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[saimobvq]

Hi all,

I would like to present BOH, a commercial, 100% indie game I released for AmigaOS, AROS, Linux, MacOS and Windows.



BOH has a strong retro feel, as stated by these words from the website introduction: "BOH is an original, retro-flavoured game of exploration and action. You move in claustrophobic, traps-packed, mind-boggling battlefields searching for the Evil Masters, who throw countless enemies at you until you discover and face them in the final battle. Although your quests are made slightly less hard by the bonuses and power-ups scattered all around, carrying out the missions demands lots of concentration and quick reflexes. With BOH the fun never ends: new missions can be added anytime and you can even create your own! And, as if that was not enough, you can also customize entirely its audio-visual aspect! BOH has been created with lots of passion and care to offer, with its oldschool style, a fascinatingly different videogaming experience."

The game features:

* immersive & thrilling gameplay;
* 44 missions + 11 secret missions to unlock;
* missions divided in 5 levels of difficulty;
* multi-phase missions;
* multi-floor battlefields of any size/shape;
* mind-blowing puzzles and deadly traps;
* many and varied power-ups;
* several different kinds of enemies;
* hand-pixelled 2D graphics;
* real-time field of vision and lighting;
* atmospheric audio and rich soundtrack;
* 7 themes;
* online world standings;
* possibility of creating missions and themes;
* Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish translations.

BOH comes on a CD-ROM in a plastic DVD box along with a 24 pages, full-color printed manual (English only) or as a downloadable ISO image (the ISO image contains all the versions; the CD-ROM includes only the AmigaOS and Windows versions, but it can be used to install the game also on the other platforms thanks to freely downloadable installers; buying the CD-ROM gives access also to the ISO image).

Plenty of information, screenshots, demos and more can be found at http://www.bohthegame.com.

I'll gladly answer any question you may have.
Thanks for the attention and enjoy!

[saimobvq]

Hello,

tomorrow is BOH's birthday! To celebrate such a happy day, I thought it would be nice to let more people get hold of its sexy package at a cheaper cost: so, starting April 4, 2010, worldwide shipping is free for orders of 2 up to 6 copies!* This means that two or more friends can place a single order and receive their copies comfortably at home at the same price they would have paid if they had picked them directly from the shelf of a store! Moreover, the offer extends also to customers of the digital copy, who, as usual, just have to pay the price difference with the physical copy.

Happy Easter to all!

*The offer is not valid for companies. All the copies are sent in the same parcel to a single destination.

[saimobvq]

Hello,

since more free time is coming with the summer, I thought I'd provide BOH players with some additional fun - and, while at it, I also made it a little bit easier to beginners ;)



So, I have just released the update11, which:
* adds the aiming device (a tool that shows the shooting trajectory);
* allows to restart from the last phase played when difficulty is set to "easy";
* adds 2 new missions;
* refines light casting;
* enriches and extends the menu music of the theme "underground";
* retouches the menu music of the theme "default";
* adds the Danish translation;
* improves the translations;
* fixes the "mood" of the ending;
* updates and improves the manuals;
* applies various other changes.

The update can be downloaded for free from the DOWNLOADS page of the official website.
The demos have been updated to reflect the changes.

[saimobvq]

Hi,

since the previous update brought to surface a couple of nasty bugs (as reported by a few users, whom I wholeheartedly thank), I fixed them and seized the occasion to raise the number of missions to 40 and to add a new translation!



More specifically, this update:
* fixes 2 bugs that could cause crashes;
* adds 2 new secret missions;
* adds the Polish translation;
* applies various other changes.

The update can be downloaded for free from the DOWNLOADS page of the official website at http://www.bohthegame.com.
The demos have been updated to reflect the changes.

Finally, a couple of addresses for who wants to follow BOH directly:
* Facebook: http://www.facebook....BOH/99598418583
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/bohthegame

As always, enjoy!

[saimobvq]

Hellooo,

for both those who are having a great gaming time now and those who will back at their computers after the summer, here is one more massive update that takes BOH to yet another level :doubleyes



More specifically, this update:
* adds world standings: the game can send automatically the local records to a global server that keeps the real-time standings of all the players in the world who make use of this new feature;
* adds a new tile kind: the message point, i.e. a location that reveals a message (a hint, a riddle, a part of story, etc.);
* uses the messages points to make many missions more intriguing and to improve the tutorial missions (which have also been slightly modified for greater effectiveness);
* adds the theme "pyramid";
* adds 5 new missions;
* adds the possibility of specifying a success epilogue and a failure epilogue for each phase;
* reworks automappers: the more powerful one now covers the same area of the other one, but provides also an alternative rendering mode whereby the map reflects faithfully the actual colors of the tiles;
* makes movements of enemies clearer;
* allows the RM to open locked passages and exits only when facing them;
* removes sidestepping;
* makes [SPACE] the default automapper key;
* makes the alignment of menu texts definable by the theme designer;
* improves a few strings in some translations;
* improves and updates the manuals;
* applies various other changes.

The update can be downloaded for free from the DOWNLOADS page of the official website.
The demos have been updated to reflect the changes.

