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A Colorful Man

By thristhart

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation703.3614
Fun813.2114
Theme1432.7114
Graphics1832.7114
Audio503.2914
Humor413.2114
Overall903.2114
Community273.6715
Coolness1424

Comments

telluse 2011-05-02 05:38

Took two runs of install-bat to go through (intentional?), but ran fine otherwise. Liked the humour and every new game screen had my mind screaming "oh what fresh new hell is this?" to my great amusement. Thank you.

localcoder 2011-05-02 08:39

This is fantastic. I enjoyed it. It had character progression and foreshadowing and everything!

Two minor issues:

1. I would have preferred keyboard controls, as some of the screens required precise movement.

2. the installer.bat _does_ make changes to the system - it creates some start menu shortcuts, and I think I saw it making some other system changes but it scrolled past too quickly. However, I'm still very happy that you made it so easy for me to get the game running.

thristhart 2011-05-02 10:54

Odd, it shouldn't create those shortcuts. I'll take a look this afternoon.

kvisle 2011-05-03 20:03

Quite innovative, fun, a bit hard - but not too hard.

The Ubuntu howto:

sudo apt-get install g++ libgl1-mesa-dev libpango1.0-dev libboost-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev ruby1.8-dev rubygems
sudo gem install chingu gosu

the-jack 2011-05-04 16:31

Congrats on submitting!

sonnybone 2011-05-04 21:18

I went through with the installation but the game will not run on my system - win7 64 bit.

thristhart 2011-05-07 02:28

I also run win7 64bit, works fine for me. Could you possibly run run.bat from command line, so that the window doesn't close before you can see the error output?

hectigo 2011-05-08 16:41

A solid entry overall, works for me on win7 64bit. The level of challenge is nice, but the mouse-based controls are a bit frustrating, like localcoder already pointed out. Liked how the rainbow beam makes bits of the world colorful, and how you had to retrieve the arms first (ever read Problem Sleuth?)

elbowroom 2011-05-08 19:01

Good humor, amazing music. The music really made a difference.
*spoiler*
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Bringing color to the world was a nice twist.
It felt like a solid game.

"wisecracking minions is the last thing I need"
hehe

mwest 2011-05-15 14:21

Cool game and quite humorous!! Really enjoyed it, well done!

endurion 2011-05-16 05:47

On the first and subsequent runs of install.bat I got:
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'gosu' (>= 0) in any repository

Sorry!

thristhart 2011-05-16 19:32

Endurion: What platform? I assume windows.

Hmm, perhaps in the future I should bundle gosu and chingu with the distribution...