Trebek's Alien RoundUp

by escape

co-authored: @abbienormal, @mchammr, @re-dead-undead

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.14

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Welcome to our submission for LudumDare41!

You play the role of farmer Trebek who has lost his cows in this western sci-fi adventure/mystery hybrid game!

Controls:
* WASD, Arrow Keys, or Controller D-pad/stick to move
* Spacebar or any controller button to talk / close chat window / attack
* Escape key to quit the game

Team:
* Dead: design / story
* AbbieNormal: Programming
* Escape: Programming
* McHammer: art & sound
* Winterdream: art

Tools Used:
* Visual Studio 2015
* Photoshop
* Paint.net
* Tiled Editor (http://www.mapeditor.org/)
* SDL 2.0.8 (https://www.libsdl.org/)
* BFXR (https://www.bfxr.net/)
* Notepad++

3rd-party resource credits:
* Orbitron font (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orbitron?selection.family=Orbitron)

We had a lot more we wanted to do but ran out of time. What we have is playable though and there is a win condition! Please feel free to share your feedback in the comments, and thanks for taking the time to play our game! We plan to continue working on it after the jam so check back in the future (or on GitHub) to see where we take this game next! :)

Tags: #aliens, #mystery, #western

Genres: adventure

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Bfxr, Paint.net, SDL, Tiled

Comments11

heyycap24 Apr 2018, 06:42

It didn't work for me. Couldn't move.

Escapeauthor24 Apr 2018, 07:05

@heyycap sorry to hear! Were you using a controller or the keyboard for input? I'll see if I can figure out why you may be unable to move and hopefully get a fix out. Thank you for trying our game regardless! :)

aevek24 Apr 2018, 07:40

Dang! All that content without an engine in 72 hours? Its people like you guys that make me think LD might just be reasonable without unity. Not enough to actually do it tho, I'm a coward. The writing was funny and it actually worked pretty well. Awesome job guys.

Human Writes Code24 Apr 2018, 07:42

Controls worked for me but I did get stuck on some collisions. Not sure if it's a related issue.

heyycap24 Apr 2018, 08:09

@Escape I am trying again now and it seems to be working so far! I'll let you know if I run into anything again.

heyycap24 Apr 2018, 08:19

Great work! It told me I saved all the cows before I had even gone into the 2nd portal. Also, sometimes when exiting an area, I'd get stuck walking one direction (up or down) for a few seconds.

Julink24 Apr 2018, 14:27

Hi! I tested your game and, sorry if you are hurt but, I’m disappointed… (in reality, there are not a lot of defaults, but for me, they are too much important).

-First, the only audio you hear in the game is a sound when you hit an enemy and it hurts your ears

-Second, I had sometimes collision glitch: the character was blocked but there was nothing…

So I think you can really improve your game just by adding 1 or 2 music (one for the “cowboy country” and one for the aliens for example) and by correcting the glitches.

isopoly24 Apr 2018, 23:16

Nice work! the only thing I noticed was my extreme speed lol (https://youtu.be/Pk6AobT_SDo) other than that, it was really cool!

ed318725 Apr 2018, 18:47

I liked the theme, would have enjoyed some music to accompany it.

ian133711 May 2018, 08:15

Excellent stuff, I love the idea and the hub-like gameplay.

I do think that the character moves way too fast but other than that I have no complaints :)

I would love to hear what you think about my entry :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sam

PonchoGuy14 May 2018, 22:21

Hey I played this on stream, it was great!

Really great humour in this one, and it has the makings of a great story, I was pretty invested!

One thing I would note would be that the shooting sound was a bit too loud and startled me at the start!

Other than than that, great entry thanks for making it! :smile:

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