Amadeus

by janiq
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.75
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.25
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.75
Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.75
Help little Amadeus to avoid the ghost and find his parents.

Controls

Game is controlled by mouse left-click.

Technology

Programming was done with amazing Love2D 10.0 framework.
Programmer "graphics-art" :-) was done using Inkscape.
And both sound effects using bfxr.

Links

LOVE file: http://prunum.org/amadeus_janikve_ld38.love

WINDOWS executable: http://prunum.org/amadeus_janikve_ld38.zip

Postmortem

Start of this LD was a bit rough because I didn't like the theme at all. I was aiming for the jam so I said to myself that I will start drawing/coding something and maybe the idea will come up. Eventually I ended up with the house and point&click style walking game. Idea about the actual gameplay came up very-early on the submission day :-) From then on I was drawing and coding straight up to the submission hour.
I thought it will end up badly because I had only one level and the game wasn't winnable until the last moments before submission :-) I took my last strenght and made the winning possible. But I still ended up only with one level.
The lesson for me is that it is possible to create a game even if the theme is really bad for me. However it may not be easy. And of course I still have to learn how to draw and create any sound :-)

Hope everybody enjoyed this LD and survived the server problems during the submission.

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