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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | YANA | compo | 532 | 2.25 | 1.83 | 2.29 | 2.00 | 2.43 | 2.43 | 2.60 | 2.80 | 57 |
that's a pretty weird place to give that error... seeing as the control sound effects are pretty much tiny compared to the BGM so you'd guess that would cause the exception, but that would mean the exception occurs on startup, not after pressing a control
yea, good point, i only realized that this morning, if you're playing in a very dark environment it's okay, and i think part of why it's hard to read is the gray background tile overlaying it, i'll put up a recolored version seperately, the green is a lot more clear, so i'll swap the red/green tiles' color
yea, guess that's kind of a storyline/level design fail on my part, the idea was to, at the very end convey that you weren't the only being alive on the starship *even if it doesn't even really look like a starship*
tatham / khaoTom this exception seems to be caused because the mac version of JRE uses a different implementation of java's sound clip class, hardlimiting the buffer to 1 MB, while every other version can open a buffer larger than 1 MB just fine
summaky: sorry, i realize now i had forgotten to make this clear in the in-game instructions, but you can select the regular in-game blocks with keys 1-6, middle mouse/scroll wheel is for the level editor
sorry, make that 1-8, not 1-6, i'll make a small description in the original post
robmaister: the thing that was killing you near the second checkpoint are the spikes on the ground, and i am aware of the buggy spawn, i'm afraid that's mostly a problem with the way checkpoints and the view recentering is handled, blocks outside the view are inactive, so as soon as the player is outside the view, blocks will be non-solid, also, when a lagspike occurs, the player might fall through the ground because the game doesn't check for collisions between 2 frames, and uses a time multiplier to determine the distance traveled between 2 frames... i haven't made the game reset its timers properly when loading a new map, and that causes the "falling through the ground" effect that's happening
the scrolling away at high speed means you spawn in a wall, which is indeed badly broken, sadly, the game tries to move the player up to a place where there's no blocks overlapping it, and does so at 10 pixels per frame, it also does about 5% damage per frame...
as far as brown blocks goes, that's actually your breaking the game, if you check at the bottom-left of those blocks, you'll see a small hole you're supposed to fill with any of the blocks in slots 1-6 of your inventory, while the border around slot 9 is blue(IE the editor is turned off)
somehow the movement issue seems to have started in 2012 :O
awesome, found the kitten in paranoia XD, like "exit" NOES IT'S A LIE, there's another road, i'll check that first
love the chasing guys, found a small glitch with them in that player sprite's direction depends on movement direction, while the chasing dudes' sprites are only updated when on the ground, so if you move forward, jump, and THEN move backward, you'll be moving back and facing backwards but the guys chasing you will keep facing forward while moving backwards, also did not seem to hear any audio in the xmas version, and the regular had it non-looping, which is too bad because it's a good track i think
overall i really like it, but i think you could like use this as part of a rhythmic puzzle game? like you'd have to hit switches with certain timing, and the beat of the music could help with the timing ;)
i thought it was strange that the water effect on the bird seemed to suggest the bird was coming from the horizon, while shrinking as it came lower(if you know what i mean by that), apart from that this reminds me of the rocket level things in DKCR :D now to go for an actually high score :P
i also like how you take going off the screen into account the way you did, 1 small bug though: if you get a score of , i think 100-200, it says "sorry, no scores were beaten" while it's definitely above the kittens' score of 100 :(
jumping's broken in html5 version, you can jump after falling from a ledge, and i used that to jump out of the level, also, it KINDA seems to wrap vertically, but the view doesn't scroll with it :P i was able to complete the game after jumping off the ledge
graphics were pretty nice though
@comments, i think it's source only because python is a fully interpreted language, and therefore doesn't generally have to be built/compiled to run
"ludum dare 22 has stopped working" on startup, so i can't test it
got to close to 4000 points, pretty nice, but i notice a HUGE shift in difficulty when you get the lightning powerup, since you suddenly zap half of the field in 1 shot
i lol'd pretty hard when i saw the "eat cat" message
also WHY is the airlock sealed and is it impossible to open XD that would've probably made it possible to save both me AND the cat :P
too bad this was so short, it has potential though
thanks notch ;) this kinda taught me how to embed jar files :D, game's pretty much awesome, but you could basically get everything max level basically before even attacking a single enemy, so perhaps difficulty is slightly lower than your LD21 entry? but then again, i kinda failed, shenanigans with zombies, i really like the graphics style, too ;)
what the???
it ran pretty much fine for me, once the intro finished, i placed a radar, and then seeing as i placed it dead over some aircrafts, a missile thing, at which point enemies started shooting, and basically took out both towers in a few seconds, and every new tower i placed also got killed in 2 seconds flat, how are you supposed to complete this exactly???
