Survive the doodle! by DigitalQR

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made by DigitalQR for LD31 (COMPO)
A simple game whereby you see how high of a score you can get by surviving against the creations of the pencil.

Time-lapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stQR3BtkOk4&feature=youtu.be

Controls:
WASD-Directional

Tools used:
-Eclipse
-Paint & GIMP 2.0
-Audacity

Libraries:
-(LWJGL based library) QRDare (https://github.com/DigitalQR/QRDare)

Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons, this 48 hour compo turned out to be more like an 8 hour, for me; I hadn't prepared or managed my time nearly as well as I should have, which led to me having to scrap my original idea, as I knew I couldn't get it to a decent state in the time I had.

This is my first Ludum Dare and I have already taken many lessons from this and I look forward to taking part in following compos :)

p.s. I'm a rather large newbie, when it comes to game development, so I'd really appreciated any criticism, so I know where to correct.

p.p.s
You MUST extract the content of the zip, in order to run it!

Ratings

Coolness 41% 1659
Overall 3.13 631
Audio 2.62 605
Fun 3.17 468
Graphics 3.26 446
Humor 2.90 304
Innovation 3.74 168
Mood 3.25 294
Theme 3.87 252

Feedback

Absor
08. Dec 2014 路 03:13 UTC
Download links do not work for me.
馃帳 DigitalQR
08. Dec 2014 路 10:21 UTC
I've just changed the links;, so hopefully, they work now
Absor
08. Dec 2014 路 11:59 UTC
Works now, corrected my accidental rating. Nice idea, I think the circles should fall straight down and then start moving player side of the screen. Just needs more polishing and more doodle types.
MegaMasterX
08. Dec 2014 路 13:05 UTC
This is a VERY creative entry! Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare entry! For the time constraints, you did a really good job.
oh_andrej
08. Dec 2014 路 13:11 UTC
Wow, love the idea and the style! For 8h it's actually pretty impressive. Would like to see a more complete version with some more doodles!

As for improvements: The movement is a bit too quick and twitchy I think and the game gets too fast at around 70 points (at least for me). Other than that, great job!
tigerbyte
08. Dec 2014 路 13:25 UTC
Nice concept. I'd like to see it taken further and polished!
andysolace
08. Dec 2014 路 13:28 UTC
Addictive little game! Good fun and pretty imaginitive :D

I avoided the spikes and boulders, naturally, however did learn the hard wa that the stars were NOT meant for collecting!

Very good little game :)
resty
08. Dec 2014 路 16:06 UTC
Good simple game, really fun to play. I like it very much!
mauris
08. Dec 2014 路 16:07 UTC
Cool game:) Had to rewrite you shaders, to be able to run it on gl3.1, but other than that really enjoyed it!
Kitch
09. Dec 2014 路 03:51 UTC
Really cool concept. For the first one, it's really awesome. Really like the drawing animations.
(Really don't like the mad sheekels :) )
Good job! Thanks!
whilefun
09. Dec 2014 路 20:49 UTC
Cannot run the game :(

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: LD31/control/MainControl : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: LD31.control.MainControl. Program will exit.
tomdeal
09. Dec 2014 路 20:53 UTC
Nice idea! The jumping is a bit too fast, cannot dodge anything with this.
5k0d
10. Dec 2014 路 01:15 UTC
very cool game but a little pain in the ass to get it working
Sharky
10. Dec 2014 路 20:32 UTC
The game doesn't install or play
FergusonTV
11. Dec 2014 路 09:40 UTC
Cannot run the game :( I wanted to play !
Elemental Zeal Games Studios
12. Dec 2014 路 17:48 UTC
Sadly the game will not run for me. Downloaded, run jar. A window opens for a split second then disappears.

Your game looks pretty neat, though.
CodeNMore
14. Dec 2014 路 20:33 UTC
texture2D is removed when using ForwardCompatibility, Windows error.