Keep Gamers Alive by cabul

made by cabul for LD31 (COMPO)

In this game you control an enthusiastic programmer/artist who wants to develop a game in 48 hours (wink)
You can interact with the environment with text based commands (See list below)

Commands(they should be pretty self explanatory)
help command
list command
goto [ bed | bathroom | shop ]
eat [ sandwich | cake | pizza ]
new game
drink [ coffee | water | coke | beer ]
write [ code | todo ]
improve [ graphics | gameplay ]

In the end I ran out of time, but I wanted to share my results anyways!
I used Gimp,Inkscape,Pixi.js and Atom/Sublime
The audio is a last resort asset, but I think it fits the setting
At some moments the game randomly crashes, I still have to figure out why...

TODO:
- The game still is very buggy, probably due to the fact that I have never used this framework before (Pixi.js)
- Artwork is okish
- More tactical depth, at the moment it is more a kind of mock game
- Items with special abilities

Web	http://cabul.github.io/KeepGamersAlive/index.html
Source	http://github.com/cabul/KeepGamersAlive
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=44314

Feedback

LMT

10. Dec 2014 · 19:05 UTC

Quite interesting game. I like the setting and i think it fits the theme well

Ellian

10. Dec 2014 · 19:06 UTC

A bit buggy indeed, but the idea is really nice, kudos for innovation. :D
It was fun trying to find out what to do and handling the pressure of every status bar going all out all at once

Luis Anton

12. Dec 2014 · 16:58 UTC

I didn't do most of the things that poor guy is forced to do and I managed to complete my entry :P Nice idea :D You'll get further nex time ^_^

pjimmy

13. Dec 2014 · 16:10 UTC

erm, I kind of know where you went with this idea, but the controls/commands should be more clearer. It looks cool and original though, well done

Halleflux

26. Dec 2014 · 00:00 UTC

Crashes before I finish the first game. Has done so multiple times.

regisRquoi

26. Dec 2014 · 22:45 UTC

A nice take on the theme.

Hm, had a lot lot lot of crashes..

the words we have to use are really not intuitive I think, had to check your description. You should give clues.. (I tried drink soda but not coke.. coke is not written anywhere so..)

But it's nice to try something like this on a jam, that's super cool!
can't finish it with all those crashed though..

Omiya Games

27. Dec 2014 · 04:40 UTC

Game keeps crashing. From what I played, I liked that it was a really frantic resource management via command line, but it was really hard to find the right commands.

Chaoseed

27. Dec 2014 · 04:56 UTC

Cute! It's rare to see a text-based game with time pressure, heh. It needs some polish, maybe some more features, but I think you realize that. ;)