Here is my entry for LD24,"Literally, Earth Shaping". The purpose of the game is to help the development of life on a planet. The only control you can excert is over the temperature of the planet.
I kind of ran out of time of the game is pretty much unwindable, but it is kind of fun to watch a planet slowly develop.
The game needs to be started on a command line, this is the only way I could figure out to get LWJGL working. LWJGL needs to be added to the java library path to run, examples of this are in the Play*.sh files.
Couldn't run this on Win 7 64-bit. PlayWindows.sh flashed up the command prompt but didn't seem to have any result, running the jar file resulted in a Jave Exception
You can't expect a .sh to be double-clickable on Windows, now do you? :P Try making playWindows.sh -> playWindows.bat, and have it have this code iniside:
(The old version couldn't run on win, and wrongly pointed to the osx libraries anyway)
Now, time for the actual game - I couldn't really figure out what to do. I messed around for a while, but couldn't really figure out what all the buttons did, even in the tutorial. I finally figured out that they toggle between views after viewing the debug log. :P
Got an exception in W7 64bits ------------- Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source) at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:73) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:66) at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:95) at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:112) at adventurist.Game.<clinit>(Game.java:39) -------------
Got it to load, but couldn't figure out what to do. Was sorta fun firing solar flares at my planets repeatedly, but didn't understand what to do past that.
I couldn't figure out how to actually play the game. I was sending out solar flares, but that seemed to be the only action I could tell was actually doing something.
Good graphics, except for the "life stages" which could have been cleaner. Couldn't work out really how to influence things, maybe the tutorial could have been more friendly. Random solar system generation was a nice idea over static levels.
It ran for me, and I like the general idea but I was at a loss understanding how my actions affected the simulation, or what the goal was. The mechanics seemed cool -- i like the idea of using volcanos and solar flares but it wasn't clear what they did. Needs to give the player much more feedback.
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java -Djava.library.path=lib/windows -jar LD24Game.jar
(The old version couldn't run on win, and wrongly pointed to the osx libraries anyway)
Now, time for the actual game - I couldn't really figure out what to do. I messed around for a while, but couldn't really figure out what all the buttons did, even in the tutorial. I finally figured out that they toggle between views after viewing the debug log. :P
I am on Win7, and to play it I've copied all *.dll from /lib/windows and then I paste this files where is the LD24Game.jar file.
Kittens!
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:73)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:66)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:95)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:112)
at adventurist.Game.<clinit>(Game.java:39)
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javaw -Djava.library.path=lib/windows/ -jar LD24Game.jar
from my command prompt.
Got it to load, but couldn't figure out what to do. Was sorta fun firing solar flares at my planets repeatedly, but didn't understand what to do past that.
Any chance you'll be adding to this?