April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME
1. You need a mouse for your PC or a finger for your smartphone.
2. Ok, maybe you need also a browser that supports HTML5 stuff (no, don't even try with Internet Explorer).
3. It's all dark.
4. You have to reach the right doors to get out
5. You move the light by tapping/clicking and dragging.
6. The man follows the light.
7. There are some monsters in the room.
8. You awake them with the light.
9. If they're awake I suggest you to speed up your escape (or get out through the first door available)
10. Get hit 10 times by the monsters and you'll die.
11. Enter the right doors 7 times and you're safe.
HOW I MADE THE GAME
1. I'm lazy.
2. Programming? Look for an easy IDE for HTML5 games.
3. Found Tululoo Game Maker, that implements and recreates a small subset of Game Maker's functions.
4. Graphics? I don't wanna do anything complicated. It's minimalism, by the way.
5. Create random algorithm for floor tiles. Other sprites are shapes taken from random games.
6. Music? Do I need a real song?
7. Or should I create a random algorithm that plays noises and piano notes? Yep, this one.
8. Oh, it's 4 AM, I think I should submit what I've done.
- - -
Yeah. In the end it could have been A LOT better, specially, A LOT more playable.
I'd appreciate your feedbacks, it's my 2nd Ludum Dare so I'd be thankful if you give me more motivation for the next one!
Peace.
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Ratings
| #163 | Mood | 3.46 |
| #294 | Audio | 3.13 |
| #306 | Innovation | 3.44 |
| #410 | Humor | 2.46 |
| #479 | Overall | 3.24 |
| #584 | Theme | 3.51 |
| #589 | Fun | 2.95 |
| #683 | Graphics | 2.88 |
| #1471 | Coolness | 44% |
Comments
Nice idea, using same "thing" to explore for goal and control + beware monsters..
Quite nice atmosphere. Didn't find anything the first map, it just went on to the next anyway.
I love the music, and the graphics are neat. It seemed easy to figure out where the monsters were without waking them up, though, which made the whole thing a bit easy.
I like the concept and the implementation, but it's a little too easy.
Not bad for your second LD. Keep it going, I want to see what else you have up your sleeves!
I won the game! After I accidentally walked into the green door when I was supposed to walk into the red door. EFF GREEN DOOR!
Also, I don't know what any of the monsters actually look like because I'm a big scaredy and kept the light on the guy the whole time; if I saw anything at the edge of the light I ran the other way. :-)
Unique gameplay. Awesome mood. Kept urging the man to move faster!
Moody and silly at the same time. I like the mechanic, and I like the look of your monsters. Almost scary.
Ok, you're all right, the game is a bit too easy. You see, I didn't have much time to get it tested by someone else...
For me, a countdown would have been perfect to force the player to go faster.
Any other ideas to make it more difficult?
so simple and so scary! could be enanched but stilla very good entry for the competition.
Cute game. I really liked your "non-music" music :) It was really good.
That was pretty interesting, if a bit short. This would have also worked well in the "indirect action" LD (like one of the early ones)
Cool concept. Very simple and nice. Jumped at the sound of a monster the first time! :)
The dragging of the light gave me some issues, it would regularly select the game which was very annoying.
Other than that nice game!
Awesome! The monsters look really scary the first time you see them.
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I really like this mechanic of moving the light source instead of the player itself. Its easy however to shake the light over the map quickly to discover the exits and find the monsters.