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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | UprightPath - It Came | jam | 1138 | 2.44 | 2.00 | 2.06 | 2.81 | 2.41 | 33 | ||||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Worlds Collide: a tale of many | compo | 1084 | 2.56 | 2.40 | 2.84 | 3.24 | 1.96 | 1.68 | 2.44 | 2.50 | 44 | |
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | UprightPath - Temple Depths | compo | 702 | 3.04 | 2.76 | 2.57 | 2.63 | 2.82 | 2.40 | 39 | |||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Fire Damp | compo | |||||||||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Darwinian Monsters | compo | 1056 | 2.67 | 2.43 | 3.57 | 3.00 | 2.14 | 33 | ||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Tiny World - Ideas in the Sea of Thought | compo | 880 | 1.85 | 1.39 | 2.80 | 2.20 | 2.38 | 1.11 | 1.33 | 1.96 | 71 |
Fun, but the motion seems a little weird.
Were you trying for some sort of 'time dilation' effect when you're moving? By that, I mean the way that motion seems to change the scale of things, which can make positioning, planning difficult. Heh.
Don't worry, grading me bad won't hurt my feelings. I just felt that I should submit -something-. I know I was plagued by trying to make my images good (I spent hours on the several different tiles) and then on mechanics that didn't even get linked into this release.
It might work on a Mac. I wrote it using libGDX which is supposed to be very cross-platform, so you should be able to. However, I don't have a Mac, so I wasn't able to test whether it works.
I believe that it might work on Mac. I built it using libGDX and included all of the native files that came with it, so it -might- work. However, I'm still new enough to libGDX and the like to not know how to change things if it doesn't.
If/when I get it done I'll make a post somewhere about it. I've already got a better idea for the interface, one that's a hint more intuitive than what I posted before.
Right now the mechanics really don't show themselves off to any degree.
Each unit has a very simple behavior set that it follows in a very stupid way. They pick a target, then depending on what it is and what they are they either move towards or away from it.
Due to not having Spawning rules balanced the enemy side never has a chance to spawn a new unit to defend itself (Though, I could see a shield -maybe- spawning). And since I didn't implement any sort of AI for the enemies, they never attempt to create new structures or anything like that, so... Yeah.
Huh, if possible, could you run it from the command like: java -jar <Name.jar> and tell me what outputs?
Fun! A little difficult if you don't spend a lot of itme building turrets. Heh.
Also, if you press shift in the Factory when you have nothing in your 'hand' it crashes.
This is the error I receive. It happens when I enter the Factory and hit Shift without having any items in hand.
C:\who_stole_my_pixels>java -Djava.awt.opengl=true -jar WhoS
toleMyPixels.jar
Exception in thread "Thread-2" java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.matheusdev.screens.gui.Stack.tryAddStack(Stack.java:29)
at org.matheusdev.game.building.BuildingBase.tryAddWood(BuildingBase.jav
a:80)
at org.matheusdev.game.building.BuildingBase.tickMenu(BuildingBase.java:
71)
at org.matheusdev.screens.ScreenBase.tick(ScreenBase.java:37)
at org.matheusdev.GameCanvas.tick(GameCanvas.java:97)
at org.matheusdev.GameCanvas.run(GameCanvas.java:74)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
As has been said, the controls are what did me in each time. I even blew up trying to dock because the option never came up and I didn't realize I was moving too fast to stop.
I had some trouble with the mouse it seemed somewhat jerky at times, moving from smooth to jumping, and it's sometimes hard to 'see' behind structures to play things.
Really, that's my only beef: I have trouble seeing the cursor at times. Heh.
Very difficult, especially with the turning speed of the gun and the fact that collisions with it breaks it. Heh.
Rather liked it! I mean, the music is rather catchy.
However, I feel like it was missing a "Forty billion stars" reference.
Simple game, simple story, still pretty good.
Clicky clicky clicky clicky clicky. 2,753,031. Working on Windows 7 64bit Home Premium edition!
Hard! Too hard for me to get right. On my screen the colour difference between the tunnel walls and the background isn't enough to easily differentiate them.
