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Spiral Dungeon

By pcholt

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Mood2203.33
Theme2373.88
Audio2873.15
Graphics4513.25
Overall5603.19
Innovation6013.07
Humor7052.29
Fun8222.81
Coolness160544

Comments

pcholt 2014-12-08 02:42

To run under Linux, you have to run "java -jar SpiralDungeon.jar" from a command prompt in the SpiralDungeon_jar directory.

pcholt 2014-12-08 02:42

Just checking the Windows port now.

pcholt 2014-12-08 02:49

OMG Windows port works... without modification! All hail LibGDX!

pcholt 2014-12-08 02:49

Now for sleep.

bkgh 2014-12-08 03:49

This game is amazing!
How you managed to accomplish something like this in 48 hours is beyond me.

sam101 2014-12-08 03:49

The game kinda lack interactivity (maybe I missed something on the controls ?). The graphics and the general idea of the insects following you is cool however.

redsigmagroup 2014-12-08 06:15

Creepy as all hell. Excellent use of sound. The level generation was really interesting too. Wish there was more than just bug kiting though

pcholt 2014-12-08 08:30

Ah well there's only so much you can do with the time when you have other commitments. The monsters aren't animated because I spent more than 2 hours working on the Animation class from libgdx and couldn't work out how to apply it to Sprites. Also spent another two hours trying to debug a problem where the shadows cast by the walls were also being cast by the monsters in a very unrealistic fashion. It turned out I had two parameters to PointLight.setContactFilter round the wrong way :P

wandersenus 2014-12-08 09:09

nice game!

iaknihs 2014-12-08 09:17

If only combat had worked - kiting those things around gets a little old - I love the way you use whatever is currently not visible for terrain generation though! Nice graphics, too.
Excellent use of the Theme imo!

ekilibr 2014-12-08 09:28

My 5 stars for the theme interpretation !
I wish I could play this game with combat :(

paperscraps 2014-12-08 19:39

This was really creapy, haha. I really dig the lighting effects. The sound got a bit annoying after awhile. Maybe that added to the overall "cringyness" of the game.

pcholt 2014-12-08 23:57

Sound was added at the last minute - the sample is me hitting two pencils together - and played at 1/d^2 volume every time the monsters on the level take a step. The biting sound is me snapping my fingers.

jupitron 2014-12-09 01:19

Really amazing game! Its awesome how everything smoothly changes, sfx are awesome the way it fades in when youre near a enemy. Top mood entry!

madmaw 2014-12-09 07:30

While it was a easy theme to pay lip service to, I feel that this game gets it right. No exit, no levels, just keep running from more and more monsters. Positional audio is nice too

pcholt 2014-12-09 12:22

Do you think its permisible to add an objective and a win-condition after the deadline? I might host a bug-fixed verssion

nitrodeus 2014-12-09 19:18

Wow this game is really impressive
I like the graphics and the creepy gloomy atmosphere
nice job !

boxedmeatrevolution 2014-12-09 20:43

Great mood. Great Audio. Great Innovation. Having the level change in the darkness is a really cool mechanic.
With some polish, this could become a really fun mini-horror game!

leaghorn 2014-12-10 05:18

Really creepy. These noises enemies makes makes it even creepier. To bad that player is funny looking. If he also looked creepy it would be better IMO.

murchurl 2014-12-10 05:18

Pretty simple gameplay. Nice lighting effect though! nice effort!

pixel_3 2014-12-10 08:02

Nice concept. It definitely needed a combat system but you could've at least removed some enemies because that's a really tight space.

-AlucardX60

pcholt 2014-12-10 08:50

If you have the 'tiled' map editor, you can edit the map yourself to remove monsters and reduce the confinement near the end of the game.

I might be able to upload an update, considering the game is practically unfinishable in its current state?

gins 2014-12-10 11:26

Pretty creepy. I like how the sound gets louder when those enemies come to you. The spiraling is also a cool mechanic, good interpretation of the theme!

shadowtzu 2014-12-12 00:15

I can't try your game, links are dead :(

teesquared 2014-12-14 10:21

I really like how the level changes in the darkness as the player spirals around the screen. Very visceral feel when you die.

pcholt 2014-12-15 00:30

The links are back up - I upgraded the server and the apache process didn't start up :(

officialcodenmore 2014-12-16 01:02

Great!

grid96 2014-12-17 23:42

Nice graphics, but is there any goal in the game yet?

maxmetallica 2014-12-29 22:06

nice work

poxymyr 2014-12-29 22:12

Awesome idea, I agree with evertyhing thats has been said already! You should make a finished version of this, and I would play it and recommend it to all my friends, for sure.