shaulor 2014-04-29 11:57
for everyone trying to play this, i had to hold R and then press SPACE to turn the left side green and enable clicking on the right side, without this info you will just think this doesnt work at all ;)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → First timer effort. :)
By igpollitzer
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 1201 | 2.00 | ||
| Overall | 1238 | 2.13 | ||
| Fun | 1240 | 1.73 | ||
| Graphics | 1248 | 1.60 | ||
| Coolness | 1989 | 22 |
for everyone trying to play this, i had to hold R and then press SPACE to turn the left side green and enable clicking on the right side, without this info you will just think this doesnt work at all ;)
You're missing a link to the game. Unless you want people to compile it from the source. In that case post instructions as not everyone uses/knows pygame.
Its a bit hard to understand what you have to do first. Also i dont get how this is related to the theme. To make more people play this you should definitly compile this using for example cx_freeze.
this is very hard to understand, but i think the game as i understood it is similar to jacks - using reflexes to grab tokens in a short time window?
First of all, thank you very much for the comments, I started programming a month ago, trying to learn as much as I could to participate in this event, and ended up learning much more while doing this game.
The idea behind this game, is that you control the hands of a kid(the gray squares that go white), that is supposed to clean the(brown) table. Because you don't want to clean the table, you have to hide every item under the tablecloth(red). Your mother(yellow) square on top, turns around(orange) from time to time, to check on you. If he sees that you are lifting(green) the tablecloth, she will scold you, and the game is lost. If you can hide everything under the tablecloth, without your mom noticing it, you win the game.
To play the game, you must hold the R button, to grab the tablecloth, and the SPACE bar to hold it down. Release the SPACE bar to lift the cloth(it will turn green), and slide all the items under the cloth, clicking them with the left mouse button.
The relation with the theme is the fact that you have to hide the things "Beneath the surface". :)
ah! this makes a lot more sense explained in those terms :) it's always great to hear when people have learnt a lot from participating in a jam; keep at it!
It was a little hard to understand the game at first. But I think after a little while it started to make sense.
Funny background story! :D
It took me some time to understand what I had to do, and I honestly must say that I wasn't able to complete the game. After several tries I was able to push one object to the left side, but that's how far I got.
It would be nice if there were a bit of feedback. Sometimes the screen turns black (is that when you are caught by your mother?), sometimes you cannot lift the table cloth even if she's not looking and sometimes you can only lift it for an instant. I don't quite get it.
But anyway: congrats on your first game! Keep up the hard work! :)
Your comment really clarified the idea. I don't really understand why you needed both R and Space keys for the tablecloth though, but whatever :). Would've been cool if the win and loss states were a bit more clear, at the moment I wasn't really sure if I won or if the game just froze.
Also took a look at your code (even though I haven't really used Python), and it was surprisingly clean for someone who has just started programming. Keep up the good work!
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