10TEN SECOND2NDs by stepvhen

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made by stepvhen for LD27 (COMPO)
EDIT: Windows release updated with proper DLLs

Your country is hosting the Olympics. But diplomats and mobsters from other countries have decided that you win too many medals when you host, and in order to raise morale in opposing countries (and stay alive), you have been asked to finish second in at least 10 events.

Press Enter to start the game, [G] and [H] run, and rowing is done by swiping across the top row of your keyboard. The keys that need to be pressed appear on the top left of the screen.

I didn't finish this game. There are no win conditions. I was not prepared and my original plan was too ambitious. I am submitting this for posterity's sake.

Tools used:
C++/SFML 2.0
Vim/g++/make, Visual Studio
Gimp
Glapse for the time lapse stuff
Makefile Project Creator to make the makefile and visual studio solution (this is super helpful, I suggest it)
Git, Sourcetree
Some bash scripts for grabbing TODOs and such (availabe at Repo)

Ratings

Coolness 53% 3
Overall 2.00 1166
Fun 1.86 1148
Graphics 1.78 1139
Humor 1.83 802
Innovation 2.39 954
Mood 1.80 1050
Theme 2.52 1026

Feedback

Baburo
26. Aug 2013 · 07:31 UTC
I can't start the game, it says I'm missing MSVCP110.dll.
eckcz
26. Aug 2013 · 07:49 UTC
"I can't start the game, it says I'm missing MSVCP110.dll." Same here.
moonmagic
26. Aug 2013 · 07:49 UTC
Can't run; says "not a valid Win32 application" or somesuch. :(
ghostonline
26. Aug 2013 · 08:00 UTC
Simple game with interesting controls. Reminds me of the old button-mash sport games of the NES-era :) You might want to include files [1] and [2] so people have an easier time playing it.

[1] http://www.dll-files.com/msvcr110.zip?0WJjSIWKlX
[2] http://www.dll-files.com/msvcp110.zip?0WJjSIWJkS
doonay21
26. Aug 2013 · 08:04 UTC
Game worked for me. If you get "[...]MSVCP110.dll missing[...]" you probably need to install Visual C++ Redistributable (try 2010 and 2012) - just a lucky guess ;)
T1
26. Aug 2013 · 08:05 UTC
Hello! The game was missing two dlls for me:
msvcp110.dll
msvcr110.dll
I found them on the internet though to try out the game anyway.

Since the game is unfinished i won't mention all the bugs and focus on what i did like about it: The mspaint graphics are nice and funny :D Also i laughed as soon as i read swiping accross the keyboard to row, so points for that. Also nice idea on having to finish second.

If you ever plan to revisit this game, i think it really has potential to be fun if finished, i.e. more events, some funny sounds and maybe have the mob interfere with the events. Keep up the humor style, i personally like it.
Lo-X
26. Aug 2013 · 15:32 UTC
Hi !
I played you game on linuw,with wine, after downloading the two missing DLL.
Too bad you hadn't finished the game, I think your theme idea is interesting ! The keyboard concept is uncommon (that's a positive thing) but I've a french keyboard so it's not handy with the second event :) Well you hadn't time to finish it so there's nothing much to say.
It's a game that deserve to be played finish and I'm sure it would be fun !
madk
26. Aug 2013 · 16:03 UTC
Missing MSVCP110.dll here, too.
Larzan
26. Aug 2013 · 16:05 UTC
I can't start the game, it says I'm missing MSVCP110.dll.
kunzbe
26. Aug 2013 · 16:21 UTC
What I like about this game is that it really uses the keyboard as a whole :) I like such games
🎤 stepvhen
26. Aug 2013 · 16:27 UTC
Updated the release, it should have the proper DLLs now. Thanks for all the comments, and I am sorry I didn't include that stuff earlier, I forget that VS is like that.
Kragnir
28. Aug 2013 · 01:44 UTC
Kind of interesting. Needs a bit more work though.
Jimanzium
28. Aug 2013 · 17:24 UTC
Best rowing simulator ever
berkano
28. Aug 2013 · 20:36 UTC
Some cool ideas there! Though I think the keys on my laptop will pop off if I play it much longer.
Jupiter_Hadley
29. Aug 2013 · 06:37 UTC
Cool idea, but such a short game :/ I featured it in my video compilation of Ludum Dare 27 games, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/J-5j5_FYNQI
triplefox
29. Aug 2013 · 07:14 UTC
I liked the rowing-by-sweeping thing. Best part of the game as submitted.
namrog84
30. Aug 2013 · 10:46 UTC
Interesting
Though I disliked the POIUYTREWQ for the boat. I have a uniquely setup keyboard and it made it near impossible to do reasonably
Would have preferred another variation for keys

Still neat
PaperBlurt
30. Aug 2013 · 15:23 UTC
Sports games are always a welcome break!
hbocao
01. Sep 2013 · 17:21 UTC
The idea you described sounds fun, too bad you couldn't finish it. The boat section has too many keys to press, man! Although it looks cool when I slide my finger through all of them ahha
jprogman
04. Sep 2013 · 03:54 UTC
Those 10 second races are a nice idea to play. Button-mashing for running is alright, the canoe racing is too much.

Would have been nice to see more sports, maybe even non-racing games such as getting a better score.