Infinite Fame by bitslap 2013-12-16T18:25:00
Beautiful pixel art, very short and tough as nails. Wish it were longer!
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Glide Bomb | compo | 144 | 3.68 | 3.85 | 3.36 | 3.17 | 3.12 | 3.41 | 3.63 | 46 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Flying Blind | compo | 50 | 3.90 | 3.76 | 4.05 | 4.65 | 4.19 | 3.35 | 4.00 | 26 | ||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Hello World | compo | 6 | 4.26 | 3.82 | 4.32 | 4.42 | 3.82 | 4.00 | 2.96 | 4.14 | 52 | |
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Sub Bomber | compo | 270 | 3.48 | 3.71 | 3.01 | 3.25 | 3.34 | 3.42 | 2.56 | 3.31 | 48 | |
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Asphyxia | compo | 131 | 3.57 | 2.97 | 3.17 | 2.87 | 3.84 | 3.70 | 2.13 | 3.98 | 90 |
Beautiful pixel art, very short and tough as nails. Wish it were longer!
I felt the same way as Citiral. I not sure what I was doing, sometimes it dashed, sometimes it didn't.
Very hard :P.
@goyal You are right that the game is very unforgiving, don't feel bad for skipping a level! That's what I added the button for ;). I actually trimmed the hitbox down quite a bit (screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/A6gcubk.png), but I know it is probably still too hard.
Figured I'd add this to the comments to explain the name of the game a little:
Asphyxia or asphyxiation (from Greek α- "without" and σφύξις sphyxis, "heartbeat") is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.
Very pretty game, a test of patience (much like finding your soulmate in real life I suppose), but in the end I found my soulmate.
http://i.imgur.com/5C6q8F3.png
After the intro sequence it went black, after clicking on it again I came into some sort of street scene and this error popped up and it became all black, with only the "next" button visible. I will come back at a later time to play and rate this game, thought I would let you know!
Really short, but a nice job!
I really like the mechanic and it is impressive that you managed to implement something this complex in 48hr.
The graphics are a mixture of many different ways of creating it, there's vector art for the ships, large pixels for the island and hexagons for the sea (the effect on which is beautiful), this is all forgivable though!
Maybe I missed it, but maybe an abort button would be a nice addition, because I can sometimes just see it's headed for disaster and I have to wait it out.
Sound effects were just fine, music would have been nice but I can understand how there was no time for that with such a complex game!
Well done!
By the way, I left a reply to your comment on my game
Very unique, the controls make it very hard though, the momentum is huge!
Clicking spacebar on the moon seems to freeze the game.
No sound it seems (firefox).
Nanda Kore/5
You have been awarded the first Nanda Kore Award of Comedy Excellence.
I loved it! Managed to finish it too ;).
Very awesome, 5/5. A better bit trip runner.
The .bat file is incorrect (points to wrong .jar filename), the game however worked fine after changing that.
Very difficult, I could not figure out much without looking at the source. Some small tips that may help others forward: Ask questions in lowercase and use proper punctuation! (and even then I'd be surprised if anybody beat it without peeking at the source)
I love seeing textgames however!
Platypus
Could use a little more attention on the art-side, but the game was functional and had a start and ending, and that is all what matters. Well done!
The sound effects (keys hit) seemed a bit random, would've been awesome if they played the melody together. The graphics were pretty nice, I love particles!
Good job!
Score: 74
Thanks for all the replies!
New highscore: 58
http://i.gyazo.com/c9495ce56ebd610aff51461936516305.png
Very solid controls, reminded me of Wolfenstein 3D which I played to death. Graphics were simple but nice and got the job done.
Small nitpick: The enemies had a maximum range in which they would fight back, allowing me to snipe them from afar without risks.
Well done! I too was expecting a flappy bird game, and it was different from that, reminded me of the game I created for this game :). The mechanic is well thought out.
http://puu.sh/8qx6H.png Look at that sexy dome nest in 20 minutes!
Really fun game, incredibly complex for a 48hr game.
Probably the longest I have played a LD game for!
Very hard, I got slaughtered by the insects. Music was pretty good, although very loud. Controls were very hard due to the extremely fast gravity.
A bit glitchy altogether, but still not bad for a first entry! Now I'm going to give it another shot and try to beat it ;).
Managed to beat it after many, many attempts. Had to adapt my strategy quite a bit.
Great game, nice mechanics and sound!
Graphics are simple, but they got the job done. I often found myself staying too deep for too long, causing me to drown, which was a nice mechanic. Controls were a bit gimmicky.
It would have been nice if the game would end after collecting all the valuables, aside from that, well done!
Very nice pixel art, it is satisfying to hit the cars with the puncher. The magnet seems quite pointless except for blowing yourself up by overheating it :P, I suppose that part is not finished yet.
Great job on your first entry!
Impressive work in 48 hours, especially the art and soundtrack!
