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Fabulous Escape

By holyblackcat

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Mood2383.31
Overall2823.48
Graphics2863.53
Innovation3133.48
Fun5593.08
Audio5612.69
Humor6692.34
Theme11232.78

Comments

wandersenus 2014-12-08 09:21

what a good game!!!

volkoivan 2014-12-08 09:22

Honestly, I didn't go anywhere after falling.
I don't know why, but for me it was boring.
But there are good graphics!
And where's LD theme there?

binarybot 2014-12-08 09:23

WOW! Are you serious? No comments on this that I can see... that is crazy because this is awesome! Like really, this is alot better than alot of the other games! I like how the screen is your pc that you use as a tool! The art is mindblowingly fantastic. Great job with audio, just, good job!

groydis 2014-12-08 09:24

Wow very cool, Nice Job. Would Play More.

iaknihs 2014-12-08 09:25

Doesn't run on my computer for some reason!
"Fabulous Escape GL3.3.exe has stopped working"
Vertex shader compilation failed. ERROR:0:2: 'location' syntax error.
The regular version just complains about my Graphics card being too crappy (my graphics card isn't High End as I'm currently on my Laptop, but I do believe it should be sufficient for a platformer (All my Steam games run on it just fine))
-I'm running on Intel HD Graphics 4000

The screenshots look interesting though! XD

holyblackcat 2014-12-08 10:32

@Iak , oops, sorry. There was a minor syntax error in my shaders, looks like some videocards are too pedantic about it.
I tweaked shader code, now game should work.

aglavra 2014-12-08 11:46

Graphics are very nice. I don't see a clear connection with the theme for now.

techblogogy 2014-12-08 12:04

Nice and simple, just the way I like it. Fantastic job!

holyblackcat 2014-12-08 12:21

Crap, I messed up jump height again! And the game was impossible to complete. Now it should be fine.

nusan 2014-12-08 13:00

Cool concept, I like the computer system as a puzzle. I managed to get the second help page, but then I'm stuck. Keep up the good work

kwask 2014-12-08 13:03

I really enjoy this, it feels like a mix of Gunpoint and Uplink for some reason. Really impressed and I would like to see this concept expanded :D

boehrsi 2014-12-08 13:43

Nice graphics and good idea. I really like the style of the game.

lexgear 2014-12-08 14:12

:( Lonely mac. So many games I have to miss out on.

peerplay 2014-12-08 14:34

Great game! Make it longer!

nicso 2014-12-08 14:39

really neat stuf, but really dificult for azerty users :)
The jump physic is quite akward thought

shampop 2014-12-08 14:43

That's prety damn cool. Just some trouble with my AZERTY keyboard, making the experience a little harder. But still pretty fun and cool to try !

megamasterx 2014-12-08 14:50

Very creatively done! It controls pretty well. Despite the theme not being immediately apparent, you did quite well!

dix 2014-12-08 14:54

Nice graphics, nice idea, but is the theme the fact that you ride the screen to get down?

holyblackcat 2014-12-08 15:05

Yep it is. You ride this screen during the almost whole game.

designernap 2014-12-09 16:17

Got it workign on my Wife's machnine. I really like the concept of typing into the machine to get the upgrades... however, it was frustrating to type "LONGJUMP" so many times after failing the jump again and again. A great idea tho. impressed.

holyblackcat 2014-12-09 16:32

Yea, I know. Hotkey to repeat previous command would be good, but now it's too late. :D

zimennik 2014-12-09 18:21

Ну что, чувак. Поздравляю. Отличная игра. Только я дальше второй так и не смог пройти -_- Один раз как-то получилось запрыгнуть и все.