It also seems like the physics are a little too unforgiving for a learner (I mean, you start falling immediately, and in my case, I couldn't even see what killed me. xD)
The music and the sounds are sort of annoying. At least to me. xD Otherwise, it's a good bullet-storm type game.
Difficult! Especially with how slow it moves compared to some of the starting particles. I had a huge one swinging towards me at the start and barely escaped it.
I couldn't get the Time Attack version to work, when I attempted to select anything and guide it, nothing happened.
I tried the Survival mode but for the most part I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to be doing. Perhaps using something other than (just) colours would have made it more playable, especially with the two green targets. I was having quite a bit of trouble deciphering which one was the intended goal of a hokey-puck.
I attempted to play the game, but for whatever reason I couldn't get it to work. The page loads, but the game does not.
It's not quite zero-sum, or it doesn't feel that way if you manually lower ground by right clicking. Nothing else changed shape, and didn't seem like I got 'free lifting' somewhere else.
I attempted to get your game to work, however I could not. Your .jar file doesn't have the required LWJGL Library required to run it.
I got stuck just inside a door on several occasions and my man couldn't target the enemy and thus got killed!
I managed to break the engine, I think. Or at least, use the physics against it, in such a way that I could survive indefinitely (I stopped at around five minutes).
Yeah, the idea's alright, though an indication of 'speed' might be nice as well, or some idea of what will slow you down how. It seemed like the river was slowing me down, but that could have just been the fact that I was tired when I hit it. xD
While I could play it, I did have some issues, primarily with the player's hit box. It seemed as though you're using a much larger box to detect collisions (As least left and right) which makes some things like jumping onto the first ledge sort of counter intuitive.
I rather liked it, however I felt that it became -markedly- easier to defeat the enemies when you happened to have two of them stacked on each other. Yes, you get drained doubly fast, but you only need to shoot once, and you're likely to get back more of your light.
Very, very hard. Especially since of the ten times I played I only got to go first once. xD
Figured since you did my game I'd so yours!
Ahem, it was pretty simple, however I almost died in the pacific since I didn't know the map didn't scroll over to the US!
As for what you'd asked me on my game? Nope, Plato didn't even come to mind. It was just an idea when I was heading to my car to get a soda "What's this? A little spark of thought in the dark?" and it grew from there.
My primary problem with the game is the fact that the grid is off-sized (It sort of implies that you can move things a half-step in a direction) and that there is no placement indicator. So I often ended up misplacing things.
Otherwise, it was pretty great.
Zhe mechanics! They're rather difficult to get used to, especially when you're on the bottom of the world.
I spent so much time on the platform jumping that I ended up giving up. Heh.
Still, an interesting idea.
The jumping mechanic, especially in regards to the water, is a little to difficult to deal with. I just started holding down jump the whole time to get through things.
I had trouble getting the music to work. Otherwise, it was a fairly simple puzzle. Not too difficult and I found it pretty simple to decipher. :D
I attempted to play the game, but as soon as I move the cursor over one square away, it gets laggy and unresponsive. Same thing happens if I create a building.
Ba-da-boom towards the center of the universe.
Interesting idea about the collision stuff. Nice effect that you can blow yourself out of the solar system.
Graphics were good, but... Beyond that it didn't feel like much of a game. I'm assuming that the click-and-hold then release is supposed to be a battle taking place outside of the scope of the 'house', but it's hard to tell that's what's going on. Especially since there's no "It's over", I mean we could take the destruction of the house as such, but you can still keep shooting after that.
It was a cute game, and the song was nice, however having something else to listen to at some point during it might have been nice.
I didn't actually see a use for 'hiding' until late on in the game because I didn't realize that you could still walk. xD
Sort of felt like I was just 'Press down when on a downward slope' automoding it. Otherwise, it was okay.
Thus far, I've liked it more than any of the others I've played (Not that I've played many). It would be nice to be able to shoot back, hah.
The character's jumping seems to be off. I ended up having to walk through the spikes at the top of the first level because it wouldn't just correctly for me.
Thank you! I'm planning on expanding on it a bit, since it's something I can actually do something with. Hah.
