Al Own is Alone with A Loan

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.46
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.91
Community★★★★★★★★★★2.00
TO PLAY:
Arrow keys to move
Escape to go back to title (Or in Intro- to skip)
Collect Good Credit (green arrows) to increase credit
Avoid IRS (If hit, credit will go down!)
Find the exit!

NOTES:
Actually did this under 24 hours. Woke up today at 7:30 am and started from only 3 hour of work on Saturday. Wish I had started earlier though. Wanted to make it longer and make a better tile set.

TOOLS:
Gimp (Graphics)
Audacity (Music conversion)
GarageBand (Music)
Gosu (Ruby)
Unitron (Text-editor)
TextEdit (make map file)
Ocra (Compiling for windows)

Comments8

MaverickProgrammer
MaverickProgrammerauthor19 Dec 2011, 03:03
Real quick, I'd like to state that the map's tiles are a little quirky and I wish I had more time to fix that and include some other form of enemy, but I had a GREAT time participating in my first Ludum Dare comp and I hope to participate in many more to come!

TIP: You can press Escape during the intro to skip it. It's a timed intro for instructions and what-not.
Cleggy
Cleggy20 Dec 2011, 15:29
Fairly good, except I found the game a little too easy.
If you had more time, I would recommend adding more levels.
Other than that - a pretty good game.
Shigor
Shigor20 Dec 2011, 16:41
Good (ab)use of theme, otherwise too simple and short without any real challenge.
And it doesn't terminate itself correctly, but stays as process.
MaverickProgrammer
MaverickProgrammerauthor21 Dec 2011, 02:54
@Cleggy:
Originally it was too hard and so last minutes I changed the rates of the enemy infliction towards the credit. Bad call on my part. I would have rather had it stress-fully challenging than too easy, in my opinion. And yes, I ran out of time before submitting. If I had known there was an extra submission hour, I probably would have abused that and made more levels, but it was my first time. I definitely know what to work on the most next time.

@Shigor:
Thanks for the compliment on my theme abuse! Yes, I'm aware of the easiness factor. I'm bummed myself about it.

All-in-all it was a fun experience and I definitely learned my strengths and weaknesses so I can do much better in the next comp. Thanks for the feedback, both of you!
summaky
summaky25 Dec 2011, 13:32
I concur: it is too easy. And that's the only fault I can find :-)
Odra4 Jan 2012, 07:42
There is money on the ground! But I cant get it! Very interesting "plot" for the entry. Also GRADE: AWESOME
pythong7 Jan 2012, 12:10
also had the same problem as shigor, the game didn't want to close. other than that: really nice music, funny graphics, and too simple
MaverickProgrammer
MaverickProgrammerauthor7 Jan 2012, 22:51
@pythong:

Turns out the library I was using had a bug on windows to lock up and not exit. I'm sorry about that.

Thanks for the compliments! I wish I never changed the difficulty factor last-minute.

I'm more than prepared for next ludum dare though. Looking forward to it.
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