Kye 3.0

Kye 3.0 is a little puzzle game created in 1992 by Colin Garbutt.
Our objective now is to recreate this game with actual technologies and add some features

What you can do?

• For now, we do not need new deveoppers because we are in a transition state

• But you can test our program and send us bug reports

• Whoever you are, you can play the game. It's free and it's great

• You can also create new levels. Some documentation for that
  will appear on this site as soon as possible

Download the game

Kye 3.0 is released under the Gnu General Public License v2.0 .

Actual release is Kye 3.0 beta 10 (a no-expiration patch is available)

Click here to download the setup (5.1 Mo)

You can also download the minimum files, but this requires that you already have
the Visual Basic 6 Runtimes on your computer

You will need the patch to remove the time limit

And you can read the help on the web to understand the game before downloading it

Some day we'll put new level files here...

Visit the developers page at Sourceforge

History

Beta 10

• Must put the new practice level in default.kye instead of the original one
• Must find other ideas..
• Must begin the Editor
• Must add game sounds
• Scolling levels support not recoded yet
• Mouse control not recoded yet
• The creature movement is not conform to the originals. Each type of creature must have its own 'personnality'.
• Help doesn't display every time we press F1
• North/Souths One-Way doors are not in the good direction
• Fixed problems with stickers
• Kye now uses less than 5% of CPU when playing! 
• Recoded all from A to Z
• Welcome to Niver in the team

Beta 9

• Kye 3.0 still uses way too much CPU...
• Creatures are more exploring?
• One-way walkthrus don't work.
• Blackys don't eat Kye properly.
• Blackys don't eat everything they should.
• Blacky animations wrong?
• Stickys pull walls!!
• Added teleporter objects. Level characters are "(" for west, ")" for east, "_" for south, and "'" for north. Teleporters can be pushed if Kye tries the incorrect entry direction or if a Bouncer pushes them (in ANY direction)...

• Fixed both Named Level bugs...
• Kye 2.0 Mouse Control
• Mouse movement is functional in scrolling mode.
• Made Diamond animations slightly differ in timing.

• Loading named levels will put a wall3 underneath Kye.
• Loading named levels (and reloading the current level) fail to find/use Scroll levels.
• Mouse movement is broken in scrolling levels.
• Bouncers now push Blackys correctly.
• Sped up Bouncers a bit to match Kye 2.0 timing.
• Fixed the slowdown caused by the looping edges... 
  It should run at a proper speed now... Uses a tad bit more RAM tho...
• Remade the "practice" level in DEFAULT.KYE to make use of the looping edges better. 
  The cages were rebuilt and now there is two Rockys falling forever North and South...
• Implemented looping edges; Major slowdown; Optimization in progress
• Keyboard controlled from 66/sec to 100/sec.
• Loading a level by name no longer causes an error.

• Blackys aren't pushed by Bouncers correctly.
• Creatures clone themselves with sticky blocks.
• Bouncers speeds are wrong...
• Loading a level by name causes an error.
• Added Creature support.
• More improvement of CPU usage. From previous improvement, about 66% is now used...
• CPU usage greatly improved from 10% to 25% 
  (25% DEFAULT.KYE level 1; 10% a more complex level)
• Titlebar now updates when a file is loaded.
• Diagonal movement fixed.

• Bouncers speeds are wrong...
• Titlebar doesn't update when a different file is loaded.
• Diagonal movement is broken.
• Inactive framerate is slower since speeding it up on my system (a Pentium III 800) caused it to run slow (menus, etc).
• DEFAULT.KYE level 2 is now beatable! I can't beat level 3 in Kye 2.0 so it'd be nice if someone could test that...
• Rockys now prefer to go to the right when going around a round object. This fixes a bug which caused rockys to not make an even pile.
• Conflicting object paths no longer erase any objects.
• Shrank EXE size by 36k by combining multi-directional objects into 1 code routine.
• Bouncers now push objects!
• Anti-clocker and Clocker are functional.
• Keyboard control slowed to 100 moves/sec.
• Mouse control now works much better.

• Bouncers speeds are wrong...
• Titlebar doesn't update when a different file is loaded.
• Sometimes, randomly, a slider, or other self-moving object will overwrite another that gets in the way.
• Bouncers don't push objects.
• Rockys now go around curved walls.
• Help: The Game now has a small HTML Help document.
• Edit menu item will now attempt to launch the Kye Editor if it is installed.
• VERY basic mouse functionality.

• Bouncers speeds are wrong...
• Titlebar doesn't update when a different file is loaded.
• Sometimes, randomly, a slider, or other self-moving object will overwrite another that gets in the way.
• Bouncers don't push objects.
• Level hints are displayed.
• When you collect all diamonds, you will advance to the next level.
• Fixed Rocky bug from Beta 2.
• Menu items New Game, Exit, Restart Level, Goto Level..., File..., and About Kye... now work.

• Bouncers speeds are wrong...
• Level hints aren't displayed.
• Bouncers don't push objects.
• Rockys don't go around curved walls.
• Fixed FNF error bug.
• Timers, Kye functional.
• Sliders, Stickers, Bouncers, and Rockys FUNCTIONAL.

• Level hints aren't displayed.
• Will have a "File Not Found" error if DEFAULT.KYE does not exist.
• Will automaticly load level 1 of DEFAULT.KYE in the working directory.
• Will animate animated objects correctly.
• First release