Yay! my first ludum dare done and in time :D I think i did a pritty good job, i know java for 8 months now. so what i did i think is ok. i had no time/energy left to add sounds. also some things where a little bit rushed. Can't wait till the next ludum dare!
Controls: WASD - Movement Left click - Shoot Right click reload Q - toggle hide hole
How to start: Download the jar. click it. have fun.
How to win: Get 100 coins. you will have a quite big pile. Do not get hit by bird to often or you'll die. cruel world.
Please rate and if you have time and can look in the source please do so and say what was good/what i could have done beter. thanks!
Tools: java + eclipse + paint.net + lwjgl and jarsplice to combine it into 1 jar.
You win when you have 100 coins, that is a big pile. Also i forgot to mention that the birds will also try to take away coins, so try shooting the lower birds!
This game is alright. The mechanic is really repetitive, and the difficulty doesn't really scale well. I got overwhelmed by a swarm of like 30 birds shortly in. I like the graphics, but it would've greatly benefited from sound.
you had a problem with natives there. For mac player, you need to get the good natives .so Both systems mac and linux use .so files, but natives are not the same. Hope you didnt mixed them and grabbed all linux natives.
@Shephiroth Yeah i fisrt tried exporting the jar using the natives wich linux user would have to use, though setting the natives folder in eclipse didn't affect the exported jar. with the linux exported jar i could still play if the dll's for windows where in that folder, i test some things when i get back home
Works on Win7. I like the graphics - too bad there's no sound (next time use bfxr, autotracker-bu, or anything, just for blips and stuff), but overall it's a pretty nice entry. Congrats! Oh yeah - intro animations are cool, but it would've been nice if I could skip the intro text.
Kinda repetitive, especially considering the lofty goal. Not being able to shoot while you reload is a little bit frustrating. I like the setting, though, and the way you interpreted the theme. One of the best in that particular area for me, so far.
This should do: java -Djava.library.path=. -jar Rockland.jar I really like that you used Java though, as it's cross platform! There are tons of games here I can't play on Linux (mostly Unity ones). Overall a pretty well made and scoped game in line with the theme.
linux build works, your file host is stripping the download file extension though, the file that downloads is a rar file so just unrar x RocklandGame_linux then java -jar Rockland_linux.jar
@Raptop85 Yeha the only rpoblem is that it needs the resource folder, wich is inside the .zip with the jar, i also have a .sh folder, though im not sure if it works yet.
Nice Game, I really liked, it was done in LWJGL, that gave me up to 500 fps :P, but I found it really hard to concentrate on both the upper ones and the lower ones and I didn't got, how to make a phone call... Also, after loosing, I want to be able to skip the "introduction"...
I liked the idea of being on an little flying island. I had some difficult in playing, sometimes I couldn't shoot even if i was full of ammo. Btw good job, +1 for linux compatibility :)
It seems i can't edit my post :/ I was working on some updates on the game, they are just for fun and are not the ones you should base your vote on. Windows link for the updates version: http://bit.ly/Rockland_Update1 Atm updates will be windows only. sorry
This was fun! It ran without any issue at all on my Windows PC :) love the graphics, and the whole "being in a tiny floating island with a phonebooth" thing was pretty funny.
Congratulations for this cool game. The graphical style and all the animations of the interface is very well done. Also the idea and the story is very funny.
@quixotic-project Nope this is done with lwjgl, i also have the sfxr tool, the only problem was i had 2 hours left, and i have never used OpenAl before, i ahd the tutorials, but i was to tired ;p
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refreshcreations24 Apr 2012, 21:01
Nice art style, groovy concept with the whole tiny floating island in the sky. There's a game start, gameplay and an ending which is all cool and a scoring system in play somewhere behind the scenes. I died the first couple of times then found my strategy to get the money and won, huzzah! Sound would make this game more complete but hey, this is LD ,there's only 48 hours and a dudes gotta sleep right? Look forward to seeing your next LD :)
[Comments and ratings from this account come from various team members] This game could have really benefitted from audio. Other than that it was a decent, short and to the point game. Difficulty was fairly well balanced. I think I got through on my first go with very little HP remaining. The opening animation with the text was a little slow to the point where it was annoying but not enough to skip. Overall not a bad game :)
@omaha What do you mean? the only way to kill the birds atm is shooting the bullets at them. i wanted to add more weapons, but yeah, i wanted to add so many more things ;p
This was funny! I really like the bizarre concept. The reserved pacing of the introductory text I felt was quite artful, and also highly amusing once it was contrasted with the main character being a stout little naked dude! :P
It's a fun turret defensey style game! I liked learning about balancing out shots and reloading earlier to ensure I had a full clip when I needed it! I will say that I think the inability to shoot while reloading adds a good bit of strategy to it. I don't know hardly any java at all so unfortunately I can't give you any code advice, but I will say that I like the way you have the art assets moving around at the title sequence :) Nice frictional motion there!
For critique I would just point out the player gets 'stuck' a little bit when you're on the bottom of the island while it floats up- moving the player at the same time would probably fix this I think! It's nothing that decreases the fun of the game though, of course, as it's quite trivial. :)
The game over all is quite humorous and stylized in both its presentation (textually and visually) and in its gameplay. I'll be checking out your ludum dare stuff to come for sure! :)
The slow reloading was confusing, especially without sounds. And the rock ammo HUD reads backwards to me. The X stands out more than the grey square. Finally, I expected hiding the hole would prevent the birds from stealing, but it had no effect.
Visuals were cute though and I liked the intro text. No problem running on OSX.
The goal didn't seem that high to me, seemed about right in terms of difficulty/time in my opinion. Like others say, sounds would have been great, and the reload thing - the way it appears on screen it looks like you should be able to fire while reloading, some text below the ammo saying "reloading" or something would have helped with that little bit of confusion for me :D Fun game
But you could have either made reloading automatic (taking time but without the need to press a button) or made it less punishing (less time for it load?), to make things more pleasant
Strange, and with promising mechanics such as slow reloading, not being able to shoot until fully reloaded, and birds stealing money back, but the devil's in the details and things like difficult-to-see bird poop and a clip size that means you wait a frustratingly long time to reload sometimes makes the experience half of what it could've been. Despite this it's not terrible overall, so good job, but try brushing up on game design concepts
Funny little game, could have used some sounds to make reloading, damage taking and etc more clear. It was pretty fun, I didn't find partically hard, just focus on shooting birds that try steal coins and just avoid the ones pooping on you. Nice game, good job!
Also i forgot to mention that the birds will also try to take away coins, so try shooting the lower birds!