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WARNING - this widget makes heavy use of canvas graphics and needs a fairly powerful computer to run.
Note: much faster in Opera 9.5 Alpha!
The return of the retro gaming favourite!
This is a hybrid remake version of the three original Repton games, including the original levels! It even includes working sound effects (a widget first?)
Explore and dig through level after level of diamond-hunting puzzle gaming - and better still, get new levels delivered straight to your desktop automatically! New episodes and levels will appear in the listing dynamically, and load on demand.
Repton is a side-scrolling action puzzle game, where the objective is to clear each level of diamonds by collecting them. To do so, you must dig through the earth, dislodging rock traps and eggs, caging lost spirits, opening safes and dodging marauding monsters.
Controls are: cursor keys to move, Space to pause, and M and H for Map and Help respectively, or use the buttons in the bottom-right of the widget. Remember to use the Map and Help facilities to find your way around.
First-time players might find it useful to play the Repton 1 episode first, as it has no skulls, spirits, fungus or transporters. Repton 3 is more of a challenge.
If you enjoy the Repton experience, please consider buying the official modern PC version from Superior Interactive (http://www.superiorinteractive.com).
Currently, I have all of the original Repton 1 levels, and all of the first Repton 3 episode (Prelude) available. I hope to add new episodes soon. The game also support Repton 2-style multiple-area levels - look out for these appearing too.
Nice widget! Reminds me a bit of Boulderdash (Commodore 64) although there are some differences.
Thanks a lot for this,
Jeroen.
By Jeroen_O , # May 15, 2007 10:28:01 PM
Jim
By JKropf , # May 15, 2007 9:32:38 PM
Basically, remember that they'll tend to move up/down to line up with you before going left/right, and that they move slightly slower than you. Use the corners of the level to give you as much space as possible to make a break for it and get past. Try and maneuvre them into a group as early as possible while you still have diamonds to hide behind, it'll make them easier to handle.
Most importantly, you don't have to kill the monsters to complete the level - you'll need to grab all the diamonds and then block yourself in, no going back.
By johnnysaucepn , # May 8, 2007 1:58:18 PM
Jebwebster.com. Thanks a bunch in advance Johnny
JK
By JKropf , # May 7, 2007 9:12:58 PM
I'm afraid there's no special trick to it, but I'll send you a PM with some advice.
By johnnysaucepn , # May 1, 2007 11:55:40 AM
JK
By JKropf , # Apr 27, 2007 11:26:20 PM
Nice! I like the look of this better than the "updated" look at superiorinteractive, which looks weird (and lousy still, because although better res, the animation is still 1980s. Plus it's a bit much wanting £20 for a game that's about 20 years old!
Before this I was trying to get it working under PSPBeeb for the PSP, but never had any luck. I think I got it working under a PC emulator, and that made me cry with the retroactive memories...
Keep up the good work! If you're interested in having music, why not ask around here, maybe I could come up with something...they original tune was great, but annoying, and it still is with the superiorinteractive version...it just needs to have some oomph put into it.
BTW how are you getting around copyright? Since Superior hasn't gone out of business like I thought they had?
By labortius , # Apr 14, 2007 9:27:56 PM
By yeeliberto , # Apr 11, 2007 7:09:56 PM
By mrd , # Feb 24, 2007 3:53:15 PM
Update 13 Feb: the last levels of Toccata are ready, however at least two of them are incompleteable due to fungus growing too darn fast! I don't think I can compensate without updating the widget code and making a new release. I may modify the levels (making them much easier!) for this release, and provide fixed versions with the next.
By johnnysaucepn , # Feb 12, 2007 10:36:53 AM
By EJ902 , # Jan 31, 2007 6:33:05 PM
So I've switched to the Yahoo! library for AJAX, which handles browser caching much better, and allowed Opera to take care of things.
There's a progress bar now, that updates as it loads all the non-local images.
That means I can start uploading new image sets to the internet, without anyone having to download a new widget version. I've started enhancing the graphics, hopefully I can provide a first test set this weekend.
By johnnysaucepn , # Jan 26, 2007 3:19:46 PM
By grafio , # Jan 20, 2007 3:15:11 PM
Sounds like you've just stumbled upon the most infamous sticking point of the game, the famed Repton Shuffle manoeuvre! Bottom left and bottom right corners of the map, yes?
I won't give the secret away, but it is a move than involves timing. Just remember that although Repton can't stand under a falling rock, it doesn't mean he can't affect its falling any other way. Is that cryptic enough?
By johnnysaucepn , # Jan 20, 2007 1:37:02 PM
By grafio , # Jan 20, 2007 8:23:08 AM
Yeah, you wouldn't believe how much time I spent making the gameplay as authentic as I could, from the order in which the rocks fall to the way the control keypresses are checked.
I did know about the problem with the pause/map buttons, I was pretty vague in the description above because I didn't have the time to check why they were misbehaving!
It's a pain that it takes so much CPU - it's just down the raw number of sprites it plots each frame. There is a technique to speed things up involving sliding windows, but it's quite complex and I didn't want to spend ages on that and not finish the game. The rest is as optimised as I can get it.
It's funny how, in this age of accelerated 3D and high-level APIs, that I find myself going back to my old-school 8-bit speed techniques!
By johnnysaucepn , # Jan 20, 2007 3:33:33 AM
Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:
In Firefox, when I press the Map button, it shows the Map. When I press the Map button again to go back to the game, the Pause screen comes up and the game becomes locked.
No big deal of course, since this is an Opera widget, but thought you might like to know
As a player of the originals (at least some similar C64 games) even the Opera version is a little on the slow side, and I have a 2.8GHz with 2GB of RAM! Otherwise the gameplay seems rock solid. Good show!
By GreyWyvern , # Jan 20, 2007 12:55:30 AM
Because the script files are on the same server as the data, the AJAX level loading works fine.
It's a quick hack - your progress won't be remembered from session to session and the buttons don't appear to work correctly - but it's good enough for now.
By johnnysaucepn , # Jan 19, 2007 2:51:19 PM
Warning: since installing the new version involves starting a new copy from scratch, you will lose all your current progress. Make sure to save all the passwords for the levels you want to access!
Sound can now be disabled (thankfully!), I've made a few speed optimisations, and made the colour schemes a little more consistent and less bright. And it now says Pause/Resume instead of Pause/Restart, as Rune pointed out.
It'll now run as fast as it can up to 50 frames/second, which it what it should ideally run at, as opposed to the 30 frames/second cap the earlier version had. Let me know if this is too fast, as I don't have a powerful enough PC to handle it!
I've also moved hosting for the level files, so let me know if you're getting any lag loading levels.
By johnnysaucepn , # Jan 16, 2007 2:56:45 AM
Next version then...
By johnnysaucepn , # Jan 15, 2007 5:12:42 PM