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geom dsh

By jezzamon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2.506
Fun2.707
Innovation3.508
Theme4.668
Graphics1.807
Audio1.003
Humor2.418
Mood1.707

Comments

godsboss 2023-10-03 11:56

Nice take on the theme. The short version of the code does not work due to double backticks (\`\` instead of \`).

lereveur 2023-10-04 04:04

Thanks to @godsboss I managed to play the game! I like the meta take of the theme, I remember very few entries of this kind over the numerous LDs I entered (notabily one in the url edit - a runner too - and another one in the page icon - wich I forgot the gameplay), but I think this is the first one I just had to copy-paste less than 300 chars in an editor in order to play it :smile: Good job! p.s.: you may have forgot to opt-out of Audio cat, unless you took the choice of considering silence as an appropriate sound for this kind of idea :joy:

alexrose 2023-10-05 21:40

I'm missing something here. when I paste that code I get this:

"SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list"

alexrose 2023-10-05 21:57

nevermind saw the bottom link. I got a 382

local-minimum 2023-10-06 14:23

Great interpretation of the theme! I don't think I've ever encountered a limited source code game in LD before. A lot of game-play in so few lines.

wouter52 2023-10-07 12:22

What a fun way to spend your jam! Your ideas are often very much "out of the box" :smile: I like how you have a commented version of your game. Did you make that first, and then condensed it into the tweet-sized code?

One thing I could not really figure out is why the game would start with 198 points for the score. I see why the code does it, I just don't get the choise :-)

Edit: btw: your cover image is missing at the moment. Was that on purpose?

jezzamon 2023-10-11 03:52

@godsboss Ah, in some markdown editors that escapes the backticks. Turns out it doesn't here. Fixed that! Thanks for the heads up

jezzamon 2023-10-11 03:52

@lereveur Ha, good call I'll opt out of audio :)

jezzamon 2023-10-11 03:55

@wouter52 Ah, was somewhat distracted when uploading my game, so I missed the cover image. Added, thanks!

The reason the score starts at a random number is because I was reusing an existing variable to make the score, and it would take more characters to make that start at 0 :) I potentially could've got rid of the #LDJam hashtag I suppose :P

I started writing the game in JavaScript, as I would write it with if statements and regular functions and such, and then started making it smaller and cutting features. The game used to be on a circle, and whenever you landed more obstacles appeared, but those all took too many characters to fit. As I worked on it, I had a version that was not quite as split up as the commented version is, but it had newlines and indents to make things more readable.