Ludum Dare #31compo

Survive the doodle!

by digitalqr

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.87

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.62

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★41%

A simple game whereby you see how high of a score you can get by surviving against the creations of the pencil.

Time-lapse:

Controls:
WASD-Directional

Tools used:
-Eclipse
-Paint & GIMP 2.0
-Audacity

Libraries:
-(LWJGL based library) QRDare (https://github.com/DigitalQR/QRDare)

Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons, this 48 hour compo turned out to be more like an 8 hour, for me; I hadn't prepared or managed my time nearly as well as I should have, which led to me having to scrap my original idea, as I knew I couldn't get it to a decent state in the time I had.

This is my first Ludum Dare and I have already taken many lessons from this and I look forward to taking part in following compos :)

p.s. I'm a rather large newbie, when it comes to game development, so I'd really appreciated any criticism, so I know where to correct.

p.p.s
You MUST extract the content of the zip, in order to run it!

Comments17

Absor8 Dec 2014, 03:18

Download links do not work for me.

DigitalQRauthor8 Dec 2014, 10:26

I've just changed the links;, so hopefully, they work now

Absor8 Dec 2014, 12:04

Works now, corrected my accidental rating. Nice idea, I think the circles should fall straight down and then start moving player side of the screen. Just needs more polishing and more doodle types.

MegaMasterX8 Dec 2014, 13:10

This is a VERY creative entry! Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare entry! For the time constraints, you did a really good job.

oh_andrej8 Dec 2014, 13:16

Wow, love the idea and the style! For 8h it's actually pretty impressive. Would like to see a more complete version with some more doodles!

As for improvements: The movement is a bit too quick and twitchy I think and the game gets too fast at around 70 points (at least for me). Other than that, great job!

tigerbyte8 Dec 2014, 13:30

Nice concept. I'd like to see it taken further and polished!

andysolace8 Dec 2014, 13:33

Addictive little game! Good fun and pretty imaginitive :D

I avoided the spikes and boulders, naturally, however did learn the hard wa that the stars were NOT meant for collecting!

Very good little game :)

resty8 Dec 2014, 16:11

Good simple game, really fun to play. I like it very much!

mauris8 Dec 2014, 16:12

Cool game:) Had to rewrite you shaders, to be able to run it on gl3.1, but other than that really enjoyed it!

Kitch9 Dec 2014, 03:56

Really cool concept. For the first one, it's really awesome. Really like the drawing animations.
(Really don't like the mad sheekels :) )
Good job! Thanks!

whilefun9 Dec 2014, 20:54

Cannot run the game :(

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: LD31/control/MainControl : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: LD31.control.MainControl. Program will exit.