Purgatory Prime by mid

A downloadable game for Windows and Linux

There's this humanoid asleep at a desk. What is he doing there? And for that matter, what are you? The place lacks windows, and the bricks comprising it look close to crumbling. You wish to understand, but the drive is fading... Wait, is that an egg?

In this early PC collectathon explore the environment, gather eggs and uncover just what you've ended up in. There are many places to see, easter eggs to find and a minimum of 30 minutes of playtime guaranteed, if not more.

The game is free to play, supports Ukrainian, Japanese and features 1 jumpscare.

Minimum requirements:

60MB of disk space.
Pentium 4 processor
OpenGL 1.3
50MB of RAM, excluding system use

Generally speaking the game should work on mid-2000s computers if not earlier, though I cannot guarantee as I have little to test with.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows, Linux
Rating	Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 total ratings)
Author	mid
Genre	Adventure, Puzzle
Made with	LMMS, Audacity, Blender
Tags	3D, collectathon, egglike, Exploration, First-Person, Horror, low-end, Short, Walking simulator
Average session	About a half-hour
Languages	English, Japanese, Ukrainian
Inputs	Keyboard, Mouse
Accessibility	Subtitles

Download

Windows, 32-bit & 64-bit 26 MB

Version 4 Mar 16, 2024

Linux, 64-bit 26 MB

Version 2 Mar 16, 2024

Linux, 32-bit 26 MB

Version 4 Mar 16, 2024

Development log

The Big Scary Grand Opening
Jan 28, 2023
FMVs half-way done
Dec 25, 2022
Area design near finalized
Nov 08, 2022

Comments

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noisespine299 days ago

Press SHIFT to run is missing piece for this play.

mid297 days ago

Still too slow? Damn, I kept increasing walking speed in development so running wouldn’t be necessary.

Can you believe the speed used to be like 10 times lesser lol

noisespine295 days ago

Well it's sorely needs to be faster. Other than that, the game's rather curious.

mid273 days ago (1 edit)

Alright, there’s now left shift to sprint (the save.xml save file can be transferred without issues).

fafa21 year ago(+1)

I would like to try this and I need to compile it myself (Linux 64-bit). Where can I find the source, please?

I’m not against giving the source, but are you sure I can’t do it for you? The build system is an awful mess to get running.

I tend to forget the distros without 32-bit support

fafa21 year ago

If you can do it for me, please do so, I would be glad!

mid1 year ago(+1)

Done and tested, but only on the one Linux system I have.

fafa21 year ago

Works, will play it now!

Thunder Perfect Witchcraft1 year ago(+1)

Purgatory Prime was reviewed by the Arcane Cache:

All of this is done so coherent and dense that it is undeniably intentional: De facto, this is crafted with some rare mastery. Purgatory Prime delivers a strangeness that is frequently aimed for, but seldom archived in such a quality.

Damn well made, congratulation!

https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/arcane_cache/2023/07/03/purgatory-prime/

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Feel also invited to join us at

https://lemmy.ml/c/undergroundgaming

to connect with others who dedicate their time and interest towards non commercial art gaming.

Thank you very much for the nice review!

MaximTG1 year ago(+1)

Незвичайне) У мене теж старий ПК, дякую за те, що витрачаєте час на такі речі. Мені подобається рушій гри, самі написали? Редактор рівнів є до нього?

mid1 year ago(+1)

Радий, що сподобалося!

Так, він написаний майже з нуля, але з тим ново-набраним досвідом я зрозумів, що не дуже якістно зроблено. Доведеться ще раз наступним разом.

Редактор - просто Блендер із спеціальним експортером.

MaximTG1 year ago

Тоді побажаю успіхів, буду слідкувати за вашою творчістю)

quou1 year ago(+1)

I really liked this, particularly the animations of the hands doing stuff with the eggs. I played it for maybe 20 minutes, collected I think four of the eggs, but then the game crashed when I went around the corner on the road near where the green sign is. Everything started shaking and some kind of monster fell down behind me, then it faded to black and segfaulted.

mid1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Glad you enjoyed it before that damned segfault. I had hoped there wouldn’t be any B.S. I’ll look into this.

mid1 year ago (2 edits)

I cannot reproduce this bug on any of my systems for the life of me. I’ve made a few changes, but without knowing the cause for sure I’m can’t tell if they’ll work.

If you’re willing, here is a version with debug symbols, and you could tell me at least on which line the error occurs (via gdb or some other). That’d be appreciated.

quou1 year ago (2 edits) (+1)

Hello, here’s the callstack:

#0  __GI__IO_fwrite (buf=0x814c212, size=1, count=6, fp=0x0) at iofwrite.c:37
#1  0x08064a6c in logic_end () at src/logic/logic.c:1248
#2  0x0805f8fa in performOneThing (n=0x8404940) at src/logic/logic.c:757
#3  0x08061abb in logic_update (dt=0.0163798276) at src/logic/logic.c:1076
#4  0x0804e8aa in main (argc=1, argv=0xffffd5b4) at src/fw.c:184

As far as I can tell, it seems to be failing to open the file handle to save the game, which is most likely due to denied permissions as that is how I prefer to run untrusted programs. Maybe you could make it print an error message so at least it’s easier to diagnose what the problem is?

Apologies for wasting your time.

mid1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

No worries. That chunk of code is exactly where the most suspicious stuff happens, so I’m glad the error was very mundane and not the spawn of Satan.

And yeah, bad error recovery is a common fault of mine. I’ll make one more update to fix that.

Thanks again for playing!