Soviet Snowman Versus the Capitalist Pigs by MarthMadness

made by MarthMadness for LD31 (COMPO)

Edit: Security problem has been fixed. Download the .jar to play the game. Only been tested on windows 8.1. Please post any other problems you have to the comments and thank you for your patience.

Help the Soviet Snowman Fight off the Capitalist Pigs invading his area! Use the arrow keys to throw hammers in that direction. Click in side of the applet window to begin.

.zip with Source	https://www.dropbox.com/s/4449vbvwkmb2fri/LudumDare31.zip?dl=0
Platform Independent .jar file	https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5pzpte7tkgjxy2/Game.zip?dl=0
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=45448

Ratings

Coolness	42%	1631
Overall	2.48	1125

Fun	2.48	1016
Graphics	2.14	1101
Humor	2.90	304
Innovation	2.29	1061
Theme	3.33	877

Feedback

Eponesh

08. Dec 2014 · 17:22 UTC

Java Security block's your game:(

FloatingGhost

08. Dec 2014 · 17:23 UTC

нет comrade, sovetskiy snowman does not run!

I get a score thingy, then a game over screen.

Java 7/Firefox 34/Win8 (64bit)

jellyislovely

08. Dec 2014 · 17:27 UTC

Unfortunately I can't get past the security issue on OSX. I tried lowering my security level but it only goes down to high, there's no medium option on OSX :( I suggest trying the Ludum Dare IRC channel to see if anyone can help you package it into a jar file (I don't know anything about that, sorry).

Asado

08. Dec 2014 · 17:35 UTC

I can't play it either - using Mac OSX

Vaclav

08. Dec 2014 · 17:37 UTC

Sauce code :D I wish I could play this..

Legiion

08. Dec 2014 · 17:38 UTC

Java seems to block the Game

🎤 MarthMadness

08. Dec 2014 · 17:43 UTC

You can run it using a compiler right now. I am attempting to convert it to a jar and should, hopefully have it up by later today.

Madball

08. Dec 2014 · 17:45 UTC

Oh, why is java so bossy...
After some attempts, I managed to launch the game and got the same problem as FloatingGhost.
Java 7/Firefox whatever/Win7 (32bit)

rabbit

08. Dec 2014 · 19:15 UTC

Didn't bother playing it because no exe.

GeeItSomeLaldy

08. Dec 2014 · 20:57 UTC

I run it and I just get the Game Over screen.

jojocanard

08. Dec 2014 · 20:57 UTC

Error message at launch : a java exception has occured

Spacemyname

08. Dec 2014 · 20:58 UTC

Had several issues with the game, mainly the one FloatingGhost had

Andrea

08. Dec 2014 · 21:01 UTC

The .jar works for me, sadly, the game is a lot too hard to be enjoyable: I get killed in 2 to 3 seconds, never more :'(

panda

08. Dec 2014 · 21:01 UTC

Sorry man, I couldn't run the game. I downloaded the jar file and when running it with java -jar I got this error: "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Man : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0". I have Java 1.6.0_65, perhaps your code requires the latest and greatest version of Java?
(this is on OSX)

Gaspard_

08. Dec 2014 · 21:15 UTC

Java Exception, sorry.
I have java 7, widows 7, maybe I need java 8? Would suprise me, after looking at the source.
I did extract the files(so that's not the problem).
I checked file capitalisation(because that's a common problem...).
My 2 cents:
I noticed you didn't put all the resources in the .jar
Instead of:
Snowman = ImageIO.read(new File("asdf\\SovietSnowman.png"));
put:

Snowman = Snowman.read(ImageLoader.class.getResourceAsStream("SovietSnowman.png"));
And put your image in the package of the same class.
That way you can ship a simple single runnable .jar file.

I also noticed the source folder you give is missing some images (like splash.png)

Hope any of this helps.

Rene Damm

08. Dec 2014 · 23:17 UTC

Only displayed a window with a blank white screen :(

SpartanIceCream

09. Dec 2014 · 20:57 UTC

Pretty funny. Nice work.

Joris

10. Dec 2014 · 01:30 UTC

Couldn't run it because of a java error (I'm also on windows 8.1 and I have up to date java). I'm very sad :(

stray

10. Dec 2014 · 12:38 UTC

I could play after a lot of process. But it worth.