This is my first time doing the Ludum Dare without a team. I made this simple game to simulate playing a cheap video game one might find in a kids' meal at a fast food place. The game is will only run on Java 8 at the moment. I might recompile this game to run on Java 7, and if I do, I'll put it up on the project page at my website (linked in the top). The source code is all set to be opened in Eclipse, but can be opened without it as well.
When you unzip the game, it will be in its own folder, so don't worry about unzipping it and having stray files. To run the game try double clicking Baseball.jar, but if that doesn't work try double Baseball.bat on Windows or Baseball.sh if you are on Mac OSX or Linux. If you are on Linux or OSX and double clicking the .sh file doesn't work, try running it through the terminal.
I hope you guys enjoy this game as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Controls: A/D or Left/Right | Move batter side to side Space/P | Pause/Unpause the game.
If you are in the correct place to hit the ball, you get a point, but if you miss the ball, you lose a point.
Thanks, guys. I was initially going to put in a working power, Start, and Sound button, but I didn't in the end. Maybe I'll add that in a later version or something :D
Oh yeah, I meant it to do that. Now that I think about it, a normal game wouldn't do that. I just made the score either add one or subtract one, depending on if you hit it or not, so that's where that came from. Thanks for checking it out.
Very minimalistic, simple controls, and I like how I got negative score ;)
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Cake&Code16 Dec 2014, 01:23
Very simple, but it has that ye-olde-handheld feel of a fun game that you could spend a couple of hours on. I enjoyed it :)
Not sure why it was compiled with Java 8, earlier versions are much more likely to exist on our computers and unless this game makes heavy use of lambda expressions or other new features it should be easy enough to compile it in 7 or even 6.
Also not sure why you didn't opt out of the Humor category, this doesn't strike me as a funny game in any way.
@Cake&Code Haha, yeah Java 8 is all I had, but I gotta recompile sometime because it runs on 7 and 6 fine when recompiled. I removed the humour category now, I missed that. @CodeNMore For some reason I made it so that when you hit the ball successfully, it adds one point, and if you don't hit the ball it removes a point. If you end up missing more than you hit, the score will end up negative. Thanks for checking out my game guys. :D
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My only complaint is that the Power button doesn't work. :P
Not sure why it was compiled with Java 8, earlier versions are much more likely to exist on our computers and unless this game makes heavy use of lambda expressions or other new features it should be easy enough to compile it in 7 or even 6.
Also not sure why you didn't opt out of the Humor category, this doesn't strike me as a funny game in any way.
@CodeNMore For some reason I made it so that when you hit the ball successfully, it adds one point, and if you don't hit the ball it removes a point. If you end up missing more than you hit, the score will end up negative.
Thanks for checking out my game guys. :D