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Minimal Win *Proof of Concept*

By cognizant-game-studios

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Graphics2523.29
Theme2893.21
Humor3321.93
Audio4271.88
Mood4372.40
Innovation4942.11
Overall5392.21
Fun5431.85

Comments

donan 2013-04-29 21:22

I liked the lightning effects. Shadows are really cool. I wish i had such cool effect :) (its about dark/light gameplay too)

cognizant-game-studios 2013-04-29 21:25

Thanks I used the LIBGdx Box2D wrapper and Box2DLights :)

norritt42 2013-04-29 21:28

Like the glow!

chickentonight 2013-04-30 01:52

The glow effect is incredible! Great job on that. But I don't know what I'm supposed to do, honestly. I can't figure out the game portion.

ecool377 2013-04-30 02:05

cool, i like the glow

umu 2013-04-30 02:09

It really does look fantastic. I'm a sucker for harsh shadows. Should I assume that there wasn't some mechanic above "wonky jumping" that I missed?

cognizant-game-studios 2013-04-30 03:53

The game is supposed to be a little plat-former where you are supposed to find your way through randomly generated levels (quick last minute idea), the jumping... I have got to fix that, and for mechanics really, no :P oh well. Got another little project to work on.

tsamisaherb 2013-04-30 05:05

I can't open the Mac version. It comes in as a zip to an .exe.

gremlin 2013-04-30 05:19

What are the controls?

gremlin 2013-04-30 05:22

The controls are WASD and Space, of course. Really could use better platforming physics, but you already knew that. ;)

Really good job on the lighting effects.

cognizant-game-studios 2013-04-30 11:26

@Alex In the zip you should have a App bundle that you can run other than that you can just run the jar

jceipek 2013-05-01 04:33

I couldn't get this to run on OS X:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ca/cognizantgamestudios/game/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

imagnity 2013-05-01 05:06

Nice lighting. I think for Mac, Java 7 doesn't work.

zim-the-fox 2013-05-01 23:53

You said there are randomly generated levels? Because it's the same level every time I launch it, and I can't find my way through! >.<

The lightning is gorgeous, but otherwise I gave this entry a low score because it is kinda... empty, but I guess you know that. Also, the .exe won't run on my computer. I have Windows 7 64bit, am running on a Pentium Dual-core and an ATI Radeon HD 5700.

cognizant-game-studios 2013-05-02 00:26

OSX you have to use Java 6 I believe, I'll try it on my MacBook, and Zim, I said that's a feature to be added... The most recent version has a lot more, this wasn't a competitive entry.. this was just a little something because I wanted to contribute to the Ludum Dare, my first idea failed, so this was maybe 3 hours of work... js

cognizant-game-studios 2013-05-02 00:32

also... a little tip for you zim the game doesn't have an end yet... once you get to the wall thats it. And Idk why, the exe wont run, (I used jarsplice to create it, runs fine on my machine) AMD FX8350 ATI HD5770 32Gb RAM...

kurrik 2013-05-03 05:20

The effect would work really well in a fleshed out game. Kind of wonder why the download is 27 megs :)

teejay5 2013-05-05 01:04

It doesn't open for me; it says "Couldnt find the main class: ca.cognizantgames''.game.Main. Program will now exit"

cognizant-game-studios 2013-05-07 12:19

@kurrik I have a lot of compiled code there thats not implemented - and now is, and also the libraries.... I didn't clean that up. and @Teejay5 what binary were you using ?

1weekendstudio 2013-05-08 15:27

I couldn't get this to run on Win7:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ca/cognizantgamestudios/game/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

cognizant-game-studios 2013-05-09 02:26

@1WeekEndStudio, you need to use Java 7 that exception occurs when you are using Java 1.6 or lower

jonathang 2013-05-10 18:51

Unfortunately, this game is quite obviously unfinished. The exe didn't run on my windows machine, so I just ran the jar. The idea seems interesting - a randomly generated platformer with physics and realistic lighting. The shadow effect was impressive.

cognizant-game-studios 2013-05-11 00:12

@JonathanG, Yeah I only had 2 hours after to submit the game, but I am continuing development on it, and posting all of it on GameJolt