April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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Well here it is, Comic Sans: The Game. It's built using java on top of the Slick2D library, and should work on all systems (spoiler: It probably won't).
How'd I do?
EDIT
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Fixes (I hope) for Linux and OSX with new (post-compo) natives loader.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 85% |
| #20 | Humor | 3.92 |
| #357 | Audio | 3.03 |
| #565 | Fun | 2.98 |
| #802 | Mood | 2.63 |
| #888 | Overall | 2.86 |
| #1188 | Innovation | 2.14 |
| #1199 | Theme | 2.70 |
| #1205 | Graphics | 2.12 |
Comments
I'd like to play/vote, however I get the following error message (I am running on version 1.6, maybe it's that?):
Could not find the main class: ludumdare.LudumDare. Program will exit.
I'm running 1.7 - have you extracted the files from the zip? It appears to hate it if you don't.
Hahah, cute! What if we don't want to rescue it, though?? My only suggestion is to make projectiles/enemies Times New Roman letters for thematic effect.
Thank god I was able to save comic sans :)
A bit too easy for my taste. The way you implemented ducking is an interesting way to do it :)
Can't run on Fedora.
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path"
I guess something wrong with path setup.
Ooh, I did do the linux natives majig... No idea why it won't run.
Fun little game! I like the replayability through saving Comic Sans again!
Same here, Linux (Ubuntu), cannot run this because of missing main class yadda yadda
Save the COMIC SANS!!!!! Now if there only were some potatoes....
Absolutely hilarious. Such a simple and original idea. I love it.
The jumping is a bit...wierd.
Tried to play under latest OSX, got this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ludumdare/LudumDare : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
Love the theme. A little short lived, but cool. One problem... Comic Sans can't be saved! Haha.
Haha, enjoyed it a lot. On windows had to run it from command line to get the classpath right using "java -jar LudumDare.jar".
Pretty fun, too short though. Maybe a bit more polish too but other than that nice game.
Pretty hilarious at times! I'm scoring this high on humor because it actually made me LOL-out a number of times. :D
Ha, I like it. Very simple.
The theme for the last LD was "You Are The Villain". This would've fit in MUCH better with that, since 'rescuing' Comic Sans makes me feel like I'm committing some sort of crime.
its amazing what people come up with at these things -- really nice effort -- gets insanley hard
I think something's off in the jump code. Sometimes you do little hops, sometimes it's a big leap. Still, best font-based run and jump game I've played this year!
I had some problems to run it on Ubuntu 12.04 and OpenJDR6. I had to install openjdk7 and "sudo update-alternatives --config java" to select JDK7 in order to get it to work. Glad i dit it, had a good laugh with this one. Very easy to win, but dodging all those falling potatoes to rescue comicsans was entertaining. :)
*Ahem*, your hitboxes are terrible, but otherwise you did a good job.
Am I meant to want to lose?
Also, you really shouldn't be mixing post-compo stuff with compo stuff, unless it is strictly game-breaking bugs. You should make a post-compo link for the post-compo version, so people aren't rating what you did after LD.
Maple, it was a game-breaking bug. It wouldn't launch on mac or linux, I added 2 lines to load the correct natives. That is all.
Jumping is a bit floaty, but ... well, it does what it says on the tin.
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10/10, has comic sans