Hi! I'm metalbeetle from last year, now newly name-changed for reasons. 

I'm working on a little game called Dawn:



You can play the current version of it at http://www.zarkonnen.com/dawn/v1.html, and follow it on GitHub at https://github.com/Zarkonnen/Dawn. I have far too many things planned for this so I'm just going to have to see how far I can get before I run out of space. *Crosses fingers that Compile n'Shrink will get fixed.*

Good point - I'll change it to arrows in the next version.

Not to worry, this is still very very early in the coding.

I'm guessing the numbers are for the path finding??

New version, weighing in at 2610 bytes after some serious compression: http://www.zarkonnen.com/dawn/v3.html

Yeah, there's no victory condition in that version.

Um, I'm a bit worried that all I'm doing here is prejudicing people that my game is going to be terrible. I just wanted to show off some early stages of the development. Working out the pathfinding, etc - most of the game wasn't there yet!

The beta version of Dawn is now available to try out at this finely-crafted link: http://zarkonnen.com/dawn/b2.html (See instructions on right.)

I haven't been able to test the fully compressed version, so depending on whether JoGa messes up the file, I either have 4 or 54 bytes left to play with. In the latter case, I might add some more varied furniture unless there is a better use for it.

PS: Sorry, bonbon-chan, I had to change it back to WASD because arrows + mouse is really hard for the left-handed/non-ambidextrous.

Very fun game, though really hard.  I never got past the first night.  There are situations where the vampire appears right next to you, and it's difficult to escape.  The gun took me a while to figure out how to use.

After many deaths, it appears that my character became part of the undead when it threw this exception:

Exception in thread "Thread-10" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 15
   at a.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Ah, those things which I thought were doors were actually windows. That explains a lot.

Speaking as a left-hander, I prefer arrows and mouse. Far more comfortable.

I'll see if I can make the distance at which the vampire starts more consistent. The exception is almost certainly due to it trying to access a map tile at y = 15 (with the map only being 0-14). When did this happen? Was it just after the game over?

Thanks for the feedback!

Pretty hard to play I think you can consider one of my advices: short time in searching or longer stamina.

Almost certainly the code for choosing starting positions, which has since been rewritten. Thanks!


Definitely. As it stands, the game is very hard for me, and I wrote it. I've already increased stamina by 50%, and may decrease the time taken to search and push things by like 25%.

Add zombie? but zombie don't hate sunlight. Rocket launcher or shotgun can be good

I'm impressed by how much you could get into this game, but how many times do you expect someone has to play it before figuring out a way to win? I have tried it over 10 times now and can't seem to survive for more than about 10 seconds. If I run to a drawer and try to search it the vampire will get me before the search is complete (sometimes I just have time to see the text saying what I found).

Probably good game, bad player, but I would prefer if it was a lot slower.

Seems like there are only a few possible maps, or do some of them just look similar? I never managed to run very far to explore.

I'm glad you like it. There's actually only one map, but different starting locations. The trick to winning is to shift around furniture to block doorways, and to shake the vampire's tail: if he sees you going around a corner, he'll go up to there, but if you're not visible from there, he has to start searching the house.

I'll record a session of me evading him for 8 minutes in a bit.