Ludum Dare #30compo

DualityLD30

by evilentity

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.33

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★35%

Duality is born! You are an unholy abomination, angel/demon hybrid. Use the portals to switch planes of existence and overcome the enemies and obstacles! Duality is a 2d platformer written in Go and intended to be played in the terminal.

Check the source link for installation instructions or download Windows version! This is my first anything in Go, so the source is horrible. Sorry!

Im well aware about difficulty with the controls and im sorry about that! Best idea seams to be tapping repeatedly and not holding the button. Its all due to limitations of terminal input. One button at a time and delay while holding button down. Its fixable, but not in the given time frame, sorry again!

Again, im terribly sorry about the issues with the controls, but it is a system setting and beyond my control. There is a way to improve this. On windows you can decrease the delay:
Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Speed -> Repeat delay -> Short (About 200ms delay). There is no 'No delay' option. Im sure there is something similar on unix systems!

Comments13

SupSuper25 Aug 2014, 03:02

Like the concept, the controls are really unresponsive though.

evilentityauthor25 Aug 2014, 13:02

Yes, Im aware of that. Sadly there was nothing I could do about that. There is short delay in terminal before the keypress is repeated. You can easily check it by pressing a button for few seconds. Its like w wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Sadly changing it involves messing around with raw events that the termbox-go doesnt expose in any way. Maybe if I had more time I could fix that somehow. Thanks for comment!

diamondgfx25 Aug 2014, 14:23

The controls sadly make this a little frustrating to play :( I dig the terminal-style graphics; reminds me of ZZX and MegaZeux sort of games (or VVVVVVVVVVVVVVhowevermanyvsaresupposedtobethere)

tulevik.EU25 Aug 2014, 14:25

Love the ascii art!

pighead1025 Aug 2014, 14:32

Interesting concept, but like you said, the controls make the game quite difficult to play. Also, very short.

Dasginger25 Aug 2014, 14:32

I like the designs of the sprites and levels a lot, and I love the way you approached the two different worlds. It's unfortunate about the controls, as has been said already.

SaintHeiser25 Aug 2014, 14:52

Very glitchy game!
Or these lags are must be as game idea?

maike25 Aug 2014, 15:04

I love the fact that you implemented it in Go, but I agree with the rest that it feels quite unresponsive

Miziziziz26 Aug 2014, 01:41

Too bad the controls aren't responsive, it looks nice, and the gameplay seems interesting (probably enjoyable with responsive controls)

hazzahazzam27 Aug 2014, 11:08

Spend some time looking at the hard control repeat things, would have made this game 3x better.

43iscoding27 Aug 2014, 11:30

Really neat oldschool graphics. I wish you've made text the same style as everything else. Very interesting game.

klianc0928 Aug 2014, 21:04

I can't really add much to the discussion, as it looks nicely retro and would probably play good, if it weren't for the console controls. Maybe consoles simply aren't the right platform for these types of games?