Parallel Island by alastairbreeze

made by alastairbreeze for LD30 (COMPO)

Story: Two parallel universes have collided. In the crash, the living creatures became mixed between the two universes.

Task: Get all of the living things to their own universe.

Catch: One of the universes is evil and its members will attack the members of the good universe, including you!

How: Use the switcher item(l-click when selected with r-click) to teleport between universes. Stand beside to an entity to teleport it with you. Repeat till sorted!

Controls:
WASD - Move
Arrows - Change Camera
+- - Change Zoom
E or l-click - Use Item
Q or r-click - Switch Item
Space - Jump
Shift - Run
P - Toggle Pause
M - Toggle Mute

PLEASE NOTE : It works a lot better as an application rather than an applet. If having trouble with the applet, try downloading the application.

Please Enjoy!
Let me know what you think. :)

Developed in Java with LWJGL.

Web	http://www.alastairbreeze.com/experiments/ludum-dare/ld30/
Java-Windows/OSX/Linux (recommended)	http://www.alastairbreeze.com/ludumdare/parallelisland/parallelislandrun.jar
Walkthrough	http://youtu.be/729UO41Zy4M
Timelapse	http://youtu.be/VwRTPWNOwSs
Source	http://www.alastairbreeze.com/ludumdare/parallelisland/parallelislandsource.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=29986

Ratings

Coolness	78%	2
Overall	3.26	504

Audio	3.13	314
Fun	2.90	682
Graphics	3.95	119
Humor	2.45	476
Innovation	3.12	588
Mood	3.37	249
Theme	3.80	151

Feedback

sharpcoder

25. Aug 2014 · 02:29 UTC

Really awesome! I love the concept, it's a pretty cool take on the theme. The music is quite nice too. Good job! My only suggestion would be for a bit of direction. I wasn't exactly sure what to do and almost died before I realized I was the one teleporting people between worlds!

TheZiggy

25. Aug 2014 · 02:44 UTC

The web version doesn't run, it said error :/ It looked cool though.

gillenew

25. Aug 2014 · 02:51 UTC

looks pretty cool, but I couldn't test cause the link doesn't work

🎤 alastairbreeze

25. Aug 2014 · 03:01 UTC

Thanks sharpcoder :) glad you liked it. I have added extra clarity in the description which will hopefully help.

And really sorry to hear it doesn't work on web for you :( I'd recommend trying the jar if you can? Also which is the broken link? Thanks :)

Fanatrick

25. Aug 2014 · 03:04 UTC

Good but expected take on the theme. Voxels are nice, everything runs smooth. Enemies take too long to be killed though.

Kyle Mac

25. Aug 2014 · 03:06 UTC

I agree with sharpcoder, I was really confused playing the game at first. I'm still not quite sure how to teleport characters between worlds? Do I need to walk up to them or does it work if I just look at them?

🎤 alastairbreeze

25. Aug 2014 · 03:07 UTC

Hi Kyle, you have to be close to them to teleport with them :)

ENDESGA

25. Aug 2014 · 04:48 UTC

Oo wow, it's like minecraft and cubeworld put together! :D

DrHahn

25. Aug 2014 · 07:39 UTC

It's really cute. I had a bit of trouble with the controls, it mores more sense to use Q and E since the moving the mouse doesn't move the camera.

breadstix

26. Aug 2014 · 20:30 UTC

Loved the concept and the implementation. You did an amazing job for 48 hours!

43iscoding

27. Aug 2014 · 21:58 UTC

Very solid game for 48 hours! Great job!

cstudios

27. Aug 2014 · 22:01 UTC

Wonderful graphics and artstyle. Excellent sound and music. Its unbelievable that this game was made for compo!

But it takes to long to figuring it out. Nice job!

🎤 alastairbreeze

28. Aug 2014 · 21:33 UTC

Thanks for the nice comments, hopefully can learn from some of the feedback for future :)

bluesky

31. Aug 2014 · 20:18 UTC

Nice entry, well done.

LandoSystems

31. Aug 2014 · 20:20 UTC

Nice style, chill music... controls were a little confusing, but great work for a compo entry! Well done!

ZeppelinCaptain

31. Aug 2014 · 20:23 UTC

Very cool idea with the switcher, but you move way too slowly to be able to do anything. Nice graphics and music though :)

An indicator of how close you have to be to people in order to "switch" them would be a big help.

Nooner Bear

31. Aug 2014 · 20:53 UTC

A bit odd at first, but I got used to it. Neat job!

radmars

01. Sep 2014 · 18:36 UTC

Cool concept. I wish the creatures had a little more visual indication of whether they were evil or not, I had to rely on the minimap a lot (which kept on going behind the scenery) which was tough. Also it would be good if there was some sort of visual indication of when you could switch, that felt a bit weird. Otherwise, nice work!

kirbytails7

06. Sep 2014 · 06:50 UTC

Nice aesthetic. Do be sure to render your UI above everything else. Also, having the camera mapped to arrows proved cumbersome.

JonathanG

12. Sep 2014 · 16:08 UTC

It is quite hard to teleport everything without dying, and the trees often get in the way of the camera (even when rotating the camera around), but otherwise good!