This is Escape from Dorf Bay, a mix of two ideas, where none got the appropriate attention as I actually had only about 20 hours to create this submission.
I hope someone gets the idea and the soul of the game and create something worthy of it, as I think it could still have a long way to go ahead.
The dorf part was made in paint, the one a capellaing is me using Windows Sound Recorder from XP, the font used is Symbol. The scary house part was done using the following: -Music: Mi chord on my crappy and broken guitar, recorded using Windows Sound Recorder -Sound effects: Random noises recorded and distorted on windows sound recorders -Graphics: My Nokia N8 Camera, with some messing in the light sensivity settings, all the pictures are from my house. -Coding: Everything done in processing.
I've included the source code, but not the actual data files, such as the graphics or the sounds, if anyone want them, just send me an e-mail at [email protected]
edit (23/08/11 04:30AM):
Postmortem version is up, I've switched the download links for the v2, where the arrows ALWAYS appears, so you guys won't need to pixel hunt anymore.
Well, you did a good job setting up atmosphere. I was ready for something to kill me in the house, that's for sure. But then I couldn't go anywhere. I just couldn't find where I was supposed to put my mouse in order to make the up arrow appear, and I became trapped after hardly starting. I suggest removing the hover mouse and just leaving the buttons there at all times.
This reminds me a little of some old games with digitalized photos (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6m7bYlGPq4 ). I like the atmosphere, but painted parts are... well, just bad. Especially compared to the rest, which is cool (a pity it's so short). Not bad!
I'm sorry, I couldnt manage to think about a proper ending nor draw anything that would indeed be scary, I'll keep deving it now that the restrictions from the LD are gone.
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8/22/11 3:14:14 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.1080[236] ([0x0-0xa56a56].escape_from_dorf_bay[22173]) posix_spawn("/Users/edelventhal/Downloads/application.macosx/escape_from_dorf_bay.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub", ...): Permission denied
chmod +x /Users/me/Downloads/application.macosx/escape_from_dorf_bay.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub64
Messing with windows sound recorder is awesome!
This error usually happens when the .exe cannot find the path of the /lib/ and the /source/