The Cursed Tart
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First time participating in this jam. Programmed a little top-down pixel-artsy dungeon crawler. I had too grandiose initial idea, had to strip most out ^^' . I also wrote barely working map editor at the same time. Huge mistake! Should have written one beforehand. In the end there was no time for sounds, menu, nor in-game text content (e.g. story)! It was a lot of work but also a lot of fun. Hope someone likes it :).
I only have 64-bit Windows binaries for the game. The README.txt file tells the story of the game and the controls. Copy-pasted below the the screenshots. Be sure to read it!
NOTE
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I had to upload a patch to the game since it wouldn't launch on some people's machines without it. See The CHANGE LOG in the README.txt (copy-pasted below). The latest patched version is 1.0.1 and can be distinguished by the naming of the zip files.
The Cursed Tart
================
This is my entry to the Ludum Dare 51 game jam.
Used libs:
* SDL2
* stb_image.h
There are some graphical clitches and bugs that I had no time to fix.
Hopefully they won't prevent finishing the game...
CHANGE LOG
===========
Patch 2022-10-03
-----------------
* Patched GLSL version (120 -> 140) to match the used OpenGL version (3.1)
* Changed parameter to SDL_Init from SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING to SDL_INIT_VIDEO
THE STORY
==========
One cloudy morning you stepped outside of your house and noticed that last night someone
had left a delicious looking blueberry tart on your door step. You couldn't resist the
temptation of the sweetness and took a bite. It sure was sweet and delicious tart. But
there was a strange aftertaste. Suddenly in a puff of purple cloud you turned into something
unhuman. You looked at your altered hands in horror. They were so weak and growing feathers.
After a short moment, that felt like an eternity to you, came another purple PUFF and you were
back to your human self. You noticed that there was also a letter on your door step. You picked
it up with trembling hands and read it quickly.
The letter was from a local Wizard and a "friend" of yours called David. He was famous for his
over the top pranks. According to the letter, he had cursed the tart. Anyone who took a bite
would turn into some otherworldly being for 10 seconds and then turn back to their usual form.
Then, after 10 seconds, the cursed one would assume the horrendous form yet again. This
cycle would continue forever unless a magic potion was ingested. David was helpful enough to
include in the letter the nearest location of such potion, no doubt put there by himself.
You finished reading the letter and just then the curse activated and covered you in purple and
feathers...
*
One hour and many puffs later you finally arrived at an abandoned castle, the whereabouts of the
divine potion helpfully mentioned by David in his letter. You had heard that nowadays the bastion
was populated by fiendish beasts and monsters. In a fiend-like rage you stormed in to the castles
hallway...
KEYS
=====
Move: Arrow keys
Shoot/drop bomb: Space
Enter: Restart level once you've died
Escape: Quit
I only have 64-bit Windows binaries for the game. The README.txt file tells the story of the game and the controls. Copy-pasted below the the screenshots. Be sure to read it!
NOTE
-----
I had to upload a patch to the game since it wouldn't launch on some people's machines without it. See The CHANGE LOG in the README.txt (copy-pasted below). The latest patched version is 1.0.1 and can be distinguished by the naming of the zip files.
The Cursed Tart
================
This is my entry to the Ludum Dare 51 game jam.
Used libs:
* SDL2
* stb_image.h
There are some graphical clitches and bugs that I had no time to fix.
Hopefully they won't prevent finishing the game...
CHANGE LOG
===========
Patch 2022-10-03
-----------------
* Patched GLSL version (120 -> 140) to match the used OpenGL version (3.1)
* Changed parameter to SDL_Init from SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING to SDL_INIT_VIDEO
THE STORY
==========
One cloudy morning you stepped outside of your house and noticed that last night someone
had left a delicious looking blueberry tart on your door step. You couldn't resist the
temptation of the sweetness and took a bite. It sure was sweet and delicious tart. But
there was a strange aftertaste. Suddenly in a puff of purple cloud you turned into something
unhuman. You looked at your altered hands in horror. They were so weak and growing feathers.
After a short moment, that felt like an eternity to you, came another purple PUFF and you were
back to your human self. You noticed that there was also a letter on your door step. You picked
it up with trembling hands and read it quickly.
The letter was from a local Wizard and a "friend" of yours called David. He was famous for his
over the top pranks. According to the letter, he had cursed the tart. Anyone who took a bite
would turn into some otherworldly being for 10 seconds and then turn back to their usual form.
Then, after 10 seconds, the cursed one would assume the horrendous form yet again. This
cycle would continue forever unless a magic potion was ingested. David was helpful enough to
include in the letter the nearest location of such potion, no doubt put there by himself.
You finished reading the letter and just then the curse activated and covered you in purple and
feathers...
*
One hour and many puffs later you finally arrived at an abandoned castle, the whereabouts of the
divine potion helpfully mentioned by David in his letter. You had heard that nowadays the bastion
was populated by fiendish beasts and monsters. In a fiend-like rage you stormed in to the castles
hallway...
KEYS
=====
Move: Arrow keys
Shoot/drop bomb: Space
Enter: Restart level once you've died
Escape: Quit