My first game turned out too complicated, so with six hours to go I opted for the simplest game I could think of that fit both themes - Snake!
Guide your snake around the map with only two keys - turn Left (Q, A or Z) and Right (E, D or C) and try to pick up as many pellets as you can. But watch out, because every one you eat makes you grow longer and faster, and if you run into the wall or your own tail then you lose!
Pro: + It gets hard really quickly + Graphics and sounds match nicely
Con: - Well... it's just snake ^^; - Graphics style is nice, but feels something wrong... I don't know if it's just too basic or the grid...
Obs: o When I played snake I liked to use the 3-7 or 1-9 control, being diagonals they counted as left-up and right-down etc. The controls of this game it's a bit confusing, but not that hard to get
Basic and not really innovative, but it's a solid implementation and (most importantly) it works. The sounds give an arcady feel and the controls work well. Nice job for 6 hours of work.
@5you: It's normal to ship dll's. If a game doesn't it means they're embedded in the exe, but that's unflexible and also sort of hard to do. Next time please include an error message as "it doesn't work" is not really helpful.
the sound and graphics are a bit grating and the board is a lot smaller than I'm used to. if you were to double the boardsize in both axes, add a green nokia-style filter, and make the snake fill the entire squares instead of little shapes inside them, this would be a much more solid rendition of snake.
for a 6-hour game, its ok i guess. Maybe you should switch to an other programming language or at least some other librarys, because this pile of dll's and the starting problem are not nice (was that visual basic? The logo reminded me of this.)
Not bad for 6 hours! Found it hard to control the snake, but it makes sense given the 2 button control theme. I pressed d immediately and ran the thing into the wall unexpectedly. I wasn't looking at the controls from the snakes perspective. What was your original idea?
Whenever I opened it, it crashed immediately afterwards (Windows 7, 64-bit). Are there anything I need to install to get it running? I'm on a new computer, so that may be the problem.
I was a bit inpired by snake too but I went as far from it as I could.
My compo:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=46758