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The Island

By balorian

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD21Ever
Humor1112.5476.635.3
Audio1152.9375.035.2
Innovation1253.3176.560.6
Fun1592.9469.434.4
Overall1653.1367.235.2
Theme2053.1359.630.5
Graphics2082.8856.925.0
Community2392.5055.348.7
Coolness246225.70.7

Comments

Daveydag 2011-08-22 14:04

Really fun little game. RTS gameplay is well implemented and the game itself is a nice challenge. Nothing beats MONKEYS!

alexbrainbox 2011-08-22 17:29

Error while downloading applet...?

eggplantanimation 2011-08-23 02:18

Great game! A little too hard at the beginning, though. How did you create the applet? I have an application written with slick that I would like to applet up.

mrpiglet 2011-08-23 06:35

Maybe I just suck, but I found this waaaay too hard, couldn't really achieve anything. Decent scope for a weekend, but I think you'd have benefited from less mechanics and more polish.

balorian 2011-08-23 09:46

eggplantanimation: LWJGL has a tutorial on this here: http://lwjgl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Deploying_with_the_LWJGL_Applet_Loader_-_Introduction

balorian 2011-08-23 09:49

The game probably is a bit too hard at the moment, I made a few last minute tweaks to it that I most likely shouldn't have, and didn't have enough time to implement a difficulty setting option. I might continue to develop it further though.

jhelle 2011-08-23 19:37

Nice game. Was hard to see which guy you had selected though

matthias_zarzecki 2011-08-25 20:56

This is a neat idea! (but in need of balancing. This is incredibly hard)

I also like the mumbled voices (remind of Blendo-games). How do you create those?

shigor 2011-08-26 17:09

Good game, although as was already said, too hard. Quick switching between sailors via numeric keys would help a lot. One of the better I've seen so far, congratulation.

tcstyle 2011-08-28 18:58

I totally lost. Very fun approach but the interface should be much improved.

orz 2011-08-31 22:45

Very ambitious for a 48 hour compo. I have a similar project so I know how tough it is to complete this. I found it slow and confusing in the beginning, but the graphics were really clear and functional, and I like the feedback on the AI state of the sailors.

ajmilsom 2011-09-12 18:03

very nice, although very hard, i had lots if monkeys at once, it seems random but maybe a bit too aggressive