December 16th-19th 2011 :: Theme: Alone
You are a Mars rover, and have recently lost contact with Earth. You stumble across a martian prison and must explore the area.
Controls: arrow keys to move, Z to interact.
This game will run on pretty much any hardware (minimum OpenGL 1.5). On my netbook, only non-power-of-two textures weren't being displayed correctly, but it still played fine.
If you keep your system updated, you'll have .NET 4 (Windows 7 has it by default), but just in case you get an error about not having .NET, you can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=24872
Just tested this on another machine, you'll need to have OpenAL installed too. If the game doesn't do anything at the beginning, this is your issue, download and install OpenAL here: http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip
You can still play this game on Linux or OS X, you just need to download Mono separately and run "mono /path/to/entry/RoversSpirit.exe"
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 50% |
| #205 | Audio | 2.67 |
| #236 | Mood | 2.67 |
| #259 | Theme | 2.91 |
| #269 | Fun | 2.55 |
| #401 | Overall | 2.58 |
| #437 | Graphics | 2.33 |
| #473 | Innovation | 2.09 |
| #491 | Community | 2.13 |
| #609 | Humor | 1.20 |
Comments
Just tried this on another system of mine, if you don't have OpenAL it'll either crash on start or just not show up at all. I added an OpenAL link to the description, I should have included an OpenAL installer with the download...
actually never mind, that's another issue. Right now there's another issue where QuickFont (the font rendering library I'm using) is throwing an AccessViolationException, but only when it's not being debugged. It seems to only happen on some machines, I'm going to investigate this a bit more.
Somehow it compiled differently (63.5kb instead of 60.0kb) on the machine that crashed, and it seems to be working on that system now. I'm going to blame it all on wizardry, reuploading the windows version now, let me know if it still crashes.
I just tried redownloading it on both my Arch and Windows partitions and unzipping on Windows with both explorer and 7zip, no issues.
Try redownloading?
Worked for me... (win7 64bit)
...easy to get lost on mars tho! eventually found my way
Won't work for me either, windows 7, 64 bit. The error details say:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: RoversSpirit.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4eeecc9b
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17651
Fault Module Timestamp: 4e211319
Exception Code: e0434352
Exception Offset: 0000b9bc
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
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It looks like my game is being put on the DEP list, I've had this happen to me before with completely random programs. My laptop would refuse to play Half-Life 1 because of it. Make sure you've unblocked the exe (right click -> properties -> unblock) and make sure your account has access to all the files in the folder first though. The instructions in the link to add a DEP exception is: Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System settings -> Advanced tab -> Performance Settings -> Data Execution Prevention tab.
Also if you have 2 versions of the .NET framework, that might be the issue, remove the older one.
Huh, i tried all that and when I tried to add an exception, I got an error that says
"This program must run with data exception protection (DEP) enabled. You cannot turn off DEP for this program."
Well that sucks. :\
Apparently that specific error code just means NullReferenceException, make sure you've got some graphics card drivers - it could just not be finding opengl32.dll, and make sure you've downloaded OpenAL.
I don't know if this would be the issue, but if you've got Visual Studio on your system, try the suggestion here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/pex/wiki/exit%20code%20access%20violation.html
Actually, if you've got VS, try compiling from source.
oh snap, that might be it. I've got VS on my system. I'll give that a try once I get back to my compy :)
also, I just gave this a try on my friend's mac compiling from MonoDevelop last night, apparently it had trouble rendering fonts that weren't of size 36, so I'll create an alternate download for those who experience issues with the regular download.
Man, I am glad I was persistent. I tried it on my other laptop also on windows 7 but no VS and it worked.
Awesome job! Great sounds.
Any specific errors? Did you make sure to install OpenAL? If you have Visual Studio, have you tried compiling from source?
Is github.com blocked where you're trying to download from? That's the only reason I can think of for the download not working. Both the binary and the source are hosted on github.
Nice! A bit straightforward for a puzzle game, but you made me interested in the story of the martian prison. A few more notes certainly wouldn't hurt :-)
I don't like that you need to install OpenAl, but it was simple to install and the game worked fine afterwards, so it's not a major problem.
A short and simple, yet enjoyable, game. The graphics are okay, but not great. I liked the sounds a lot, though. The "Alone" theme is also used fairly well.
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crashes at start for me (Windows XP .NET 4 is up to date)