@Sri Harsha Chilakapati: I'll go ahead and do that. It SHOULD run on most any OS since it's a cross platform build (So I guess I should).
@Drabiter: That's a generation issue. I'm unsure whether adding a button to rebuild the level would be a 'bug fix' at this point. It just makes it more playable.
I THINK that the issue with the orange screen is one of two problems: 1) The random generator is spitting out a 5x5 map that has nothing on it (Which it shouldn't since it shouldn't be outputting a map which automatically meets the loss/win condition. 2) That there's an issue with it forgetting how to update/getting a screen that shouldn't be available there.
If anyone who has this happen can run it through the run.bat and give me any print outs from it or a screen shot of the event, I'd appreciate it.
For those who didn't read the note at the top, the Original download link will BREAK (Have the Orange screen issue mentioned) if you resize/maximize the game. The second link fixes this, but does not scale up the graphics, to make it easier to play/view I made some minor graphics changes (Changing the orange/brown to black, making the door locations/colors easier to discern when open, etc.).
My main issue, as a lot of people have said, is that the controls are rotated by 45. That, and it'd be nice to have your starting place surrounded by blue squares or something. I had a couple of games where I started with reds within two squares of the starting point (On easy).
I could only get through the first level or so (I kept getting slain by the lava). It was great though!
It seemed a little like the game was in the enemy's favor, like you moved slower than they did.
I played around with it a bit. However, I kept dying suddenly (Negative HP) while exploring. Nothing seemed to have attacked. No clue what was happening there.
I loved the fact that even the English Translation/Localization style was 'Minimalistic'. I thought it fit the theme pretty well. Movement keys plus a single action key, a small number of enemies. Though, at the end with the spawning goblins? That was NOT minimal at all.
I know it's supposed to be intuitive, but it would be nice to have an explanation of what's expected. For a while there, I couldn't score any points at all (Don't know if I wasn't focused correctly or what) and I didn't know whether the intent was to press and hold. Also, I'm not sure if it was intentional, but 3, 5, 0 never had 'bad' spots.
I liked the idea, however I had issues with the implementation of the gravity/bouncing. It seemed as though the ball fell at odd rates/bounced oddly off of objects, sometimes seeming to bounce further than it should have for a given impact. Could just be an issue with me though.
I liked it! Most of my comments would follow the others. However, there're a few graphics issues I'd like to bring up: The princess's speech bubble can cover up the knight, making it difficult to tell which way he's facing; the ground seems to spasm when you're turning in a circle (Changes texture, sometimes a seam appears).
Currently can't play because it doesn't have the ants_data file included in the download! I'll try to replay when you fix!
It'd probably help if I knew what Chip's challenge is! xD
Been attempting to play the game but nothing happens when I try to run the executable. (It fails silently, even when I use the command line to run it.)
It looks rather nice and plays pretty well. Though it's difficult/time consuming to buy things (The fact that you can only carry a small number of nuggets is a bit bothersome).
Also, some issues with the spike trap (I dug under it then jumped upwards and got killed.)
Overall rather nice.
Only thing I'd say is to have a method for deselecting the mage and for instantly flipping the table over. The click-drag feature is bothersome and gives you really weird angles.
Hard to play!
A better explanation of the various key commands would be VERY useful (Like that you can use WASD to turn on engines and the like).
I have NO idea what was going on (The red block didn't do anything). >.>
The premise is okay for a sort of puzzle/platformy sort of game. The explanation of using your attack could be better.
I played it but I didn't quite understand what was going on!
As in I didn't get what the bonus/malus was. Was it towards the opponent? And if the number of turns was a negative what did that mean?
Secondary comment: I think that the executable's glitched. When I closed it the sound continued to run and the JVM that it was running in continued!
Can't access the game! It says Insufficient Privileges.
Played it and found it REALLY hard. Of course, that's because I made a similar game and the the physics are similar but JUST different enough to throw me off.
One bit of advice I have is to only jump when the player first presses the jump key. I died a few times because I suddenly jumped when landing because I didn't let go of the jump button immediately.
Looked rather cute. Didn't make it to game status, I don't think. Heh.
Same issues as the guy above.
