Ludum Dare #22compo

Hope

by madcoretom

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.62

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.27

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.75

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.10

Community★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★52%

After your space-cruise is cut short by an icy asteroid, you are stranded in an escape pod, alone in space.
Collect H.O.P.E while avoiding the gravitational pull of asteroids, so that you can fuel your pod and get back to earth!

Everything is contained in the 1 .jar file. just double click to play it (in most cases)

Comments11

revilossor19 Dec 2011, 16:05

Tried to rate this... the .jar doesn't work on my lappy tho.

poohshoes20 Dec 2011, 04:06

Nothing happens when I double click the .jar. Do you have to have some certain java stuffs installed?

kj65432120 Dec 2011, 17:08

I get this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.Reader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.madcoretom.alone.game.Level.loadLevels(Level.java:28)
at com.madcoretom.alone.Hope.<init>(Hope.java:65)
at com.madcoretom.alone.PlayJFrame.main(PlayJFrame.java:18)

MadcoreTomauthor21 Dec 2011, 13:05

@revilossor I've updated the jar (I zipped it too), can you try again?
@poohshoes zipping the jar fixed it for me. Try downloading it again
@kj654321 This means it's having trouble reading files in the jar. What operating system are you using? Are you using a special command to run it?

Urfoex22 Dec 2011, 17:04

Nice nice.

bach23 Dec 2011, 10:17

Charming graphics. Usually the pointy end is the front, however in this case it was the back of the pod. Got me confused at first :)

kj65432123 Dec 2011, 16:36

I'm on OS X, but I re-downloaded and it works. Very solid game, surprisingly tricky. Could use one or two more pieces, such as maybe an anchor or brake which would slow you down.

galman29 Dec 2011, 18:28

The start and the gravity effects are pretty funny. At first I thought that the controls are lame but later on I realized that the ship is affected by the gravity of the asteroids! That is a brilliant idea!
I enjoyed your game very much! Well Done!

Kelly Thomas6 Jan 2012, 05:16

Its fun but the gravity makes the controls feel loose, kind of like bumper boats after a few drinks.

Raptor859 Jan 2012, 06:00

javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException: line with format PCM_SIGNED 44100.0 Hz, 16 bit, mono, 2 bytes/frame, little-endian not supported. Other than that it worked ok, but the ship felt like it was backwards.

MurrayL9 Jan 2012, 17:37

I really enjoyed the graphics and overall idea, but I didn't like the majorly over-sensitive controls for rotating the ship. I spent most of the game battling to point the ship in the right direction (which wasn't fun), rather than trying to figure out the best way to compensate for the gravitational effects (which was the fun).