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Games

YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuCmCo
201122AloneAncient Roverjam2.202.4414
201121EscapeEscacompo3542.552.243.811.901.711.001.673.087
200915CavernsCeltic Caverncompo862.762.763.382.762.712.843.051.956

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Comments by tnelsond

LD20 — It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This!

Dangerous II by SMSadventure 2011-05-01T02:01:00

Why can't I "use this"?

LD21 — Escape

Esca by tnelsond 2011-08-22T17:00:00

You can kinda "stack" commands by typing commands really fast.
All you have to do is type a command, then a space, then another command.
Or do you mean like create new commands?

Esca by tnelsond 2011-08-23T04:34:00

Or do you mean stack commands like "walk 5"?

Esca by tnelsond 2011-08-23T22:41:00

I considered not requiring the space between the commands, but then I figured it wouldn't help people's typing skills as much.

Yeah, I should probably polish and simplify it and make the learning curve easier, I'm the only one I know who actually beat it.

For a post compo version I'm envisioning two lines of text, one for running, another for jumping. If you type the text from the first line then your character moves, and if you type stuff from the second line your character jumps. And as you progress through the game you'd have to type more and more to "escape" bad guys chasing you or something like that.

Esca by tnelsond 2011-08-25T18:03:00

d_m: Well there are ingame hints. You just have to look for them.

Esca by tnelsond 2011-08-27T17:13:00

Shigor: "flap" is what birds do when they fly, they flap their wings, thus in the game if you type "flap" fast enough you fly, not just "hop"

Flee Buster by ChevyRay 2011-08-24T05:38:00

At first I thought that you wanted to avoid the tokens. Because of the sound they made and that what looked liked the health bar shrunk when you touched them. Lol. Besides that, Great game!

Stormcrow by someone 2011-08-24T22:08:00

Like the control mechanism. :D

Escape from Browser Stability by Lerc 2011-08-23T17:27:00

Fun game, the graphics are pretty amazing.
It works great in the webkit based browser named surf. The game is kind of resource hungry though.

Hello?? by Jhelle 2011-08-23T23:09:00

Fun game. The ending was great. I can't help but thinking it would have been funner though to figure out the commands and type them rather than punch a number.

Escape from Flatland: an Adventure of Two Dimensions by pdyxs 2011-08-22T17:22:00

How do I get the social part to work? Does it write something on my wall or what?

26 Prisoners by Devenger 2011-08-23T22:52:00

This is a great game. Love the game mechanics especially. Very polished.

Prelude of the Chambered by Notch 2011-08-27T03:23:00

Great game, but the ice looks a bit too much like water. I didn't know what it was till I got the skates. :D

[ESC]'s Escape by MrTwister 2011-08-23T04:29:00

On some computers, (like mine) the escape key doesn't always register correctly on the game unless I click a mouse button simultaneously. An escape key may be asthetically good, but some systems won't work with it.
Besides that, it's a fun little game.

Escape Run by erko 2011-08-22T20:28:00

I couldn't unzip the source

Archive: game1_erko_src.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of game1_erko_src.zip or
game1_erko_src.zip.zip, and cannot find game1_erko_src.zip.ZIP, period.

Escape Run by erko 2011-08-22T20:31:00

Nevermind, I downloaded it wrong.

Escape Run by erko 2011-08-22T20:47:00

Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare entry.

Here's some feedback:

+ You did a great job on the physics.
+ It's pretty easy to get up and running on my Linux box from source.
+ I didn't have to edit the python source code at all. That's amazing, because usually there's an incompatibility somewhere.
- It's called "escape run", but it doesn't seem like my circle is running or moving, everything seems to be coming to it.
- It would be nice to have an indicator of how much health is left.
- It would also be nice to see the mouse cursor in order to do more accurate aiming.

Captain Starfire's Great Escape! by jonnopon3000 2011-08-25T03:08:00

Nice game. I liked how you wrote the message in text and even managed to make it look like there was intereference. :D

Yeah, I looked at your code. The problem you're having with the bullets is the thing about the trig with the atan2 and the sin and cos, but also that the last two parameters of constructing an entity is an int which isn't as accurate for this sort of thing as a double would be. Here's my attempt to implement using sin and cos so that you get a constant speed despite the mouse's location:

double t_angle = -Math.atan2(destX-startX, destY-startY) + Math.PI / 2;
entities.add(new EntityBullet(startX + 20, startY + 20, (int) (600 * Math.cos(t_angle)), (int) (600 * Math.sin(t_angle))));

Escape from Pleasure Resort by ToxicLogic 2011-08-24T21:42:00

Very well done. The Albert Einstein quote was a nice touch.

Fred the Astro-Miner by supermaximo93 2011-08-23T00:55:00

I'm on linux and I can't execute the binary, and there's no makefile so I have no idea how to compile it. I have SDL installed.

Vector Dash by black_mage_andy 2011-08-24T04:38:00

I never actually played the game, but I watched a video about it.

Self Destruct: Activated by jauntypixel 2011-08-26T17:19:00

Loved the particle effects.

Flashlight Runner by TheVTM 2011-08-23T17:09:00

46 seconds, and I concur with JohanAR about the first jump.

Bubba's Escape by Puffi 2011-08-22T19:24:00

It's kinda hard to tell what order to play the levels in, is it left to right or top to bottom? Besides that it's a good game. Gave up at the level in the screenshot.

Bubba's Escape by Puffi 2011-08-22T19:24:00

It's kinda hard to tell what order to play the levels in, is it left to right or top to bottom? Besides that it's a good game. Gave up at the level in the screenshot. I especially like the Linux support.

GTFO - The Game by Kinta 2011-08-24T05:28:00

Awesome, it's really well done. But after 4 or 5 levels, I got errors and had to close the game.

Eggscape by Make A Game 2011-08-31T21:58:00

Innovative gameplay mechanic. Very interesting.

Ball Escape by Mjiig 2011-08-23T18:31:00

Fun game, I like the mechanics of it.

It's kind of hard to tell that that 1px black line on the side of the screen is a hole.
And it's a bit frustrating that the ball can't orbit a green dot into the hole, but has to bounce into it, this sort of thing should be explained or something.

Love the Linux support, with 2 binaries even. Wow. :D

""Escape the Flood 3D"" by RipX 2011-08-23T19:53:00

@matthias_zarzecki: It just runs slow on my computer, so I have plenty of time, too bad it's too slow.

pblob by nr505 2011-08-23T17:16:00

Fun game, but I think I found a glitch. On the level that has an unreachable blue spot with blocks on all sides, I got stuck in there somehow.

Flee your Fate by TellusE 2011-08-24T04:45:00

I don't think your windows version works.

LD22 — Alone

Ancient Rover by tnelsond 2011-12-21T00:22:00

@shard123: Yeah sorry, I was really pressed for time on this game and am having problems porting to Windows because SDL_mixer isn't working right.

[Greeble] by McFunkypants 2012-01-02T23:43:00

There's a bug where when you walk off a cliff you can jump in mid air.

Out by kosinus 2011-12-20T13:52:00

Runs slowly on my computer (XP running Chrome).