Dead World

Category	Rank	Score
Coolness	3	54
Innovation	29	2.94
Humor	43	2.47
Audio	65	2.71
Graphics	92	2.72
Theme	95	2.28
Mood	120	1.81
Overall	122	2.28
Fun	136	1.83
Community	662	1.63

dcfedor 2011-12-20 05:31

Strong start! I was immediately impressed by the overall looks. The server architecture sounds impressive, though I couldn't verify whether it worked. Neat environments, and endearing art style for characters/creatures. The two tracks were fun to listen to, but then it was just silent.

I wasn't able to do anything besides explore, even after trying to arrange items according to the help file. (Did I use the wrong items, I wonder?) The game has promise!

saxon-douglass 2011-12-20 06:20

@dcfedor: I've just realised now we never say that you must put buildings in one of the four corners of the map. I have added that to the How to Play section, thanks for playing and giving great feedback!

finn 2011-12-20 06:54

Yeah, that was a bit of an oversight on our part. We could have done a much better job with the documentation. The music not continuing after the second track is a known bug that we were unable to fix. It also affects some of the sound effects.

helixwhiza 2011-12-20 07:00

To be clear, that's in the 5x5 square of the corner, so there'll be a gap down the side of thinner buildings

tmthesaurus 2011-12-20 08:18

Man, the sound was the best part of the game...

tainteddeity 2011-12-20 23:23

I like this game, I just can't figure out how or what I can make with the buildings. Is confusing.

blennosoftgames 2011-12-23 02:46

Very clever idea with the server syncing. The two music tracks were hilarious! Well done!

bobboy555 2011-12-24 23:05

When i try to play the game I have nothing bu a black screen, anything I should know?

make-a-game 2011-12-31 17:21

I was giggling at the music while I was trying to figure out what I could do.

easlern 2012-01-02 23:58

I couldn't attack or pick up anything. Neat concept though- it reminded me a bit of Zelda.

saxon-douglass 2012-01-05 00:37

@bobboy555: My first suspicion is that your web browser isn't supported. The other option is that the resources aren't being loaded but I can't imagine why that would only happen to some people.

@easlern: Pickup/putdown is E and attack (no attack animation but does kill monsters) is SPACE. To pick something up you must be standing on it, and the attack range is quite short so you need to be almost touching for it to hit the enemy.

odra 2012-01-08 11:41

I only see a black screen and a "HELP" on the top right corner. There seems to be audio, nothing else though.
I'm on Opera 11.60, on a Windows 7 32 bit machine.

tmthesaurus 2012-01-08 14:01

For the record, I got no sound running on Chromium on Arch or Ubuntu

genteijanken 2012-01-09 11:41

I'd like to thank everyone who praised the audio assets, we put almost an entire day into those. I should just say that while our lyrics were mostly intended to be humourous, the Dead World Blues were also meant to have great dramatic impact, predicated on the planned but omitted feature of permadeath. I think there would have been better thematic cohesion in that version of the game. I mean, is it really Dead World in its current form? Can anyone here truly be said to have "gone and died?"