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Beneath the Sur(e)face by RikardKarlsen

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made by RikardKarlsen for LD29 (COMPO)
A text based game. You're talking with a confident guy, but everything might not be perfect. Supposed to be kinda psychological-ish but it weren't so.

I'd say it's really hard to know what to do, unless you see in the source. I WAS going to have many more questions and alternate ways to tell them, but I started the game with 12 hours left so... At least I've learn something this weekend about game dev.

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Made with Java in Eclipse.

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I'm not sure if the mac and linux .sh files are working for everyone, and if you know what to do, it's just to edit the file.

JAVA ERRORS
If you get the following message trying to run the game:

'java' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

You need to do some stuff. See this google search, as there are a lot of other people out there WAY better at explaining than me:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%27java%27+is+not+recognised+as+an+internal+or+external+command%2C+operable+program+or+batch+file.

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http://rikardkarlsen.com/
https://twitter.com/PotatoAndTaco
Download (cross-platform) http://www.mediafire.com/download/za7uawcwcaosavm
Source http://www.mediafire.com/download/o6mm5wxxeu6ftix
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=12881

Ratings

Coolness 51% 3
Overall 2.41 1172
Fun 2.11 1177
Graphics 2.07 1172
Humor 2.82 324
Innovation 2.46 995
Mood 2.38 1049
Theme 2.22 1149

Feedback

Rahazan
28. Apr 2014 路 04:52 UTC
The .bat file is incorrect (points to wrong .jar filename), the game however worked fine after changing that.

Very difficult, I could not figure out much without looking at the source. Some small tips that may help others forward: Ask questions in lowercase and use proper punctuation! (and even then I'd be surprised if anybody beat it without peeking at the source)

I love seeing textgames however!
馃帳 RikardKarlsen
28. Apr 2014 路 09:41 UTC
@Rahazan Thanks for letting me know about the .bat, it's fixed now.
Snoother
28. Apr 2014 路 18:49 UTC
Couldn't get it to run. Opening the .jar file does nothing and opening the .bat file launches a very brief command prompt screen and then nothing. I'm running windows 8.1, if that helps.
whalebot
28. Apr 2014 路 19:23 UTC
Haha I honestly don't know how anyone will be able to complete this without the source code. But reading through that was kind of funny anyway (as far as the things you needed to ask to continue). I guess John has some family matters to attend to ;)
馃帳 RikardKarlsen
28. Apr 2014 路 19:52 UTC
@Snoother Try adding "pause" at the end of the .bat file. Run it and see what it says.
Tomski
29. Apr 2014 路 10:36 UTC
Pretty hard, and I cheated too, great stuff, love text games!
Snoother
29. Apr 2014 路 16:40 UTC
I managed to capture the message in the brief time it appeared: "'java' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
gene-z
30. Apr 2014 路 01:36 UTC
Hard Game , but good idea
馃帳 RikardKarlsen
30. Apr 2014 路 10:44 UTC
@Snooter Open the file in notepad and replace the word java with the path to where your java is installed (if you have it installed). f.ex.:

"C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java" -jar btsf.jar
pause
Gallefray
30. Apr 2014 路 22:54 UTC
Awesome, managed to beat the game :D
paps
01. May 2014 路 12:52 UTC
Hum I starting to think that I suck in text game. cool game though
tomvert
01. May 2014 路 12:55 UTC
I didn't know what to do but I like text game.
Cezel_
02. May 2014 路 08:49 UTC
It was really nice, altough I had to read the source code to know what to do, most of my mistakes were because of bad spelling.
shasharala
04. May 2014 路 03:08 UTC
That was interesting. I have not played a game in a while that involved a parser. I recall some Sierra games having them. Of course, those were commercial productions, but they were fun. I miss them and this was a small call back to them.
DrPrettyPatty
04. May 2014 路 17:44 UTC
Hmm I couldn't get it to run :/ I have java installed, but it said 'java' isn't a valid command
馃帳 RikardKarlsen
04. May 2014 路 19:22 UTC
You can try what I said to Snooter about 7 comments up. If not, you can try to google it :)
fullmontis
08. May 2014 路 13:23 UTC
I had to look at the source, I don't think i's possible to win otherwise. At first I thought it was a game where you had to guess a specific word he was thinking but that wasn't the case.