BoH

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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.

FEATURES
* immediate & thrilling gameplay;
* 33 missions divided in 5 levels of difficulty;
* multi-phase missions;
* multi-floor battlefields of any size and shape;
* mind-blowing puzzles;
* deadly traps;
* 7 kinds of enemies, each with its own characteristics;
* hand-pixelled 2D graphics;
* real-time field of vision and lighting;
* atmospheric audio;
* 6 themes;
* full expandibility (themes, missions, translations);
* English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish translations.

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http://www.bohthegame.com/downloads.html

Hi all!

I'm the author of BOH. I noticed this URL among the referrers of visits to the game's website, so I thought I'd have a look. Once here, I discovered Necuno brought my game to your attention, so I registered to say "thank you" :)

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Originally Posted by saimo

Hi all!

I'm the author of BOH. I noticed this URL among the referrers of visits to the game's website, so I thought I'd have a look. Once here, I discovered Necuno brought my game to your attention, so I registered to say "thank you" :)

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...well i did enjoy BOH :)

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Originally Posted by Necuno

...well i did enjoy BOH :)

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It's a great pleasure for me to hear others enjoy what I did with so much passion and love!

Hi all!

Maybe you already know that 2009 has been full of surprises for BOH players... well, 2010 begins in the same fashion ;)

Today sees the release of update9, which:
* adds secret missions, i.e. missions that remain hidden until one or more other missions are completed;
* reworks hidden passages so that they follow the orientation of barriers and are / can be perfectly unified with them;
* re-adds trembling to fixed lights;
* improves video modes suggestions by indicating also the optimal zoom factors;
* forces recalculation of global time also when 0:00;
* retouches themes;
* improves missions "getting started" and "unequal alternatives";
* fixes mission "watch your step!" (it had been left in a test/altered state);
* fixes pits near barriers (in some cases they may have looked weird);
* adds two new missions;
* adds the latest expansions;
* 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.

Please also note that, on this occasion, all the other update packages have been reworked: besides better installers/updaters, they now include also all the expansions, so that it is no longer necessary to install the latter manually.

Wow can anybody confirm that you can access those sites on local, I see its hosted in Italy and I can access it on my local, is it just me or can someone else also get it.

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Originally Posted by Crzwaco

Wow can anybody confirm that you can access those sites on local, I see its hosted in Italy and I can access it on my local, is it just me or can someone else also get it.

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Excuse my dumbness, but what do you mean by "on local"?
(Yes, the site is hosted in Italy.)

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Originally Posted by saimo

Excuse my dumbness, but what do you mean by "on local"?
(Yes, the site is hosted in Italy.)

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We have a few different bandwidth options here.
International means well any sites.
Local meaning south african sites only.

Thanks to flagfox I know where its hosted :)

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Originally Posted by Crzwaco

We have a few different bandwidth options here.
International means well any sites.
Local meaning south african sites only.

Thanks to flagfox I know where its hosted :)

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Ah, OK, thanks for the explanation :)

Np man/girl where are you from why not put it in your location?

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Originally Posted by Crzwaco

Np man/girl where are you from why not put it in your location?

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Well, quite simply, I'm not used to specify it, but that's not because I have any problem with it - so, I'm from Campobasso, a town in the middle-south of Italy.

A cool no problem its just a surprise to get other than south Africans on this site haha

Don't have a 1gig of cap atm will check it out later but sounds interesting.

Is it possible to add the size of the demo on the website?

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Originally Posted by Crzwaco

A cool no problem its just a surprise to get other than south Africans on this site haha

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Yeah, I can understand that. I spotted some accesses to my site from here and so I thought I'd come and say hi ;)

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Don't have a 1gig of cap atm will check it out later but sounds interesting.

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Thanks :)

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Is it possible to add the size of the demo on the website?

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I must admit it would rather bother me, as I update the demo often :p
Anyway, the sizes are small: they go from ~9 to ~11 MB.

Hi all,

I'm very happy to bring more juicy news, which can be summed up in a couple of words: 10 updates! It's a big achievement which is self-celebrated by the massive amount of improvements brought by update10, released today.

More specifically, this update:
* adds acceleration to the turning of the main character when standing (allows to turn by small degrees and, at the same time, to change totally direction more quickly);
* makes enemy fields harmful like traps;
* adds sound effects to enemy fields and conveyor belts;
* improves the sound volume balancement of clusters of squares (enemy fields, conveyor belts and traps);
* intensifies the hit sparks effect;
* increases a bit the weapons shoot rate (so killing enemies is a bit easier);
* replaces the "USE ENHANCED/STANDARD WEAPONS" option with the "DIFFICULTY: normal/easy" option, which affects also the spawning rate of enemies;
* removes the "ENABLE/DISABLE BARRIERS" option;
* adds the "NAME REQUEST: once / per session / always" option;
* adds walls graphics to the themes "C64", "default" and "warm";
* extends the illumination range of rotating lamps;
* adds music and recoloring of graphics to the mission report screen;
* adds 10 new short pieces of music;
* improves some graphical elements, sound samples and music pieces;
* simplifies menus and adds the number of the non-secret missions;
* modifies the automatic theme switching so that it will not occur after selecting another video mode or another different automatic theme switching option;
* optimizes slightly the graphical engine;
* adds a new secret mission;
* makes some minimal changes to a few missions;
* updates and improves the manuals;
* applies various other changes.

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.

Enjoy!

Hello guys,

I just wanted to let you know I have released another game... it's little thing, but it's free!
The story goes like this...

