Ludum Dare #22compo

Circle

by richmakegame

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.69

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.36

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Community★★★★★★★★★★1.91

Circle for Ludum Dare 22, by RichMakeGame
www.richmakegame.com
[email protected]
twitter: #RichMakeGame

controls:

+ and - change mouse sensitivity
wasd- move
space - jump
left mouse - throw stone

NOTE- I didn't fully get to finish the game I'm afraid, after a certain point the game will loop back to the beginning. Please don't keep playing it to see if something's different! (er, well you can keep playing if you like but.. yeah it'll be the same :P)

thanks, and sorry it's not more finished! I bit off more than I could chew
-rich

PS- audio credit for the birdsong is to 'reinsamba' on freesound.org

Comments17

Cell19 Dec 2011, 15:22

Really cool! :D
(Rich, if you can/want, then i would love to do an Colab with you :D)

finalsin19 Dec 2011, 17:12

I liked it! The lo-fi graphics, the stone-throwing, the lovely music. Would love to see this worked on further.

matthias_zarzecki19 Dec 2011, 19:43

Interesting little surreal experience.

Jeremias19 Dec 2011, 21:50

What an immersion, cool way to cope with the theme. Make more of this!

Jiggawatt20 Dec 2011, 11:51

Delightfully surreal, yeah.

Kind of strange you only need to throw a stone once in the game. Was expecting that to be the core mechanic.

RichMakeGameauthor20 Dec 2011, 12:27

Tell me about it! There's actually a ton of code for different puzzle plates which I wrote and never had time to implement :( also there was two more areas and another music track which got thrown out... I really misjudged what I could finish! I might upload the music track for anyone curious

Shigor20 Dec 2011, 16:53

Good mood and visual / audio atmosphere, too bad you hadn't time to implement some other gameplay than slowly walking and jumping...

BTW isn't using premade assets (song from freesound) against the compo rules?

RichMakeGameauthor20 Dec 2011, 17:01

is it? I did a search for 'ludum dare freesound.org' and you get a lot of posts of people declaring freesound.org as a sound resource, I figured it'd be ok. I don't have any way to record birds and I needed some birds tweeting.

RichMakeGameauthor20 Dec 2011, 17:20

I removed the bird sound just in case.

rawbits20 Dec 2011, 19:33

Nice music and good graphics, but it's more of an engine test and not a game...
The music is not by you, so in 48 hours you could have done something more game like.

RichMakeGameauthor20 Dec 2011, 20:33

the music is by me. I had some birds tweeting in the background from freesound, which I've removed

QXD-me21 Dec 2011, 15:34

It's a shame you didn't get to finish as this seems pretty interesting. The atmosphere kind of worked, but kind of didn't - I think I could have done with a little more context or backstory to draw me in (the lack of which is understandable given the time constraints).

marudziik22 Dec 2011, 23:49

It's not that bad, actually. It's just unfinished - in fact, I think that graphics and musics are pretty good, especially those pixellated textures. There's little gameplay, but this doesn't bother me that much. Either way, it's an interesting experience.

nuprahtor25 Dec 2011, 13:10

Wow, at first it was like "North by Northwest" plane scene (though, there is no planes), and then it was like Indiana Jones movies.
I Liked it a lot.