Willian's Dystopia by JQCoding
This was my first time doing the Ludum Dare, not sure I would say it's a success, but I did learn a ton from it. Mainly my problem was too big a scope. Real story is that Willian dies at the hands of the king when he fails to protect his daughter and arrives in a strange dystopian society. Unfortunately didn't have time to implement that. Very glitchy but wanted to get it out her anyway. Probably will release a post compo version later as well. Hope that it's playable and try to have fun!
Planned on having the combat system a seconds based thing with 10 seconds being the spell that could have saved the princess, but didn't have time.
Planned on having the combat system a seconds based thing with 10 seconds being the spell that could have saved the princess, but didn't have time.
Ratings
| Coolness | 44% | 1337 |
| Overall | 2.12 | 1153 |
| Audio | 2.23 | 718 |
| Fun | 1.75 | 1167 |
| Graphics | 1.83 | 1124 |
| Humor | 2.52 | 411 |
| Innovation | 2.00 | 1114 |
| Mood | 2.23 | 913 |
| Theme | 1.88 | 1157 |
Perhaps it could be implemented as a picture based game with voice acting to tell the story rather than a top-down rpg, since the top-down engine as it is doesn't seem to be adding to the enjoyability of the story.
I like the story in the background with the funny references.
Just wondering, why does the play button turn into the credits button on mouse over?
And I'm glad to see someone else using SFML!
Agree with Mclogenog.
Turn down your scope dramatically. It feels like you were hoping to do a lot more than you realized.
Also, the very first thing you need to go do. Is learn how to fix your tilemap artifacts. This is happening beacuse of 'scaling', there are multiple ways to fix it. The easiest way is to pad your tiles with a 1 pixel buffer and fill that buffer in with the tile's last color
Or change it to nearest neighbor or some other variation.
Not having those simple artifacts will make the game polish improve a lot
Keep it up! Your next LD will be much better! Constant learning! Don't give up! Its a great start!