solution demo, and if there is an [H] icon you can press H to get a hint, if you move your green ball above an [H] sign in the ground you can also read a hint.

The tutorials use those hints to kind of explain most of the game play.

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January 28, 2007 - 9:59am
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Game

Ok cool.....This isn't that bad of a game....thanks for the post!!!

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February 2, 2007 - 6:24pm
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No more feedback

This is probably a shameless bump anyways, no one else has got any feedback? It does not have to be positive.

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February 2, 2007 - 7:36pm
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I do

It is an absolutely great game!
I love it Smile
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March 4, 2007 - 6:33pm
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This app leaves a file outside of its menu.

This app leaves a file named stdout.txt in the same directory with the PortableApps folder with the following info:
[Link wraps marked » - RM]

Will look on ./ for data files (non-user levels, skins)
no home folder found, this probably is a win32 build. If there is a home folder in
» your system then xye is having problems to detect it, make sure to have a
» correct home environment variable.Initializing game...
loading options...
looking for valid xyeconf.xml:
found ./xyeconf.xml
initializing recorder...
initializing recycler...
initializing level support...
Initializing SDL...
Initializing Recolor Table...
Loading ./res/xye.png
Initializing Recolor cache...
Initializing window icon...
Setting video mode...
Cleaning level data...

cleaning recording data
cleaning options data
cleaning fonts
cleaning recolor cache
cleaning remaining objects
cleaning sprites
Shutting down SDL

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March 7, 2007 - 10:20pm
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err

Shouldn't portable apps menu run the program with its own folder as work folder by default?

Either way I'll see what can I do.

But I already change work folder in the exe... position of stdin/out is determined before I change the work folder so it is gonna need external aid, either an update to apps menu or an script to run the game... I kind of wish there was a way to disable those since in windows they aren't that useful. Well, there should be a way to disable them...

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March 8, 2007 - 3:38am
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Should, doesn't

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April 12, 2007 - 2:42pm
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When

I haven't seen any new updates.

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April 12, 2007 - 10:21pm
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Man...

...this is one HONKIN' wide webpage...

"Twice the width, twice the scrolling; same great low price!"

What up wit' 'dat?...

EDIT:
Ok, this WAS one honkin' wide webpage.
Somebody done went and wimpified it.
Oh well.

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April 13, 2007 - 8:57am
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Yeh

When I came, someone had just shoved bare »s in there.
I tidied it up and used the proper entities.
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