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It was always going to be a challenge, my mum's 60th was on Saturday so that was the whole day written off and I spent four hours travelling home today (Sunday) but I was on a coach with a power socket so I could still work! I had a go at a platformer and it's a least playable if not super fun!
To make it work on a debian type OS (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) you should just need to install python-pygame and run python main.py
To make it work on windows, unzip it and run main.exe
Downloads and Links
Ratings
![]() | Coolness | 57% |
#408 | Humor | 2.65 |
#661 | Fun | 2.90 |
#700 | Theme | 3.10 |
#816 | Mood | 2.70 |
#1124 | Overall | 2.52 |
#1178 | Innovation | 2.07 |
#1185 | Graphics | 2.00 |
Comments
Good point, updated to be source link. I'll add windows today.
Pretty good! Simple but the theme obviously applies. I would have liked the horizontal motion to be a bit less "sticky" (i.e motion stops as soon as you release the key), but otherwise pretty good.
Someone else using pygame, nice :-).
For packaging up I can recommend cx_freeze., it's not perfect but for a windows build it works pretty well.
As for the game, I wasn't able to get very far, I could not make the long diagonal jump. But a decent entry for one day of work :-).
My windows smart screen prevents me from playing it, but it looks pretty cool.
Kinda fun, quick little game. I enjoyed my brief time with it and took the time to beat it.
The jump physics required some learning but I got to the win screen.
I'm going to give you middling scores for now since you're my first rating.
Double jump was a little odd, ended up just mashing the up button to do it.
Well, I guess I was in for a surprise. Getting out of the pit was simple, yet an effective idea for the theme. Short, as anything out a 48hrs jam packed with family events, but interesting. However, I couldn't run it with pygame, but the Windows binary worked just fine Wine.
Isn't the game running too fast? All of the actors felt like they were moving roughly 1.25x-1.5x the speed they should have been moving.
Good job getting this out in that short weekend!
That last platform was tricky, and the game as a whole expressed the theme sufficiently
Fun to play. Some of the double jumping was a bit off though.
Straightforward, but effective & with a nice progression too. That last platform was tricksy! :-)
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