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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Animalympics | jam | 514 | 2.29 | 2.21 | 2.09 | 2.17 | 3.48 | 2.48 | 3.57 | 2.56 | 46 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Less | jam | 305 | 3.03 | 2.70 | 3.33 | 3.15 | 3.03 | 2.67 | 3.46 | 48 | |||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | My Little Terrorist | jam | 121 | 3.21 | 2.70 | 3.30 | 3.94 | 2.90 | 2.67 | 2.83 | 62 |
| Year | MiniLD | Theme | Game | Rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 45 | Low-Level Jam | P8NG Debugger |
tomc leaves an average of 7.6 feedback comments each event.
An interesting take on roguelikes. Although I never liked traps as a mechanic in RLs - it seems too much like a cheaty way to add difficulty.
Still, I really liked the way this game treats immortality. It reminds me of Torchwood! :)
Nice idea.
It was hard to tell who was talking at times though.
Backgrounds were nice, music was nice (where's that from?).
But sometimes when I hit the up key she didn't jump. Are you perhaps polling the up key instead of detecting it as an event?
Also, those one-block-wide platforms I'm supposed to jump on are impossible, or the girl's hitbox is too narrow.
Having the arrow keys control the direction of the turret, but the mouse control where the shots went was confusing.
Kudos for including non-BFXR sound effects.
Doesn't run on Ubuntu 13.04:
[tomc@obakeyashiki uniflagellete]$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_45"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)
[tomc@obakeyashiki uniflagellete]$ java -jar RUN.jar
Failure in MainMenu
The jumping physics are bad - things don't travel vertically at a constant speed because gravity is always applying an acceleration. This is what human brains are trained to expect, and if your game doesn't do it, players will get frustrated.
There was a crash that kept happening when jumping while touching a wall, and every time I pressed N to go to the next level. Hope this backtrace helps:
Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.badlogic.gdx.math.Rectangle.setPosition(Rectangle.java:137)
at com.treehouseelite.ld28.thespians.Thespian.updateRectangle(Thespian.java:84)
at com.treehouseelite.ld28.thespians.Player.checkContainment(Player.java:342)
at com.treehouseelite.ld28.thespians.Player.update(Player.java:93)
at com.treehouseelite.ld28.screens.GameLevel.render(GameLevel.java:104)
at com.badlogic.gdx.Game.render(Game.java:46)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication.mainLoop(LwjglApplication.java:207)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication$1.run(LwjglApplication.java:114)
Not bad for a first 3d attempt during a jam!
I have no idea how Sandra Bullock managed to do this. That was hard!
Wow this was really fun!
Not bad! Good use of the theme. It was a little easy though -- I was usually able to get all the coins and pandas with a minute to spare.
Funny, but the way the text typed itself out was very annoying - not so much because of the speed or the sound, but because it kept changing the position and size of everything I've just read! I have to keep re-reading it to make sense of it.
> Hey I get this in terminal: ./Vita: error while loading shared libraries: libsfml-audio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I got this problem initially as well. After prefixing the command with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. I got this:
[tomc@hal Vita - LINUX]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./Vita
./Vita: error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Interesting, a kind of acting game? You're told how to react to certain kinds of events and are then tested on your ability to remember those rules.
I don't get it. There was nothing in this game except horizontal movement.
Score: 65700
Damn chavs overwhelmed me. That was quite fun, well done!
Surprisingly polished for a 48 hour game!
It was hard, but as I started to get the hang of it, it became quite a fun puzzle.
I lasted 13 days :)
@tombsar: I'm one of the coders. Thanks for letting us know. Which operating system are you using? Is anything printed to the console / terminal?
If you're on linux, do you have (libmp3)lame installed? This library is required to playback MP3s.
This was really cool. Well-made graphics, satisfying sounds. I wouldn't say it was frustrating, but it was very difficult to find the right sequence of actions. In the end I gave up and read the source!
But what was the significance of the gift in the locked box? Or is that just story?
I don't really understand what's happening. The graphics are nice though. Did you make them yourself?
Both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries segfaulted. Completely locked up my machine when I tried running them in gdb.
Requires libGLEW.so.1.9. Ubuntu 12.10 only has 1.8.
Good mix of mechanics; fun gameplay!
Controls were very tricky with a laptop touchpad. Art style and sounds were nice and consistent.
I have no idea what's going on, but it's humorous at least!
The graphics are pretty nice. It looks like it could have been a good game.
Better luck next time? Maybe see if you can find any pre-made engines/libraries that can help you speed up development?
Clicking/pressing Space/R at the beginning does nothing.
Charming graphics!
It's definitely possible to completely trap the blocks (try building walls from the entrance up to the first set of spike and closing them in with it). Probably you want to run some search algorithm each time a block is placed to check that no blocks are unable to reach the exit.
Kudos for the linux binary though, and it's a pretty clever idea!
I can't run it. I see the warning screen but nothing happens after the pre-loading bit. Chromium on Ubuntu 12.10.
LD29 — Beneath the Surface (4)
Hare's Harvest by mtrc 2014-04-28T23:07:00
Wow, that was fun! Clever puzzles. And the audio was really nice.
Jet Force Gemini by gamesbyangelina 2014-04-28T22:51:00
ANGELINA has a thing for collecting boats!
Mr Tibbles Lost in the City of R'lyeh by Udell Games 2014-04-28T22:47:00
Creepy audio! Not sure I approve of all the violence against my poor cat though. What bastard demons would do something that horrible? :<
I like the smooth movement animations in this game. Makes a change from the usual sudden jarring movement in a roguelike.
Sneak-Easy by allurious 2014-04-28T22:38:00
Beautiful art, and very fitting, appropriate music. There are a few bugs, but they're not particularly annoying. The core gameplay is good! A full version would be fun for sure!