The Tail of Zlatanas

by gaspard

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★36%

Edit:
New easier download available.
Just unzip and run the bash file.

2,d link:
Unzip the the zip file and run the .jar with the argument: -Djava.library.path="native"
I will hopefully provide an easier alternative quickly.

Basic Ideas:

You are the emperor Zlatanas! You have 3 powers. One is health, one is strength, and one is agility
These 3 powers can be grown by killing monsters. Upon reaching enough xp, you level that power up.

The game controls with two buttons:

D is a button used to attack.
S is to jump, or to place a finisher after a series of attacks with D.

However, you are limited in the amount of jumps or attacks you can do, you then have to recharge. Protip: the ground is your friend.
Try to increase your 3 powers as much as possible, however be warned: it is easy to die in the begining.

Comments15

tribrain16 Dec 2015, 19:08

Try to make the game easier to execute... couldnt play it.

Kvyosh19 Dec 2015, 12:48

Cool game and concept!

Anti29 Dec 2015, 00:31

Really liked the concept but the game could have used a little better execution. Still a very nice game.

Diel Mormac29 Dec 2015, 01:02

Not able to play :P

drinkadriu29 Dec 2015, 09:58

Really nice i like it

LittleBlueFrog29 Dec 2015, 10:25

Nice concept! The extra use of the 'S' button is well thought out, but at the start I was puzzling why the character wouldn't jump.

By the way: the final zip with LWJGL is twice the size because it contains the zip contents twice.

AtkinsSJ29 Dec 2015, 20:17

Couldn't get it to work. With the Bash script, it runs and I hear the music, but the game window is just solid grey.

The music's good at least! :)

gelisam29 Dec 2015, 22:21

On OS X 10.10.5, running the bash command fails with the following error message:

loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/liblwjgl.dylib
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/liblwjgl.so
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/liblwjgl32.so
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/libopenal.dylib
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/libopenal.so
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/libopenal32.so
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/lwjgl.dll
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/lwjgl32.dll
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/OpenAL.dll
loading...
Loaded:/Users/gelisam/ludumdare/rendu/native/OpenAL32.dll
native
end
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at yo.MyGLFW.init(MyGLFW.java:87)
at yo.Display.<init>(Display.java:65)
at yo.Main.main(Main.java:6)
... 5 more

ciaodavinci2 Jan 2016, 17:44

Couldn't get the .jar file to execute. Concept seemed nice though!

Afendar3 Jan 2016, 10:22

i can't run the game. Not start :(

nihilaleph3 Jan 2016, 12:12

I tried to run both releases on Windows 10 with java updated and got just a gray window...

Gaspard_author3 Jan 2016, 13:58

I'm sorry for the problems encountered while attempting to run this game. I just prefer to have something that works sometimes (current state) than never (what could have happened). The bugs I encountered while creating the .jar are so weird that I can't even begin to comprehend them.

kardfogu3 Jan 2016, 15:24

Sorry, but I can't make it work either, despite being an IT professional myself. That's java.

Java just doesn't work. It was awesome like ~10 years ago or more, way before Oracle got its hand on it, but that age is long gone.

I'm sorry, but please, next time avoid using java.