Hello guys! This is my 3rd Ludum Dare game, Surface Flip. This game is a combination of a runner and one of those games where you can go inside of the ground (where in lies my use of the theme). The game is procedurally generated, causing for a lot of very interesting terrain combinations. This time I finished a bit early so I worked hard on polishing it up, adding alternate color pallets, difficulty settings, a proper delta time system, and multiple music tracks (just don't choose tracks 4 and 5. I just included them for the lols. They are terrible).
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Controls: Space to Jump and respawn. A to flip surfaces and return to the main menu. Mouse to navigate the menu.
For those wondering about the download size, my guess would be the music. The game as 5 .wav files, which I have heard is not the most size efficient file type, but It's a bit late to change that now.
SuperPokeunicorn: As wav isn't compressed it's big.. but I guess you can convert this to some reasonable format and update the jar (let's call it typo :-D ) -- see bottom of the page: (MY GAME CRASHES, IS UNBEATABLE, OR I MADE A TYPO: We allow you to fix crash or win condition bugs after the deadline (in a sense, like “porting” to support more players). We also allow “typo” bugs. I.e. A true that should have been a false, a word that should have been a different word, very tiny changes that you would have caught if you had more sleep.)
Hmmm . . . I tried fixing the problems with the audio format, but the only formats java seems to support are .wav, .au, and .aiff, which are all about the same size as far as I can tell. I feel like adding some sort of plugin for .MP3s or .OGGs would be a bit too large of a change to consider a typo, so I'll just let it be.
Interesting idea! I found the game SUPER hard, but it was rewarding each time I got a bit further. Great idea having changeable color palettes.
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Belvar3 May 2014, 15:57
Really cool game, the flip mechanic really changes the basic "run and jump" gameplay and makes it more interesting. Some kind of scoring would have been nice. The music is really good.
A couple bugs. Sometimes the game doesn't want to start when I click Play. And a few times I died when the hit detection shouldn't have killed me. It's pretty tough to have to decide whether to flip or jump -- good innovative mechanic:)
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But man, 59MB?! That's a large game you have there ;D
This might be the solution for your music:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6045384/playing-mp3-and-wav-in-java
(Or maybe just for the next java game you want to put music into.)
Greetings,
JP
The music is really good.
The multiple color palette options were a nice touch.