I Was in the War

By: Derek Yu

On: July 24th, 2008

I Was in the War (direct download) is a simple platformer by Bisse, made for the current Poppenkast 3-hour compo. The central mechanic in this game is that you can hit “A” to flip across the red line which acts as a two-sided platform (“S” to jump). Pretty awesome concept.

(Source: Tim, via the IndieGames.com blog)

TIGdb: Entry for I Was in the War

Posted in Freeware, Highly Recommended, Platformers, Windows | Tags: Bisse, Poppenkast

Codemonkey

Sounds like “the line”. :) First comment get!
Joltmar

Second! and the line is reD!
radishlaw

wohoo! another one that can’t be played with Vista.
Melly

Vista sucks.

But just look around, there are Vista fixes for Game maker games.
MDK

A is flip, S is jump!
Got nuked at 19,016 — awesome game!
Derek

Wow yeah, where the hell did I get “N” from?
MisterX

Very fun little game, I especially like that you can flip the sides while jumping.
The first time I played it I read “T*h*ank strike commence”. That felt nicely ironic :D

The seemless flipping also reminds me of the Half-Life 2 Mod “Flipside”, made by students of the danish DADIU. Definitely also worth a look :)
MDK

I don’t know Derek.
My first play through, unable to flip, I felt like you were sabotaging our scores!
22420 – new nuke score. Anyone know the maximum possible score (points earned per second / seconds until nuke hits..) ?
Also, try flipping mid-jump. Very useful, and looks cool ;)
Derek

My highscore is 22932. ^_______^
Pita

Mine is 26672 ;)

Loving this game. The prize for completion is a nice touch.
Gainsworth

Wierd. Nice game. Music is Fecking Boss.

High score is 26942.
nim

really cool game :)
Krux

I have 27360
this game is too easy. I can play the whole game without stopping.