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The Barely Competent Thief

By vacso

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics7982.60
Innovation8402.44
Mood8802.40
Fun8962.44
Theme9272.80
Overall9482.56
Coolness202528

Comments

vacso 2014-12-08 23:38

If you can't download from the links can you leave me a comment so I can fix Dropbox please. Thank you.

anotak 2014-12-09 00:48

the game locked up for me at 0 on the countdown, win7 64-bit here. would really like to rate it!

vacso 2014-12-09 16:08

Ok. Anotak, I've found the problem but unfortunately it is more than a typo so I can't fix it. Try replaying. The majority of the time it will work when re-opening the game. That is all the help I can give. :( I apologize.

vacso 2014-12-09 16:19

Ok never mind. I just re-read the rules and in game crashing scenarios I can fix it. I will re-upload.

sharky 2014-12-09 16:22

I installed it and it only displays the first screen about production and doesn't progress into the next screen or room

sumgato 2014-12-09 16:22

It says "A Java exception has occurred" each time I try to open it.

vacso 2014-12-09 16:26

Ok try again. I just re-uploaded the fixed version.

snuux 2014-12-09 16:28

Simple game, with good gameplay. Work at graphic and your game will be really cool!

vacso 2014-12-09 16:29

Thanks!

boxedmeatrevolution 2014-12-09 16:31

OS/X version not working for me. Always freezes at "1" on the intro screen.

vacso 2014-12-09 16:39

BoxedMeatRevolution I have just tested the download on my Mac again and I couldn't find the problem you were describing. It was an existing problem for the downloads a short time ago. Can you re-download again to see if it works? If it doesn't then try re-opening the application.

prymidion 2014-12-09 16:51

I get a "Java Exception Has Occurred" error when I try to run this for windows.

gmaker 2014-12-09 16:51

simple game, cute graphics! i loved it

vacso 2014-12-09 16:52

Thank you gmaker! pyrmidion did you try re-opening it?

jovoc 2014-12-09 16:52

It downloaded, but wouldn't run for me. Error log:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: The Barely Competent Thief - LD31/jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: The Barely Competent Thief - LD31.jar
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

vacso 2014-12-09 16:55

pyrmidion what OS are you using? When did this Exception occur? During the Splash Screen, Main Menu. Please can you give more details?

ViliX 2014-12-09 17:00

It's a little glitchy, yet nice entry :)

vacso 2014-12-09 17:07

Thanks!

davesoft 2014-12-09 19:32

I like it, nice use of limited AI :D

kruemelkeksfan 2014-12-09 19:37

Works fine for me on OS X Mountain Lion. People couldnt play my game neither, so I recompiled using JDK 7, you should try this.
Game mechanics are cute, but the cop in the left room always get me :(

vacso 2014-12-09 23:02

Thank you for the comments. I'll try recompiling the JDK, thanks kruemelkeksfan!

jaloko 2014-12-10 06:25

Quite a challenging game, nice job.

boxedmeatrevolution 2014-12-12 05:41

I tried this again, and it worked! Fun, I like the idea of a game where you win by tricking enemies into traps (in this case, rooms where they can't get to you from).

superdisk 2014-12-12 23:03

I liked the graphics, but unfortunately it was too hard to really get a good run through. Neat anyhow. Nice work on developing a game engine!

vacso 2014-12-14 03:08

Thanks! It was meant to be challenging! Wait? How did you know I used a game engine... interesting to say the least. xD

p1x3lruckus 2014-12-15 12:23

This game was really frustrating, there was no feedback from what was happening, sound effects even if they where from BFXR would of helped a lot, and adding particles to indicate damage would of helped clarify when you where being hit. Also if maybe once an officer damaged you it would freeze for a second or something, that way you could escape without just running in a straight line for a while.

vacso 2014-12-20 13:47

Thank you p1x3lruckus for the feedback I did realize that some features where not in my engine but I'm adding them now so next time my game will be better. I like your idea about freezing to add more of a challenge. Thanks and I did have sound effects but they broke on export. Another problem I need to fix. :/

01rafael 2014-12-20 22:19

Oh damn! I can't avoid the policemans. I was movin' too slow

vacso 2014-12-21 22:35

Its good to see everyone likes the game mostly. I'm actually going to start work on something similar I think.