My first Ludum Dare entry. Actually even my first game other than snakes. Although I could have finished it in 48 hours, I decided to take a bit more time to get everything working correctly.
In this game you have to race from checkpoint to checkpoint within 10 seconds. There are currently 3 levels and you can choose between 3 different cars.
Use the up arrow to accelerate and the left/right arrows to steer.
Libraries used: SFML + Thor + TGUI
Music and car images were taken from the internet (links are in readme file).
Although the game was developed on linux, I have no experience with distributing games on linux. The linux build is for 64bit and is untested.
For a first game, this is very good! But sorry, I think I have to rate the games compared to the others. And be honest: there are a lot of better entries. However, I can give you a 5 for audio!
Don't give up anyway; I encourage you to go on with game developing!
To be honest on the game as itself, gaphics are a little crude, the controls are a bit "heavy" (the cars don't go really fast, and they drift a bit like a bar of soap) and a few sfx would have been appreciable.
However it's not bad at all, considering it's this is your very first ludum dare game and your second game, and the time you had to make it all by yourself.
So congrats on your first ludum dare entry, and I'll be waiting for the next ones :)
@manuq It was compiled on an arch linux based distro, maybe u have an older version of glew? You could try to compile it yourself with "g++ --std=c++11 src/*.cpp -Llinux-libs -ltgui-d -lthor -lsfml-audio -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system -o Racer".
Pretty cool - nice bit of racing fun there. It's probably a bit too slidey with the handling for my taste (particularly the red car), but fun to have a drive around. Also the contrast on level 2 could be a bit higher :) (maybe it's just difficult to see on my laptop screen)
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Don't give up anyway; I encourage you to go on with game developing!
However it's not bad at all, considering it's this is your very first ludum dare game and your second game, and the time you had to make it all by yourself.
So congrats on your first ludum dare entry, and I'll be waiting for the next ones :)
./Racer: error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Althrough I have libGLEW package already installed. By the way, screenshots look nice :)
It was compiled on an arch linux based distro, maybe u have an older version of glew?
You could try to compile it yourself with "g++ --std=c++11 src/*.cpp -Llinux-libs -ltgui-d -lthor -lsfml-audio -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-window -lsfml-system -o Racer".
Accidentally this bug makes the game particurarly challenging! :)