December 14th-17th 2012 :: Theme: You are the Villain
The post-compo version adds a save/load feature and a short tutorial. There are also a few minor bugfixes and small changes in the game rooms. Enemy behaviour is also randomized a little bit.
Based heavily on Hero Core, Colouful is a game where the player moves around a 2D world, fighting multiple enemies. With no gravity effects, all depends only on the player's speed. Collect the colour artifacts and bring them to your love!
Colourful tells the story of a man, who, not being able to cope with the depression of his beloved one, goes on a mission to make her world, once again... colorful.
Factsheet:
- language: Object Pascal
- compiler: Free Pascal Compiler
- IDE: Lazarus
- sound library: BASS
- event handling and gfx lib: SDL
- additional gfx lib: Sour
- graphics editor: GIMP, iDraw Chara Maker
- sound generator: sfxr
- map editor: vim
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 59% |
| #326 | Mood | 2.85 |
| #338 | Graphics | 3.00 |
| #393 | Fun | 2.79 |
| #437 | Audio | 2.19 |
| #474 | Overall | 2.79 |
| #572 | Humor | 1.95 |
| #591 | Innovation | 2.39 |
| #718 | Theme | 2.07 |
Comments
Is it possible to complete this? The hailstorm of bullets and as far as I can tell no HP recharging options stopped me in my tracks. Liked the intro story and I should award you the "It's not dead yet!" trophy for using Pascal. Word.
Wow, this game really catched the awesome reatro style. Good job!
Some others may not have liked the minimalist art style, but I loved it! Well done!
Really solid entry. I enjoyed the minnimalistic style as well.
I got an error trying to run it on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), unfortunately:
An unhandled exception occurred at $080852BC :
Exception : Could not load OpenGL from libGL.so.1
$080852BC
$080872E4
Maybe it requires a specific OpenGL version?
Liked the art style, but the game is punishingly hard, I quickly gave up.
The sound effects fit the style, but they are way too loud.
Also, I don't understand why I'm the villain in this story.
When I rated your game I had no idea that you are "super vegeta" from warsztat.gd :P
What a suprise to meet a fellow student in a competition like this :D
Nice consistent graphical style. Very hard, particularly with the enemies respawning on re-entry to a room. Not sure how to open the doors?
I liked it. I was able to get the weird horseshoe shaped thing in the pink area, but wasn't able to make it back alive. Are you even able to beat this game yourself?
Connection to the theme seems a bit shallow to me, but I like the introduction story and retro graphics. The difference between moving and shooting directions can make combat a bit annoying at times.
cool! It's not too hard, come on :)) I'll be finishing this!
Very hard game, but a lovely style. As I read what you did in the post-compo version... yeah :D the game jam games should always have some checkpoints for bad players like me.
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Pretty fun. The colours are nice but I'm not a big fan of the minimalist style. At first I thought it was like VVVVVV but is it meant to be top-down? I couldn't tell if I was a floating ghost or what...