Newbie question

[Jetcitywoman]

Hi,  I'm playing Aquaria on my iPad1.  I've learned the bind song and re-explored everything moving rocks and finding things.  I think the next place I should go is into the energy temple, but I get stuck in that first room.  I can't figure out how to get out of it.  After reading some of the posts here for players on the Windows platform, I wonder, should I be able to shoot at things?  Is that what I'm missing?  That little swirly thing in the bottom corner of my screen doesn't do anything.  Do I need to find something to use as ammo?  Am I completely off the mark and should go to a whole other area?

Thanks!  Great game so far, except for getting stuck here.

[False.Genesis]

Have you already gotten the energy form? You can shoot at things, but you need that form first.

AFAIK it is impossible to get stuck in the first room in the energy temple, unless you mean that the door closes and you have to fight a little "boss".
(Where "fight" means:  sing away. or however you'd call that)

Just in case you went the wrong way, here's a little pic; to the left and up of that place is the entrance.


(it is blurry because i was hacking on some post FX stuff for the PC version, and i just happened to have this screenshot, with that place)

[Align]

If it's the boss you have trouble with, try mimicking it.

[Jetcitywoman]

I dont have the energy form yet.  Yeah, in that first room, the door behind me slams shut and the door in front wont open.  Theres a colored spark flying around, is that the boss?  I tried singing the same color it changed to, but i have trouble discerning the red and orange, and the two shades of green.  Was i on the right track with that, at least?  If so, ill go back and bulldog it until i get it.

[False.Genesis]

Yes.
You have to hold the note for about a second, though.
If it starts sparking and then shooting at you, you are on the right way.
Do this a couple of times until it gets really mad, and you will be done with it real quick.

[Delmion]

Wait, it can be easier than this.

I tried singing the same color it changed to, but i have trouble discerning the red and orange, and the two shades of green.

If you've gotten this far, then you've seen how every note has a color AND A SHAPE.  Remember the carving of the four notes in the Song Cave?  ( . . . Or, well, the fact that your song circle is full of shapes?)  If you have trouble with the color, then look more closely and see if you can spot the shape.

Also, every time you get it right (and hold the note long enough), the game gives you both visual and auditory cues, so it should be clear when you're making progress.

--Delmion

[Jetcitywoman]

Thanks guys, I'm through that area and happily exploring with my nifty new energy form.  I really enjoy this type of game:  lots of exploration, not only of the environment but of abilities.  "Hmm, what can I do here?"  Very excellent!

[GMMan]

[OffTopic()]
@False.Genesis: Managed to get the effects shaders working? I remember that required files that weren't shipped with anything.

[False.Genesis]

Yes; but no shaders involved, using plain OpenGL stuffs... basically tried to fix the code, and rewrote it in that process
Commit is here if you are interested.
Problem is i know nothing about shaders and GLSL, so would have to use some from a shader library (nvidia has pretty good ones).
Besides this, the shaders system is half broken and i didn't bother to have a go at it.