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Me and My BEAST

By electric-blue

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9332.9119
Fun7323.0220
Innovation5153.3020
Theme5543.6320
Graphics4013.6123
Audio2.3916
Humor1
Mood2

Comments

polypickle 2020-04-20 03:42

Uh oh! Looks like a permission issue on the google drive link!

jbasinger 2020-04-20 03:45

Same issue I can't download the game :cry:

electric-blue 2020-04-20 03:46

Fixed the permission issue. Thanks for pointing it out.

jbasinger 2020-04-20 03:51

I had to run it from my console in Windows with `java -jar LD46.jar` but got it going!

stolen-biscuit 2020-04-20 03:55

Got it working on linux. Incredibly fast paced, was hard to keep up with everything going on. I loved the graphics. I think if you slowed the enemy shooting down and maybe some hints when you can and can't pick up wheat it would go a long way. Well done though!

thor-lucas 2020-04-20 03:56

It worked for me (macOS). Neat game! I think the movement speed is too fast, and so are the hunters. (Oh just checked the description, apparently it's a known bug). Also I keep accidentally running into the best and mounting him when I don’t want to — maybe bind it to a key? Also tell me: the BEAST was definitely inspired by Appa, right? Hah! Good job :)

electric-blue 2020-04-20 04:00

Yes the beast was inspired by Appa. I just watched all of Avatar so I had to do it.

Unfortunately, I programmed this on a MacBook Air and designed the frame rate accordingly.

samsdevlog 2020-04-20 05:02

I liked the concept, but the game was so sped up it was a bit unplayable. I know the problem come from the frame rate, but a touch unfortunate. Another note, I think a better graphic for the wheat would be nice, I thought they were fences at first.

tattomoosa 2020-04-20 06:50

Game speed is definitely too fast. The graphics are extremely charming though and I like the concept.

simukas 2020-04-20 17:24

Couldn't play the game, some sort of bug or graphical glitch: https://imgur.com/a/ZMI9CDe

fathy-basha 2020-04-20 17:27

Love the sprites but a bit hard to play due to speed.

nick0124-creator 2020-04-20 18:07

Need web build

anchoredtoad 2020-04-20 18:45

Game looks awesome, I'm getting the same issue as @simukas though on both builds you have up. On Windows 10 x64. There's an error with a few of the files when trying to extract the zip with explorer (bad parameter? might be the colon if that's part of the filenames) (w:tail.png, beast w:outlines.png, ._w:tail.png, ._beast w:outlines.png) and 7-zip extracts with no errors but the same graphical isses.

ladislavodstrcil 2020-04-20 19:32

I have trees everywhere :D >dfgfdgfdgfdgfdfgfdg.PNG

solweak 2020-04-23 15:46

The game worked perfectly. Love the concept, it's missing a destination or any sort of goal beside surviving, but i enjoyed squishing those shameful hunters :smirk:. Well done overall !

big-evil-corporation 2020-04-23 21:50

I'm having the same problem as Ladislav, trees all over the screen. Windows 10 64bit, JRE 8.201

jason-woerner 2020-04-23 22:13

Very cool concept! I loved trampling over the tress with the beast. I kept getting overwhelmed after a couple minutes of play, but I assume that was intentional. I felt bad for the beast... he just wants to eat his wheat. Wish there was some way I could have saved him and "won" the game. Or maybe there was and I didn't figure it out?

Either way, I loved the dual mechanic of controlling the rider and the beast, each with different abilities. Very impressive for a short jam, and very creative. Also loved the pixel art. Great job!

eran-haas 2020-04-24 17:44

The beast is so good! I love him.

william-derksen 2020-04-24 18:58

I'm also having the tree problem that @ladislavodstrcil and @solweak are having

Either way I tried it out and thought it was a neat concept. Would like to try it again without trees blocking the view though haha. I'll refrain from rating until you have some kind of fix if you do make one

xel 2020-04-24 19:01

Fun concept! I really liked the graphics- the beast looks great in pixel art form. I tried my best to keep those darn bandits away from it but ultimately I was overwhelmed :( Good work overall!

2020-04-24 19:41

I had permission issues as well as not sure how to actually run the game :( The art looks really good!

Also, the speed issue I think is related to this. I had a similar bug when I was making my game. You want to move the player/object like this player.pos += (player.direction * player.speed * ds) where ds is the change in time from one frame to another. This allows you to not have to worry about how fast your game runs based on the computes hardware.

this is for construct but here is a link. Searching for movement using delta time should also help. https://www.construct.net/en/tutorials/delta-time-framerate-71

ididgame 2020-04-28 08:54

stomping around with the beast was fun, the graphics are pretty cute i felt kinda bad for it though being harassed by those hunters automatically mounting the beast was kinda frustrating since i did it just about every time i would try to get to something below the beast after dismounting