The total number of graves in the game is around 150,000. The names of real people were not used and any similarities with people living or dead is a coincidence.
NOTE: The competition version is called "theyhadbeef_windows_compo.zip"; the other versions contain an image and sound file taken from the internet. If you are interested in judging the game, please play this version, otherwise play the non-compo version. Thanks!
To run the compiled version, you shouldn't need anything. For the source, the latest dev version of pyglet and numpy should do it (I think...) - for the music you might need pyglet to install AVBin.
A very effective and unimposing polemic against industrialised war (specifically WW1 I'm guessing). The minimalist style -- both in terms of gameplay and graphics -- is perfect for the message.
Really good game and fantastic use of the theme. Best so far.
TEG: there's nothing that's not obvious from just playing. I ran out of time to add some features I wanted, but put it up anyway.
Linus: Boo, it worked fine on my machine, but I have an old-ish (Snow Leopard) Mac so maybe there are differences with the new version. If any error logs came up then feel free to ping them to me and I'll take a look!
And that's why most people play CoD or Battlefield. Shooting nameless characters is just so much more fun than being reminded of how devastating war is...
The grave generator is very good, the inscriptions are very believable. I first wanted to say that there is not enough things to do, but I think adding features would have ruined the experience. Walking along the graves and imagining the lives of those people (even if they are fictitious) is quite saddening. Well done!
ZYXer: I did have ideas for, well, an actual game mechanic, but I didn't spend that much time on LD during the weekend so ran out of time to implement it. Maybe something for another jam...
I agree with the post about FPS games.. this should almost have been put together with a quick mindless shooter for 10 secs where you manage to kill a few hundred incoming soldiers.. and then go to this screen, could have quite the effect.. this is a bit similar to http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=33841
I think the problem with the OSX/Linux versions is that you need AVBin installed: https://code.google.com/p/avbin/ - the Windows version includes the DLL but the others don't. At some point I'll try to make a better version that fixes this bug.
Comments19
Really good game and fantastic use of the theme. Best so far.
I think the silence suits it.
Linus: Boo, it worked fine on my machine, but I have an old-ish (Snow Leopard) Mac so maybe there are differences with the new version. If any error logs came up then feel free to ping them to me and I'll take a look!
But a little collision system would be nice (just to really walk around the graves)...
The grave generator is very good, the inscriptions are very believable. I first wanted to say that there is not enough things to do, but I think adding features would have ruined the experience. Walking along the graves and imagining the lives of those people (even if they are fictitious) is quite saddening. Well done!
BMacIntosh: Those pens are very sharp.