Your Efforts are in Vain by BarrensZeppelin
Controls: WASD
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This is the second time I enter the Ludum Dare Compo, and I present you with an Endless Fall game: "Your Efforts are in Vain"!
The game is about a downhearted personality - in the shape of a box -, which in the heat of the moment discovers a bitter realization about life.
I usually don't make 'serious' games, and the game turned out in quite a pretentious fashion, that's why I have added a score-attack mode with less BS and online leaderboards for good measure, so you can compete with strangers online!
I put a lot of effort into making sure the game had a -clean- finish, but as the compo came to an end and I rushed the Score Attack-specific features, I had to throw some perfection out of the window, and thus some text elements remain quite awful.
Alright, that sums up the game, I hope you enjoy playing it!
~BarrensZeppelin
** If you're having difficulties seeing the player on the screen, try increasing Brightness/Contrast on your monitor. **
This is the second time I enter the Ludum Dare Compo, and I present you with an Endless Fall game: "Your Efforts are in Vain"!
The game is about a downhearted personality - in the shape of a box -, which in the heat of the moment discovers a bitter realization about life.
I usually don't make 'serious' games, and the game turned out in quite a pretentious fashion, that's why I have added a score-attack mode with less BS and online leaderboards for good measure, so you can compete with strangers online!
I put a lot of effort into making sure the game had a -clean- finish, but as the compo came to an end and I rushed the Score Attack-specific features, I had to throw some perfection out of the window, and thus some text elements remain quite awful.
Alright, that sums up the game, I hope you enjoy playing it!
~BarrensZeppelin
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 2.85 | 897 |
| Audio | 3.19 | 264 |
| Fun | 2.59 | 922 |
| Graphics | 2.67 | 840 |
| Humor | 2.09 | 655 |
| Innovation | 2.75 | 844 |
| Mood | 2.84 | 584 |
| Theme | 3.00 | 1022 |
The game is meant to be unfair. At first it seems like you are in control of how well you do, you can dodge the first couple of squares quite easily, but as the game progresses and it gets more and more hectic, and no matter how hard you try, you will always lose. Thus, your efforts are in vain.
Also bonus for real game development with C++ :D
The music could have progressed a bit further but the woosh by sound effects were good!
Otherwise it was all well put together :)
The sheer amount of games is a bit overwhelming for me :P
Anyway, nicely done!
That being said, I found the game way too difficult. It felt like whether you survived or not was all based on chance really... Nice little background tune though!