з.ы. Я тебя еще на твиче спрашивал о чем игра. Но, секрет так секрет :3

2014-12-09 19:20

Excellent Game. This is a winner in my book. My one criticism is that it is frustrating having to type out the commands over and over. A history thing that you could cycle through with arrow keys would be great.

iaknihs 2014-12-09 21:37

The fixed version runs fine - Very awesome game! One of the best i've seen around. I love your use of the theme.

iaknihs 2014-12-09 21:41

@HolyBlackCat Also, about your comment on my game - If you want to cheat a little, holding G pressed while starting the game using Space gives you 200 lives ;)

I'm currently working on a post-LD version which starts out easier, but I didn't have the time left to add that during LD.

trisquare 2014-12-10 13:28

This was a really cool game, but the aspect ratio was messed up for me and the terminal was too small for me to read :(

holyblackcat 2014-12-10 14:03

Ctrl+Enter might help on small screens. What about aspect ratio, it seems to be broken on your side. :/

ali312 2014-12-10 18:01

отлична работа

npexception 2014-12-11 16:11

well polished, top game. I can't really say much about it. I love it. Really good take on the theme.

fleegle2000 2014-12-11 17:00

Really innovative entry! I liked the unique way of interacting with the environment, and the (spoiler approaching) bittersweet ending tugged at my heartstrings. Great work!

thopis 2014-12-12 11:06

Very good!Like the interaction with objects!

teesquared 2014-12-12 11:15

Interesting platformer/adventure game. I like the starting mood with the door knocks. Difficulty was high and some of the interactions didn't make sense to me. I felt the graphics were too small and too dark and the text was hard to read (even in full screen).

meral 2014-12-12 15:33

The controls are choppy, but this is otherwise a very good entry. Who wouldn't just transform their PC into a robot in case of a raid? Wiping data is tedious and takes too long, smashing it might not even work - so just take it with you ! =D

I can get tedious to repeat a command when one fails performing a jump correctly. autocomplete using tab would have been much appreciated.

Great job!

zazlo 2014-12-14 10:17

Brilliant

tifu 2014-12-15 16:49

I suppose that is one way to interpret the theme =P
Interesting game, I really wish I could just press 'up' to repeat the last command entered, would have saved some annoyance in that first room typing longjump a lot.
Good job!

crowbeak 2014-12-19 12:40

Great idea and pretty good execution. The underscore doesn't correspond to where underscore actually is on a Japanese keyboard, though... hard coding it to a specific location on the physical keyboard is terrible for those of us not using the same layout you have. :P

GreyShock 2014-12-19 12:53

Great mood here! I made it to the end, yay!

sebasrez 2014-12-19 16:14

This si cool but the platforming wasn't working with my keyboard. I fell and I just couldn't make that jump. I made it ONCE but I couldnt make the second one and now I don't know how I made the first one. The whole typing concept is really cool and I really want to play it but I can't get past that jump. Argh, she just doesn't jump on the corner. Anyways, still really nice work for 27 hours and I hope to try it again if the gap becomes a bit smaller.

holyblackcat 2014-12-19 19:16

See the walkthrough, maybe you just jumped in the wrong place? :P

lion 2014-12-21 15:20

Unusable as-is with an AZERTY keyboard. :(
Whether I change the keyboard's layout before or after launching the game, the console would still print me the wrong keys (Q instead of A).

holyblackcat 2014-12-21 19:35

Symbols were hardcoded to specific keys. Sorry for that.
I wasn't even aware about existence of AZERTY layout when I was making this game. :D

klianc09 2014-12-22 17:51

Really cool game. Love the idea and the spritework for the little moving screen.

There are some things that are really unclear, it took me quite some time to realise I could get off the screen, and then again some time, to realise that those bunch of pixels are a light switch...
But after getting over the initial hurdles it's a pretty enjoyable game.

si1ver 2014-12-22 18:43

Nice job for 27 hours!

fluffypillow 2015-01-04 13:35

The underscore character doesn't work on hungarian QWERTZ keyboard. I replaced it with space in the exe file manually, then the game worked fine. Next time you should use SDL2 scancodes/text for layout independent input.

Anyway, it's a nice game, I liked the interaction with the computer.