I was going crazy from Bumpy nostalgia these last years and this game has absolutely saved me! Now if only NovaGame could do a remake of Jungler I'd be all set.

Dispite the issues reported, I decided to give this game a chance. The bouncing sound is annoying, and is akin to someone repeatedly tapping a pencil on a table. Add that to having to repeatedly tap the arrow keys to get the bouncing 'ball' to move one platform over. I played one level, and decided I'd had enough. I do appreciate Nova Game giving us a game for free, but this one just doesn't cut it with me.

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I will not be moderating until later this morning (I need to go to bed ). Please continue to post comments and I will endeavour to come back before the end of the giveaway

Hey I liked it so far. Just 1 level & seems to have a 'save' mechanism in that "Suspend Game" was offered at end.
Win 7 x32 Ultimate iCore 7. Used highest res ok. Reading posts so getting the hang of timing the bounce principal came easily, at least
in start. Have to see how handles going further.
So do always give a game a shot esp is rate is >50 as this one certainly is. Options are all that's needed for sound & music levels.
Thanks again guys - 2 funs in a row!

Wasn't sure about this game from sctrrnshots, but quiet nice game! Thanks!

I can't believe this has such a good rating. It's awful. The controls should be easy to use but are often unresponsive. The sound is annoying at best. The graphics are very low quality. There's just nothing good for me to say.

For those of you who are having trouble moving left and right don't press the arrow button once per jump but press and hold it until you need to stop or change directions. (my 7 years old son figured this out)

#30 .. to change resolution manually go to:

C:\Users\\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\BumpyJumpy\Data

Open the file "System.Cfg" with notepad and change to the follwoing (pay attention to "ScreenRes=2"

ColorDepth=32
HiQTextures=10
ModelDetail=1
MusicState=1
MusicVolume=50
ScreenMode=1
ScreenRes=2
SoundState=1
SoundVolume=16384

Hope that works for you.

Edson





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Thanks Edson.

Problems activating software.

After I download program, I run setup and get the following message.
"FAILED TO CONNECT. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER." Any observations? Thanks.


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Three things to try, Reboot your modem, reboot your router (if you use one) and finally delete your internet cookies. In Internet explorer right click on the IE icon and select internet properties. That opens up a window with variou options one of which is the ability to delete your temporary files and cookies. sometimes the cookie specific to the game giveaway site gets corruptd, which is possibly why you can'y connect to activate the software. good luck. Please let us know if one of the above worked. thank you.

W.R.

Played through a few levels before losing interest. The controls are wonky and not always responsive. It's not very easy to jump then move, which is a critical part of the game. Uninstalling. :/

With respect to my comment #26 above, I downloaded the game to my old (P4 XP machine and ran it, configured it and then copied the files over to the newer machine. I hope this doesn't mess up the installation and registration.


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that's an excellent fix for your problem. looks like others above have had the same problem.

Win 7 x64 intel onboard graphics. Unfortunately the lowest resolution that my system supports is 800x600 so when I start the game the screen goes black and a "video mode not supported" box moves around the screen. Can someone suggest how to set the resolution to 800x600 or 1024x768 without being able to see anything?

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Unfortunately the screen res is set as default to the lowest resolution. not sure how you could work around that without hacking the game executable.

Installed and played fine on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 with Wine. Installation required 'winetricks vcrun6'.
The game seems to be running just fine, although it's not my kind of game so I only played the 5 first levels or so.

This is a GREAT game. Really unique and different. Two thumbs up!

Fantastic they've made a remake. I really enjoy Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy though it gets excruciatingly difficutl! Hope this is just a bit easier!LOL!

Works fine for me on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, either full screen or in a window. Athlon 2 X2 CPU with ATI Radeon HD 3450 video.

I can't get Luxor to work on my machine either, cornjaco. Works fine on Vista; not so much on 7. Both my Win 7 desktop machine and my Win 7 laptop refuse to run it. Any machine with a previous version runs it without a hitch.

This game could really use difficulty settings - as it is, it's one of those "replay the same tedious levels over and over again until you get lucky enough to hit them just right" deals where there's no way to save once you've started a level. Some good puzzles and a great concept, but the combination of no save during the level and the somewhat mushy controls make it a bit of an exercise in frustration. Can't complain for free, but I'd have felt ripped off if I'd paid twenty bucks for this.

"We are handle exception, no hardware opengl device" is what i get when starting
Have a 512mb HD4350 videocard, latest drivers, directx up to date
win7 ultimate 32bit

I really like this type of game and like the bright graphics. I am using a CRT graphics monitor. I would suggest to LCD users to turn down your brightness. Your average LCD tends to be set very bright.

Unfortunately for me the game goes too quickly into the disappearing platform levels. Because the bouncing is hard to control, it is achingly painful to play the same level over and over again and not be able to proceed. I finally gave up...at least for now.

