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Skyway

By decentsauce

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness289
Theme4683.75
Fun4773.16
Overall4913.22

Comments

shar 2015-12-14 13:12

voice sound, lol

chaserbrown 2015-12-14 18:47

Enjoyed this! :D

dooskington 2015-12-14 20:28

Not bad! I liked the voices.

azureaspect 2015-12-14 20:29

Speed up...length up...length up *thump*!
game oooover!

Liked the simple concept and old graphics style :)

darkflint 2015-12-14 21:59

I though their is no sound, but seems like i am the only oned who couldnt hear it :( But overally nice game.

red_fan-games 2015-12-14 23:19

Pretty neat!

pompaz 2015-12-14 23:19

Very nice!

djfariel 2015-12-15 01:15

Fantastic sound effects. I found that the "powerup" that improved length actually made the game much more difficult.

decentsauce 2015-12-15 01:41

@djfariel True, game balance was low on my list at the time so mostly in the beginning it isn't always helpful to increase length. (Though score multiplayer always scales with player length)

soka 2015-12-15 01:51

Original and adictive :D!

killedbyapixel 2015-12-15 02:25

Nice little game. Controls feel good, procedural level works well. I don't hear any sound, not sure whats up with that. The speed increases come on a bit fast and unexpectedly. Visuals work well enough but I think you could have just went fully abstract.

themadknights 2015-12-15 13:44

Sound are great hahaha

plasmaernst 2015-12-15 14:05

Hey there. Had fun with your game, good job!

I can very well imagine the speed builing up constantly.
Maybe pickups to give back lives or to slow speed down.

hongertrollie 2015-12-15 19:39

Nice game. I left the "length up" powerups alone for my second run for as long as I could. Got a lot further. I like the sound effects :P Well done

intxparts 2015-12-15 22:12

Awesome game! I really enjoyed the simplicity and escalation of the challenge. Excellent work!

sinclairstrange 2015-12-16 01:42

Very simple but overall well done. It was pretty fun and enjoyable! :) I wish there was more hazards though. Good job!

lastninja2 2015-12-16 10:51

Liked it ;)

bubuiic 2015-12-16 13:22

Fun little game. I liked the voice sounds :-).

I did some pygame projects in past Ludum Dares and I just build a Version for Linux of your game. You can find it here if you want to add it: https://cloud.bubu1.eu/index.php/s/LepyntSlO5lXR10/download

marveus 2015-12-17 04:55

Good job! Really enjoyed the voice sounds! :D

aeveis 2015-12-17 05:55

I liked it! Interesting concept, I liked how adding length made game play more complicated, rather than linearly easier/harder. I also liked the voice sounds.

fafastudio 2015-12-18 23:48

Because of the lack of sound at first i got freaking scared by your splendid voice acting xD

Pretty good game by the way. Nice concept ! :)

ayte 2015-12-19 15:48

Simple concept, well executed ! i enjoyed it !

kualitygames 2015-12-19 23:09

Thumbs up for participating for the first time in LD, I'd like to try your next game.

nirabazgames 2015-12-21 03:31

Great you are! nice little game)

pkenney 2015-12-22 03:12

Nice first-time entry, I liked the list of things you did for the first time.

I appreciated that you checked all the boxes by including sound, although I see you didn't want to be rated on art and sound... but who cares man, just keep doing those and you'll keep improving!

Gameplay was a solid idea. It was good that one hit didn't instantly send me back to the start of the game.

If I could tweak just a few parameter values in this game I would speed it up... everything. The pace of moving forward, and the pace of swinging the thing there left and right. Maybe increase the gaps between meteors to compensate.

As it is, when I started the game it felt very slow, and when I got my speed up but then got hit I felt really slow... like ITCHING slow, not a pleasant relief from action slow.

That's just a minor tweak though! This is a solid first entry you can be proud of and build on, nice work.

decentsauce 2015-12-22 07:03

@pkenney Thank you for the kind words. :) Main reason why I didn't include the graphics/audio categories was because I felt there wasn't much to rate. Haha, in hind sight it might have been better to include those categories.

The parameters you are talking about do change during the game but I agree that the initial values are way to low. Takes half a minute before the fun gets started. (And even longer if you get hit, whoops!)

budi 2015-12-22 13:14

I like the voice! Well done, man. :-D

I like the concept, it needs just a little bit of balance, slow speed is a little bit boring, but after one speed up and bad luck with obstacles, it immediately gets really hard.

jupiter_hadley 2015-12-28 14:15

Really nicely made game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/XwDbETpIdpU

f7f5 2015-12-28 21:52

The Linux exe gives:

$ ./start.sh
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in <module>
File "Skyway.py", line 37, in <module>
pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file

and I tried running the source but it didn't work:

$ python Skyway_source.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Skyway_source.py", line 37, in <module>
background = pygame.image.load('Background.png')
pygame.error: Couldn't open Background.png