I have finished my very first Ludum Dare game. It is about a ghost who wants to rescue his co-workers in a destroyed mine. I am not good at art so the game does not look as good as others might. I tried to get some life in the game with some moving objects and particles. The music is missing because I do not know(yet!) how to make good music. Some of my friends played it anf told me that it was not easy. Do not expect to win after one try. I will try to fix some bugs in the next days.
How to play: Extract the "GottM LD29 thx4nothing.zip" file and run the "Ghost of the trapped Miners.jar" file. WASD-Key = movement E-Key = interact
I know that it works on Windows but I do not know about other OS'
Doesn't work! javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file! at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source) at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:24) at com.thx4nothing.main.Game.<clinit>(Game.java:44) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't rea put file! at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:29) at com.thx4nothing.main.Game.<clinit>(Game.java:44) Caused by: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file! at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source) at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:24) ... 1 more
It worked for me. I liked the game, it was cosy. I however think you saw a tad too little, because I often got murdered by something before realizing it was even there.
PETA would like to have a word with you...haha. Cool game. Like the idea, and to be honest I thought the dog food trap was clever. That being said, getting a text message and being frozen while arrows fly at me is not. If reading a message had paused the game in some way, the experience would have been better. It was still pretty fun though!
Good game, nice mechanics but I found it a bit difficult to control the character and the collisions where not permissive at all, so it was difficult to run when the cat thing was following me.
Being chased in the darkness by something that will kill you in 1 hit with no way to defend yourself seems a little brutal. Interesting concept though.
A bit hard (because of the limited visibility, you can't plan ahead), but it was fun... the "graphic adventure" feel to it was very cool, and I liked the background story idea! Was expecting worse graphics from your description! :)
Fuck those dogs. But. I like that every level is a small story about you helping someone. It's a bit like a point and click adventure, but more fun and with more logical things to do. It was fun figuring everything out.
Massive performance issues make it almost unplayable. For what I played though, it seemed decent enough. Graphics were nothing special, sound less so, there was some fancy lighting and the mood set was very nice. Confirmed to run on OS X though, if you distribute it with the same run.bat with the .sh extension people on OS X and Linux would be able to run it, since the syntax for Java does not change across platforms.
javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source)
at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:24)
at com.thx4nothing.main.Game.<clinit>(Game.java:44)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't rea
put file!
at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:29)
at com.thx4nothing.main.Game.<clinit>(Game.java:44)
Caused by: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source)
at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:24)
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