Adventures in Down and Up by hnjslater

made by hnjslater for LD29 (COMPO)

It was always going to be a challenge, my mum's 60th was on Saturday so that was the whole day written off and I spent four hours travelling home today (Sunday) but I was on a coach with a power socket so I could still work! I had a go at a platformer and it's a least playable if not super fun!

To make it work on a debian type OS (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) you should just need to install python-pygame and run python main.py

To make it work on windows, unzip it and run main.exe

Source (Linux)	https://github.com/hnjslater/adventures-in-down-and-up
Windows	https://github.com/hnjslater/adventures-in-down-and-up/releases/download/windows-ld-release/adventures-in-down-and-up.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=16286

Ratings

Coolness	57%	3
Overall	2.52	1124

Fun	2.90	661
Graphics	2.00	1185
Humor	2.65	408
Innovation	2.07	1178
Mood	2.70	816
Theme	3.10	700

Feedback

johnhackworth

28. Apr 2014 · 08:17 UTC

You have included the github source on the "web" link! create a branch called "gh-pages", push it to github, and you'll have it published on https://ghnjslater.github.io/adventures-in-down-and-up

🎤 hnjslater

28. Apr 2014 · 18:37 UTC

Good point, updated to be source link. I'll add windows today.

tompudding

28. Apr 2014 · 20:15 UTC

Pretty good! Simple but the theme obviously applies. I would have liked the horizontal motion to be a bit less "sticky" (i.e motion stops as soon as you release the key), but otherwise pretty good.

BubuIIC

30. Apr 2014 · 11:03 UTC

Someone else using pygame, nice :-).
For packaging up I can recommend cx_freeze., it's not perfect but for a windows build it works pretty well.

As for the game, I wasn't able to get very far, I could not make the long diagonal jump. But a decent entry for one day of work :-).

deadarius

30. Apr 2014 · 11:15 UTC

Can we have compiled version?

IamAcoconut

30. Apr 2014 · 23:30 UTC

My windows smart screen prevents me from playing it, but it looks pretty cool.

metkis

01. May 2014 · 00:04 UTC

Kinda fun, quick little game. I enjoyed my brief time with it and took the time to beat it.

ReactorScram

01. May 2014 · 00:05 UTC

The jump physics required some learning but I got to the win screen.

I'm going to give you middling scores for now since you're my first rating.

Dreii

01. May 2014 · 01:26 UTC

Double jump was a little odd, ended up just mashing the up button to do it.

pvwradtke

03. May 2014 · 00:30 UTC

Well, I guess I was in for a surprise. Getting out of the pit was simple, yet an effective idea for the theme. Short, as anything out a 48hrs jam packed with family events, but interesting. However, I couldn't run it with pygame, but the Windows binary worked just fine Wine.

LemmingSurvivor

06. May 2014 · 21:15 UTC

Isn't the game running too fast? All of the actors felt like they were moving roughly 1.25x-1.5x the speed they should have been moving.

Good job getting this out in that short weekend!

Boodog

06. May 2014 · 23:06 UTC

Good work! It's a bit weird though.

Taco Bot Production

07. May 2014 · 00:57 UTC

Great! But I agree with Boodog. The art is... odd.

lucidlarva

07. May 2014 · 03:12 UTC

Pretty fun, almost broke my up arrow key with that jumping.

abayb

07. May 2014 · 23:55 UTC

I had a very difficult time with this, but I beat it!