This game is not as complete at all, probably because this was my first Ludum dare and I didt get the hang of managing my time. Any way your main charecter is going to die in 10 secconds (when the sun sets) and in that time he goes through his memories, and finaly says goodbye to his wife on last time. I plan on continuing development of this; eg adding more levels a deeper story and so on. Please give your comments, it the whole reason I did this :)
I did rush, so please let me know of any stupid things.
Notes: Space or enter to start You need a minimum java 1.6 The Window size is stupid, I will fix soon The Music released under The Creative Commons Lisence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
The music is great, and the art style is nice, but I'm having difficulty understanding what is happening in the game. Some symbols just disappear, the wife/daughter mourns (which does make sense), and you turn into a pulsating cloud when you are over the woman on the top, and even though the sun set you can still move around. I'm not quite getting what the game is trying to tell me.
The to people standing next to each other used to be your parents that you remember, and they died early in your life, the baby turned into your wife mouring sybolizing it was a silent birth, and the pulsating cloud it a bug...
I really liked your art style and your music, you also had kind of a solid idea, but the game programming and polishing was lacking.
I will give you some of my impressions, I hope this help you next time:
* At the title screen, I tried clicking "start" but nothing happened. If you are not going to do mouse input, do not place a "button" like on your screen, and tell the player as soon as possible what are the commands (space for jumping?)
* The platforming needs work. The jump is really short, but the character can somehow glitch into the next platform, even though visually he cant reach it.
* Also, when I played the second time around (after dying the first time), the game did not end when the sun reached the bottom of the screen. Check if you are resetting all your variables!
I can totally sign what dalinblue said: "Some symbols just disappear, the wife/daughter mourns (which does make sense), and you turn into a pulsating cloud when you are over the woman on the top, and even though the sun set you can still move around. I'm not quite getting what the game is trying to tell me."
That's my experience too. And I'm not sure what's up with the hunchback angel? And yes, the jumping needs a lot of work.
I like the graphics and the music though! It looks rough, but still pleasing, and the minimal animations work well.
Congratulations on finishing your first LD! I hope you'll be back for more later :)
I like the simple art style but I'd suggest working on the feel of the controls as they were a bit disjointed. Otherwise a good solid game though, the music was nice too.
The graphics attracted me to play the game, but it seems to be buggy. I cannot jump higher than the first platform. After 3 sunsets the sun hangs and you can play forever.
Music is really nice, but you should definitely distribute it in some lossy format (to reduce download size). The game itself was little bit confusing (at least for me) sometimes :-)
Nice art and music though.