Spiral Dungeon

by pcholt
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.88
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.29
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★44%
All on one screen, with a twist, literally.

Combat was not possible to enter in the time. :( Also animation, music, and intro screen. :(


Comments30

Pcholtauthor8 Dec 2014, 02:42
Just checking the Windows port now.
Pcholtauthor8 Dec 2014, 02:42
To run under Linux, you have to run "java -jar SpiralDungeon.jar" from a command prompt in the SpiralDungeon_jar directory.
Pcholtauthor8 Dec 2014, 02:49
OMG Windows port works... without modification! All hail LibGDX!
Pcholtauthor8 Dec 2014, 02:49
Now for sleep.
sam1018 Dec 2014, 03:49
The game kinda lack interactivity (maybe I missed something on the controls ?). The graphics and the general idea of the insects following you is cool however.
BKGH8 Dec 2014, 03:49
This game is amazing!
How you managed to accomplish something like this in 48 hours is beyond me.
Red Sigma8 Dec 2014, 06:15
Creepy as all hell. Excellent use of sound. The level generation was really interesting too. Wish there was more than just bug kiting though
Pcholtauthor8 Dec 2014, 08:30
Ah well there's only so much you can do with the time when you have other commitments. The monsters aren't animated because I spent more than 2 hours working on the Animation class from libgdx and couldn't work out how to apply it to Sprites. Also spent another two hours trying to debug a problem where the shadows cast by the walls were also being cast by the monsters in a very unrealistic fashion. It turned out I had two parameters to PointLight.setContactFilter round the wrong way :P
Iak8 Dec 2014, 09:17
If only combat had worked - kiting those things around gets a little old - I love the way you use whatever is currently not visible for terrain generation though! Nice graphics, too.
Excellent use of the Theme imo!
Ekilibr
Ekilibr8 Dec 2014, 09:28
My 5 stars for the theme interpretation !
I wish I could play this game with combat :(
Paperscraps
Paperscraps8 Dec 2014, 19:39
This was really creapy, haha. I really dig the lighting effects. The sound got a bit annoying after awhile. Maybe that added to the overall "cringyness" of the game.
Pcholtauthor8 Dec 2014, 23:57
Sound was added at the last minute - the sample is me hitting two pencils together - and played at 1/d^2 volume every time the monsters on the level take a step. The biting sound is me snapping my fingers.
Jupitron
Jupitron9 Dec 2014, 01:19
Really amazing game! Its awesome how everything smoothly changes, sfx are awesome the way it fades in when youre near a enemy. Top mood entry!
madmaw9 Dec 2014, 07:30
While it was a easy theme to pay lip service to, I feel that this game gets it right. No exit, no levels, just keep running from more and more monsters. Positional audio is nice too
Pcholtauthor9 Dec 2014, 12:22
Do you think its permisible to add an objective and a win-condition after the deadline? I might host a bug-fixed verssion
Nitrodeus9 Dec 2014, 19:18
Wow this game is really impressive
I like the graphics and the creepy gloomy atmosphere
nice job !
BoxedMeatRevolution
BoxedMeatRevolution9 Dec 2014, 20:43
Great mood. Great Audio. Great Innovation. Having the level change in the darkness is a really cool mechanic.
With some polish, this could become a really fun mini-horror game!
Leaghorn10 Dec 2014, 05:18
Really creepy. These noises enemies makes makes it even creepier. To bad that player is funny looking. If he also looked creepy it would be better IMO.
Murchurl
Murchurl10 Dec 2014, 05:18
Pretty simple gameplay. Nice lighting effect though! nice effort!
PIXEL^310 Dec 2014, 08:02
Nice concept. It definitely needed a combat system but you could've at least removed some enemies because that's a really tight space.

-AlucardX60
Pcholtauthor10 Dec 2014, 08:50
If you have the 'tiled' map editor, you can edit the map yourself to remove monsters and reduce the confinement near the end of the game.

I might be able to upload an update, considering the game is practically unfinishable in its current state?
Gins10 Dec 2014, 11:26
Pretty creepy. I like how the sound gets louder when those enemies come to you. The spiraling is also a cool mechanic, good interpretation of the theme!
ShadowTzu12 Dec 2014, 00:15
I can't try your game, links are dead :(
Teesquared
Teesquared14 Dec 2014, 10:21
I really like how the level changes in the darkness as the player spirals around the screen. Very visceral feel when you die.
Pcholtauthor15 Dec 2014, 00:30
The links are back up - I upgraded the server and the apache process didn't start up :(
CodeNMore16 Dec 2014, 01:02
Great!
grid96
grid9617 Dec 2014, 23:42
Nice graphics, but is there any goal in the game yet?
Poxymyr
Poxymyr29 Dec 2014, 22:12
Awesome idea, I agree with evertyhing thats has been said already! You should make a finished version of this, and I would play it and recommend it to all my friends, for sure.

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