Colorful

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.07
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.19
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.95
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★59%
The post-compo version adds a save/load feature and a short tutorial. There are also a few minor bugfixes and small changes in the game rooms. Enemy behaviour is also randomized a little bit.

Based heavily on Hero Core, Colouful is a game where the player moves around a 2D world, fighting multiple enemies. With no gravity effects, all depends only on the player's speed. Collect the colour artifacts and bring them to your love!

Colourful tells the story of a man, who, not being able to cope with the depression of his beloved one, goes on a mission to make her world, once again... colorful.

Factsheet:
- language: Object Pascal
- compiler: Free Pascal Compiler
- IDE: Lazarus
- sound library: BASS
- event handling and gfx lib: SDL
- additional gfx lib: Sour
- graphics editor: GIMP, iDraw Chara Maker
- sound generator: sfxr
- map editor: vim

Comments19

SmallDeadGuy17 Dec 2012, 17:13
Pretty fun. The colours are nice but I'm not a big fan of the minimalist style. At first I thought it was like VVVVVV but is it meant to be top-down? I couldn't tell if I was a floating ghost or what...
zenmumbler
zenmumbler17 Dec 2012, 22:57
Is it possible to complete this? The hailstorm of bullets and as far as I can tell no HP recharging options stopped me in my tracks. Liked the intro story and I should award you the "It's not dead yet!" trophy for using Pascal. Word.
aare
aare18 Dec 2012, 00:51
Wow, this game really catched the awesome reatro style. Good job!
RHY3756547
RHY375654718 Dec 2012, 01:30
Interesting, love the art style and how it's crazy hard!
iiAtlas18 Dec 2012, 02:10
Some others may not have liked the minimalist art style, but I loved it! Well done!
lando walters18 Dec 2012, 04:51
Really solid entry. I enjoyed the minnimalistic style as well.
schnerble
schnerble18 Dec 2012, 13:53
I got an error trying to run it on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), unfortunately:

An unhandled exception occurred at $080852BC :
Exception : Could not load OpenGL from libGL.so.1
$080852BC
$080872E4

Maybe it requires a specific OpenGL version?
Sanguine18 Dec 2012, 14:21
I liked the graphics of the game, but it was pretty hard.
h.attila
h.attila18 Dec 2012, 19:49
Liked the art style, but the game is punishingly hard, I quickly gave up.
The sound effects fit the style, but they are way too loud.
Also, I don't understand why I'm the villain in this story.
sev_inf18 Dec 2012, 20:03
Too hard, but enjoyable
aare
aare18 Dec 2012, 20:58
When I rated your game I had no idea that you are "super vegeta" from warsztat.gd :P
What a suprise to meet a fellow student in a competition like this :D
HeyChinaski
HeyChinaski19 Dec 2012, 21:11
Nice consistent graphical style. Very hard, particularly with the enemies respawning on re-entry to a room. Not sure how to open the doors?
Pacifist Games22 Dec 2012, 11:34
I liked it. I was able to get the weird horseshoe shaped thing in the pink area, but wasn't able to make it back alive. Are you even able to beat this game yourself?
suve
suveauthor22 Dec 2012, 12:41
Frankly, I personally find it too easy. :P
suve
suveauthor22 Dec 2012, 13:18
I mean like, come on, this isn't even near being Nintendo Hard.
sPe
sPe25 Dec 2012, 14:23
Connection to the theme seems a bit shallow to me, but I like the introduction story and retro graphics. The difference between moving and shooting directions can make combat a bit annoying at times.
Biped
Biped26 Dec 2012, 10:41
Really good game. Loved the retro style.
Jeremias
Jeremias26 Dec 2012, 13:21
Very hard game, but a lovely style. As I read what you did in the post-compo version... yeah :D the game jam games should always have some checkpoints for bad players like me.

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