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A Punker's Tale is an epic adventure game about one girl who would stand against all odds to save her art from the evil that would take it away. Or something like that.
Controls:
A-D or LEFT-RIGHT: move
E or Z: interact
SPACE or X: attack, continue dialogue
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 81% |
| #234 | Audio | 3.27 |
| #240 | Mood | 3.34 |
| #241 | Humor | 3.34 |
| #259 | Graphics | 3.60 |
| #647 | Overall | 3.07 |
| #653 | Theme | 3.22 |
| #789 | Fun | 2.78 |
| #882 | Innovation | 2.60 |
Comments
Great writing and very nice visuals! The music was on-point as well. A little short, but you owned that fact. Well done!
Hi! The screenshots looks awesome, though you haven't packed LWJGL with the JAR file, making it crash at start. Good luck!
Finally some storyyy! Love it ! :3 also check my project mate!x
very nice mood and humor !
very immersive and funny game. Rockn roll !
but too short imho. Games seems unfinished imho.
would like to see a bit more.
nice texts ! good fun and audio overall.
awesome humor.
For some reason I spawned on top of the piano when I went outside, but the speech bubbles were in their "correct" place on the other side of the screen. Might be because I decided to keep watching TV for a while after being told to save the world.
The jar will not run for me (Win 7) which sucks, because I really like the design I see in the screen grab.
Wasn't really a game, animations could have been a bit smoother. The audio you did have was fine, but could have used more. Needs more levels or opponents or things to do, really. That second part was glitchy, hitting use on the piano restarted the scene. Not personally my kind of humour (won't rate it for that) but I bet some people got a kick out of it.
This was interesting, certainly different and the humour made me want to play, just actually wanted it to develop into some awesome guitar smashing gameplay. I feel like so much time was spent on building up the story and tutorial in a brilliant wacky way that it deserves more.
It was really nice expirience playing this, hope you will develop full game from this :)
Talking guitar, haha.. I hoped for more smashing after the piano affair :P
# java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar PunkerTale.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Please run the JVM with -XstartOnFirstThread.
at org.lwjgl.system.macosx.EventLoop.checkFirstThread(EventLoop.java:20)
at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwInit(GLFW.java:426)
at main.src.Main.<init>(Main.java:65)
at main.src.Main.main(Main.java:61)
:(
cool, i like that story and humor... that guitar... i wanna smash that too...lol.. very interesting
Pretty well polished for a LD game. I liked your interpretation of the theme and the game's narrative. Only complaint I have is that I was expecting more. Hope you decide to continue working on this!
Like others, could not run the JAR file. Using a mac, JDK 1.8.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Please run the JVM with -XstartOnFirstThread.
at org.lwjgl.system.macosx.EventLoop.checkFirstThread(EventLoop.java:20)
at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwInit(GLFW.java:426)
at main.src.Main.<init>(Main.java:65)
at main.src.Main.main(Main.java:61)
Loved the graphics, I wish the level was longer, but hey, Its a game jam :) awesome job.
Really nice art, but the walking animation was a bit weird. Also enjoyed the sound and narrative.
Great story. I like the intro with the guitar and the twist at the end (easier then expected, lol). I also like the graphic style of the first scene.
wow, impressive entry. Graphics and audio are done really well especially for a compo entry. the story was fun, i like talking guitars
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more of an interactive story than a game but still good :)