Not too shabby. It would've been nice if there were a way to kill the the bug from the side you were on (Like hitting one attacking the city while you're on top of it.)
I had an issue with the jump attempts failing until after I used the thruster.
Tried it out! Got to 208 without actually using the mouse because... Well, I'm on a laptop and it doesn't play nicely with trying to use both the mouse and keyboard at the same time...
I sort of just went 'Dolphin' on it and bounced a bomb off my nose for a few moments before strafing to let it hit the people behind me.
Rather liked what I saw. It's a little awkward attempting to play the game and read the messages at the same time though. I know I missed a bunch there when the first enemies appeared then more when "Strong competition" came up.
@little-burrito Yeah, it doesn't help that there's a glitch in the controls that cancels part of your velocity when you land on/pass through platforms.
@Christian Scandariato Yeah, they were added at the very end when I went "Oh, shoot, I forgot to add those!"
@Hempuli If you could tell me 'how' it disappeared I would greatly appreciate it. The diamonds can be picked up by either character.
@eemmbbeerr I'll take a look at it. It might be that the game itself was lagging terribly for some reason. I didn't implement anything to display the frame rate so it could just be that.
Got to the third level as well before I crashed and couldn't figure it out!
Honestly had difficulty with this one, though that was more of a hardware issue since I use a laptop. The touchpad likes to stop working when keys are typed (Perhaps as a palm detection thing? No idea). Got out my mouse and played it.
I loved the graphics. Except the ceiling. And then it was more like I hated, but loved it. It creeped me out to look up and see the movement up there more than ANYTHING else in the game (Not that I played far). I blame the fact that I love the SCP project stuff so much.
Rather cluggy controls and a VERY high distance between things. Made it difficult to enjoy the game, or get far at all.
I played, and honestly, I ended up stuck in a situation where all I could get was "Go to Gym" or "Do Drugs", or "Find Lover" or "Call Ex", and it repeated for several looking iterations. I broke out of it, but it'd be nice if there were an extra option, like a neutral path at times.
I... I can't play this game! My brain is too busy trying to play the game like Escape Velocity! (Left/Right = Rotation, Up = Thrust, Down = Brake.) I ended up spending a lot of time just circling asteroids. xD
Oh, dear lord, the movement! The movement was rather hard on the eyes.
Difficult to play that one. Being unable to tell when an enemy is damage is a little difficult.
Played the game.
Some of the controls are wonky. The Up key causes you to go all of the way to the top and then continues to circle. It's really jarring when you're attempting to move from the bottom to the middle.
Also, some of the images are a little confusing. It took me a while to realize that the whip (Scourge?) was a grace item.
You can package your code and upload it as a release through Github instead of making people clone your repository and stuff.
You can package your game and upload it as a 'Porting' to make it easier.
Chrome flags the file as Malware.
Background looks fantastic, however the controls and collision detection are difficult.
Collision detection was rather wonky and the fall speed (slow) compared to lateral motion (fast) made it hard to dodge the enemy things. Also, the 'mini-game' between might need some explanation.
Couldn't get past the first level due never having the right number of keys (The random door assignment was giving issues).
Also, there's nothing catching if you jump off the ledge and fall off the map.
Chrome flags this entry as malicious.
@Sunflower After looking your notes I went back and had a retry of the game. The issue was that when I was playing it I wasn't really thinking of the puzzle-- My computer's been acting up rather badly for the last three months-- and missed the fact that there was a viable replacement after I picked up the third Graph. I ended up completing it. My only gripe is that it would have been nice to pick up something that could allow transport to Graph Theory, I'll admit I got lost trying to find my way back once I got to the point that I was changing most of the map after each visit. Or perhaps some sort of 'map' that you could carry.
As for my game? You asked about Aisling and Ashley? Well I'm of several minds in regards to it. On the one hand, I see them as two separate people that are connected in space/time for some reason, who have to share a part of their mind with the other for some reason. Another thought is that it's all happening within one person mind, with Aisling being the more childish/full of wonder and imagination side and Ashley the more adult and serious side, and something caused a sort of schism in the person's mind. Another thought, perhaps an explanation for the previous one, is something like a 'Coma Dream' where her mind has created a sort of playground for her, one that will never end, and the Aisling represents the portion that wants to stay in the coma and Ashley is more of one who wishes to escape.
