Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Beneath the Sur(e)face
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 51 | ||
| Humor | 324 | 2.82 | ||
| Innovation | 995 | 2.46 | ||
| Mood | 1049 | 2.38 | ||
| Theme | 1149 | 2.22 | ||
| Graphics | 1172 | 2.07 | ||
| Overall | 1172 | 2.41 | ||
| Fun | 1177 | 2.11 |
The .bat file is incorrect (points to wrong .jar filename), the game however worked fine after changing that.
Very difficult, I could not figure out much without looking at the source. Some small tips that may help others forward: Ask questions in lowercase and use proper punctuation! (and even then I'd be surprised if anybody beat it without peeking at the source)
I love seeing textgames however!
@Rahazan Thanks for letting me know about the .bat, it's fixed now.
Couldn't get it to run. Opening the .jar file does nothing and opening the .bat file launches a very brief command prompt screen and then nothing. I'm running windows 8.1, if that helps.
Haha I honestly don't know how anyone will be able to complete this without the source code. But reading through that was kind of funny anyway (as far as the things you needed to ask to continue). I guess John has some family matters to attend to ;)
@Snoother Try adding "pause" at the end of the .bat file. Run it and see what it says.
Pretty hard, and I cheated too, great stuff, love text games!
I managed to capture the message in the brief time it appeared: "'java' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
Hard Game , but good idea
@Snooter Open the file in notepad and replace the word java with the path to where your java is installed (if you have it installed). f.ex.:
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java" -jar btsf.jar
pause
Awesome, managed to beat the game :D
Hum I starting to think that I suck in text game. cool game though
I didn't know what to do but I like text game.
It was really nice, altough I had to read the source code to know what to do, most of my mistakes were because of bad spelling.
That was interesting. I have not played a game in a while that involved a parser. I recall some Sierra games having them. Of course, those were commercial productions, but they were fun. I miss them and this was a small call back to them.
Hmm I couldn't get it to run :/ I have java installed, but it said 'java' isn't a valid command
You can try what I said to Snooter about 7 comments up. If not, you can try to google it :)
I had to look at the source, I don't think i's possible to win otherwise. At first I thought it was a game where you had to guess a specific word he was thinking but that wasn't the case.