Boulevard of Broken Themes by Thingo Studios
You are DUM LAUDER, an average guy dissatisfied with this year's Ludum Dare theme. You go to the Ludum Dare headquarters to complain, but instead get trapped in a series of parallel dimensions modeled after failed LD themes and interconnected by magenta doors.
Arrow keys to move, up to open doors, and space to do everything else. Press escape to exit. Gameplay switches between diverse genres such as puzzle platformers, maze games, shmups, and dating sims.
If you're stuck on "Under Pressure," check the comments.
Known bugs:
Lost in Space and Another World crash the game if the player misses the door.
You Must Leave It Behind does not display the level name.
NOT A BUG: Yes, you can eat the other players' potato salad. This is intentional, albeit highly impolite.
Fixes in next update:
All those bugs mentioned.
Change in movement in the maze levels so that you don't need to mash.
Additional music not procured from my ass.
Arrow keys to move, up to open doors, and space to do everything else. Press escape to exit. Gameplay switches between diverse genres such as puzzle platformers, maze games, shmups, and dating sims.
If you're stuck on "Under Pressure," check the comments.
Known bugs:
Lost in Space and Another World crash the game if the player misses the door.
You Must Leave It Behind does not display the level name.
NOT A BUG: Yes, you can eat the other players' potato salad. This is intentional, albeit highly impolite.
Fixes in next update:
All those bugs mentioned.
Change in movement in the maze levels so that you don't need to mash.
Additional music not procured from my ass.
| GameJolt (.exe, quickplay) | http://gamejolt.com/games/platformer/boulevard-of-broken-themes/33252/ |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=31541 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 57% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.35 | 294 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.57 | 535 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.57 | 108 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.34 | 708 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.91 | 28 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.60 | 113 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.86 | 512 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.57 | 186 |
Also, the game becomes unplayable if you pass the door in the Lost in Space world.
Great job!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtrEN-YKLBM
Got it! Thanks :)
There is a ton of gameplay packed into this, congrats.
Otherwise nice game, I enjoyed the simple graphics too :D
Okay, this definitely is me guessing people are going to immediately recognize a bit of popular culture they're not familiar with. The four strings in the background in Level 6 correspond to the four strings on a bass guitar. To beat the level, you have to play the bass line to the song "Under Pressure" by Queen & David Bowie. (Or the bass line to "Ice Ice Baby," if you're into that newfangled rap music.) Hit the third string six times, then hit the second string once.
@borgi, Boberro: You have to press escape twice to exit the game: once to get to the main menu, then once more to quit. To my knowledge there are two levels where this won't work (You Are Already Dead and Love) but they're easy enough that you can get to the next level and exit.
Played this on Wine, sound was not working.
Still, while I don't think it's particularly good use of Connected Worlds theme, it's a pretty nice meta game. Forgotten was particularly interesting.
Too bad it doesn't have saving (making me remember some password thing to type somewhere, grumble grumble) and in quite a few points it had insane keyboard mashing which I'm not fond of. Also, it could use something else than standard GM messages... ^^"
Still, that's a pretty solid entry. Good job covering the themes, in pretty creative ways, at that. ;)
I did only realise you could press Space to shoot in the space levels after dying repeatedly. Oh well.
Very fun mix of genres! Also like the music!
The bgm is short but cool, I just wish it would loop without a gap.