Uno The Mind Reader by blasphemous rumours entertainment studios

The first version of my game is completed and I'm pretty satisfied. =D

Uno The Mind Reader is a simple puzzle but fun game where you use your magical power to see peoples (a bit strange and varied) wishes beneath the surface!!!

I've managed to sneak in a losing condition, some bugfixes and more stuff in version 1.1.1 with over 2 hours to spare! =D
If you lose, you have to go back to the menu to be able to restart (by using R button) - sorry about that.

My declaration of basecode and dependencies (SDL 1.2 & SDLMixer): http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/04/25/in-for-ld29-3/

I added a link to msvcp110.dll, but it (among with a lot of other dlls you already should have) should be part of http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30679... at least that's what information I found when I googled...

Ratings

Coolness 33% 1823
Overall 2.50 1136
Audio 2.31 778
Fun 2.56 942
Graphics 1.94 1201
Innovation 2.72 805
Theme 2.76 927

Feedback

Lucariatias
29. Apr 2014 路 20:27 UTC
Pressing space crashes the game under Wine (v1.6-rc5 on OS X 10.9)
Kragnir
29. Apr 2014 路 20:30 UTC
Nice idea, it gets difficult very quickly. Is the framerate intended to be in the hundreds? As it is the game is very fast but it could be because it was balanced for a slower framerate. The customers only able to eat what is above them make the game quite unforgiving.
Lucariatias:
=/ too bad. Strange. Does it crash on other key presses? Does R work? (will actually start the game too).
Kragnir:
Yeah, the sprite needs to be above in a pretty small interval, and the code only compares the left border of the sprite compared to the left border and right border of the thought bubble, so it's a bit off...

Everything in the game should be frame independent, as you can see on my screenshot, I myself got a FPS on 310... Maybe the calculations are a bit off, but I don't think so. The game is meant to be fastpased, but it's a bit too hard maybe. Got harder at the very end as I implemented the losing condition...

Thx for feedback!
Marcellus
29. Apr 2014 路 21:12 UTC
missing MSVCP110.dll, could not play
mrbungle
29. Apr 2014 路 21:18 UTC
Surprisingly addictive but as noted above, really hard once you get going!
eerongal
29. Apr 2014 路 21:18 UTC
interesting little game. It wasn't particularly obvious from the description what to do at first, so it took a few moments for me to get going with it.
Marcellus: Try to install http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30679
Vytheros
29. Apr 2014 路 21:24 UTC
The game as a whole is not fun, although if the gameplay was more refined and was explained better then I feel like it would be much better
f7f5
29. Apr 2014 路 22:29 UTC
It's an original idea and an interesting take on the theme, although I didn't find it very engaging.

It works well under wine-1.7.16 on Linux.
Marcellus
30. Apr 2014 路 02:12 UTC
I installed the program and the same message shows up
MSaul
30. Apr 2014 路 21:39 UTC
I love sounds x). I can't restart the game with R, it's a bit annoying. Cool interpretation.
Marcellus: strange. I really don't wanna include dll-files that should be part of some windows (add-on)components... but here my version is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5cnb31apxhmkuk0/msvcp110.dll


MSaul: Restart with R should only work while inside the menu... Didn't occur to me that you might wanna restart after losing the game as I implemented the restart button before the game was actually losable. R is so close to 4... Well. Try R inside of menu?
sudorossy
30. Apr 2014 路 21:56 UTC
Cool mechanic, but that bird tweeting really gets on your nerves after a while haha
MSaul
01. May 2014 路 00:12 UTC
Ok, I get it. I had no idea of what to do after loosing, thx.
Hamsternator
01. May 2014 路 00:14 UTC
This became a lot more engaging than I thought it would =)
It would be good if there was something to make it clearer in which area an item needs to be in order to correspond to a certain customer. Still, this reminds me of my favourite mini-game in Backpacker 2. The fruit/fish sorting mini-game =D
Dreii
03. May 2014 路 00:29 UTC
Funny voices :) pretty nice gameplay too.
romandtom
09. May 2014 路 01:19 UTC
That was an original one :)