This is Barely a Game.
I've wanted to make a game with dynamic shadow mapping for quite some time, so I decided that this would be a good idea for this LD. A combination with this being fairly advanced stuff that I spent quite some time on, and me being worhless at making art ended in a pretty boring "game".
You are a white rectangle, and your goal is to kill the red squares that will spawn at random locations on the map, you do this by jumping on top of them. If you manage to jump on multiple enemies in sequence without touching the ground you will get a score multiplier, so you should try to plan your jumps. The dynamic shadows makes this harder, since you'll only be able to see enemies close to you.
Jump: W, Space or Up
Movement: A/D or Left/Right
The Linux (64-bit) build requires you to have SFML2, Box2D and libxml2 installed.
I might be able to do a Windows build, but not before the deadline.
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shadows were cool, but the gameplay was lacking and didn't really take advantage of the tech.
Could not effectively play. After installing deps and getting it to run, I had a black map, and the score, presumably at the top. Pressing arrow and space bar keys made a '50', then '100' jump around, but no character or lights.
Had to build this myself, and even the build process wasn't straightforward.
Anyways, I like the way graphics are done, but I wish you were able to do something more with the game that would make it more fun. Also, if the gravity was faster, it would feel much more responsive.
It's a neat tech demo, but as you say, not a game. I had the same bug as another commenter - score shows up at the top for some reason, and the screen goes black. This seems to happen if the window is resized beyond the gameplay area.
Your build system didn't seem to notify me that I needed to build the Tmx lib in ./lib, by the way. Cmake succeded and left me guessing as to which TMX loader library you were using. You should also make a note that your binary requires SFML 2 - specifically, not 2.1.
I'm afraid I can't rate this one, it launches but sadly I get a screen with only the platforms and not much else: http://imgur.com/CGWsomc
Log:
neilo@neilo-pc:~/LD31Games/Kwarf/BaG$ ./BaG
Loading tileset tileset from tileset.png
Loading entities
Loading collidables
Any ideas?
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Nice to make a game on linux !