Damn Locksmiths!

by ddm
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.29
Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.57
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.08
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Community★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%
Requires lwjgl. I've included a shell script for osx and a .bat file for windows to run it. (I've also included the native libraries in the subdirectory). Thanks to my 4 year old for the locksmith death sounds!

Comments8

Lusmu
Lusmu22 Dec 2011, 22:06
Amusing little game, a bit hard though. I like the death sound, it gives a nice personal touch.
Milo
Milo24 Dec 2011, 02:46
The game crashed quite frequently on the instructions screen on my Mac (the console spewed out a lot, so I'm not really sure where a useful error would be).

The concept was pretty original, but I think it would have benefited if you could move diagonally.
ddm
ddmauthor24 Dec 2011, 04:20
I've put up a new version that shouldn't "blow the stack". Just changed a recursive call to an iterative one. :) I put up the new version at http://www.msynet.com/files/ld22/ld22-2.zip

Thanks for the feedback!
AyCe
AyCe29 Dec 2011, 01:10
WOW at the idea! With more variation, this could become really good! :D
SonnyBone
SonnyBone5 Jan 2012, 20:47
Won't start for me :(
ddm
ddmauthor6 Jan 2012, 03:01
What platform? Any errors on the console?
J
J8 Jan 2012, 20:34
A shell script for Linux would be exactly the same with the library directory changed.

For some reason, if I leave the instructions screen up for a few seconds before pressing space, it quits with:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
at sun.misc.Unsafe.compareAndSwapLong(Native Method)
at java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong.compareAndSet(AtomicLong.java:149)
at java.util.Random.next(Random.java:183)
at java.util.Random.nextFloat(Random.java:395)
at com.msynet.ld22.Entity.update(Entity.java:44)
at com.msynet.ld22.Miner.update(Miner.java:41)
at com.msynet.ld22.Entity.update(Entity.java:45)
[...]
at com.msynet.ld22.Miner.update(Miner.java:41)
at com.msynet.ld22.Entity.update(Entity.java:45)
at com.msynet.ld22.Miner.update(Miner.java:41)
AL lib: ReleaseALC: 1 device not closed

If I press space quickly, it works.

It took me a while to understand what I was doing, and why the miners were going black, and how to open chests, but after I did, I enjoyed one game, then it became far too easy. I think this would work better as a multiplayer game.

Oh, and diagonal movement is important, as mentioned already.
J
J8 Jan 2012, 20:35
*exactly the same as for OS X
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