Made in C++ with SFML. The source code is pretty bad, partly do to my laziness and partly due to my inexperience with making games.
WASD to Move.
You are a big monster that just wants to eat stuff. So eat stuff.
This was my first Ludum Dare and I managed to make this crappy game. I'm not upset though, since this was one of my first games, so in fact I'm even kind of proud.
NOTE: The source should work when compiled on any system and the according to a comment it works well with Wine. (Thanks to zenmumbler for Mac version.)
GJ on completing you game, I could not get past the "Humans last stand" round though it was far too difficult.
In my mind this game probably would have worked better as a continuous game rather then round based, with a whole variety of different sized objects, bigger eats you, smaller you eat, that kind of gameplay.
I was surprised the first time when the game restarted and then yo added a new mechanic: "EAT SMALLER THAN". I wasn't expecting that since you didn't add some kind of feedback at how far away in the level I was. I liked that.
I enjoyed it, but it would have been better if you had made it continuous,and sometimes (on the humans last stand level)there is no mathamatical way to get through. Overall, nice job :D
Great job for a first time entry! It has all the important components: multiple levels, 'enemy' types, a story, sound, music, and an ending. My only complaint is that in the final stage, often there are not gaps between the bombs large enough to fit through, or when you get into the gaps you then eat something which makes you too big. Nice job.
This entry was somewhat entertaining, but the collisions were a little too ambiguous for me :/
Also I noticed your inclusion of libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll. I like to statically link those by adding "-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" to my linker options.
Be proud! Simple but fun mechanic. I kept on trying to get bigger on every screen :) By the way, it works great under Wine so you may want to say so in the description.
Nice work! At first, I wasn't sure if there was any more after that first level, but I never should have doubted you! Let's review.
Bad: -Moving backwards is a pain. Does it have to be that slow? -The game could probably use a background and some other things to feel more complete. -I personally have no idea what those blue things were...
Good: -Level progression flows smoothly, and the messages in between are a nice touch. -It all feels nice and solid in terms of gameplay.
I used your entry to practice 2 things, learning SFML by porting SFML projects from Win to Mac (the other one is Revenge Bear) and also in this case porting from SFML2.0 to 1.6 (this was necessitated by me already having compiled 1.6 libs but no 2.0 libs ready and being lazy about it.)
@RokB, feel free to link to this download in your entry (or reupload it somewhere else) If you want the Xcode project or the 1.6 converted source, let me know here or on Twitter (@zenmumbler)
Biggest pain point in porting was that SFML 2 rects are left, top, width, height and in 1.6 they're left, top, right, bottom. If I had had SFML 2 libs precompiled, porting would have consisted solely of creating the Xcode project, dragging in the files, putting in some paths and assembling the .app bundle.
As for the game: simple concept, functional, multiple levels, an intro and ending screen and even sound and music! That is something a lot of LD48 entries can't say. Well done.
Nice game! Fun and simple. I looked through your code, did you have to playtest quite a bit to get the spawning probabilities for the different entities to make it playable?
Thanks for playing. Yes I did have to playtest a bit with the spawning to get it just right even though I'm pretty sure it's not right yet, especially for the last level.
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I have a similar mechanic in my game too.
In my mind this game probably would have worked better as a continuous game rather then round based, with a whole variety of different sized objects, bigger eats you, smaller you eat, that kind of gameplay.
I was surprised the first time when the game restarted and then yo added a new mechanic: "EAT SMALLER THAN". I wasn't expecting that since you didn't add some kind of feedback at how far away in the level I was. I liked that.
It does get slightly tricky when you're really big and cornered by bombs!
Also I noticed your inclusion of libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll. I like to statically link those by adding "-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" to my linker options.
Bad:
-Moving backwards is a pain. Does it have to be that slow?
-The game could probably use a background and some other things to feel more complete.
-I personally have no idea what those blue things were...
Good:
-Level progression flows smoothly, and the messages in between are a nice touch.
-It all feels nice and solid in terms of gameplay.
You can get Eater Mac here (10.7+ required for libc++ runtime) :
http://logic-dream.com/ext/EaterMac.zip
@RokB, feel free to link to this download in your entry (or reupload it somewhere else) If you want the Xcode project or the 1.6 converted source, let me know here or on Twitter (@zenmumbler)
Biggest pain point in porting was that SFML 2 rects are left, top, width, height and in 1.6 they're left, top, right, bottom. If I had had SFML 2 libs precompiled, porting would have consisted solely of creating the Xcode project, dragging in the files, putting in some paths and assembling the .app bundle.
As for the game: simple concept, functional, multiple levels, an intro and ending screen and even sound and music! That is something a lot of LD48 entries can't say. Well done.