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Escape From The Temple of Eternal Dooom by Joror

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made by Joror for LD27 (COMPO)
========= ASSISTANCE NEEDED, GUY STUCK IN TEMPLE! ========
|
| Adventuring, Archaeologisting and Wisecracking - those are
| the jobs that the world-famous diamond-in-the-rough Guy Smith
| does every day! Give him a helping hand...
|
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"Escape From The Temple of Eternal Dooom" - is a snarky puzzle adventure. Run against the clock, mummies and your own fast feet!

==== HINTS & CONTROLS! ====
> Click on any action in the top-right to queue them up
> Click on any action in the queue (bottom) to remove it
> Actions in your queue stay there when you die, and become 2x faster!
> Click on the green text to pause your queue
> You can pick up things with the 'arm' action
> Try doing your actions in anticipation of them being twice as fast the second time!
> If you want to delete actions off screen, run & pause when you see them (run/pause by clicking on the green text)

(WARNING: the game is a bit difficult... I should have had a gentler curve)

==== KNOWN BUGS ====

> room 2 loose tiles do not respect pause, and keep falling...

>> Let me know if reached the end, or where you got stuck/bummed out! :) <<
Windows http://yarr.me/ludum-dare/ld27/LD27_EFTTOED_windows.zip
OS/X http://yarr.me/ludum-dare/ld27/LD27_EFTTOED_osx.zip
Linux http://yarr.me/ludum-dare/ld27/LD27_EFTTOED_linux.zip
Web http://yarr.me/ludum-dare/ld27/efttoed/
Source http://yarr.me/ludum-dare/ld27/LD27_EFTTOED_source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=15925

Ratings

Coolness 78% 2
Overall 3.02 596
Audio 2.90 359
Fun 2.62 815
Graphics 3.04 463
Humor 2.51 417
Innovation 3.48 223
Mood 3.09 292
Theme 3.08 646

Feedback

CustomPhase
26. Aug 2013 路 11:23 UTC
Nice concept. The problem is that if you have lots of actions they go offscreen, and you cant delete them without deleting previous
馃帳 Joror
26. Aug 2013 路 11:56 UTC
@CustomPhase - you can hit play and then pause when the action(s) you want to remove are on screen. But yea, some interface to 'scroll' the action list would have been nice! :)
Fede3751
26. Aug 2013 路 13:21 UTC
Liked it! :)

Found it hard, but as I always says, i like hard games!
Diogo Muller
26. Aug 2013 路 14:19 UTC
I was a bit confused about this first, but liked after getting hang of it. Cool idea, good execution.
Alex Shestakov
26. Aug 2013 路 18:20 UTC
It's really hard but I enjoyed it, thanks. Was actually stuck on the 1st level for a very long time. I think "Clear all actions" button might have been extremely helpful.
fferro234
26. Aug 2013 路 18:21 UTC
Cool game, tough though. Some of the path was falling when the game was paused in the second room. Is that supposed to happen like that?
SmudgedCat
26. Aug 2013 路 18:24 UTC
I feel like this might be a good game but I'm really struggling to get to grips with it. I'm on the second room, sometimes the floor seems to give way when things are paused, I'm at the bottom now but I can't see anything because it's totally dark.
馃帳 Joror
26. Aug 2013 路 20:10 UTC
@Alex - Yeah, removing actions should be easier
@fferro234 - The tiles falling while paused is a thing I wanted to fix, but didn't get to. (you can still get past the room)
@SmudgedCat - Did you reach the other door in the second room? Or did you fall down somewhere? (light can be snatched in the first room too) It should never be totally dark because the amulet is supposed to shine too.
Surrealix
27. Aug 2013 路 03:23 UTC
I like the idea behind this, and once I figured out how to remove actions (that prompt should be near the start, by the way) I started having fun with it.

However I'm going to repeat a complaint from another horror/survival game : it's too dark! It's the middle of the day here for me and without maxing out the brightness and contrast I can't see much other than the text and initial lantern. Keep the dark bits dark and creepy, but if you want people to see something (like those areas lit in a very faint green) please make it a bit more visible.

Other than that, it's a good game. Well done.
馃帳 Joror
27. Aug 2013 路 08:22 UTC
@Surrealix - Yeah! More 'tutorial' prompt - as creator I always assume too much innate knowledge. I will add a big notice to the description text here.
Hmm and the 'too dark' note is good to hear - maybe I can add a gamma crank shortcut somewhere. (I think that is 'bugfixing')
Jason
28. Aug 2013 路 18:43 UTC
Agree with the bit dark and tutorial comments, otherwise a cool idea. However, I'm not quite sure how the theme is integrated?
Misfit
28. Aug 2013 路 18:44 UTC
Cool concept and audio is great. It's hard but I liked it. Good Job!
ramoncb
28. Aug 2013 路 18:56 UTC
good execution and a unique idea

is a very nice puzzle and is very challenging too! good work!
KeithE.
28. Aug 2013 路 19:54 UTC
That was a really cool concept. I found the level just a bit too dark. I couldn't 100% tell when tiles were falling int he second level. Still this was one of the more original ideas I have seen from the LD. I really liked being able to just replay my past moves but sometimes the results weren't what I expected. Would have liked a reset move button to just wipe the queue. Very cool game. Great Job!
EdoMiyamoto
29. Aug 2013 路 17:43 UTC
Bad things: very hard to understand and to play
Good things: very good idea for the gameplay, good mood !
Darien
30. Aug 2013 路 09:01 UTC
The interface is a bit cumbersome, but it's a neat game with a really unusual premise.
timtipgames
31. Aug 2013 路 09:40 UTC
Not being able to scroll the queue is really really unfortunate when you already queued up 20 actions and only the last one makes you fail :( I really enjoyed playing it though :)
Jupiter_Hadley
31. Aug 2013 路 20:29 UTC
Really interesting game, not sure if I completely understood it. I featured it in my Ludum Dare 27 video compilation series, if you'd like to check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGdyZZ8iT10
Christina Nordlander
31. Aug 2013 路 22:45 UTC
I love it when indie games meet Indy games. Great title, and very original gameplay mechanic. Very clever stuff. The graphics are OK, if nothing special, but I really enjoyed the music and sound effects. Guy's dialogue is consistently hilarious, at least as far as I got.

It does need a bit of polishing, though. I gave up on the third room when I kept getting killed by the mummies (I might come back to this game later). Speeding up the actions after the first time is a great idea, but makes you liable to getting killed by the mummies since their movement isn't speeded up accordingly. The falling floor bug needs fixing, too.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, this is a pretty excellent set-up, but it needs a bit more work post-compo.
sP0CkEr2
01. Sep 2013 路 16:25 UTC
nice job, but the theme was a little off.:) but still, it's was fun
hbocao
01. Sep 2013 路 16:50 UTC
I enjoyed the idea, man. Kinda confusing at start, but this is a nice entry!
Atmospherium
10. Sep 2013 路 22:06 UTC
I like the turn-based controls and the tone you set. I had a hard time judging how far I would be able to run forward, so I found myself having to turn around more than should be necessary at a few spots. Great core concept, I think you're on to something good if you polish the controls a bit. Great work.