A roguelike-like-like about rooms and fighting and pyramids and being lost. Get through each room in ten seconds or less or suffer excruciating (simulated) physical pain!
WASD to move Mouse to attack E to view map (if you have one) M to mute/unmute
(to play on Linux, download the source and open it with LOVE2D : love2d.org)
EDIT: Please forgive the occasional bug where the game crashes after the tutorial; it's a pretty uncommon glitch in the level generation that I didn't find out about until ~25 plays through. If you get it, just restart the game.
I think one of the links may be incorrect. The downloaded folder reads minimalize (like last compo's theme?) and the gameplay does not match the screenshots. I was playing the Windows version.
I felt happy because I found a game with a Linux version, but I got the error "main.lua:55 attempt to call field 'newPixelEffect (a nil value)'". Some tips?
I enjoyed your humor in the level introduction, especially the jokes about the low resolution joke and the thematic relevance. I liked the gameplay, too. Just a heads up: after I died, I tried to play again and it crashed after the tutorial.
Ahaha, OK. Now that I've actually played the game, it's quite fun. You got a nice retro-computer vibe to this game.
Exploring was a little tedious because you have to clear out the room each time in order to leave, making backtracking a bit of a pain. Pretty good apart from that, though!
Worked all the way through on the first try for me.
Only suggestions I could make is adding something to the doors while they're impassable, and adding pausing. The doors thing confused me for a bit, and having the game slowly kill you while you're away is a little annoying.
Fortunately, the game wasn't really long enough to have no pausing be an issue.
Definitely one of the better submissions I've seen.
Good job, would have been nice if some rooms had power ups - my weapon seemed to go a very short distance, and it would have been nice to upgrade it, and this would also make exploring a little more interesting maybe - of course, maybe there was power ups and I just didn't find any!?
Love the graphics! And solid game play, and good tutorial - i like how how you show two Ws to show how to double jump. I agree that it does get slightly repetitive.
Game have cool zx spectrum feeling thanks to graphic and art I like that, also funny story between levels. Nice job!
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X-0r9 Sep 2013, 14:24
Randomized levelgeneration? Just great ^_^ The minimap is quite pointless, especially since your timer continues and the only "safe" area are gates themselves. Liked the different music styles depending on room-colors. If you add more traps, it could be a bit like the movie "cube"^^
Fun platformer, and I really like how you represented the health of the player. I did find it really difficult to attack enemies without getting hurt if I had to jump to attack and the theme was a bit weak, but otherwise a solid entry.
Pretty fun! The player sprite taking damage was a neat effect.
I think the game needs a larger variety of challenges (just shooting things gets a bit tedious), but that seems too much to ask for in a compo. If you're thinking of extending your entry past the compo, definitely consider that.
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Man, has anyone even been able to play my game yet?
Just a heads up: after I died, I tried to play again and it crashed after the tutorial.
Exploring was a little tedious because you have to clear out the room each time in order to leave, making backtracking a bit of a pain. Pretty good apart from that, though!
Only suggestions I could make is adding something to the doors while they're impassable, and adding pausing. The doors thing confused me for a bit, and having the game slowly kill you while you're away is a little annoying.
Fortunately, the game wasn't really long enough to have no pausing be an issue.
Definitely one of the better submissions I've seen.
The sideways pyramid on the cliff face is an awesome idea.
Liked the different music styles depending on room-colors.
If you add more traps, it could be a bit like the movie "cube"^^
I think the game needs a larger variety of challenges (just shooting things gets a bit tedious), but that seems too much to ask for in a compo. If you're thinking of extending your entry past the compo, definitely consider that.