"Slippy - The hungry penguin" is my first attempt in an Ludum Dare event.
The game is written purely in Java and comes with an jar-File
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Let's eat! The small penguin named Slippy is hungry!
Luckily there are plenty of fish on the ice, but watch out, it might be a bit slippery out there. Of course this is not a problem at all for such a great penguin as Slippy.
Help him to get some delicous fish and make him happy! If you can fetch some of those fishes you get rewarded with some delicous points. How many points can you get in 60 seconds?!?
But behold! Not everything on the ice looks as tasty ... Better do not eat those ... gross, dirty, untasty things someone lost on the ice ... You will make Slippy sad and lose some points ...
I was totally unprepared for this event and did not use any specific gaming libraries or frameworks at all - simply because I am not really used to any of them.
So I just used tools that I am fairly used to. Most of the implementation is based of the javax.swing and java.awt packages.
Would have been better if it was faster. I mean, a LOT faster. The penguin barely moved in the beginning so it took a while to get one fish and by then I had lost interest...
I Like the fact that you added the slipping math. But this game needs to be faster. And props to you not using any external library. Yes i looked into your sauce code because i saw dot jar :)
I had a strange problem, which was that the left and right keys didn't move me much. The up and down keys were crazy and slippy, but I couldn't go left/right very much... otherwise, cute game!
The movement was super slow when I was playing. I watched your youtube video and it looked like a decent speed so maybe it's an issue running the game on a mac. Grats on your first LD, good job on your first game and look forward to seeing your next :)
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