I still like this style of game and will try it some more later. I agree with above that the option of easy/medium/hard would improve the enjoyment of this game for many more skill levels.

installed. When I tried to run the game, I got an error that said
"We are handle exception. No open GL"

In the trash it goes

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Check my comment above. Re installing new graphics drivers or alternativelty you can download a copy of OpenGL

running windows 7, 64 bit, installed fine after a pop up that said windows was reconfiguring to fit. this happens with most older games but I can run them all. Also chose my screen resolution in the Options menu and the graphics look great.
fun little game. didn't understand about going back up to the 'vortex' and the game ended. tried again and figured it out. this will be fun for a change of pace for me. usually don't even download games you play with arrow keys but this is very simple to do.
Thanks! since my old pc finally gave up after 9 years, I have a lot of freebie games to reinstall.

The jumping sound should be lower, it gets annoying
its still worth the download.

Main personage? Is that like a steamer to New England? LOL Will have to give this a shot! Thanks GGOTD!

You should have a "LIKE" for Facebook. Seems like another easy way for people to spread the word about your site.

Like MarS86, the game crashed after I lost the first level (GAME OVER). Win7 32bit.

Looks OK, but the left/right control doesn't always work (like it's ignoring left/right when pressing them too fast).

Bouncing noise irritates A LOT after a very short while.
How do you get the hammer to smash the wall ? Couldn't see it anywhere (had sound off)

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Once you've picked the hammer up it will automatically be used when you bounce into a wall.

Hello :-)
actually my pc doesn't have problems to run games from gaotd (yesterday it was cool f.e.^^), but today my monitor 'crashed down', I had to reset/reboot the pc unfortunately.. I don't know where the problem is.
Sorry for my English^^
Greetings, Raygee

bs"d
hi,
very nice game.
someone can explain me how to use the hummer?
regards

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I think the hummer is actually the hammer. a simple spelling error. to use just bounce over the hammer which in this game is represented by a pick axe to pick it up, then bounce onto the wall you want to destroy. Color coded walls require different numbers of hits to break down the wall/barriers.

This Game will not correctly work under Win 7. When you are loosing, the game make a crash!

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I had no problems playing this under Win 7. No crashes so far.

There's no timer in the gamecode! My little guy is bouncing around like he's on crack cocaine. Unplayable :-(

It's a remake of an old game (I think C64) which I enjoyed very much.

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Check out the link I've posted above for a 1994 version of the game.

This would be a very nice game if not the weird controls! I can play with small jumps left & right, but I do NOT like the delay when trying to jump high. It is the MAIN DISADVANTAGE there! This game has a crazy-like long delay after I press the UP key & then I am pressing the LEFT or RIGHT key. This delay is simply NOT FUNNY and BREAKS THE REALITY!! I am shutting down this game only because of this very annoying issue!!! The graphic is fine, the sound is also enough. Thumbs DOWN only for the key-control!!!

Installation went well. But by trying to run the game I got the following ERROR: "We are handle exception. No hardware OpenGL device!"
What does it mean and how can it be fixed?
This really looks like a lovely game for me; hope you can advice me.


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You need to download OpenGl, though before you download from the link below try updating your graphics drivers. Open Gl is usually included. Check which manufacturer your graphics card/chip is by opening the direct x diagnostics panel. Just type dxdiag into the run field. then select the display tab to find which chip you are using. then go to the home page of whichever manufacturer your card is (usually NVidia or ATI) and download the latest chip. you may need to know which graphics card model you have. There are freeware programs that will tell you what hardware your computer is made up of (eg motherboard, cpu, graphics and sound cards etc)

you can get open GL via the following link, however watch out for the unwanted links tthat promise to check your computer.

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Required_Files/OpenGL_Download.html

Installed, pressed play and it froze. Had to use task manager to stop it. Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.


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try playing it in window mode. go to the options menu. also try changing the resolution and/or the color depth. Have you updated your graphics drivers recently and/or your Direct X drivers?

If the game came out two years ago, can you run it on Windows 7? I am asking because games as Luxor and Atlantis that run fine under Vista for some reason cannot be played in Windows 7.


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Yes it runs on Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit. (I have no problems running all five versions of Luxor that I have and the Atlantis game also works. It could be that you are missing an essential driver or you have the operating system set updifferently than I do?

I played the Bumpy demo last night so that I could write up a brief review for this morning, it worked perfectly despite being released before vista or win 7. I've also tested it on XP Pro 32 bit and Vista home Premium 64 bit and it worked fine.

installed and works on win7 64 ultimate.
I did install new drives on the last one but still black screen.
Thanks for this one


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With respect to yesterdays game; did you try the MyPlayCity version of the game. you may have better luck. also did you update the Direct X files?

It's very nice game. Amazing tactic. But beside this, I would like to comment that the border and some background really make the eye painful. I mean they are too colorful. And some how the graphic performance should be improved a bit. And if they can provide different mode like Easy, Normal and Hard etc, I think it would help play to play around a lot. Some play will be Small Kids and some will be Adult...