Either way, the Crystals and the Amethyst Shade were supposed to get more play time to explore the some of these ideas. However, I was attempting to explore as many different puzzles as I could and due to how I set up the world building-- Each of the levels was designed on a white board with me typing in each vertex manually-- I didn't have time to actually explore the story future.
The color issue? Well, I created the menus/skins coloring-- And wrote a lot of the menu code-- prior to deciding on the actual style/coloration and didn't go back to fix it. With the style/coloring of the game itself I sort of settled on it between Red and Blue are distinct colors and allowed me to us purple, a somewhat sinister colour at times, for the 'connected' portion, and use Cyan and Magenta as colors for the objects within those worlds. The coins were something I wanted to have, but I hadn't decided on the coloring style when I added them and forgot to fix them. If I re-explore it I'll likely use sprites of some sort, with something like an 'aura' to indicate the Purple items and a stylized representation of the 'swapped out' world.
Whew. (I included the answers about my game here 'cause I wasn't sure whether you'd check back for a response. xD)
Difficult! But fun. I rather liked it.
Collision detection is rather odd. It's hard to know when you're close enough to attack versus close enough to get attacked.
Did you make use of Abundant-Music to get your audio? The spikes are a LITTLE too easy to hit, it's like the collision detecting with regards to them isn't close to pixel so odd corners catch.
Also, in regards to my game, I'm going to release a little bug-fix about the speed/movement issues.
Null pointer when I attempt to run the game. It provides no real information (Beyond it being a jarinjarloader/packaging issue).
Rather difficult to play due to the speed at which the character moves.
Difficult.
I've never been good at dealing with the movement with keyboard + mouse. Especially since my mouse messes up just a bit and doesn't like to move while I'm hitting other keys. xD
Rather hard! Difficult to handle on a laptop though due to issues with touch pad+keyboard interaction!
I was unable to run; please include the required version of Java (As in which it was coded for.)
Definitely a different view of Shapeshifting than I came up with; but that's part of the point of LD, in'it? An explanation of the meter might be useful sometime as I let it drain without actually knowing what to do (though that might've been distraction.)
As a note, when the game finished for me I got a white screen without any way of quitting. I had to alt+tab out then close it that way.
On a separate note; my game might be working now. I left in some debug code that was outside the main libGDX project (the asset packaging code was in the launcher and I completely forgot.)
The game itself was alright; a bit clunky. I felt like I was supposed to be able to pick up the coins but couldn't. Also got stuck in some places due to the platform physics, especially with the jumping thing. I got caught in that spot between the half blocks up top and I couldn't get out of that little space.
Please put down a note about it requiring DirectPlay to be installed; on Win10 it went straight to the 'stopped from running' state and kind of glitched out for a moment.
Also, please please PLEASE remove the escape logic. I had just picked up the third gem and hit escape while alt-tabbing and closed the game. That hurt.
Very. VERY! Hard.
Jumping seems to be rather bugged for me. Also, I died by transforming too close to the edge. The slime did it (stupid slime!)
Rather fantastic; however, it feels WAY too luck based. Especially since there's no way to save scumming or way points. >.> But then, that might be me hating at having 15 supplies and 0 food.
@Jadernak That's just what I did. I bought supplies (2 money) and then foraged/hunted at every stop I came to. I was just short of... Bishop's seat? I don't remember the name, just south of the Marshes when I ran out of food. xD
I can't actually shoot anything! I feel like it was a weird interaction caused by some laptops not allowing keyboard input/mouse input at the same time. :\
Can't run; I think it needs a specific version of OpenAL.
There's too little time to go around and talk to people; it feels like you have to play it multiple times to actually manage to get the right answer. Not a bad thing, though.
I didn't get to a point where 'Shapeshifting' came up, though that might've just been me getting frustrated and giving up.
Couldn't really tell the differences on the health bar!
Very hard! Very, very hard. And while it allows you to change the size at start up it doesn't seem to scale anything at all.
Cannot play! It says it's missing the Extanation_Data folder.