Escape Earth

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.23
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.37
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.17
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.32
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★57%
This is our first game. It's really more of a short interactive sequence than a game, but hopefully you enjoy it. It's running on our own custom engine that our programmer has been sweating over to complete on the fly. It's buggy, very short, the graphics got stretched and the code is a mess, but were very proud of our first creation :D

Controls:
Movement - Arrow keys
Continue - Spacebar
Quit - Escape

If you get the missing MSVCR120.dll error install vcredist_x86.exe from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679# and install

screenshot

Comments19

The Lag Pack
The Lag Packauthor26 Aug 2014, 01:19
I cant write for Mac, yet :D
Kinta
Kinta26 Aug 2014, 10:00
The graphics are a little blurry, but I liked the style. Nice short game. :)
Vytheros
Vytheros26 Aug 2014, 10:05
Bit blurry, not sure if it froze or the game ended when I was looking at Earth being shot.
Mekuri26 Aug 2014, 10:06
Nice first creation :-) Very short, and more of a interactive short story, but you still managed to get some mood in there. :-)
swabbur26 Aug 2014, 10:17
Can't open it, says a .dll file is missing :(
The Lag Pack
The Lag Packauthor26 Aug 2014, 10:18
Thank you for the comments :) The game does in fact end at the shot of the earth. I had the idea of that being a final look back and leaving the fate of earth for the player to decide, however it seemed better in my head and perhaps we should have put in an actual end screen.

Also were not entirely sure why the graphics went blurry, we assume its because they were stretched across the screen. Hopefully in the future we will learn how to properly apply the graphics without ruining them. We'll also be adding sound and music into our next game and may come back to this one to sort of remake it.
Reverend Speed26 Aug 2014, 13:02
The graphics are nice and the story is atmospheric. It's more like a cutscene than a game, but it's nice work for the Jam!
Toubib26 Aug 2014, 21:39
dll missing
The Lag Pack
The Lag Packauthor27 Aug 2014, 14:26
What dll does it say you are missing?
Follett27 Aug 2014, 15:28
I didn't really like the blurry (stretched?) graphics but I was interested the entire time. Really good work!
GuillaumeGwi30 Aug 2014, 18:02
Nice mood ! The end is funny :D
Hyoga-3D
Hyoga-3D31 Aug 2014, 23:34
Art style is nice, good entry.
thecolorhacker8 Sep 2014, 18:03
It asked me for msvcr120.dll. I downloaded it and put it in the game folder, then gave me another error.
Aglavra13 Sep 2014, 20:42
It lacks of gameplay.. At least an opportunity to interact with other people somehow. I liked how the surroundings were drawed, but the main character seemed disharmonic (stretched vertically?)
Acuity
Acuity15 Sep 2014, 21:59
I wasn't sure if the game ended when I reached the 2nd level of the bridge...
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