Memento XII by deepnight 2012-08-27T17:16:00
great job should have gotten first, you should make it in french for the compo, to speed it up and post a translated version after would have loved to have it longer
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Animal King | compo | 614 | 2.52 | 2.46 | 2.00 | 2.45 | 1.91 | 1.38 | 2.00 | 3.13 | 49 | |
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Class Warfare | compo | 659 | 2.37 | 2.19 | 3.17 | 2.29 | 1.48 | 2.68 | 2.00 | 2.12 | 81 |
great job should have gotten first, you should make it in french for the compo, to speed it up and post a translated version after would have loved to have it longer
Could've been so much fun is there was more gameplay. It reminds me of ice skating in pokemon.
If you go down at the beginning, you get stuck, but you can always reload, so not that much of a problem.
great backstory, funny
he had large feet
wasnt sure how many dna's i had to collect and the progress bar didnt help, because i wasnt sure how big it had to get
great backstory, funny
he had large feet
wouldve liked to see the zombies as neanderthals and evolve with you
wasnt sure how many dna's i had to collect and the progress bar didnt help, because i wasnt sure how big it had to get
Really Fun, and abstract.
Great game, wished it wasnt as random. Backstory was the best part :)
Really creepy feeling, beat it in my first try,
A couple typos but nothing too major
Bars were super fast and hard to predict, maybe a distance based one, or a little slower, but overall fun
Couldnt run on mac, it is because you have compiled using java 1.7, to solve this just recompile using 1.6
@lathomas64 it should work offline, if not use the standalone, just double click it.
@Nick K greasemonkey wrote a python script that made them, and i made the sound effects in BFXR.
GM: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/greasemonkey/
Script: http://gm.64pixels.org/stuff/atrk-bu.py.txt
OriginalPost: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2011/12/13/if-you-find-it-hard-to-make-music-read-this/
Thanks you guys, keep leaving comments :)
I may release a post-compo in the future, with a couple changes that I think we both would like.
@Kuulog Yes I used wav files, Is there a smaller one that I could use in java? Also I think it might be large because there are a couple unused files that were going to be more levels, but i will try to make smaller.
@SGT Yea I changed the story after I was halfway through and realized that it wasnt the best story for the theme but if you want a tie, you could say that the main character /evolved/ socially.
@dalbinblue When I showed IRC an early version, they said the same thing about the colors but the reason they are so saturated are because it was the easiest way to handled the colors without thinking too much of it.
In java you create a custom color by writing: Color name = new Color( r, g, b, A); with r,g,b and A as numbers less than 255. What I did was each level was a different color, level one was red, two was blue and three was green. This made it easier because I could just use wealth as the variable for the color.
For example for the first level the color was: col = new Color(wealth/2, 0, 0, 255); So that when you got 500 (510 originally) points, you would be at full saturation and be the same color as the next background, then on level two it would be: col = new Color(255, 0, wealth/2, 255); and so on.
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A couple things that influenced me in the story part were, 'The Last Book in the Universe' by Rod Philbrick and the movie 'In Time' (2011) starring Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde and Amanda Seyfried. I would highly suggest those.
In the book, the world is separated into two groups of people, the commoners and the proovs which are genetically engineered to be better, think super-natural selection.
That gave me the idea of evolving to be wealthy.
In the movie, everyone is engineered so that once they turn 25, their 'clock' turns on and they have one year of time. When your clock hits zero, you die. Everything is based on time, its the new currency: "the more wealthy, the longer you live."
That idea is the reason you need to hurry (or else).
Also in the movie, inorder to cross 'time zones' you had to pay a toll, which was a way to keep the social classes separate, so the rich, who were also the oldest, lived on one side of the country and poor on the other.
And that is the reason, you need money to get closer to your parents and the people who could help you find them.
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Thanks again for the positive feedback and for playing the game. :)
-Gabe
Alot of the 'food' kept piling up and clicks were a bit off
but really fun
Kinda hard to figure out how to play.
Sounds were loud to me and really unexpected(startled me a few times), maybe some background music wouldve helped there
Really fun, didnt realize i was supposed to choose the better parts, but once i did the game picked up and was enjoyable
Great game, controls were a little weird but once you get used to them they're ok.
Amazing game, wished there were more levels!
Awesome music, great visuals, I really like the camera movement.