Chain Pain

by jach
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.09
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.87
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Effort★★★★★★★★★★2.45
Food★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Journal★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Polish★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Technical★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Here it is. All that’s in the zip is the source code and the data; if I get less lazy by the end of today I’ll compile it with PyInstaller and make a Windows executable. Requires Python and PyGame.

Edit: Fun facts that weren’t in the README: Graphics made with Gimp and KolourPaint, sound effects made with my voice with my microphone, the two music files were made in WarioWare Touched’s toyroom using its piano and harmonica. Pretty much all the sounds had to be amplified with Audacity, too. Edit: Another fun fact is that the moving bar thing was inspired from Star Fox Adventures. You remember the Test of Fear? Though I have to say that game’s better than this one. =P

EditEdit: The Zip now contains a standalone EXE file so you can just double click on main.exe if you run Windows.

Edit³: If you want to see the high score system in action, change the best_time.txt file in data/ to something low, like 00:00 (I forgot to do that myself when I packaged it).

http://server.mjzhosting.biz/~jach/shared/zips/ld10_final.zip

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Comments17

SethR
Great idea :) Needed more variation while playing, like if you can hold out for a minute, they strip you naked or something. Some kind of progression.

My kind of game.
Hamumu
Very funny take on the theme. Mostly I don't like when people jerk the theme around, but that's pretty good. I'm rather concerned of what *specifically* my "two manlinesses" are, but I am so manly that losing them was effectively impossible. I let go of the keys around the 2 minute mark just so I could move on with my life.

So way too easy, and rather bad as a game (if I want to be doing that, I'll play Tony Hawk so I get to do flip tricks in between balancing sessions!), but a really funny entry.
i will not react to your chains!
gimblll
... horrible, and I think you know it... sorry. :)
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............ Ok...
well, it was an interesting approach to the theme. but I could not with my hand on my heart, say it was fun :(
fydo
Nice crying sound ;)
Not my type of game.

BTW it says: "MSVCR71.dll could not be extracted!" but then runs anyway.
Mmh, not very fun. Even if I'd liked this kind of game, the difficulty doesn't seem to increase over time and it seems completely random, so there's not much of a game to speak of in any case.

Original take on the theme though =]
This is a serious contendor for the Hairy Chestival Memorial Trophy! Really - crazy silly game :) To improve:

- better music
- have your time in huge numbers on the screen
- make the game get harder over time
Amusing. I love watching the guy get more beat up.
Very unique twist on the theme. The game itself gets old after like 1:45, but a nice twist of the game.

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