IdentiThief by PROGRAM_IX 2012-12-17T22:11:00
Technically what is there should run on Mac. Not sure about Windows, but certainly nothing very Linux-specific is there. I just wasn't able to test it, so I didn't want to list it as Windows-compatible.
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | IdentiThief | jam |
Technically what is there should run on Mac. Not sure about Windows, but certainly nothing very Linux-specific is there. I just wasn't able to test it, so I didn't want to list it as Windows-compatible.
Sorry you guys couldn't play it. I didn't think I would be able to participate at all this time around, and even though I did get a decently 'full' game, I agree it's a bit lacking in terms of usability.
Thanks a lot, Spiridios! I'm new to LD, appreciate the help with compatibility.
Jack, that's odd. The right-click to quit thing should raise a SystemExit exception, if memory serves. Maybe that doesn't work the same on Windows?
For a start, that's not really how packets work. It's not a great abstraction, I just wanted to use that general idea of sniffing packets to impersonate computers. You're the villain because you're isolating this one person by impersonating all the other computers, i.e., all traffic that this computer thinks is going to its peers, is now going to you.
I agree, though, it's not the best abstraction, and even with its relative simplicity I'm sure I did something wrong. Thanks for playing it anyway!
Cool, thanks. :)
Yes, one limitation of the framework I'm using/developing is that different states (like menu and game) share the same event handling engine, so if you pressed Esc to exit the main game, it would exit the menu immediately, as well. Using left-click/right-click in the menu was the solution I came up with to avoid this. Not ideal, but then what is in an LD48 game?
csanyk: You're accurate there. The game is mostly about playing the statistics - if you've already captured three of the packets from one computer, it's not worth the risk to jump on the next one you see if the suspicion/dodginess is high. I was going to add in something to show status of the packets, but I kinda liked the mystery of it. <shrug> Apologies for the harsh hi-hat-ish music, I put it together in a very short period and didn't feel like I could make an actual melody work.
Cosmologicon: I definitely will be entering PyWeek this year, if I have time. I knew about it last year but couldn't enter.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, it's been very instructive!