As always, enjoy ;)

[saimobvq]

Little notice

Unfortunately, yesterday, not long after the announcement of update13, the provider did some maintenance and this made BOH's website unreachable for some hours. Sorry for the inconvenience. The website now can be accessed without problems (hopefully).

I'm seizing the chance to also update the features list included in the opening post (which I can't edit anymore):
* immediate & thrilling gameplay;
* 45 missions divided in 5 levels of difficulty;
* multi-phase missions;
* multi-floor battlefields of any size and shape;
* mind-blowing puzzles and deadly traps;
* many and varied power-ups;
* 7 kinds of enemies, each with its own characteristics;
* hand-pixelled 2D graphics;
* real-time field of vision and lighting;
* atmospheric audio and rich soundtrack;
* 7 themes;
* possibility to add new missions and themes;
* online world standings;
* Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish translations.

[saimobvq]

Hello people,

of course, you wouldn't expect me to let the year end without giving BOH players one freebie, would you? ;) The 14th update is now out! It ups the total number of missions to a whopping 50 (for many tens of hours of play), brings a few enhancements and makes life easier to who enjoys creating his own missions!



More specifically, this update:
* reworks the advanced automapper (the realistic mode has been replaced with the fullscreen view, which allows to see more; the controls have been made more comfortable);
* improves the video modes suggestions;
* allows terminating map lines with CR+LF;
* improves error logging;
* improves the graphics of blocks in theme "C64";
* adds 5 new missions;
* retouches slightly a few missions;
* retouches slightly the Spanish translation;
* updates the manuals;
* applies various other changes.

The update can be downloaded for free from the DOWNLOADS page of the official website.
The demos have been updated to reflect the changes.

Enjoy!

[saimobvq]

Hi all,

I'd like to let you know that the update released a few days ago was not the only surprise in store for Christmas ;)

Starting today, BOH comes at ridiculously low price!
In fact, who fancies the idea of receiving a nice boxed copy of BOH comfortably at home, only needs EUR 8.99, for Italy, or EUR 14.99, for any other place in the world! - and that's including taxes and shipping!
And, of course, there's a surprise also for who is perfectly happy with a digital copy: downloading the full game costs only EUR 4.99!
You'll never ever get so much for so little, so, if you're looking forward to lots of gaming fun during the upcoming holidays, don't let this extraordinary opportunity pass you by!

(Please note that this offer supercedes any previous offer and pricing scheme.)

Cheers!

[roel]

That looks like a nice game.

[saimobvq]

roel said:

That looks like a nice game.

Thank you :happy:
I you feel like, please try the demo and see for yourself.

[touch_the_sky]

I'm so downloading the demo in a bit

[saimobvq]

touch_the_sky said:

I'm so downloading the demo in a bit

Thanks, and have fun! - you will, if you're determined ;)
(Feel free to comment and ask for clarifications.)

[touch_the_sky]

I've played the demo (about 5 missions or so) and.. yep, it is quite retro, which is cool;) The only thing - when you die at phase X of a mission you have to start with phase 1 - pretty annoying.

Other than that - strafing could help, couple of keys near the fire, etc. All in all well done;)

[saimobvq]

touch_the_sky said:

I've played the demo (about 5 missions or so) and.. yep, it is quite retro, which is cool;)

:happy:

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The only thing - when you die at phase X of a mission you have to start with phase 1 - pretty annoying.

That happens only when the difficulty is set to normal. If you set the difficulty to easy, you can restart from the latest phase played ;)

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Other than that - strafing could help, couple of keys near the fire, etc.

As regards strafing, please refer to the relevant Q/As in the FAQ.

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All in all well done;)

Thanks for reporting your impressions!

[saimobvq]

Hi all,

I'm extremely happy to celebrate BOH's 3rd birthday by informing you that I have just released the 15th and final update, which brings even more contents and improvements!



More specifically, this update:
* adds 5 missions;
* adds the Dutch translation;
* optimizes even further the rendering engine;
* replaces the transition effect with a cooler one;
* centers the graphics vertically when playing in a screen bigger than the game area;
* allows providing just alphamask files for all the graphics of themes;
* replaces icons with bigger and crisper ones;
* allows to configure the URL for the submissions of records to the online world standings (so that, in future, standings will remain accessible also if the URL changes);
* updates the manuals;
* applies various other minor optimizations/fixes.

The update can be downloaded for free from the DOWNLOADS page of the official website at www.bohthegame.com.
The demos have been updated to reflect the changes.

[saimobvq]

Hi all,

I'd like to let you know that, thanks to the warm and positive feedback received, today I have released the BOH soundtrack, in a deluxe package prepared with the same meticulous care that characterizes BOH throughout.



The package contains:

• 18 tracks (6 menu tunes, 6 failure jingles and 6 success jingles, for a total of over 11 minutes) in CD quality;
  
• a print-quality, jewel case-format, 8-page booklet which accompanies the reader on an aural journey through the mazes of BOH;
  
• a print-quality, jewel case-format, double-sided inlay;
  
• a color serigraphy for high-quality CD stickers and pressed CD labels;
  
• a black-and-white serigraphy for LightScribe labels.

Everybody can download the soundtrack for free from http://www.bohthegam...downloads.html.

(Note: the picture is only a mockup of how a real CD would look like.)