As much as I may have a rather old computer, I don't think the FPS I was getting (10) were reasonable. That, and the collision detection made it nigh unplayable for me, as I basically couldn't get out of the first hole I fell down. The graphics were also kind of glitchy, although the idea was good. If it was performing better, and had better collision detection (collision detection is basically the heart and soul of platformers), it would probably be enjoyable.

Urgghhhhhh, I want to play this so badly! But it just errors out :( I opened it up via the terminal so I could share the error message (below) in hopes that this helps.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Downloads/ArenaFighterz/LD28-ArenaFighterz/jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Downloads.ArenaFighterz.LD28-ArenaFighterz.jar
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

Thanks for sharing, I'll take a look :)

First impression was good. But game is unplayable because I constant got stuck in the walls.

@zconnelly13 : did you unpacked the whole zip into one folder? It works for me perfectly on Linux and Windows too
@Jan : yeah.. sorry.. We're constantly trying to fix the collision, but we didn't found out why it's bugging sometimes (eeerm... always....)

I like the water mechanic. But hey what's wrong with being a little dizzy?

I liked the idea with the water- A nice alternative to a timed level. The game played well enough on my system, but a little simple physics wouldn't hurt. The movement made it very painful to make some of the jumps.
All in all a decent game for a first try. Good job!

The game seems nice, the mechanics sound great but it's really hard to play it with the very low FPS I get.

FPS was like 30 at first, but after a while (when screen effects kick in) it goes down to 4 or 5, making it completelly unplayable.

Not a bad game, but i find controls a little unresponsive

As @Seigeengine pointed out, it has some tech issues that really harm the playability but with more work it would probably be a good platformer.

Seems like my system doesn't like java at all.... Newest Java version installed. Doesnt even throw an error. :(

@dudsen: what OS do you use?

Graphics are nice and music and sound were great. However, i have a beefy computer and it ran at 22 fps. Not the best speed for a sidescroller.

Physics were super frustrating. I thought the visual effects of the sand and thirst were cool.

Nice little game, but I also experienced the low FPS problem. Sure it'll be better with higher one ! Good job !

Can't start it either :-(

It's really cool that the engine is self-made. It suffers in terms of optimization of but that's not too bad. Jumping sound is a bit annoying, and physics are not really forgiving. But nice job for the rest! I especially liked the background graphics.

I like the idea of particles and all but it should be adapted for slower computers. My fps rate was a little low. But nice job! With optimization and more levels it will become a great game

The frame rate of the animations made the game feel really jerky, but the particles were neat!

@_zulli: In lower pc-s less particle appears. The problem is that they (i just made the map editor) used bad sound system lib, and it eat the CPU's reasources. As i know without the sound the fps could be fine... however with higher fps you will get more particle so at the end of the day... :D

*slower

Thanks for all your feedback!

Currently we are working on a post-mortem fix of the FPS rate, that includes a better sound library and an OpenCL port for some of the effects (particles, for example). We believe that with a faster sound library and some multi-threading (currently everything is single-threaded except the sound) and maybe with the power of a GPU the game will improve greatly at performance.

Collision will be fixed as well, it was a last-minute try to have it fixed, and while it fixed some of the problems, I managed to accidentally delete some useful code as well (working gravitational acceleration, for example), which needs to be re-written.

@zsomkovacs
I don't necessarily agree that some of those are necessarily appropriate steps. You shouldn't need something like OpenCL to manage any reasonable number of particles (I'm talking thousands, maybe as much as 10k for simple ones, or only hundreds if they're unreasonably complex for what they end up being in-game, even on older computers, with a whole game working with it), and this game really doesn't appear to be doing anything that should be that intensive, aside from maybe the distortion effects unless something weird is going on behind the scenes.

That sounds seems like trouble though.

Anyways best of luck. I will now try the updated version.

Yes, the new version definitely runs more smoothly, and I had less trouble getting out of holes.

Anyways, just offering my opinions. ^^ Best of fortune to you all.

The game didnt work for me, but I liked the audio I mentioned it in my Ludum Dare Compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look http://youtu.be/mLdQN8xdVMY

@Jupiter_Hadley hey, thanks for the mentioning :) I really appreciate that ;)
Can you tell me about how the game is not working? I'd like to fix that :D

I really like the visual diversity of the game (although I didn't get further than level 2 :/), and the music is quite cool. But as many people here I found the physics a little frustrating unfortunately. FPS was around 20 for me, so not ideal but still playable.

Not bad, I really like this music, but I have unstable FPS and sometimes game is reaaaally slooow, but overall this have potential ;)

Backgrounds were nice, music was nice (where's that from?).

But sometimes when I hit the up key she didn't jump. Are you perhaps polling the up key instead of detecting it as an event?

Also, those one-block-wide platforms I'm supposed to jump on are impossible, or the girl's hitbox is too narrow.

@tomc The music is made by HavocS :)
The keys are detected as an event, which sets an element of an array to true. (So it won't mess up the already messed up game loop). I didn't have any problems with the jumping, but I'll take a look.
If you mean the second level's narrow jumps, yeah... that's a pretty hard and nonsense level :D Not impossible, just takes a few tries. But maybe we have to redesign that level..
Anyway, thanks for the comment, and thanks for trying our game ;)

Very well done first entry!