Test Chamber by guardiancs

made by guardiancs for LD27 (COMPO)

You will need Java installed to run the game( it's a .jar )

Unzip the folder, then double click on LD27-RUN.jar.

It should work for Windows !

26/08 : EDIT , UNIX LINK UPDATED
For Linux , I made it work on Ubuntu 13.04 ! using both openjdk-7-jre & the oracle one. Just unzip all the content in a folder, use your terminal to go into the folder ( cd /home/test/game for example ), then java -jar LD27-RUN.jar

I'm very sorry for all the people who have problem with the unix / mac os x :( .

Controls :
- Enter to activate / desactivate the suit ( the suit works for 10 seconds.
- E to use button / read screen info
- Escape to go to the menu
- Change the Keyboard Layout
with the button in the bottom
- Sound is Off by default,
Click on the icon in game to set it on

Tools :

IDE : Eclipse
Engine : Slick2d
Level Design : Tiled Map Editor
Sound Effect : bfxr / Audacity
The main music was generate with : www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata
Graphics : Paint.NET, Photoshop

Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/s/tukjgulowqv5a33/LD27%20D2.rar
Linux	https://www.dropbox.com/s/n87wqpm57feeqp0/LD%2027%20-%20Test%20Chamber.zip
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/s/531omr7wk3i93w4/LD27.rar
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=21404

Ratings

Coolness	63%	3
Overall	2.88	738

Audio	2.30	690
Fun	2.82	639
Graphics	2.56	763
Humor	2.00	693
Innovation	2.67	787
Mood	2.56	686
Theme	2.79	876

Feedback

nitrocrime

26. Aug 2013 · 10:27 UTC

Wouldn't work on my Mac :( It just opens a screen, flashes a bit and then close.

Zuige

26. Aug 2013 · 10:29 UTC

Game crashes on startup :/

miro662

26. Aug 2013 · 10:31 UTC

really nice game

ibilon

26. Aug 2013 · 10:32 UTC

I clicked on start level but nothing happened.
Got this in the console: "org.newdawn.slick.SlickException: Failed to load sound: data/sound/Hit_hurt10.ogg"

doonay21

26. Aug 2013 · 10:34 UTC

Have my sword sir for procedural music :D First time I started this game it did a little bit of stroboscope effect - it shocked my eyes for a second :x

Mekuri

26. Aug 2013 · 10:35 UTC

Nice game. I managed to get myself stuck between some tiles once or twice. The default controls, made no sense to me, but I kinda forgot, until after I beat the game that you could change them :P I liked the idea, and your levels were interesting. With a little more polishing and more levels, this could easily become a game I would play again :-)

lparker

26. Aug 2013 · 10:36 UTC

For some reason you coudln't walk back in it...But a good game though.

🎤 guardiancs

26. Aug 2013 · 10:40 UTC

Hello ibilon. That's strange ... is the file in the folder data/sound ?? If not, could you try to download it again and verify ? can you tell me your OS too ?

@Zuige : what's your OS ?

@nitrocrime : I didn't had the time to try on OS/X, so i have removed the link

m110

26. Aug 2013 · 10:53 UTC

Worked well here! Pretty cool game, could be worth extending. :)

ibilon

26. Aug 2013 · 11:32 UTC

I'm on fedora linux, linux files are case sensitive so Hit_hurt10.ogg cannot be found since it's named Hit_Hurt10.ogg in the data folder.

rincewind_cz

26. Aug 2013 · 11:36 UTC

The problem with file 'data/sound/Hit_hurt10.ogg' should be on linux and OS/X. All Unix-likes has case-sensitive file systems (so file 'A.txt' and 'a.txt' are two different files). After renaming it's ok.. But I have only black screen with player?! After few steps I've got this exception:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
at player.Player.update(Player.java:138)
at state.InGame.update(InGame.java:299)

🎤 guardiancs

26. Aug 2013 · 11:50 UTC

Thanks all for the feedback ! i'll see what i can do and fix it !!!!

🎤 guardiancs

26. Aug 2013 · 14:15 UTC

Here we go ! I made a fix for the linux version, be sure to have java 1.7 ( open jdk or oracle ) , unzip the game, go into the folder with the terminal, then a java -jar LD27-RUN.jar should do the work

All my apologies for those who the game doesn't launch :(

ibilon

26. Aug 2013 · 15:45 UTC

It's working now, thanks.

Feysoura

26. Aug 2013 · 20:38 UTC

Couldn't go left, some collision bugs. Overall, nice.

SneManden

26. Aug 2013 · 20:44 UTC

You can see that a lot of work has gone into this.

🎤 guardiancs

26. Aug 2013 · 20:47 UTC

Feysoura : There is a azerty / qwerty button in the main menu, just click on it ( azerty is the default option ) to change the layout !

imef

26. Aug 2013 · 20:50 UTC

A nice game! I especially liked that you added an azerty option. ^^

Meep

28. Aug 2013 · 20:38 UTC

Fun game with lots of post-LD potential! :)

dalbinblue

31. Aug 2013 · 02:06 UTC

Felt like VVVVVV or Metal Mech with more of an emphasis on puzzles (which is a good think), as a note on level design though, on I think the fourth level, where you need to unlock the path up, you have spikes that aren't visible until you move up. Since you can't see them until you go up, most people will die the first time through. For a puzzle game, where you have already solved the puzzle this is very frustrating. You would be better off if you did one of the following:
- Remove the spikes,
- Make the spikes visible, or
- Train the player to expect spikes by placing the same blind spike traps early in the level so the player can detect the pattern. If you did that, the player is more likely to blame themselves for failing the level then on the game for the cheap shot.

🎤 guardiancs

31. Aug 2013 · 16:44 UTC

Hey dalbinblue, I felt the same way when i tried the map , but the problem was time :p . I didn't want to make my game a "die & retry" type , but there is sometimes some misplaced / invisible things .

Anyway, thanks a lot for the feedback :)

Jellycakes

03. Sep 2013 · 18:50 UTC

Pretty cool, It wasn't obvious to me that the key layout was set to azerty by default so I was confused when I couldn't move backward but I figured it out in the end. Still well done though despite some collision bugs and timer bugs. Nice job.

hbocao

07. Sep 2013 · 00:33 UTC

Very cool mechanics and pretty graphics. The controls were a bit wonky. Very cool idea.

Delca

08. Sep 2013 · 19:22 UTC

I just played through it, and I liked both the mechanics and the graphics. But the audio was not enabled by default, which is sad considering it added to the game's value (seeing as you already made sound effects, one for the gravity change would have been helpful).
Anyway, good job on that one !