Ludum Dare #23compo

Arnold Bros (est. 1905)

by fanatiko

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.05

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.20

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%

LD48: Original version of the game, 320x240 window size.
v_01: Update with a scale zoom and some fixes in initialization code. I mantained the gameplay and graphics at it's original state.

You are a little gnome living in a big mall. Elders have chosen you to cross the haberdashery section and find a mysterious cube which has fallen from Space.

There are very few files in the source code, but most of the game is data driven.

Comments25

dastry23 Apr 2012, 12:41

Surely this is a Jam????? Music is outsourced????

fanatikoauthor23 Apr 2012, 18:55

@dastry the other people at the credits are the ones who wrote the software I used to create music (Otomata) and effects (sfxr).

unicornpooping23 Apr 2012, 19:35

won't run for me. just quits :-(

kj65432123 Apr 2012, 19:48

Very cool, I love the wall jumping and double jumping.

Kvisle23 Apr 2012, 19:48

This was quite good. Only complaint I have, is that the window was a bit small.

You should make more levels for this :)

blob23 Apr 2012, 20:00

Cant get it to work. ( black screen then crash )

fanatikoauthor23 Apr 2012, 20:20

@kj654321 a coworker suggested me a "hardcore mode" without the additions, like on the old times of ZX.

I'm sorry the game crashes on some computers. I tested the game on all PCs I have at home and it worked. I found a bug with the SDL initialization in the oldest PC so I added a failback software initialization. Maybe I should have kept some logging in the deliverable.

Jeffalisk25 Apr 2012, 19:14

Wouldn't run for me, I launch it and get "Arnoldbros.exe has stopped working. Windows is searching for a solution to this problem" (Win7 64bit)

Shame, liked the look of this :(

badlydrawnrod25 Apr 2012, 19:15

I know the theme is Tiny World, but when you chose such a small screen size you took away from the game itself.

Jiddo25 Apr 2012, 19:15

Quite enjoyable game! The clean graphics and titles in each room reminded me of VVVVVV. Music was pretty eery which set a good atmosphere.

Arkazon25 Apr 2012, 19:25

A fairly good little platformer, not sure how the double jump is mean't to work though, sometimes it let me and sometimes it didn't - I assume this was a bug?

Agree with Kvisle in that having a larger window would be a lot better!

Benjamin25 Apr 2012, 19:49

It's not working here too - win7 64b

naufr4g025 Apr 2012, 20:00

Graphic is simple, nice and colorful! I only didn't like player animation. :/
I like double jump & wall jump features. I think it needs more levels and more enemies.

Kayamon25 Apr 2012, 21:52

Wasn't able to play it unfortunately (Win7 x64), it crashes inside TinyOAL.dll

I'm glad to see someone else has read Truckers though :-)

Jack26 Apr 2012, 18:23

surreal music, well-implemented and retro gameplay, and what looks like a decently-built engine. Shame it was so short and easy, because this is genuinely promising

schattenkind.net26 Apr 2012, 18:57

5min of gameplay but 5 good one! The color choise is interesting!

Tourgen27 Apr 2012, 22:31

Pretty good. Music was good - more would have been even better. I liked the gameplay. I didn't like the key controls.

refreshcreations29 Apr 2012, 13:40

Fun platformer! It's got that lovely speccy vibe about it which I like. Good use of otomata and sfxr. The graphics are all very in-keeping. Would like to see further levels in the future :)