Ludum Dare #42compo

wat do?

by nikki93

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.28

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Wat?
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Turns out some things in your world like you a lot and start moving closer when you touch them. But it's also suffocating and feels like you have no space. Wat do?

Install / Play
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Get ghost player. It allows you to play Lua / Love games like this one by just copying a link.

Then open this link in it: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nikki93/wat-do/499c4e2d8d44c7fbe4f744888717763916759fef/main.lua (copy the link to your clipboard, then click the "Clipboard" option in ghost player)

Pics??
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Keys?
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left, right -- run

up -- jump from floor / double jump once in mid-air

r -- restart current level

Tools!
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Lua, Love, aseprite, bfxr, moonshine (Love effects library), bump (Lua collision library), ghost player

Tools: Aseprite, Bfxr

Comments29

wwwjim12 Aug 2018, 22:00

I'm really enjoying this game! The sounds are so much fun and the graphics are really cute. The challenge is at a perfect level. There is a level that literally makes me feel out of space.

matt-tuttle13 Aug 2018, 02:29

The moving platform idea is neat. Unfortunately, the levels are a tad too difficult for me. I kept running into the wall on the 3rd or 4th level because the horizontal movement is hyper sensitive.

Michael Feldman13 Aug 2018, 02:45

Can't get the Windows build to run. Says it has trouble with a dll and I should try reinstalling.

Firebelley13 Aug 2018, 02:48

I don't have the dependencies to run. Is is possible to build a standalone windows exe?

nikki93author13 Aug 2018, 02:49

@matt-tuttle -- Yeah I made it a bit on the hard side. :sweat_smile: Thanks so much for playing! I thought I should do a accelerate - decelerate thing for horizontal motion but didn't get around to it...

@michael-feldman -- What .dll does it ask for? I'll test the Windows build again shortly.

nikki93author13 Aug 2018, 02:51

Ah @michael-feldman and @firebelley -- I figured out the issue. Will upload a build as a .zip file with the needed .dlls soon and mention you again. Thanks for checking this out!

Thepattybeast13 Aug 2018, 02:55

@nikki93 it wants love.dll lua51.dll SDL2.dll for me. I tried installing LOVE but itdidn't fix anything.

nikki93author13 Aug 2018, 02:56

@michael-feldman, @firebelley, @thepattybeast -- Does this link https://github.com/expo/ghost-releases/raw/master/ghost-win.zip work for you? Thanks again.

Teo Miklethun13 Aug 2018, 02:58

It says page not found 404 error :(

Teo Miklethun13 Aug 2018, 02:59

It says page not found 404 error :(

Teo Miklethun13 Aug 2018, 02:59

It says page not found 404 error :(

Teo Miklethun13 Aug 2018, 02:59

Very very hard, but when you finally beat a level, nothing feels better!

Teo Miklethun13 Aug 2018, 02:59

Got it working

Teo Miklethun13 Aug 2018, 02:59

Shoot, sorry for the multiple posts

nikki93author13 Aug 2018, 03:01

@thepattybeast -- make sure it's this one in this comment: https://github.com/expo/ghost-releases/raw/master/ghost-win.zip -- will update the main game.builders page soon, sorry about that.

Firebelley13 Aug 2018, 03:09

@nikki93 Works great for me now, thank you! It's fun. It's challenging but not too much so and has pretty unique mechanics.

Allan Kong13 Aug 2018, 03:11

I can't find it

nikki93author13 Aug 2018, 03:11

@teo-miklethun @firebelley Thanks so much!! :smile: Original website will be updated soon.

Tinamil13 Aug 2018, 03:12

Minor UI suggestion, play the jump sound when you walk off a ledge, because you can only airjump once (as opposed to a double jump where you walk off, then jump and jump). It took me a little while to figure out why I kept feeling like I was getting cheated out of a jump, and it's because if you walk off a ledge you can only jump (and get the jump sound) once.

Also, the difficulty level scaled up to insanity for for me at level 6 or so:

Every level up to this was nearly trivial, then I still couldn't beat that one after several minutes and about 30 deaths.

Alan Lu13 Aug 2018, 03:22

Sound is mixed pretty high, so I was startled at first. Great concept! I agree that the horizontal movement is on the sensitive side, which makes some of the levels more frustrating than they should. It was compelling though, in the sense that I did want to execute on some level strategies.

rjhelms13 Aug 2018, 03:23

I dig a lot of the ideas that are at play here, but I'm terrible at platformers at the best of times and find this really difficult.

It took a while for it to click in my head about how this fit the theme. Kudos for choosing something that totally works but isn't obvious.

mrjorts13 Aug 2018, 03:37

Agreed about the movement sensitivity making some of the levels frustrating, but apart from that this is a very cool and interesting idea for a platformer mechanic!

Thepattybeast13 Aug 2018, 03:49

It was pretty easy up till level 5 (It think the one where you have to cross the long lava) but I got though it. level 6 was harder but I still knew what to do but this seems impossible.

I'm not really sure this relates to the theme much except level 6 and maybe 7. but it was rage inducing so good job on that. Except the above level.

nikki93author13 Aug 2018, 03:54

@thepattybeast — Thanks for the feedback! On that one — just remember that moving platforms only trigger when ur touching them ... and jumping will make you stop touching them ... ;O

And yeah you’re right on the theme relationship — I wanted to make more levels that felt suffocating / enclosing but ran out of time.

Thanks so much again for playing!! :)

Michael Feldman13 Aug 2018, 05:42

Thanks for fixing the link! So glad I got to play this tetris looking platformer. The character is very cute for being a pixel. Sounds are nice and fit the overall style. Very nicely done.

EvanBacon13 Aug 2018, 19:04

Pretty Fun, sound is good gucci 🔥

jasperarmstrong15 Aug 2018, 01:09

Fun game! It's a pretty interesting concept and I like the sounds. The only complaint I have is the the controls seem overly sensitive for the kinds of movements the game expects you to make.

tetra15 Aug 2018, 18:23

I found it tough! The sound effects were nice. I had trouble with the controls, I think it'd work well on a controller instead of a keyboard.I was bad at it, but I can see the levels were well designed and I like that it isn't explained in terms of tutorial, but through gameplay. I'd like to see a further fleshed out version too.

gameplay at 10:50 - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297624571

Eric Kulbiej2 Sep 2018, 00:11

Your game is very nice to play. The general impact is positive.
As a professional game dev I would suggest... just kidding haha
Nonetheless, if you want to work on this project more I suggest making a difficulty incresing algorithm.
Graphics - very nice. Controls are also working very well.
Maybe you could also take a glimpse at my game? I already enlarged it into a wholesome Android game :)

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