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Herbert Crawler

By ron748_

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics2513.68
Humor4142.45
Mood4262.98
Overall4313.12
Theme4403.03
Fun4612.82
Audio5972.28
Innovation6152.46

Comments

gikdew 2014-04-28 23:22

The visuals look beautiful, really enjoy playing your little game! I ended up playing for a while!

robert 2014-04-28 23:23

Dosent Start for me because of MSVCP110D.dll

eerongal 2014-04-28 23:44

Same error message as Robert, MSVCP110D.dll missing.

skunkaroony 2014-04-28 23:45

I downloaded the zip file and extracted it onto my desktop then tried to run the application, but I got the same error as Robert (missing dll file). It looks like a cool game though! :)

hexabeast 2014-04-28 23:46

It dors not work with me...

jlay 2014-04-28 23:46

I like the visual style, although it did appear a little dark on my monitor. The controls took some getting used to. The game exited on me when I got killed though, not sure if that's a feature or a bug.

rawani 2014-04-29 00:00

really good looking game ... Congratulations

griz 2014-04-29 00:14

In the first playthrough for some reason I got randomly teleported outside of the map bounds. Luckily that hasn't stopped me from trying the game for the second time. The mood and the gameplay is nice, while I don't like the small contrast in the background tiles, as it makes them look blunt.

ron748_ 2014-04-29 03:58

Some of these bugs are features that were left in by accident. The ladders going down were supposed to take you to the next level but there are no other maps. I will look into the dll problems later today but it seems like a Visual Studio thing.

ron748_ 2014-04-29 05:22

Mended some bugs

ron748_ 2014-04-29 05:30

I included the dll. Is anyone still getting the errors?

mtinkerhess 2014-04-29 05:48

I get "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application."

ron748_ 2014-04-29 06:02

I downloaded the wrong version of the dll. It should work now.

stephan_h 2014-04-29 06:31

Lovely game.
Liked the mood of this and the presentation.
Some ambient music would have been great. I am not so sure if the sounds matched the presentation.

Great first entry. And even impressive, considering you used C++.

godeatgod 2014-04-29 06:32

I love the graphics.

mstrp2ez 2014-04-29 06:34

Cool game, but only one level? After i got the equipment there was nothing else to do. Graphics were nice, sweet animations.

coquinounet 2014-04-29 09:38

Can't play, same error as other

stepperz 2014-04-29 09:41

Awesome Graphics. I Enjoyed playing :)

ron748_ 2014-04-29 13:49

I got access to a computer without Visual Studio installed and was able to test the game. Turns out there was another dll I had to include.

kbm0 2014-04-29 14:36

Really liked the graphics!

teamalpha 2014-04-29 15:01

Great graphics and the sound effects really fit the style! The attack controls felt a little bit clunky at first, though, and background music would improve the immersion a lot. I don't know if you plan to continue developing the game after LD, but maybe use the coins and diamonds as currencies for gear and perks? Just a suggestion. =D Would love to play more levels!

figglewatts 2014-04-29 16:23

Graphics are really good. Nice work.

ultimatewalrus 2014-04-29 17:24

It's a nice start but it seems a little unfinished. As far as I could tell there's nothing to do once you kill one skeleton, open one door, and get some treasure.

skymen 2014-04-29 18:36

Good visuals and sound effects, but with some musics and tutorials, it would be better

khaldrin 2014-04-29 18:58

Even though you did not finish the game, I think it is a very solid first contribution. The movements are fluid and the controls are responsive. The graphics are nicely done, too. Keep up the good work :)

morganbengtsson 2014-04-29 20:11

I like the graphics style. A bit hard to know what to do, and keep motivation up. Some goal.

thegreentie 2014-04-29 20:15

Took me a while to figure out how to open the door.

caiustsm 2014-04-29 20:29

Graphics are great, but could use some music ;)

moosefly 2014-04-29 20:44

Not much of a game in this state, but the framework seems to be there. The graphics are really nice, but the game is really too dark like Jason Lay mentioned. The dark does compliment your lighting though :P.

Anssi@MooseflyGames

terraco 2014-04-30 06:47

Looks really cool.

ron748_ 2014-04-30 15:20

Damage sound was played when you die instead of damage. That's now mended.

techblogogy 2014-04-30 17:04

God, that pixel art is great :)

thorig 2014-05-02 06:19

Not sure about why the mouse must be used to select an item to use. Nice little game.

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-05-05 09:23

Nice art! Attacks definitely need some animation and feedback and controls are just unintuitive. You should get rid of the mouse interactions.

agecaf 2014-05-05 10:33

A little bit short, but what was made was well made. I liked the graphics, and the movements are smooth, but the inventory system was a bit unclear.

csanyk 2014-05-10 04:23

It has potential, but needs a lot of polish. Better animations, and better controls, for sure. I wasn't clear how to do things even after reading the instructions a few times.

thingostudios 2014-05-10 19:55

The guy sort of looks like the eleventh Doctor. Coincidence?

robinerd 2014-05-10 22:04

I'll drop this comment here as well to make sure you see it:

Nice work, the art looks great! Next time I would suggest you to use one or several finished frameworks/engines to speed-up the process. You would want to spend very little time on the engine code and just get the core gameplay up as fast as possible, preferrably something playable already on the first day if possible. Then you can add more content and mechanics as well as polishing everything. Sounds simple enough, but it takes a lot of practice, and it’s very easy to get stuck for too long on some details.

I hope you had fun and learnt a lot even though you couldn’t finish it all, just try again next time and most of all, have fun! Greetings from Sweden and good luck next time!