Nith the Surface by Cognizant Game Studios

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made by Cognizant Game Studios for LD29 (JAM)
Ok first off there are a few Access violation bugs with the JVM running it on JRE 8.0, I would love to know the fix for that but I could not fix it - will update it if bug fix is found!

Controls: A,D,SPACE,E,CLICK

Use e when near a chest to open it, chest's give you a random chance weapon or health. Current weapon will be over ridden with the new one.

Goal of the game:

Evade and kill all the purple demons while trying to make it to the end gate, you'll know it when you see it!

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1746
Overall(Jam) 2.17 744
Audio(Jam) 1.95 626
Fun(Jam) 2.00 731
Graphics(Jam) 2.20 719
Humor(Jam) 1.93 594
Innovation(Jam) 1.80 754
Mood(Jam) 2.20 696
Theme(Jam) 2.48 650

Feedback

gikdew
28. Apr 2014 路 06:36 UTC
I hate not having a web version...
bendmorris
28. Apr 2014 路 06:37 UTC
I got the following error on Linux with OpenJDK 7.0:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fdca1abfb83, pid=7457, tid=140584427005696
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (7.0_55-b14) (build 1.7.0_55-b14)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (24.51-b03 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libc.so.6+0x78b83]

(I think it happened when I lost all my health.) Also, my character seems to always face left when I'm not moving, but the sword is held out to the right.
馃帳 Cognizant Game Studios
28. Apr 2014 路 06:39 UTC
@bendmorris Yup thats the bug I was talking about, something with libgdx, it happens both when you go through the gate and when you die, also the character always facing left is how I programmed it.
manabreak
28. Apr 2014 路 06:41 UTC
When trying to launch the game, it gives me an error: "Could not find the main class: ca.cognizantgames.desktop.DesktopLauncher. Program will exit."
micdoodle8
28. Apr 2014 路 06:41 UTC
Nice, simple but still fun.

The game seems to crash when you die though, not sure if that's a known issue.
eldog
28. Apr 2014 路 06:44 UTC
Lol, would be good to have a message saying you're at the end of the game when you get to the gate. Thought I had been killed by a burning ring of hot magma.

I like the feather in the players hat, and the fact that (I think) you can only attack to the right, made the battle with the first bunch of bats fun!

Played on Linux.
馃帳 Cognizant Game Studios
28. Apr 2014 路 06:47 UTC
@gikdew Sorry but I hate dealing with Java web applets..
馃帳 Cognizant Game Studios
28. Apr 2014 路 06:51 UTC
@manabreak hmm thats odd, everything is packed into that jar file so it should the class path should be there ^.^ try a re-download possibly?
shalskar
29. Apr 2014 路 01:07 UTC
Graphics were ok, I think if there were instructions I would have understood better.
Two Scoop Games
29. Apr 2014 路 01:17 UTC
I think the attack action should be a keyboard control.
Dreii
03. May 2014 路 06:32 UTC
Crashed when I died...