Ludum Dare #14: Stickman’s Escape

Posted by Johannes Stein on Apr 20, 2009 in Development, Games | 1 comment

Das ist das zweite Spiel für den Ludum Dare Wettbewerb, welches ich innerhalb der gegebenen Zeit fertig entwickeln konnte. Trotzdem habe ich immer noch einige zeitliche Probleme gehabt, weswegen ich viele meiner ursprünglich geplanten Features streichen musste.

Um was geht es überhaupt? Der Held, das Strichmännchen ist einer Höhle gefangen, wo die “Wand des Verderbens” (wall of doom) sich langsam von oben nach unten bewegt. Um sich selbst zu retten, muss unser Held die Tür erreichen. Allerdings gibt ein Problem: Das Strickmännchen kann weder fallen noch springen. Dafür kann er Portale benutzen.

Hier downloaden (2,6 MB; Win32 und Linux 32 bit; Ausführbare Datei + Quelltext; Readme mit Kurzanleitung und eine PDF mit einigen Zeichnungen, erste Screenshots und ähnlichem, was sich als sehr kurzes Post Mortem klassifizieren lässt; Sprache: Englisch)The second competion game after my MiniLD #8 entry that I finished in time. But I still got some time management issues and I had to cut a lot of gameplay features which I originally intended to include.

So anyway, what’s this game all about? This time the hero in this game Stickman is trapped in a cave where the wall of doom is coming down from above. To rescue himself he has to get to the door at the buttom of the level. But there is one major problem: Stickman cannot jump or fall. But he can use portals.

Download here (2,6 MB; Win32 and Linux 32 bit binary included plus source code; Readme with instructions and a PDF with some drawings, first screenshot and stuff with like that which could be classified as a very short post mortem.)

Some updates…

Posted by Johannes Stein on Mar 13, 2009 in News | 0 comments

I invested a little time and finally got around porting my little LunarTower game to Linux. Still trouble on Mac OS X, though. On Mac OS X it compiles fine, but as soon as I start the application, I get an access violation. Here is the proof of the working Linux version:

And here is the Linux executable. You need to download the windows + source zip file from my previous Mini-LD post and move the Linux executable into the /bin folder. It should work; libSDL and libSDL_image need to be installed, of course. If it won’t work, let me know, maybe I can fix it.

Things that need fixing:

• Movement of the letters
• Improving damage upgrade
• Making the game more fun

Features to come:

• Improved graphics
• Adding health upgrade (upgrading the tower’s hit points)
• Highscore list
• Game needs a lot of polishing

You can count on a next release in the next two weeks.

I’ve been noticing that a lot of the visitors come from Google Groups and are wondering how well progressed my roguelike is. Yeah… about that… hmm, I don’t think I’m gonna finish before the deadline. But don’t be sad, even if I won’t be able to finish my roguelike in time, I will finish it another time.