Back in 2007, a game was born from a rib of BOH, when the latter was in early state of development: its name was KOG. After a month or so of development, it got released. Lately, during the development of the latest update of BOH, something convinced me to update those parts of code that KOG had originally imported from BOH and that, in the meanwhile, have improved a lot. Bad move: I found myself heavily reworking the whole game :eek: Eventually, the game was brought to new heights and it is now available for free to everyone who feels like getting mad at me...

Enjoy!

KOG homepage

http://saimobvq.interfree.it/KOG/dat...ot-default.png http://saimobvq.interfree.it/KOG/dat...basketball.png http://saimobvq.interfree.it/KOG/dat...enshot-BOH.png

Hello,

tomorrow is Easter... and also 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.

Ah, by the way: BOH hides two Easter eggs, but nobody managed to find them yet... would you be curious? :rolleyes:

Happy Easter to all!

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

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 ;)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mO88w4bXyS...screenshot.png

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.

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!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mO88w4bXyS...QrM/s320/1.png

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.com/pages/BOH/99598418583
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/bohthegame

As always, enjoy!

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 :o

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/224/15672089.png http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/2508/92928365.png

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 ;)

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Originally Posted by saimo

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I was just about to yell "Copyright Infringement!", but then I noticed the y.

@Juice

Heh :)


@all

Little notice: during the night time here, the provider did some maintenance so BOH's website wasn't reachable. Who tried to visit it was welcomed by an horrible "work in progress" page. Not my fault, but sorry for the inconveniece anyway. (The site is up and running now.)

Quei bastardi!

Tried the demo. Kind of intriguing. It's got a definite System Shock I feel to it, just top-down and 2D. Must say, not many 2D games can create an atmosphere, but BOH certainly does. None can go wrong if tried out by sweeties.

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Originally Posted by Juice

Quei bastardi!

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Are you Italian or do you happen to know Italian, perhaps?
And, more importantly, are you referring to the in-game enemies? :D

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Tried the demo. Kind of intriguing. It's got a definite System Shock I feel to it, just top-down and 2D. Must say, not many 2D games can create an atmosphere, but BOH certainly does. None can go wrong if tried out by sweeties.

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Thank you so much for such nice words. I'm glad you enjoyed the demo :)
May I ask how far youd manage to get?

EDIT: forgot to say: I've never even seen System Shock!!! - I'm too much of a retro guy...

System Shock I is pretty damn close to retro, you can find it on abandonware sites. It might remind you of your own game.

Didn't get very far, played the tutorial level and the one after that. If only it weren't for all the tripleA titles I have to play, I'd give BOH more attention, but I'm sure I'll get back to BOH sometime over the weekend.

Oh, "quei bastardi" is copyright google translate and I was referring to the provider who put up the horrible 'workinprogress' sign. The only Italian I really know is Fiat, Palio and Boerewors Rolletjies.

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Originally Posted by Juice

System Shock I is pretty damn close to retro, you can find it on abandonware sites. It might remind you of your own game.

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Ah, right... I'm so retro that I forgot time passed and what I consider modern now is also considered retro (does it make any sense?) :p Well, personally with "retro" I refer to the 70s/80s stuff and also the stuff from the 90s in the same vein (no 3D, low resolution and so on).
Of course, yes, it could well be that BOH resembles System Shock (others mentioned Doom and a few other games).

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Didn't get very far, played the tutorial level and the one after that.

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Ah, then you haven't seen anything yet :rolleyes:

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If only it weren't for all the tripleA titles I have to play, I'd give BOH more attention, but I'm sure I'll get back to BOH sometime over the weekend.

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I'll be glad if you do - and even happier if you share your thoughts.

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Oh, "quei bastardi" is copyright google translate and I was referring to the provider who put up the horrible 'workinprogress' sign.

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:D

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The only Italian I really know is Fiat, Palio and Boerewors Rolletjies.

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I've never heard the last 2 words and they definitely aren't Italian (maybe I'm just missing a joke precisely because I don't know those words).

Hi everybody,

this time I'm disturbing you for a little request - I hope I'm not doing any harm.

I'd like to invite who deems BOH worthy of such request to vote for it in the first phase of the Indie of the Year Awards (only the first 50 games pass the phase).
To vote it's enough to go to BOH's page on Indie DB and click on the big VOTE FOR THIS INDIE button. Important note: who is registered on Indie/Mod DB should vote after logging in, as his/her vote will count more.

Thanks for your time and, obviously, for voting!

Hello,

I'm very happy to report that BOH passed the first round of the Indie of the Year Awards! :)

Now, if you wish to help BOH make it to the finals, just:
1. go here;
2. click on the "Adventure" category in the "TOP 100 RELEASED INDIES OF 2010" list;
3. locate BOH's line (it should be the third);
4. click on "VOTE".
(And, if you can, spread the word!)
It's easy and, like before, no registration is required!

Thanks once again!

P.S. I'm seizing the chance to inform you that I've recently released a 20-minute game session video - if you'd like to give it a look, go here.

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!

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7...nshotc643n.png

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!

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!

Cheers!

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

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Originally Posted by saimo

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!

Cheers!

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

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Well, there is Bad Company 2 Vietnam that's also 14$, but that's just an observation. :D:p

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Originally Posted by to0kenZA

Well, there is Bad Company 2 Vietnam that's also 14$, but that's just an observation. :D:p

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If one likes BOH, he/she has got a chance to receive it directly at home for as little as said in the previous post ;) That has nothing to do with any other game.

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Originally Posted by saimo

If one likes BOH, he/she has got a chance to receive it directly at home for as little as said in the previous post ;) That has nothing to do with any other game.

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Lol, I was only kidding..trying to be sarcastically funny..sorry, had a long day :D:p