Hermes PSP

Hermes
General
Author	Retroguru
Type	Platform
Version	1.10
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2020/04/22
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Hermes - Run A La Carte is an extraordinary Jump'n' Run game with plenty of bad taste humour. If you feel offended by crude and dirty humour you may run away now.

The game also features pixel violence and promotes the consumption of meat. If you are a hardcore vegetarian, you might very much dislike the game or just have a good laugh.

Features

• Hand set pixels, with love.
• 10 Amiga Protracker chiptunes.
• 32 levels.
• Top 10 highscore.
• Unlimited continues.

User guide

Our hero, known to his friends as Hermes, lives in France, the country of love which is also known for its exquisite cuisine.

One day Hermes had an appetite for grilled chicken. Certainly a man's man like Hermes, wouldn't go to the supermarket for frozen chicken.

No! He's going to slaughter his own farm-raised free range chicken, but this chicken has a mind of his own. This is where our story starts...

Chase the escaped chicken to catch it and prepare yourself an unforgettable barbecue-grilled chicken. Yummy! But hell, that chicken sure runs fast!

Controls

Left/Right - Move left/right

Cross - Jump

Screenshots

Media

Hermes - Run à la carte | by Retroguru (Official Trailer) (Mulle)

Changelog

v1.10 July 2018

• Enhanced graphics by Virgile Metier. Original "classic" graphics are now a hidden feature.
• Improved key/button reconfiguration.
• Minor fixes.

v1.02 July 2017

• Improved key/button handler.
• Other improvements.

v1.01 July 2017

• Updated default config joypad buttons.
• Set screen mode to windowed mode on startup.
• Improved entering name in highscore using keyboard.
• Improved checkpoint animation behaviour.
• Fixed ladder climbing on "press up" option activated.
• Fixed jump sound when start of climb ladders.
• Adjusted Level 4 and Level 11.
• Renamed Time-Bonus to Hunger-Bonus.

v1.00 (non public release) June 2017

• Improved highscore behaviour.
• Minor graphics adjustments.(
• Added missing animation while walking from right to left.
• Level 33: Slight redesign.
• Added cheat codes.
• Fixed Engrish.

v0.92 April 2017

• Reset to default also resets highscore now.
• Level 33: Boss improvements, update recommended.
• Highscore optimizing.
• Fixed maps.rga size.

v0.90

• Initial Release @ Revision 2017.

Credits

Core Team:

• Lars Persson (Anotherguest) - Main code.
• Shahzad Sahaib (Kojote) - Producer, Levels, Beta-Test, Sounds FX.
• Krzysztof Matys (Koyot1222) - Graphics, Character design.
• Johan Letfors (Vedder) - Music.
• Roland Voss (Triace) - Music.
• Jan Jensen (Flarfy) - Handdrawn graphics for the DVD Cover.
• Denny Mueller (Mulle) - Levels, Trailer, Beta-Test.
• Virgile Metier (thUg) - Additional graphics.

Porters:

• Rodolphe Boixel (Thor) - Linux (32-bit), Linux (64-bit), PSP, PSV, Wiz.
• Frank Wille (phx) - Amiga OS4, MorphOS, NetBSD x86, NetBSD PPC.
• Xavier Vallejo (Indiket) - Dreamcast, Mac OS X.
• Artur Rojek (zear) - GCW Zero, Dingoo A320 OpenDingux.
• Fabio Olimpieri (Oibaf) - Wii, GameCube.
• Yannick Erb - AROS.
• Lars Persson (AnotherGuest) - Windows (32-bit), Symbian OS Series 60 & UIQ 3, Android.
• Manuel Alfayate (Vanfanel) - Raspberry Pi, libSDL2.
• Sergei Kolesnikov (Exl) - MotoMAGX.
• Gisberto Rondinella (nop90) - Nintendo 3DS.
• Grazvydas Ignotas (Notaz) - Pandora.
• Scott Smith (Pickle) - Caanoo.
• Zoltan Mizsei (miqlas) - Haiku OS.

Helping Hands:

• Joey Askey - Official Hermes Comic.
• Virgile Metier - Retouching Background Graphics.
• Iwan Gabovitch - Few royality free SFX.

Third Party Credits:

• This uses SDL, SDL_Mixer, libmodplug and zlib.
• The "Scale2x" function used for antialias is an own recoded implementation by Yannick Erb and does not use the original GPL'ed code. You may want to check this page for more information.
• Please kindly note "scale2x", "bilinear antialias" and "scanlines", once activated, will intense CPU usage and might lead to slowdowns and higher energy consumption, which therefore will decrease battery life on portable devices. Availability of these functions is OS depending.

Music Tracklist:

• Title music - Slasher (Intro) (by Vedder).
• Level 01-04 - Bonefired Happiness (by Triace).
• Level 05-08 - No Hard Mood 2 (by Triace).
• Level 09-12 - WOC-Time (by Triace).
• Level 13-16 - Here Be Hippos (by vedder).
• Level 17-21 - Hospital Heat (by Triace).
• Level 22-25 - Hit Me With Chips (by vedder).
• Level 26-29 - Electrochips (by vedder).
• Level 30-32 - Memory Massacre (by vedder).
• Bossfight - Kottbulladdicted (by Triace).

External links

• Author's website - https://www.retroguru.com/hermes/