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Dark Path by TheGeekatory

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made by TheGeekatory for LD30 (COMPO)
Hello, everybody!

This is my very first time finishing a LD48 game on time!
The controls of this game are simple, A/D or Left/Right to move and W/Up/Enter/Space to interact with things.

For fullscreen toggle, use the "J" key, and for screenshots, use the "P" key.

The goal of the game is to get through the final portal. Interacting with things in certain levels will affect other levels (connected worlds).

I hope you like it!

The game was written in C++ with SFML and libnoise. Linux build coming soon.

Latest build fixes all the crashes and allows for fullscreen mode.

Cheers,
Aster
Win64 http://files.astersoftworks.com/LD/30/DarkPath_Win64.zip
Linux x86_64 http://files.astersoftworks.com/LD/30/DarkPath_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
GitHub https://github.com/Mischa-Alff/DarkPath/releases/tag/v0.1.0
GitHub Release https://github.com/Mischa-Alff/DarkPath/releases/tag/v0.1.0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=19124

Ratings

Coolness 47% 1319
Overall 2.50 1105
Fun 2.00 1161
Graphics 2.85 727
Innovation 2.59 950
Mood 2.63 864
Theme 2.73 877

Feedback

tmpxyz
25. Aug 2014 路 04:49 UTC
crashed when enter the third portal...
馃帳 TheGeekatory
25. Aug 2014 路 11:58 UTC
This is fixed now!
esayitch
25. Aug 2014 路 20:21 UTC
Hiya, I crashed once on one of the toggles... don't remember which. I started it again and just started interacting with all the bounded squares... which generated terrain and allowed me to continue on for a little bit... but then I couldn't find anything else to toggle more terrain. I think it would benefit a lot from some in-game instructions... something I learned fast and something I suffer from a lot is: "You can have the best game ever made, but if people don't know how to play it within 30 seconds of starting it, they're gonna give up." People are impatient nowadays :P

Congrats on finishing your first game on time! May there be many more to follow. I see potential for this, I just didn't know what to do with it.
馃帳 TheGeekatory
25. Aug 2014 路 23:35 UTC
Hi there! Thanks for the kind words!
I'll admit I slacked off a lot during this LD, and didn't polish the game as much I might have wanted to. Although development for the LD30 compo has halted, I'm still continuing development on GitHub at https://github.com/Mischa-Alff/DarkPath .

I'm glad you liked it,
Cheers
miotatsu
26. Aug 2014 路 00:14 UTC
Cool and huge thanks for the x86_64 linux build, it's a neat game but it segfaulted on me. Perhaps the build isn't the latest release? I'll have to clone and compile later :)
Miziziziz
26. Aug 2014 路 01:19 UTC
like the minimilastic graphics, but after the first 15 seconds it gets kinda boring. I really wish there was some sort of puzzles to do here.
Also, I crashed after trying to open one of the portals.
ratking
26. Aug 2014 路 20:15 UTC
Hmm, I could enter the first portal, but after that nothing was interactive. I just walked and walked until the world ended. :?
OinkIguana
26. Aug 2014 路 20:16 UTC
Looks interesting and the movement is cool. Couldn't really figure out how the game bit worked, wandered around a bit but I didn't really get it. I tried interacting with the stuff but it felt like nothing was going on. No sound, graphics are minimalistic but they are good
Marcellus
26. Aug 2014 路 20:17 UTC
I love the art style but I couln't find anything to interract with after the white door. Tried to spam Enter space and up all the way to what seemed to be the end of the world and nothing happened.
Will come back for more test next week.
ice cold muffin
26. Aug 2014 路 20:30 UTC
I'm a bit confused...but I like the minimalistic black-n-white graphics!
Dietrich Epp
05. Sep 2014 路 02:52 UTC
I'm not sure what's going on, and I couldn't find anything I could interact with after the first white portal.