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hi Maruata, I agree with you on the background, it's much too intrusive IMO. You just have to look at the screenshots above and the framework around the actual playing arena catches the eye too much.

Not a big fan, the controls are really weird, jumping to the left or right is very difficult, graphics are pretty bland, not really motivated to play it anymore

i love this game.you would not beleive me if i told you i was waiting for such a giveaway.Thanks a lot.Hopefully its lots of fun.Have you tried it yet?

This Game is gay

very nice game keep up the good work!

Bumpy Jumpy


Today’s game giveaway was originally given away back in November 2008, you can read all the comments from then via the following link:

http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/bumpy-jumpy/


It only received 37% positive votes out of 547 votes and there were 81 comments made, though for some reason I didn’t comment at all. I really can’t remember why I missed the giveaway?



The downloaded zip file is 6.71Mb in size which unpacks to a read me and a dual activation and set up module. The game installs to the following paths for Vista and Win 7 (first path) and Win XP (second path). A shortcut is installed to the desktop and Start menu programs list. You'll find an uninstaller in the Start Menu.

C:\Program Files (x86)\BumpyJumpy


C:\Program Files\BumpyJumpy

Introduction:

Do you remember "Bumpy" game for old consoles, do you feel some nostalgia about it? A " Bumpy" remake for PC has been released. Help Bumpy to overcome the obstacles and collect treasures in the lost ancient city. There are spikes, fire, barriers and the other traps on Bumpy's way from level to level. This game will test not only your reflexes, but also strategical thinking.

Reference http://www.novagame.com/en/Bumpy/index.php accessed 23rd Oct 2010

The Game:

The game is a cute looking platformer based on an old classic called bumpy. The colours are vibrant and the levels well made. There’s no help file, but the game play is straight forwards, collect the gems and gold as well as various items that help you pass various obstacles such as brick walls which are destroyed by picking up a pick axe or dousing fire by picking up bowls of water, plus other useful power ups such as extra lives. You get about 5 lives before picking up extra ones (I think). Beware of certain platforms which only allow a specific number of bounces before collapsing. You'll find keys that unlock some doors and there are also coloured barriers that can be destroyed by bouncing Bouncy a specific number of times for example you need to bounce four times against a red wall , three times against a yellow wall and twice against a green wall.

The options menu enables you to change the screen resolution from the default 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768. The game was released over four years ago, which probably explains the lack of any better resolutions. I found all of my desktop reverted to the lowest resolution until I changed it to the highest setting. You can also change the color depth from the default 32 bit to 16 bit if you wish. There’s also a full screen/ windowed toggle and sound and music toggles to switch them on and off as well as sliders to adjust the volume.

Controls:

Left Arrow – Move Left
Right Arrow – Move right
Space - Jump

Minimum System Requirements:


• Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP compatible computer system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for video card and sound card)

• INTEL® Pentium III® 500 Mhz or equivalent AMD® processor

• DirectX 8.0 or higher

• 128 MB RAM


Conclusion:

Despite the low screen resolution the game is bright and colourful, with reasonably sharp graphics. As platformers go it’s a reasonable game that’s worth the effort to download IMO. Personally I don’t like this type of platform game but will be keeping this one because I know my daughter is going to love it.

I’d give it 7 out of 10. The game has been well constructed, has 100 levels to explore with simple puzzles to solve. An ideal family orientated game.

I do think the framework around the main game arena is far to intrusive, when I look at the game screen the surrounding areas that are not directly involved in the game really impinge on my senses and make the whole esperience not as pleasant as it should be. I would highly recommend the developer tone down the color or reduce the frame significantly. The game would then probably appeal to a wider audience.

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Alternatives

You'll find loads of excellent free platform games over in G@rgoyles free games project which you can find via the following link:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4534

And if you pop over to MyPlayCity or Gametop you'll find games like Turtix, Mario and Azangara, both of which are excellent platform games. I'd also check out the platform section of Caimans which has 20 pages of platform games with 15 games to a page, that's an astounding 300 games to choose from. :) Many of the platformers are commercial quality games:. I also found an earlier incarnation of Bumpy hailing from 1992 that was released by Loriciel SA which is now considered abandonware. you can find it via the following link:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/210/Bumpys+Arcade+Fantasy.html

Look to the bottom of the abandonia page for more abandoned platform games. :lol:


MyPlayCity:

http://www.myplaycity.com/free_arcade_games/

Gametop

http://www.gametop.com/category/platformer.html


Caimans


http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/fplatform.html


When downloading games from either Gametop or MyPlayCity do watch out for hidden extras while installing your games. Many of the games will install toolbars and hijack your home page if you don't uncheck the boxes during the installation wizzard. The games are clean apart from those ; also when you close down any of those games your browser will open to the home page of either MyPlayCity or Gametop. This is entirely innocuous and can be useful as both sites regularly get new games, for example MyPlayCity now has Alawars premier breakouts Actionball 2, hyperballoid 2 and Stikeball 3 and I think you may find Magic ball 2 or 3 as well.

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