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My Minions

By treeman

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation503.5018
Fun1962.3918
Theme2831.3517
Graphics2022.6118
Audio812.8816
Humor2251.9213
Overall2382.2818
Community803.0812
Coolness679

Comments

gobo 2011-05-02 20:57

Very interesting idea. It would be nice if each object had a description of what it did. I wasn't sure what the last couple of objects did. I can't see a relation to the theme. A fun way of making little tunes.

ryantouk 2011-05-04 03:55

I have a soft spot for audio generators, especially oddball ones like this. With some more features, such as changing the speeds of individual minions, this could be expanded into a very diverse 'game'! It's fun - but like Gobo said, where does the theme come in?

treeman 2011-05-05 09:26

I messed up with the theme pretty much.

The idea was that you're an alien orbiting a flat boring planet and just before your planet blew up your dad gave you a magical gun which allows you to make music and summon minions and stuff.

However I didn't have the time/planning to add it all, I started with an intro thing but in the end it wasn't to be.

the-jack 2011-05-06 05:19

I can feel the scope of this one, and hope that you develop it further.

The genesis was the farming mechanism in Minecraft? ;)

sempai 2011-05-08 08:08

On Linux 64 bit: I kan't launch your game:
./startme: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

treeman 2011-05-08 09:43

Dark Acre Jack:
The future might look pretty good for this and I might develop it further on the summer, but I haven't decided yet.

And genesis farming mechanism? No.. :p

Sempai:
Darn I forgot the openal dependency. You need to get openal from your repo or somewhere else depending on what distro you're using.

I guess I could include the lib but that wouldn't work across distros very well. The thing I could've done I think is to build it into the game, but I don't know how to do that though.

I'll look into it and keep it in mind in the future I guess. Thank you.

cirrial 2011-05-08 15:25

I have absolutely no clue how to use this but it is a pretty fun audio generator. Can't see any relation with the theme, but it's a pretty fun toy. If you develop this further in the future, a bit more explanation as to what things do wouldn't go unappreciated.

eli 2011-05-13 12:42

Cool concept, fun to toy around with.