Carrot Chaos

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.69
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.84
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★75%
You are out stocking food for the winter, and the snowmen have really tasty noses...

In Carrot Chaos, you have to run around, kill snowmen and pick up their carrot noses. There are AWESOME EXPLOSIONS, and MOAR POWERUPS THAN YOU CAN EVER IMAG... Ok, not really.

The game is kind of simple, kill snowmen, pick up carrots, and keep moving, or you freeze to death. Oh, and avoid crashing into any snowmen, they're really cold, and will lower your temperature. You can also pick up red scarves, because they make you run faster, for some magical reason. I hope you'll enjoy it!

Ooh, and please post the highest amount of carrots you are able to collect, you know, just for funsies :P

CONTROLS
(if the game's instructions aren't clear enough)

Movement: WASD
Fire snowballs: Arrow keys
Pause: ESC

Post mortem can be read here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/2014/12/14/carrot-chaos-post-mortem/

Comments35

Mopz
Mopz8 Dec 2014, 12:47
All I get is a black screen, Windows 8.1
GoudaGamesauthor8 Dec 2014, 17:48
I see, can you try running the jar using command prompt, using the command:

java -jar carrot_chaos.jar

This will hopefully print an error message.
oskardevelopment8 Dec 2014, 18:21
Snowman! Looks good! Thanks for the game and Merry Christmas!
Eponesh
Eponesh8 Dec 2014, 18:45
Remember me a old mobile game! Great game:)
davesoft8 Dec 2014, 18:59
On windows 8 it vanishes as soon as it opens. I'll try again later
vekjeft8 Dec 2014, 19:39
Osx 10.9.5:
java -jar .....

Error in texture program linking.
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/tileset.png
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/entities.png
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/gui.png
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/font.png
Loaded sound: ambient
Loaded sound: throw
Loaded sound: carrot_pickup
Loaded sound: hurt
Loaded sound: footstep
Loaded sound: hit
Loaded sound: scarf_pickup
1
Pietdagamer8 Dec 2014, 19:40
I like the health/heat system!
Mokosha
Mokosha8 Dec 2014, 19:52
Really good art! It was a little difficult using my keyboard, because each hand has different arrow keys. :( Also, I think that there's a bug when you get pinned by a snowman you get instakilled.
qleonetti8 Dec 2014, 19:53
Black screen on osx :(
AndresGames8 Dec 2014, 19:58
All I get is the black screen aswell. (Windows 8.1) after running the java thing I got same as @vekjeft.
Error in texture program linking.
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/tileset.png
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/entities.png
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/gui.png
Succesfully loaded texture: textures/font.png
Loaded sound: ambient
Loaded sound: throw
Loaded sound: carrot_pickup
Loaded sound: hurt
Loaded sound: footstep
Loaded sound: hit
Loaded sound: scarf_pickup
ArrowThroughHisEye8 Dec 2014, 20:03
19 carrots and 2 scarves :p
It was pretty fun, I liked the graphics. Thought it was weird to have separate controls for moving and shooting, expected to just shoot in the same direction you were facing, but it actually made it way easier.

-10 for using snowmen though :P
GoudaGamesauthor8 Dec 2014, 20:03
@vekjeft Try to download the new version and try again, I didn't fix any thing, just added more debug info printed.
geckojsc9 Dec 2014, 19:58
Hey, I got an exception when launching (using java 1.7)
Maybe it's a problem on my end, graphics drivers or something?

D:\Games\LD31>java -jar carrot_chaos.jar
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not create context (WGL_ARB_create_context)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsContextImplementation.nCreate(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsContextImplementation.create(WindowsContextImplementation.java:50)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.ContextGL.<init>(ContextGL.java:132)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:850)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:797)
at com.goudagames.ld31.base.Launch.main(Launch.java:24)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
at org.lwjgl.opengl.GLContext.getCapabilities(GLContext.java:124)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.glViewport(GL11.java:3261)
at com.goudagames.ld31.render.RenderEngine.<init>(RenderEngine.java:238)

at com.goudagames.ld31.render.RenderEngine.init(RenderEngine.java:186)
at com.goudagames.ld31.base.Launch.main(Launch.java:33)
Odefus
Odefus9 Dec 2014, 20:01
I think I got 28 carrots on my best run before I got surrounded by snowmen who then proceeded to play pong with my character. Could use pathfinding for the snowmen. Enjoyable game anyway.
GoudaGamesauthor10 Dec 2014, 17:35
@geckojsc It looks like a driver problem, check what OpenGL version your drivers are compatible with, they need to have support for OpenGL 3.3
magnontobi
magnontobi10 Dec 2014, 19:05
Really enjoyed this one, except for the occasional lag spike or two. ;)
grid96
grid9610 Dec 2014, 20:59
Great job. Looks awesome and makes fun playing it.
f7f510 Dec 2014, 21:07
Simple but catchy. I got to 25 carrots.
Gemberkoekje
Gemberkoekje11 Dec 2014, 16:10
Not a bad effort, I feel like you could've given a bit more feedback on hitting things, if only a bit slower speed or something. It was pretty hard, and not really obvious how you get the scarfs (i guess they were rare drops?)
Graphics looked good, the game was a pretty fun arcade entry.
You could've done a bit more with the theme, but other than that, good effort!
Slothmachine
Slothmachine11 Dec 2014, 17:30
Nice animation in falling carrots :) Controls feel nice. Good job.
ynots12 Dec 2014, 14:31
NICE GAME..
Lasty
Lasty12 Dec 2014, 23:56
Very cool.. One of the more polished entries :D (Think my high score was 35 carrots before I got swarmed and cornered)

I like the ingenious way of introducing the controls via the help screens at the start (blocking until you press W and up)

Would have been nice to see all scarved snowmen drop scarves. I either got really unlucky dice rolls or they have a bit too low droprate.
BoxedMeatRevolution
BoxedMeatRevolution13 Dec 2014, 18:10
Couldn't get it to work in OS/X 10.9.5 :( Just a black screen that disappears.
GoudaGamesauthor13 Dec 2014, 19:39
If everyone running on OS/X could start it using this command:
java -jar carrot_chaos.jar
From the command prompt, you should get an error message. It would help me a lot if you could post that here :)
GoudaGamesauthor13 Dec 2014, 19:40
The above only applies to those who crashes on OS/X, of course.
Nikteddy9214 Dec 2014, 14:35
I can't run the entry... it crashes at start :/
(i'm using w7)
redoxkun14 Dec 2014, 15:29
Got 15 carrots after a couple of tries. Nice and funny game :)
Hellequin14 Dec 2014, 17:32
Interesting concept! Well done! I like the graphics and the gameplay!

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