Code Thief

by zelen3d

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.05

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.40

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.53

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.05

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.07

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%

In this game, you are a malicious being who and you wander around through the source of Ludum Dare games with your sturdy selecting tool, stealing the best parts of the code.

I have made this game in the last four hours, since I couln't participate on the weekend. There isn't really much to it. I didn't have time to add a purpose, or an intro. I wanted really badly to make an intro, but I guess it is for next time. Anyway, I hope you will enjoy it, at least a bit.

Controls: mouse

Comments18

Colapsydo18 Dec 2012, 09:29

Clicking is a bad idea.

chuck_mcnugget18 Dec 2012, 18:46

I can see the Matrix!!

Per20 Dec 2012, 23:18

Strange idea :)
I hope you can participate fully the next LD ;)

Starspell22 Dec 2012, 22:48

That's a really cool idea. It's actually I pretty fun mechanic. It's a shame you couldn't develop it further.

Jezzamon23 Dec 2012, 22:47

Interesting concept, I guess a bit too much to accomplish with a 4 hour time limit.

hnjslater24 Dec 2012, 02:01

Heh at least it works!

fishbrain26 Dec 2012, 10:51

This is a very cool "hacking mechanic".

Bobrocket26 Dec 2012, 16:27

very good for 4 hours!

SuperDisk26 Dec 2012, 17:55

Works on an iPad and was still fun :)

Still though, you can just tap the top left then he bottom right and just own. Neat though.

Pierrec27 Dec 2012, 12:29

Wow, I really love the feel of the gameplay. there's a bigger game to make here. Also, the idea is funny!

AyCe27 Dec 2012, 23:52

Interesting idea. :) A bit too "empty" though.

Pacifist Games28 Dec 2012, 02:22

I really liked the selection mechanic, but found that if I circle the mouse in the window I can make my selection area stay quite large. If you continue working on this maybe you should add some "bad code" that hurts you if you collect it. Cool concept!

jackspinoza28 Dec 2012, 13:53

really strong start to something cool I think. Keep at it.

csanyk31 Dec 2012, 00:28

Rather clever idea. And the play mechanic is fun, even without points or purpose. Wish you could have had more than 4 hrs to develop this into something more.

lucasncv31 Dec 2012, 17:07

Neat concept and very nice result for just 4h.

azurenimbus5 Jan 2013, 01:13

Haha, this is interesting, considering the recent debate on the source code policy.

I think if you had added a lose condition it could have been really fun :)

Worse5 Jan 2013, 13:15

It should definitely have had actual code snippets instead of horizontal lines. Also the controls are a bit flawed as you can just move the mouse quickly between opposite corners to capture everything :)

I like the game idea though.

jfroco6 Jan 2013, 16:46

Intersting idea. Hope you have time to finish it.