Pushover

Pushover is a fun puzzle game originally published by Ocean in 1992. In this game you control an ant that can walk along platforms that are connected with ladders. On those platforms are dominos that need to fall according to some rules.

  • All dominos must fall and none must crash into another
  • One special domino must fall as last domino and that domino triggers the exit door to open when you enter the exit door the level has been completed
  • You may rearrange as many dominos as you want, except for the trigger. You may not place dominos in front of the doors, except for the vanishing domino.
  • You may push push once to start a chain reaction with the dominos leading to the fall of all of them
  • All this has to be done within a time limit (which is normally generous)
  • There are 10 different dominos that behave differently when pushed, some fall, some not, some wait a bit before they fall, some raise, some toppler until they meet an obstacle
  • There is a help in the game and introductory levels that show how all the dominos work
What you find on this web page is a faithful reimplementation of the original game. Although we removed the original password scheme as it will not work on an open source game.

Right now the game uses reformatted graphics of the original game. I'd like to replace them with new high resolution graphics but for that I do need help.

Below are some screenshots of the game

This image shows the main manu after starting the game
This image shows a typical level while the dominos are falling

Another level
The help window when opend in a level helps identifying the different domino types

Download

Latest versions
Source (for all systems, as long as you get it compiled)

0.0.1

Windows Binary (in zip archieve)

0.0.1

Todo

Future plans for the game include:
  • Internationalisation
  • Level editor
  • New puzzles
  • Replace original graphics
  • Include music

News

News
15.11.2008

Version 0.0.1 the original release was missing some level files. Those missing files made the program stop with an error. I've added the missing files and reuploaded the archives. Please download again

15.11.2008

Version 0.0.1 of Pushover released. The first public release of the game. You can play all the original levels. Soun effects are in place. The original graphics have been converted and included. Replacement graphics for the dominos exist. There are a few small fixes when compared to the original, for example level 49 from the original offered a probably not intended solution. We've also prepared some new levels. They were designed by Volker and I have been the tester and sometimes provided an idea.

So have fun playing and remembering the old times

Contact

You can make bug reports and feature requests on the project page. If you have bug reports or improvements please add them to the tracker on the project page.

If you want to contact me personally mail to my sourceforge adress: roever at users dot sourceforge dot net

Development

If you want to contribute changes, improvements, fixes or whatever I suggest you get yourself the darcs revision control system. I use that system for the development.

The repositories are available at http://pushover.sf.net/repos/head.

The repositories are read only, so if you want to send me your changes you have to use the send feature of darcs. I will then apply the changes you made. The repository will be updated by me on a daily basis, when development goes on.

Credits

I want to thank the developers of the original game for making such a nice little game.

I also want to thank Volker his help with the project.

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