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Worm Simulator 2012

By hburd

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme1983.50
Humor2103.00
Innovation4342.86
Graphics5892.79
Audio6182.06
Fun6342.39
Overall6662.58
Mood6742.33
Coolness154745

Comments

gene-z 2014-04-29 04:24

It was my first idea,,, cool game..

Magnus 2014-04-29 04:38

that worm sprite...

marsbar 2014-04-29 04:43

Your game name is pretty much an exact copy of my entry... what are the odds...

thenmal 2014-04-29 04:43

Too bad you didn't get the puzzle element done there could have been some interesting mechanics/levels.

hburd 2014-04-29 05:08

@MarsBar: Heh, sorry about that, I guess I should have checked or something. Great work on yours by the way.

@thenmal: Yeah definitely, I'm planning on continuing to work on this for a bit until it's actually a game

cambrian_era 2014-04-29 05:55

So... it's like a metaphor for life? Eat and poop until eventually you die. Pretty bleak. Congrats on finishing, though. I bet you could build this into a puzzle game or even a worm RPG. Think about it.

hburd 2014-04-29 06:30

@Cambrian_Man: Thanks! My plans are to add a bunch more things to simulate so controlling the worm is as difficult and convoluted as possible, and then maybe make it some sort of sandbox rpg.

paperblurt 2014-04-29 06:43

Good to finally have a worm simulator.
Cool and unusual.

aelita1992 2014-04-29 06:54

The game's not bad, the graphics could be a little better though

wakka 2014-04-29 07:20

funny idea

deozaan 2014-04-29 07:22

Game won't run for me. Here's the error I get:

java -Djava.library.path="natives/" -jar wormsim2012.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ld48_gl/MainLoop : 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)
Could not find the main class: ld48_gl.MainLoop. Program will exit.

diptoman 2014-04-29 07:24

Of all the simulators.... XD

Why is it Worm Simulator >>2012<< though?

hburd 2014-04-29 18:23

@Deozaan: Thanks for letting me know, I can probably fix this.

@Diptoman: Our end goal was to have the worm burst out in the middle of Manhatten, turning out to be gigantic and starting an apocalypse.

hburd 2014-04-29 22:31

You'll get that error if you have an older JDK version. I could recompile for an older version, but honestly I'm feeling kind of lazy, I'm about to restart the game in C anyway.

marsbar 2014-04-30 04:23

Heh, it's neither here nor there, it just means great minds think alike :)
thanks for checking out my game btw, I really like your art style, unfortunately I couldn't seem to get it to run :(

jsmars 2014-05-05 09:12

Great start, could be a really fun game but sadly no real goal or challange.

alexfili 2014-05-11 08:27

This game is entertaining and does a good job of replicating the movement of worms. It would be even better with other insects or some moving objects in the background. Brilliant entry to this ludum dare and matches the theme well

peterlavey 2014-05-14 20:15

That you were the graphics good, makes nothing out of place