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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Title Unknown | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Lux | compo | 10 | ||||||||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | 8-Bit? 4-Bit! | compo | 1247 | 2.35 | 1.91 | 2.21 | 3.21 | 2.59 | 2.03 | 2.25 | 2.27 | 57 | |
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Gameageddon | compo | 17 | ||||||||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | The Wizard Delven | compo | 888 | 1.76 | 1.54 | 2.00 | 2.25 | 1.88 | 1.82 | 1.56 | 2.00 | 44 |
Sorry, ran out of time :)
Download is 'Windows only' because its a .jar and platform independent...
Yeah, I actually uploaded the wrong version, but I'm not expecting a high fun! I still think I did well with the graphics considering I'm not very good...
By the way, if you are on windows, please tell me if the opening theme music plays or not :|
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Oh, and I will actually finish it properly, so if you want to keep an eye on my progress (ie. making it playable) then do... Sorry to disappoint you with the poor game though :(
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Yeah, the walking speed was fine in Eclipse, but is a little slow (bug? or low frame rate) in the .jar version.
To run a .jar, you should just need to double click it...
Yeah, I'll fix the download links. The game was rushed - I missed about a four hour chunk out of one day, and haven't made a game in ages... :( But now I'm inspired - I'm thinking about nicking the codebase for something else...
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Thanks for the comments, it makes it seem worthwhile :) It was my first proper time using Java, and I should have built up the project incrementally, rather than doin graphics and music first. Yeah, I did notice that the movement rate changed between keyboards, although it should be linked to frame rate - possibly to do with your computer? Either that or I just imagined changing the movement speed (easy enough to do...)
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Thanks for the comments - sadly, you can't kill the zombie (it glitches...). For crafting, press 'c' then click on what you want to craft. Thanks for the key advice :) I wish I had put a lot more practice in - next time I'm probably using C++ which I'm more familiar with.
Any chance of exporting XNA for Mac - I don't think it's possible, but still... Oh, lovely graphics though!
Interesting mechanic... I could play the Easy level, and it was good, but Normal and Hard levels don't load... How does it relate to the theme?
Really good game, and it fits the theme well... Only problem is that it's too easy, not that it would stop me from playing more!
Shame, I can't run it - I've got love installed, but when I open up the .zip, it doesn't do anything - any advice (it might just be Mac, but I don't think so...) Still, the graphics look ok :)
Shame, I can't run it on Mac. Still, AMAZING graphics (definitely compared to mine XD)
Lovely graphics!
Interesting graphics...
Interesting game... text adventures are always confusing as you work out what commands do what, and I couldn't find the key, but fits the theme.
I can't load it - do you know why? (I'm on Mac) - When I open the .zip, I get a .part file and I don't know what to do (btw, this has happened with another game) Sill, nice graphics!
Interesting interpretation of the theme... Graphics aren't the best, but it's the thought that counts. I can't play it on Mac, but I like to think I take the time to at least rate what I can see of each game :)
Nice graphics XD
It has a world, but doesn't seem to be very 'tiny'... by the way, how do you actually play? I sort of worked it out, but it's confusing...
Can't play it - any chance of releasing a Mac version (what is it compiled in) - oh, and you forgot the source...
Incredibly confusing, but I like it :)
Interesting gameplay mechanic - it's definitely worth thinking about :)
Interesting - I personally didn't feel it met the theme that well, but I could see how you had interpreted it and it was original :) The game seems a bit short - was there anything after the 'That's a lot of gold' thing after the boss?
Good game... It does get a bit annoying with the slow jump speed and the fact that the controls sometimes don't work (ie. Jumping) meant that I couldn't defeat the boss - also, he seemed to kill me when he was really far away - hitbox problems? Still, it was fun to play.
Really fun, great game! It opens up a whole new world of possibility to HTML5 games (which was previously none in my mind) :)
Can't run it because I have Mac (and Parallels is WAY too slow...), but I'll still give it a Graphics rating :)
Loved it :) Reminds me of all the old Metroid games :P
Only problem was that the difficulty change half-way through is a shock :)
Liked it, but a bit too easy - I left it for a while, bought my way to the Lunar Death Ray, and won.
Hmm... I seem to meet that bug occasionaly (1 in 4 or 5 times, maybe), and usually after I die and then restart. The issue is that nothing appears out of the ordinary in the debugger - I'm afraid that I can't fix it (probably due to my incredibly-hacked AABB code).
The spikes in the first level are pretty much unavoidable *unless* you manage to jump (almost) perfectly in the middle of them. As for the not-working jump, I couldn't work out why. Finally, if the sound effects are too loud, then just lower your computer's volume :)
If you have any bugs, then please let me know. As for spikes, the hitbox should have probably been smaller, but I guess you're meant to learn from this sort of thing :P As for the jumping, I genuinely don't know why he just refuses to jump occasionally - it's possibly just to do with the dodgy hitboxes.
Thanks for the comments :) I probably should have done swept shape collisions, but the AABB was hacked as it was, and I probably never would have got anything done if I'd tried to do *decent* collisions.
Again, sorry for the bugs. I get the feeling it was the poor collision code that caused the jump bug, as it gets rectified by moving to the edge of the block you're standing on (or moving off of it). Unfortunately, it's too late to fix that now :(
Platformers aren't hard to make, I'm just not good at making platformers (or doing anything else in 48h, as a matter of fact...)