The controls were difficult to get started with, but after a while you get used to them.
Awesome
You managed to pull off something quite big and beautiful, good job! It was hard to understand what I was supposed to be doing, as my crew kept dying of slugs, lack of food or age.
Pretty hard, but I managed to beat it the third try (with some lucky guesses here and there). I wonder if the flashing planets were intended? The sound effects were top notch :)
Awesome! While scrolling past the new posts I saw your post mortem, I paused because I thought it looked like my game (the bullets look similar to the messages in my game, and the orbiting planets). But it's a totally different game. Very well done, the music is awesome! It's a tad difficult, but hey, I'm a space pirate hunter pro after playing this.
Good work on the game, the leaderboards are a cool addition and give it more replay value. It's quite difficult, everything is very fast, but hey, many games in LD are.
The art is fine for a programmer, everything in my game is basically particles too :P
Cool! Nice mechanic with a great execution, I love the visuals.
Great puzzle games, new mechanics are introduced at a rate that is managable. It's fun and requires some out of the box thinking, it was sometimes however not clear which lines could cross and which could not.
Managed to finish it :)
Reminds me of the game I set out to make, but ended up changing it around completely because it was too complex. You guys managed to do it somehow, and it is well done! The music fits the game perfectly, the movement is a bit slow. Sometimes ships would get stuck when passing eachother (screenshot http://puu.sh/b8hKm/05fc363d9b.jpg).
I'd love to play a post-compo version of this.
That was pretty unique.
There are quite a few things that could need improvement:
It was hard to read the text, it kept resetting it seemed, and it wasn't clear what exactly happened upon clicking objects.
I have attempted the game some 4 times (2 times unfixed, 2 times fixed version), On the first playthrough the prison door just opened without having done the puzzle. The second one I completed the puzzle, but couldn't get the door to open.
The third the same deal, the fourth I got to the darkness part, but then I ended up in the prison again.
Music or sound didn't work for me (tried in firefox and chrome). I was able to find the music in the source however, so played that in the background.
Aside from those downsides, it's not bad for a first entry! Especially considering how ambitious it is. It was quite funny and entertaining because of the silly bugs, the music was not bad at all.
I hope it was the end (the fadeout part, which also happened multiple times as I was clicking randomly), as I try to give every game a fair shot at completion :). Good job!
It works fine, the controls are unlike anything I have ever played before and took a long time of getting used to, but that is what made the game fun. I was happy when I finally delivered my first shipment after a few close calls!
Make sure you land on the white end of the runway :)
Thanks for playing!
Sorry to hear about the bad performance, I had to write much of the drawing code myself to get the part-of-the-screen-only-updates behavior in Phaser.
It was all written very naïvely and Phaser could not know about these entities, so I had to write mirror implementations for collisiondetection, mouse click detection. All this killed performance :/. You can try it in Firefox, it seems to work a little bit better there.
Killing myself was surprisingly fun ;).
Amazing graphics, I love the particles and small details.
4.5/5 (on average)
At first I was uncertain what to do, but I was soon able to figure it out. The sound effects were pretty loud.
Congratulations on your first entry!
Hint for other players: You can sprint using shift!
How I got the game to run:
First I downloaded the zip of the source from here https://github.com/michaeltopping/LD32/archive/master.zip
Then I had to install pygame, which I could find here http://pygame.org/download.shtml
But, because I had a 64bit version of pygame, it required the 64bit version found here, which I could install using wheel (pip install wheel) http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame
I could then run the game by using 'python main.py' in the downloaded folder, hope this helps some of you! :)
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I achieved a score of 165, it was a bit hard to get an idea whether I was doing well or not. Good job on your first entry!
Sometimes the targets would move between keys, not sure what I could do about that. My high score is 5100 :), it was pretty challenging playing this game using a keyboard with no printed characters on it!
Maybe it would be easier if the keys were aligned as they are on actual keyboards (not in straight lines).
Great job on the game, love the original mechanic.
I'm not sure how to play, but the robots were nice to look at.
Very challenging game!
The graphics could use some work (get rid of the default Unity camera background color!), but the mechanics are implemented flawlessly. Whenever I failed I felt it was my own fault.
That last level made me want to punch a baby, but with challenge comes more satisfaction when you finally make it :).
Nice take on the theme! The bird animations are great, the map itself could use some work on the graphics side (perhaps a green floor would have been nicer?).
After multiple attempts at either level I was unable to finish the game and get a score :/, it could really use some checkpoints or shorter levels.
It was frustrating to die very far into the level by a green bullet (which are hard to see with the blue background).
I am not sure what i was killing, but the idea of killing green snowmen(?) into the water is pretty novel. The animations of the llamas feet was stellar.
Are there more than 4 levels? If so, I couldn't reach that :)
This is so much better than I expected from the screenshots, great entry!