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Nix

By rustybroomhandle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Graphics873.92
Humor1622.89
Mood3772.75
Theme5402.81
Fun6452.42
Overall6692.61
Innovation7492.19
Audio7881.06

Comments

doktor-ace 2012-04-23 08:42

Cant run cause I have a mac

rustybroomhandle 2012-04-23 09:25

There is a Mac client for OpenSLUDGE on that download link, you could try it.

I only flagged it at Windows since that's the easiest way to get it working. A bit weird since I built the whole thing on Linux. :P

rustybroomhandle 2012-04-23 09:37

Windows installer now available: http://screwylightbulb.com/NixInstaller.exe

jeroenimooo 2012-04-23 12:03

My laptop supports no shaders :/ will try this when im home :)

taugeshtu 2012-04-23 13:17

I like this intro. Wish to see a full game.

suese 2012-04-23 15:29

I played through the adventure until a bug prevented me from going any further. This game felt very incomplete. Between the single background image, no music or sound effects, no challenge, it seems like it lacked any substance. The character animations were wonderful, but the game lacked a lot.

Thank you for this.

rustybroomhandle 2012-04-23 21:42

Suese - thanks for the play/rate/review. :) Yeah, definitely some way to go before matching the original scope that was in mind. I would like to make it into a complete and cohesive experience after LD.

hume 2012-04-23 22:04

This is in no way your fault, but the SourceForge page to download the OpenSLUDGE engine (for Mac) is returning 500 errors at the moment, so I can't play :(

This looks great. I bet it's a hassle, but if there's any way you could distribute a compiled executable for other platforms, I bet more people would rate.

justinmullin 2012-04-23 22:06

Nice art! Very ambitious for a LD entry...I don't blame you for running out of time.

rustybroomhandle 2012-04-24 10:19

Hume - I would very much like to, but I don't have a Mac unfortunately. And even though this was all built in Linux, I don't have much experience in putting together distributable software under Linux. I have some idea of the library requirements, but would likely just make a mess of it.

evilseanbot 2012-04-24 11:01

Managed to install the game, then about five error boxes popped up about my video card when I went to run it and it would not open.

artefon 2012-04-25 10:01

couldn't install on linux.

monkeyarmada 2012-04-25 10:34

I wish the game was more than an intro. I enjoyed the short experience though. Cool graphics and nice homage to point and click adventures. I also apreciate your sense of humor.
Nice start, I'd love to see the idea developed!

gritfish 2012-04-25 11:28

Was there no sound? Animations were great. Characters were cute. Controls worked well. Perhaps footprints would have been useful after the first encounter? Was expecting an item-collection fest, and then I clicked on the rock... :) I could see this becoming a more fully featured game.

rustybroomhandle 2012-04-25 12:06

gritfish / Monkey Armada - No sound, and I definitely will be making it into a more complete experience, aiming for maybe a 2 to 3 hour time to completion. I aim to keep it a simple "interact with your environment to learn more about it and to advance the story" thing than to have any complex puzzles.

There is also a greater point/message to the story that I obviously did not get around to accomplishing.

Anyhoo, thanks for playing! :)

matthias_zarzecki 2012-04-25 17:07

Really nice aesthetic. I like how the navigation feels like in an old text-adventure.

bubuiic 2012-04-25 18:59

Oh, this was quite short, such a great beginning. It looked really nice, the graphics and animations are great! :-)
Hope you get around to finishing it.

the8donut 2012-04-25 22:28

Loved the graphics. Very promising, would love to see how it turns out

mach60kas 2012-04-25 23:00

I thought the character model looked great! I thought the terrain looked a bit weird in places, especially compared to the cell-shaded characters. Still, relatively enjoyable. :)

alwaysgeeky 2012-04-26 16:47

Good cel shading, and cartoony :)

roundcrisis 2012-04-26 18:04

Great looking :)

moth 2012-04-28 06:33

That was a fun intro! I look forward to seeing this expounded upon.

First of all I think the character modeling is very nice; I really like the main character and thought the animation for his arm extending and picking up the rock was really cool in particular. I think the concept of playing as a rover is really cool! It's a really fun cartoony design in its colorfulness and the fact it has an eye. It really reminds me like a character design from the glory days of 3rd person adventure games.

Do you think you might fill this out with voice acting, as the project goes on? If you are, I'm sure you may have plenty of ideas for voice actors already, but if you give me a ring I'd be happy to pitch in my voice for a character!

Saw your sharp site too; looks like you have a nice team and some promising stuff on the way, so it's in my favorites now :)

nornagon 2012-04-29 08:14

Not rating because I hate installers.

samoojamies 2012-04-29 09:35

Cool looking art. Shame that it was so short.

epicspeedturtle 2012-04-29 09:48

The animation was so great, but that's the only thing. No music/sound, very short, uncompleted story, lack of interesting gameplay.

dax 2012-04-29 17:32

Graphics are really nice, too bad when there is mountains in the foreground, you are over them.

rustybroomhandle 2012-04-29 20:14

Dax: Yep, I did not have time to add in zbuffers. I'm continuing work on it though, and that's the first thing I have started to add in. Thanks for playing/commenting. :)

sebbu 2012-04-30 14:44

antialiasing didn't seems to work, reinstalling the game fixed the problem :o

jmaasing 2012-05-01 14:18

Worked fine on my Mac. Nice graphics and story, leaves you wanting to know what happens :-)

speciesunknown 2012-05-02 22:54

Shame about the lack of music, that would have added mood to the game, although in its current unfinished state its not much of a game. Not a bad concept, although I think the theme was a bit weak in it.

shigor 2012-05-05 21:18

Full points for art, extra humor points for the "spleen".
Too bad that you run out of time, because right now it's just pretty boring intro :/

tcstyle 2012-05-06 20:48

The graphics style is awesome. Unfortunately the masking of rocks isn't that great so at some areas this breaks the mood.
Some atmospheric sound would totally help.
** spoiler **
I just saw a tiny alien once but couldN't found it again.

citelao 2012-05-10 20:38

As echoed in the earlier comments, this looks like one of those "could have been awesome, not enough time" games. Good work, and I hope you make something awesome from this.

thotep 2012-05-11 07:26

Animations are great, I liked the graphics as well. Sad that it's unfinished.