I made a 4k game for the Ludum Dare 48h compo.

Try it via the entry on the LD blog.



It's finished insofar as it has been submitted to LD, but I don't think it's all that much fun yet. I'm hoping to be able to polish it some and then make a proper version for the 4k. Also, the LD version just runs off the class file rather than the .pack.gz as I couldn't get pack200 to work right. The archive is significantly below 4k, but naturally, the uncompressed class file is not.

Any comments and ideas are warmly appreciated!

Thanks, I appreciate the critique! One thing I have been considering is roaming enemies, will definitely think about adding them.

It's definitely possible to get all of the coins. Some require you to move the bright brown boxes (press spacebar to pick up or drop one). While you're carrying a box, you can't jump, but you can use elevators.

I really like this game!
A non-4k-version could include nicer Ball and Boxes, but I like the simple other graphics.

Roaming enemies would be really nice.

Maybe some of the "planets" could be rotating?

In Super Mario Galaxy you sometimes leave the gravitation of a planet, and are sucked into space..
(maybe if you jump to high or something..)

You can get up on the big boxes without a small box if you jump enough times Charge against a big box and jump and you'll sometimes end up inside it and teleport to on top of it.

Mike

Mickelukas: Yeah, I just discovered the same thing. Pretty funky bug.

pjt33: I'll look into the elevators, see if there's some problem with those. I considered a minimap, but figured it might make things too easy. Perhaps a minimap without the boxes, just the planets?

As always, thanks for the input.

Hi Morre,

Nice and interesting game.

The controls were a bit too tough for me.

Maybe you can slightly increase the gravity
but start out with a much less gravity?!?

I don't know .. just a thought ..

Best regards from

M.E.