Ascape

by lansiir
Overall★★★★★★★★★★1.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.50
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.46
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Community★★★★★★★★★★1.71
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★1%
This game has been written from scratch in C, which I learned the day of the contest. The source code is straightforward and I encourage you to take a look.

If my personal server should go down, use the DropBox links.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32084539/ascape-all.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32084539/ascape-osx.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32084539/ascape-linux.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32084539/ascape-windows.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32084539/ascape-source.zip

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Comments10

oldtopmanauthor22 Aug 2011, 03:44
FIRST!!!

Yes, I firsted my own game's comment box. Why? I've never done this before. Its a new experience. And the only person to get mad is me :D

The page looks a little sad with no comments :(
BlueShaman22 Aug 2011, 21:06
It's mildly entertaining.. With most of the early choices leading in death, and me just randomly picking a path shortly afterwards leading to winning... It's sort of a frustrating game.. Even when I won I didn't get the satisfaction I expected.
foobaz23 Aug 2011, 00:11
Pretty funny although too short (with everything except one path leading to death). And you've taught me that running a command-line application in wine actually runs it in the terminal. And now for some things I feel the need to reply to (spoilers ahead).

"*You'd have to recompile me to add a giving functionality, you fool!*"
modprobe giving

"KILLALL -KILL YOU"
bash: KILLALL: command not found
How could you be so case-insensitive!
Oh, wait, shouldn't that be -u?

"<Insert Ascii art here>"
banner -w 80 ascape
(or `banner -w 80 ascape`)
johnfn
johnfn25 Aug 2011, 04:05
Yay, the first command line game I've played! Congrats on finishing. Consider adding more interactivity next time - the game is pretty straightforward as is.
Shigor
Shigor26 Aug 2011, 07:57
Bonus for humor (some lines almost made me chuckle), but otherwise... the length, quite total randomness of the responses... I noticed you wrote that you've learned the C on the day of the competition, but even then you could give it a bit more - judging by the source size I'd guess you spent about hour (two at max) making it including the "learn C" part
summaky
summaky27 Aug 2011, 16:58
I am sorry, but this is very boring. I just had to try at random the options. Also the length.........
Sanguine30 Aug 2011, 07:24
The game felt a bit like trial and error. Every time I had to just try. It might be easier if there were a few different paths, instead of just one. It would also make the game different each time you play.
ratking
ratking2 Sep 2011, 20:55
Sorry, the source code was funnier than the game. ;-)
angrygeometry
angrygeometry5 Sep 2011, 15:10
quite frustrating and short, but hey you finished!
oldtopmanauthor13 Sep 2011, 18:37
@foobaz: I'll be sure to add that into version 2.0 (along with real ascii art)

@johnfn: I will be doing that should I make another text based game.

@shigor: You underestimate my incompotence ;)

@ratking: Glad you liked it!

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