Get as high altitude as possible by collecting fuel. You start with 10 seconds worth of fuel! AWD to move and QE to rotate.
My first ludum dare game and almost my first game ever. I had grand plans for this game! Like a background to orient yourself with...or the ability to crash. Or bug-fixing in general.
Update! Now have a windows port as well!
Update! Now people on better computers can play the game too! Finding fuel should be for everyone:)
Tried to run the game in my VirtualBox LinuxMint. Failed with following message: ./LudumDare27: error while loading shared libraries: libsfml-system.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I do not know Linux very well. Can I install the sfml libraries with a simple console command like apt-get something?
Stephan_h: You shouldnt need to do anything other then executing the Ludumdare27.o file... Will look into this! Im not very good at linux either Im afraid
"loading shared libraries: libsfml-system.so.2" => you need SFML installed, in fedora it's yum install SFML, I guess in debian/ubuntu apt-get install SFML should work.
Works out of the box here (ArchLinux). But it seems like my computer is too slow to run this game, I have something like 2 fps, so as soon as I press W everything changes and I don't understand what's going on anymore.
Used the Windows version now and that worked for me. Liked the style and the music very much, but was not able to collect a single fuel item. But, interestingly enough, I got not frustrated. Perhaps because of the nice music and sympathic atmosphere? In think this is a very good 'almost' first game ever.
Later today there will be a fix so people are able to "finish" the game. People have been complaining that the fuel cannot be reached. It's possible on some computers though....
Cool idea, but I can't seem to reach any fuel. Would be nice if some would always spawn within visible distance of the starting point--to give the player some visual indication of what they're supposed to do.
This was fun enough to keep me interested in it even though the rocket did not display. That said, you could have had more variety in terms of obstacles and such.
Works fine on Windows 8 64bit. 157 705 parsec. I just kept going and gathered barrels by luck. I like the idea. A scrolling background would really improve the game, to make the player feel the speed. Speaking of speed, when travelling very fast, the ship may go outside of the screen.
It's a good game, and once again a good idea, good work :)
My best score so far (by pressing W until I run out of fuel) is 148 parsec. Either my computer is not powerful enough, or you're doing something suboptimal in your code.
Having the an animation showing ship die when it runs out of fuel even though it still has momentum was kind of annoying. Lost two games if the ship would have been allowed to finish coasting into a really close canister.
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But does is anyone with linux able to play it yet? :/
./LudumDare27: error while loading shared libraries: libsfml-system.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I do not know Linux very well. Can I install the sfml libraries with a simple console command like apt-get something?
Will look into this! Im not very good at linux either Im afraid
Sadly not, i use sfml 2.1 wich I compiled myself since apt-get only gets 1.6.
Dont really know what to do!:((
But it seems like my computer is too slow to run this game, I have something like 2 fps, so as soon as I press W everything changes and I don't understand what's going on anymore.
Will try to make it work without the need to compile sfml 2.1!
Liked the style and the music very much, but was not able to collect a single fuel item. But, interestingly enough, I got not frustrated. Perhaps because of the nice music and sympathic atmosphere?
In think this is a very good 'almost' first game ever.
supersammy7000: Haha, I can think of a couple of improvments!
Have anyone managed to reach any fuel yet?
157 705 parsec. I just kept going and gathered barrels by luck. I like the idea.
A scrolling background would really improve the game, to make the player feel the speed.
Speaking of speed, when travelling very fast, the ship may go outside of the screen.
It's a good game, and once again a good idea, good work :)
Although something in the background would be nice, gives a sense of speed
woo!
no gravity? I felt like I was going faster and faster and faster!! until the fuel was going by too fast I couldnt pick it up!