Thanks for the comments, it seems to be a hitbox collision issue - for some reason, hitboxes weren't working correctly, and I had to fix it in a makeshift way.
Thanks again for the comments. My advice is not to hold down anything going into a level, as that way you'll avoid the spikes. As for restarting the level, that is a possible solution, but it makes it a bit too easy to complete. Oh, and thanks a lot for the collision detection tutorial :)
Again, I can see that the jump bug is a massive issue - I agree that it's the biggest issue with my game. As for dying instantly on Level 2, that's only if you run into the spike by accident at the start. The hole on Level 2 (and Level 4) is meant to kill you instantly. Finally, Level 4 is meant to be virtually impossible to work out what does what.
Nice take on tower defense :) The only issue was working out what tower did what, but after that it was great :)
An amazing game, and an interesting spin on Minimalism :) My only issue was with how hard the final level was, although I managed to complete it in the end... after a few hours :P
Absolutely loved it, and the plot twist (which, for the sake of spoilers, I won't name) was really good. Actually reminded me a bit of FTL, and one of the best games I've seen so far :)
Interesting... unlike theomnis, I did find the trees, though not as I expected. The first time, I went through a couple of rooms until I reached a red cube of death, which (presumably) killed me and sent me back to the start. I then repeated the route, fell off of the edge (possibly a bug?) and reached the trees. Actually, it was a shame I couldn't explore more of the trees, I quite liked that area.
On to the game, it was quite innovative and fun, and I felt it approached the theme pretty well. The only issue I had with it was that it seemed a bit lacking in what I could do - I would have liked more than going down a path and coming back.
Really nice, but at high speeds it got a bit jerky :) Oh, highscore: 690
Same as what cinnamonmelonpig said: I could open it, but beyond that, I couldn't control anything. If it helps, I tried both the Java 6 & 7 ones, with a Mac, Firefox and Java 7.something.
Absolutely loved this game - I literally just played it for the last couple of hours :) The only bug I found was that against a couple of much stronger enemies (relative to me), I managed to heal them with magic - my damage was negative :P Still, that's probably the result of using harmful magic on the undead.
Quite good, although I was *really* confused by the puzzle...
Literally the best game I've ever played in a Ludum Dare :) Seriously, it's got an unbelievable amount of polish, a bit of a storyline, and a really interesting game mechanic. My only issue was, if anything, that it was too short - please, please make a Post-Compo version with loads more (and saving) - I'd quite happily pay for it if it was on Steam (or equivalent)!
Really nice game, and it definitely gets hard as you go on! 39.56s
Really nice game, although I feel it would be easier on Android - this game feels like it's lending itself towards a two-finger playstyle.
Quite a nice game, although I would have liked something to tell me the objective (other than open the door - was there something you had to get, for example). Also, the jumping was a bit jerky - I would have preferred smooth jumping (by using acceleration, presumably).
Really liked it, although after a while (15 mins, maybe?) I started to get a bit bored of collecting red dots :)
Quite a nice game, and I really liked the low poly-count hearts - for whatever reason, it reminded me of Ocarina of Time from the Legend of Zelda series :) My only issue was the animations when you got a heart or died, they seemed a bit out of place.
There's only one issue with this game - on the Unity web player, it doesn't show anything other than the start screen, or the retry screen when I inevitably die. This may just be with my computer, but the other Unity web entries that I've used have run fine, so it's more likely an issue with this.
I liked this a lot, although I did have a bit of an issue with lag. It wasn't my computer (AFAIK), unless there's an issue with Unity Web Player and Macs... any idea why this may not be working?
Quite good, but there were issues with spikes and hitboxes - I could die just trying to get to the end of a platform. Also, the text from one level temporarily popped up on the level before (a sort of flash, if you will).
Well, it worked for me (and on a Mac) - you should really update this so that there's links to the same file for Mac OS X and Linux, as HTML *is* cross-platform. If anything, I actually found the game too slow, and I would have preferred it to have started faster.
Quite nice and simple (unlike some other games here) but it was a bit short - it would have been nice if there was some simple level system (maybe extra ships/quicker ships?)
Interesting, although the entire interface, etc. was very confusing and it took me 5 mins to work it out :) Other than that, not that bad a game.
Great game :) Is there any reason that my penguins didn't seem to be attacking very fast (compared to the enemy) or is that just me being bad at the game?
Quite interesting, and there were interesting rules, but I found the actual gameplay a bit tedious - I guess it's part of the needing two players thing. Also, it might be more interesting if you can't see the other player's hand.
Really liked it, but thanks to the 'you only have one searchlight' I keep on dying around 6500 points :P
Quite good, although I was quite upset when I got to the '4, 8, You Win' bit as a couldn't max out all of the weapons 10 points - it was a *bit* short.
Pretty good, although those white balls will be the end of me :)
Quite interesting, and I liked the story, but I didn't really see many options - as far as I could see, most of the time there was only 1 option, although this could have been me not scrolling down enough.
A great idea, and a great take on Minimalism. My only issue was that it was quite easy, but that's not that much of an issue.
Really nice game, make more :)
Quite good, although I couldn't find anything after I got the plant - was that it?
Lovely game, with an interesting take on the theme. The one item at a time thing is *really* annoying though, when I'm trying to keep track of my weapon and a key.
Haha, that was excellent ;-)