Made a brutally hard platformer for Ludum Dare 31

[quangdx]

P.Rick Airious.

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=11959

[Wampus]

You always make something fun and accessible. Voted it up.

Strange theme this time around. At least it wasn't Snowman XD

My wife and I submitted an entry for the Jam. Was being ambitious but luckily got it balanced and working enough to play okay.

[erico]

Got to level 25!
Great game, really wierd but great!

[quangdx]

Thanks guys.
GLBasic makes it really easy to put together small fun games very quickly.
Difficulty ramps up pretty much after level 20,
but all levels are possible, without dying.
There's even a different ending if you can complete all 40 levels without dying.

I'll check out your entry Wampus as soon as I sneak away from work.

[quangdx]

So apparently on some people's computers, when trying to open game fullscreen at 640x400,
none of the images/backgrounds/textured get displayed.
Everything is black, but you can hear the music and sound, so the you know the file paths are correct,
you can play the game and you see lighting effects. Just no images.

I rebuilt the game to work in a 90% window of the desktop resolution,
Creating a virtual screen of the original 640x400 then stretching it to the the dimensions.

Code (glbasic) Select Expand


GLOBAL DesktopW,DesktopH
GETDESKTOPSIZE DesktopW,DesktopH
DesktopW=DesktopW-(DesktopW*0.1)
DesktopH=DesktopH-(DesktopH*0.1)
IF DesktopW<DesktopH THEN DesktopH=DesktopW/1.6
IF DesktopW/DesktopH>1.6 THEN DesktopW=DesktopH*1.6
IF DesktopW/DesktopH<1.6 THEN DesktopH=DesktopW/1.6

SETSCREEN  DesktopW ,DesktopH,FALSE
CREATESCREEN 1,255,640,400
USESCREEN 1


then at the end of the screen drawing routines

Code (glbasic) Select Expand


USESCREEN -1
STRETCHSPRITE 255,0,0,DesktopW,DesktopH


But this breaks the OS X version for some reason.
The fonts get all messed up with the images and it displays the wrong image.
So I had to then separate the code, so the Win32 version runs in a 90% Window, while the OS X version runs fullscreen at 640x400.

Phew!!!
Download it and give it a try, if you haven't already.
Your comments and feedback are all useful. Good and Bad.

Thanks.

[erico]

Yes, unfortunantly virtual screen seems broken on OSX.
I also noticed the default font also does not show on OSX when no font gets loaded.

[quangdx]

A different approach is gong to be required then for making full screen cross platform OS X and WIN games.
Unfortunately a 24/48/72hour Game Jam is not the place to be coming up with them.
When things quieten down next week, I'll start thinking of new solutions.

Anyone manage to complete the 40 levels yet?

[erico]

Got to level 30. At such point, it is hard and imprecise to control the player.
I´d need some time to figure out a precision scheme out of the control style.

As for the virtual screen, it is going to be hard for me to figure out a way.
My game runs and renders at 428x240, it then gets scalled to whatever resolution.

I wonder if I could use polyvector or a 3d plane to go around this.

[MrPlow]

Both games look great!

[quangdx]

Made a few fixes and updates, including tightening up the controls.

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=11959