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Juggle

By wekaj

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness366
Audio2762.94
Fun3393.10
Overall4203.10
Innovation4882.94
Mood5592.67
Graphics6742.58
Humor6931.81
Theme7712.39

Comments

crabman 2013-12-16 04:29

Wow, I am not good at this. :D

tiffi 2013-12-16 04:38

great soundtrack and a really good platformer! good work!

phyyl 2013-12-16 04:39

I couldn't run the game because XNA redist was not installed on my computer but once installed,I really liked it! nice concept, maybe a bit hard from the beginning, but I'd keep it on my computer for spare times!

madjackmcmad 2013-12-16 05:11

Tough game! Had a good time. Great music, little mans and platform control well. Kinda roundabout when it comes to fitting the theme :)

pkenney 2013-12-16 05:57

Couldn't play, I downloaded the link, ran the exe but nothing happened. Task-killed and retried a few more times but no luck, sorry.

onlyslightly 2013-12-16 06:06

The keeping your platform afloat was a really neat mechanic. Damn this game is hard though.

brodenino 2013-12-16 06:14

I'm having some issues. I downloaded the .zip version, and I manage to run the submission. However, whenever I select a world (any of the three worlds) then game crashes. Any ideas what might be wrong there?

wekaj 2013-12-16 06:26

I am not too sure about why the game would be crashing when you select a level, have you tried both versions of the game? I'm not very experienced with XNA or C# yet, sorry :(. Thank you for the feedback, everyone!

kikkers 2013-12-16 07:42

This game is evil. I had fun! I would've liked it better if the sideways blocks wouldn't outright kill you, just push you off. Imagine the jumping madness...

brodenino 2013-12-16 07:49

Yeah, I tried the installer too, same issue there :|
Is there any specific version of .NET or XNA that I need? I recall having it installed, but maybe it is as simple as a version mismatch.

wekaj 2013-12-16 08:04

Apparently the ClickOnce version should install the required versions of .NET and XNA if you run the setup.exe. Have you extracted the .zip containing the setup.exe and Juggle.application before running them? If so, I honestly don't have a clue, sorry :(.

brodenino 2013-12-16 08:48

Yeah. Since you attached the pdb-file, I did try to debug the application. It gave me "InvalidOperationUnhandled" and "Song playback failed", and it shows the issue is in "Juggler.Game1.StartGame()". By the way, I have Windows 8. Maybe that is causing some issues?

wekaj 2013-12-16 09:03

I had a look around for similar issues and it could be that you don't have Windows Media Player enabled?

"Control Panel \ Programs \ Programs and Features \ Turn windows features on or off \ Media Features \ Windows Media Player"

brodenino 2013-12-16 10:44

You're right! That's very interesting. I'm able to run it now after turning that feature on again:)

pantzar 2013-12-16 18:15

My poor brain couldn’t handle moving two different things with separate hands. So I ended up only moving the platform.

undonedevs 2013-12-18 01:11

Nice work! It's really hard, I like it :)

fenixin 2013-12-18 08:06

Nice concept. I have played a few "You only get one platform" and I think this is the best one.

udinjelek 2013-12-18 09:00

I couldnt play this game :( , I'm using win 7 with 64bit. any issue with it? :(

wekaj 2013-12-18 09:10

What happened when you tried to run the game, and which version/s of it did you try?

kane 2013-12-18 10:24

No note because i can not play with it, the game crash at the difficulty selection :(
But the game idea is interesting and the screenshots look nice! I hope to see at least a video review before the end of the votes!

wekaj 2013-12-18 10:45

Someone above had the same issue, and enabling Windows Media Player fixed it:

"Control Panel \ Programs \ Programs and Features \ Turn windows features on or off \ Media Features \ Windows Media Player"

Hopefully that works :)!

ekilibr 2013-12-18 13:40

A good plateformer (48 Hour Entry, wow !). Nice job !

kane 2013-12-18 18:12

Work better at home!
Really nice (and hard) game, i love it! even if i am not good at all, but i will try again :D

mirroar 2013-12-18 21:05

Pretty fun, but also pretty difficult, I think it could use a somewhat slower start to get you used to it, maybe an easy level to beat to get the player's spitit up befor throwing him/her into the nightmare ;)
I kept thinking to myself: "Just one more try, I should be able to do this!"
Longest time I've been able to go was 85 seconds on the first level.

jaymeemak 2013-12-19 06:01

This is fiendishly difficult, given how disorienting it is to have to coordinate two objects with eight keys. An interesting platforming mechanic, though.

alexrose 2013-12-19 21:49

Funnily, I actually found insanity reasonably straightforward compared to the other two, just because I have less to worry about. On the other two modes I was mostly just moving my platform and not my man.

Really fun game, I love multitasking games.

Nice one.

shellfishgames 2013-12-28 15:07

Woah.. too much for my brain. I kept confusing WASD and the arrow keys and ended up falling from the platform without any actual danger.
Nice entry overall, quite innovative gameplay and I like what you did with the three different levels. The menu was kind of cool as well.