quite a simplistic game, usually tended to keep using the laser to first blast half of humanity off the planet, and then keep firing, even though it starts pulsing, to take care of the rest, got me to 10th place on my first try, i also really like the graphics :D
pretty fun, though possibly rather slow-paced because of the lack of a run button, and i like the lighting/raycasting effects
awesome storyline ;) and a well-built game, and even if graphics seemed, it kinda worked ;)
funny? yes, if only for how strange the bugs in it are :P
i also agree with xelifian, that the 2-color graphics made it even more weird, i did end up laughing so hard at the security bots i had to actually chase in order to get them to follow me i got myself killed by the first thing that actually tried to kill me, so props for fun / humor even if not all of what i found so funny was perhaps intentional ;)(such as the security bots getting stuck in the walls of the pyramids if you jump on to them)
a few remarks, first off, this, graphically, looks very similar to @notch's ld21 entry: prelude of the chambered, is that what you were inspired by? also, i wasn't able to find any button on the keyboard that functioned as a "drop" key, and that meant i seemed unable to carry all 7 kittens at any time after picking up any item, but then again, i hadn't realised there were seperate mouse controls, and your source code link seems to be broken?
zoral: not sure that's score, it might represent decrypted bytes
it's pretty nice, but i don't like escape being insta-quit ;)
i personally prefer escape being a return-to-menu type button, and to only have it quit if you press escape in the main menu
also i just got killed straight through the shield, and i don't really like the bullets bouncing off in a totally random direction,
hmmz... got this on hardcore, top-down:
3023, 1553, 1047, 1098(not sure how i got more shots hit than fired, but i'll take it), 7.152778, 104.87%, 148.32%
all in all: awesome game, addictive, nice sound.
found a bug though, it explains the strangeness in the previous score: "shots hit" does not reset after a game,
i quite like it, however you seem to have swapped the 2 colors somewhere halfway through ;) but yeah, i quite like this idea :D
yea... a few things that kinda match what the other people said, the fact that the background doesn't scroll is annoying, as is the fact that your health drops to 0 in about 1 second, and the fact that the zombies' hitbox is about twice as large as the zombie itself, also, if you start actually shooting the zombies, you'll die, simple as that... it's easier to just run and jump over them all, even with the annoyingly large hitbox
when you're in "thin" mode, you can kind of "hang on" to the platform directly next to you, is that how it's supposed to work???
1 comment though, audio-wise and that might be personal taste, but the vegetable-sfx sounds like it's "bad" while the sweets/cookies sound sounds like it's "good"
however the easiest way to complete this game is just to avoid everything you can
the abdomen is insane... one checkpoint? seriously? and a few changes i'd like:
less insanely high movement speed, and the fact that seeds actually reset after dying(perhaps up to last checkpoint), because you can get yourself locked as of right now
this is HARD, love the vocal sounds though *just finished bastion, it's awesome :P*
amazingly well-made for a 48-hour game :O really great
HUGE performance issues, and the refreshing thing uzimonkey mentioned, but it's only when pressing left/right, jumping seems to work in web though,
you also seem to enable double jumps on the staircase :P
works pretty well
also, uzimonkey: there's a download link to the SWF to the bottom right XD
nice game idea, i like it, i do feel like level 9 was the hardest, and that the sonar mostly threw me off? but that might have been because i was rushing, i think the BGM kinda fits the mood i would expect in a game like this, too, as with a lot of these games, and yea, it took me about 3 levels to realize i was actually making progress, since the first two level endings i was like "wtf? suddenly visuals? well whatever the hell that was, i have an exit to find"
pretty much awesome ;) not too innovative though(i seem to remember at least 1 game using this exact idea, i like the idea of building actual defenses though) :P
i really like the gimmick you use, though it's quite a one-sided gimmick for now, you can complete every puzzle simply by slowing down light to 2 m/s
also, i think you're using CPU raycasting, and that's why it's so slow, too bad because i do really like this gimmick, and see potential for some very interesting puzzles, especially if you were to combine it with the gimmick i used (which is cellular automaton wiring) and improved performance with better level design :D
one other thing though: slowing down light doesn't mean sound has to slow down ;) a thing you might do that would really represent the light slowing down effect is to have a wavy lighting scene, so the light would just pulsate at about 1 hz, and it would be, like, expanding circles, but the pulses would be visible as being very wide at 32 m/s and very close together at 2 m/s, so you'd have a pretty much even-colored pulsing light at 32 m/s, and a wavy-like pattern at 2 m/s, if that makes any sense to you?