Futility : A world war 1 themed strategy game
NOTE : IF WINDOWS USERS GET "NOT RESPONDING" TOWARDS THE START, RESTART THE GAME. IT WILL USUALLY WORK AFTER 2-3 TRIES. IF THAT FAILS, RUN IT IN WINDOWS XP SP3 COMPATIBILITY MODE. IF THIS DOESN'T WORK, COMMENT ERROR CODES AND I WILL SEE IF I CAN FIX THEM.
Needs to compile:
-SDL2
-SDL2_TTF
-SDL2_MIXER
-SDL2_IMG
-jansson
-PNG library
-C compiler
Premise:
This is a world war 1 game. There are british and Germans. Their objective is to take the opposing trench. You and your friend are the commanders.
How to play:
Britain plays with the mouse, Germany with the keyboard. Click the buttons to put out units or to switch sound on and off. The controls are
- ANZACs/Sturmtruppen : Quicker than BEF, but more expensive(1st button for britain, 2 for germany, 100 points)
- BEF/Landwehr : Basic unit, slow but plentiful (2nd button for britain, 1 for germany, 50 points)
- Artillery : call in some shells on the enemy position (3rd button for britain, 3 for germany, 150 points)
- Gas : shell with gas clouds across the enemy frontline ! (4th button for britain, 4 for germany, 200 points)
- Escape exits during and after the game
Audio on and off should be clear
Once 10 soldiers have crossed the a side, the other side wins. But was it really worth it?
I explain the game : http://youtu.be/Z9gteReYiEo
BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD : READ THE README, IT HELPS TO EXPLAIN THE GAME
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 63% |
| #612 | Audio(Jam) | 2.48 |
| #632 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.87 |
| #755 | Humor(Jam) | 2.32 |
| #785 | Fun(Jam) | 2.70 |
| #823 | Mood(Jam) | 2.71 |
| #883 | Theme(Jam) | 2.90 |
| #935 | Overall(Jam) | 2.72 |
| #959 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.29 |
Comments
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE CRASHES ON START, JUST RUN IT A COUPLE OF TIMES, IT USUALLY WORKS AFTER 2-3 STARTS
wait, try going into options and changing SCREEN_WIDTH and SCREEB_HEIGHT to something smaller
Still not working on my win 8 :(
Damn it, I liked your gameplay video. Looking at the battlefield in the end, and all those corpses lying around, I shed a tear for all the fallen.
WW1, never forget!
right, problem fixed, turned out I was compiling with the wrong libs :(
No joy here (Win7 64-bit), sorry. Tried probably a dozen times.
Crashes after opening both the console window and what'd probably be the graphics window. No exception or anything, but "problem details" includes "Fault Module Name: SDL2.dll" if that helps.
Advice to just keep trying a game called futility is amusing though ;)
seems to work fine for my friend and my laptop so I am not sure if we are now the exception or the rule.
The voice acting was pretty fun and the black/white mixed with red blood looks really good!
Some of the sound effects were a bit too loud though, like the artillery.
Interesting idea anyway, there should definitely be more games made about the first world war.
Unfortunately, it crashes on Windows 7 for me. Tried at least a dozen times.
On Win8 Pro works fine. Very fun game, I like it! + for soldier sounds
IT worked fine for me on windows 8 (x64).
At first i didn't know what was going on, but... this is really an harsh war scene. I found it a little sketchy and surely won't win any prize but still was fun to click a few times.
That's a really good example of theming. Well done there. Had to finagle a bit to get it running, but worth it.
Interesting entry. Overall I liked it, but found the link to the theme a little weak. I do agree that you can associate war with monsters. However, in this game, both sides seem to be monsters and it starts to blur where the theme plays in.
I like strategy games and this one had a lot of fine details (units, attacks, audio). Very nice.
I think you did put a lot of effort on it, LD in C++/SDL is hard! good job!
It did not like to start most of the time, but ran ok after restarting the game a few times.
Haven't run into many multiplayer games!
The text is a little hard to read once the bodies start piling in
Great game!
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No Mac version :(