Ludum Dare #31compo

MousyDare

by sri-harsha-chilakapati

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.24

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.52

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.24

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.39

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★28%

This is my first LD, so this might not be the best, but I can assure you that you'll enjoy this. A very short 'n' sweet game.

Requires Java 7 to play.

The concept of this game is the life of a mouse, you need to satisfy your hunger and return home safe. Here are the tools I've used to make this game.

- Mercury 2D game library - http://mercurylib.com/
- Bfxr.net (audio)
- BeepBox.co (music)
- GIMP (art)
- IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 (IDE)

If you do like this game, please give me ratings.. Criticisms welcome too, I want to learn from my games, and finally, thanks LudumDare, this is the first game I've ever completed! :)

Comments15

Interface8 Dec 2014, 06:12

Avast does not like your game at all... (blocked as a virus) sorry, couldn't play :-(

Zabuza8 Dec 2014, 06:21

Fun little collectathon game. :)

Sri Harsha Chilakapatiauthor8 Dec 2014, 06:23

@Interface:
Please try to download the .jar version. Maybe an issue with JarSplice but I'm sure it's a false positive.

http://goharsha.com/downloads/ld31/MousyDare.jar

JNyknn8 Dec 2014, 17:32

Not bad, but that music hurt my ears...

Resonious8 Dec 2014, 17:37

Not the most innovative or interesting entry, but it is solid, and I have seen worse!

IcyLava8 Dec 2014, 17:41

Fun little game, I guess my best advice would be to work on the graphics a bit more. Good work :)

raincole8 Dec 2014, 17:42

Gameplay is fine, but the music gets annoying quickly.

CheeseyBob8 Dec 2014, 17:45

Great little game with really cute graphics!

TimtheBo9 Dec 2014, 15:47

Nice music. The game is a bit repetative and could have been more challenging.
(Also, as a personal preference, i like WASD)

atombrot9 Dec 2014, 18:00

Quite simple and quickly completed but well done for a first entry. The music is really a bit annoying. Thanks that you have implemented the window resizing. P

Sri Harsha Chilakapatiauthor11 Dec 2014, 15:36

The window resizing is quite hacky, Mercury doesn't support it. So don't expect the splash screens to resize properly.

jeepracer9816 Dec 2014, 00:50

The Linux link downloaded an sh file for me, but I couldn't view its contents, it kept just crashing Scratch(text editor) for me. I ran the OSX version with the jar file instead and it worked great.

Sri Harsha Chilakapatiauthor16 Dec 2014, 11:38

@jeepracer98, The linux link is a self-extracting shell script that contains the JAR file. That's why the editor crashed. I provided that as an easy means of running the game, since you can just use ./MousyDare.sh in the Terminal or Console and it launches automatically.

asobitech16 Dec 2014, 13:57

Nice first LD game. Need to have left yourself some more time for polish and testing.

shyupuff25 Dec 2014, 20:48

Really nice job on teaching the player mechanics. Some of the tutorials are a bit unnecessary imo. A "Less is More" kind of thing. Lots of levels. Nice job :D

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