Ludum Dare #34compo

Durples Christmas Adventure

by wuppy29

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.59

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★52%

Here is my submission for my first Ludum Dare.

Durples Christmas Adventure is a 2D sidescroller platformer which includes both the Growing as well as the Two button controls theme. It's also loosely Christmas themed.

I wrote this game entirely from scratch (did not even have an engine yet) using C++ with SDL.

As the ReadMe mentions, if you get an error saying "Missing MSVCP140.ddl & VCRUNTIME140.dll" please install Microsft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable by double clicking the included vc_resit.x86.

Edit. I've updated the game, fixing a problem where the game's difficulty depended on the Hz of your monitor. I've also fixed a problem regarding the collision with pickups.

Comments17

Ybalrid14 Dec 2015, 04:27

Fit both themes AND the holyday season. A bit hard at first, but interesting concept

gene-z14 Dec 2015, 11:34

Good and hard to start,, fun

fakefrogsonly14 Dec 2015, 11:40

I found the game way too difficult to get into properly, there was not enough time in between obstacles to change your size.

alyphen14 Dec 2015, 16:20

A fun and innovative little game with good level difficulty progression and a lot of interesting mechanics. If you were to take this further, all it would need would be a graphical touch-up, some music, and some sort of menu system. Past that, you could just add as much content as you wanted.

Reggianito14 Dec 2015, 16:27

Even though you included an installer for VC++, it's gonna make a lot of people not play this. Which is bad, because it's a really fun little game, and also your first ludum entry.
Also kudos for making your own engine. That might not show on the final product, but it's something I personally like and was reflected in my voting, after some source code diving.

Recursiveanomaly14 Dec 2015, 16:29

Clever alignment with the theme! Once I got jumping I had a few instances where I didn't notice that I ran out of jumps. Also I can't grow or shrink when not on the ground seemed weird. I got a little confused that some wall dies weren't ok to touch and some were. I guess I really liked this, but the biggest complaint is that it feels like a memorization of what obstacle is coming up rather than reacting to things.

ccglp14 Dec 2015, 16:33

Nice concept, I will love to see the game finished with more puzzles or interaction with the main gameplay!

wuppy29author14 Dec 2015, 19:22

Thanks for all the great feedback :)
@fakefrogsonly, do you have a 144Hz monitor?
@Reggianito, I agree that having an installer is annoying, but as far as I know there is no way around it when using C++.
@ccglp & @alyphen, I'm certainly considering making this game fully.

PlasterPhantom15 Dec 2015, 10:08

Quite a decent game :)

SusanTheCat17 Dec 2015, 02:02

Yay Christmas!

Luxorix19 Dec 2015, 05:37

Good idea!

Blobo19 Dec 2015, 18:53

Really interesting game. i like the use of the theme, and overall it was pretty fun.

speciesUnknown21 Dec 2015, 12:01

You are allowed to fix bugs - if the game is unplayable, so long as you don't make changes to the gameplay itself.

x92rwzb21 Dec 2015, 12:32

I haven't seen many games that used both themes and were also Christmas themed. Good Job!

wuppy29author21 Dec 2015, 18:43

@speciesUnknown
Thanks for the info, I've uploaded a new version which fixes the Hz problem as well as a small mistake in my pickup collision code.

Phobos00123 Dec 2015, 19:08

Well designed levels that merge well with the mechanics and allow for some tricky obstacles. Nicely done!

shahid29 Dec 2015, 20:28

Well done! Not bad at all. Rock hard, but fun.