make a binky by soerensen3

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made by soerensen3 for LD26 (COMPO)
Make a binky is a game where you control a rabbit by typing commands into a command line. The only tricky thing is that the screen keeps moving faster and you have to avoid to get outside of the screen on either side. To make it a bit harder there are three kind of enemies which you should avoid as well.

List of possible commands:

start - will start a new game.
pause - will pause the current game or resume it if paused
set X Y - will set the rabbit to the position XY eg. set 500 50

And that's it.

As there are no skill levels you can change the difficulty by resizing the window. I didn't have much time, so there are probably lots of bugs, because i'm writing my bachelor thesis at the moment and im running out of time there but i wanted to submit a game anyway.
Have fun playing my first (finished) game!

P.S. Written with Lazarus (Free Pascal)
Sorry for no mac os code but i don't have a mac. Source works fine with linux though, so maybe it works with mac os as well.


And I forgot the rabbit is a painting by my niece. The monsters are a modification of the rabbit i made with inkscape.

Ratings

Coolness 68% 3
Overall 2.65 1074
Audio 1.44 1054
Fun 2.45 1015
Graphics 2.29 1108
Humor 2.97 184
Innovation 3.39 352
Mood 2.46 962
Theme 3.32 769

Feedback

SuperlevelSebastian
28. Apr 2013 路 18:45 UTC
Hahaha! That's a pretty sweet take on the theme. Great!
@SamPotasz
29. Apr 2013 路 18:35 UTC
This made me smile. Thanks for making it!
lightsoda
29. Apr 2013 路 18:41 UTC
Didn't think to resize the window, gets pretty hectic to keep up with after a while.
馃帳 soerensen3
30. Apr 2013 路 12:16 UTC
thanks for all the comments so far, this is really encouraging so my first ludum dare most likely won't be my last!
Dark Acre Jack
30. Apr 2013 路 17:17 UTC
Congrats on your 1st LD.
billknye
30. Apr 2013 路 17:20 UTC
I liked the controls, definitely different than the other games. Being able to resize the window so much felt a bit cheating. Overall fun and unique!
Zccc
30. Apr 2013 路 18:33 UTC
Very funny and innovative!
badlydrawnrod
30. Apr 2013 路 18:39 UTC
Could be great for teaching kids about Cartesian coordinates.
Sanguine
30. Apr 2013 路 18:40 UTC
Were you too lazy to program your own game and let us do it? Haha, but seriously I like it. It would be cool to have even more commands
GingerMess
30. Apr 2013 路 19:27 UTC
Not sure about typing the location in to move the bunny, but it certainly gets challenging later on!
Tainted_Code
30. Apr 2013 路 19:35 UTC
Nice idea and kinda funny being able to re-size the window xD
馃帳 soerensen3
30. Apr 2013 路 22:00 UTC
i forgot to mention that similar to the terminal or command line you can use up down buttons to get the last typed command, so you don't need to type all of it again.
@sanguine: my first idea was actually that you had to make an own ai, by commands, but i thought it would be too complicated already, i wanted to finish something just once. ;)
Jyrkface
01. May 2013 路 09:28 UTC
Too funny, and surprisingly entertaining, actually. Excellent use of theme ;)
GetFun
01. May 2013 路 09:29 UTC
congratz =)
cmayhem
01. May 2013 路 10:52 UTC
Nice. You could make this into typing teaching program by having the move command be a random word the player has to type correctly.
daandruff
01. May 2013 路 11:30 UTC
Cool idea. Could have used some variation to the gameplay
DaanVanYperen
01. May 2013 路 12:33 UTC
Lol so silly XD You made me giggle.
ZYXer
01. May 2013 路 18:20 UTC
Yay, made it over 5000 :D Never misspelled the word "set" so many times in my life xD
Really simple but addictive game. I like it!
petrocket
01. May 2013 路 18:28 UTC
Pretty funny - I can definitely feel the influence of the niece in the game. Would have been nice to have some kid like controls too (something that didn't involve typing) and some audio. This did make me smile too!
infinitedog
01. May 2013 路 18:30 UTC
Sweet rabbit. Original idea and different.
Morgawr
02. May 2013 路 17:26 UTC
Pretty original, I love terminal-related games and I love Pascal (nostalgia'd hard). Really really nice for a 48 hours game
Squared Muffin
02. May 2013 路 18:59 UTC
A very interesting taking on the theme. Could do with a bit of sound
spriters2000
02. May 2013 路 20:59 UTC
Smart concept lol!
Cyboot
05. May 2013 路 14:20 UTC
Ha great game! I love that the "up key" restores the last command, just like on a real terminal :)

Good job and congratulation on finishing on your first LD!
f7f5
07. May 2013 路 20:40 UTC
Simple but interesting concept. Congratulations.
yellowlemming
08. May 2013 路 19:06 UTC
rather good application of the theme, I would prefer it if the 0 of y was at the bottom, it just feels odd increasing y to have the character move down
Yezu
12. May 2013 路 16:07 UTC
Surprisingly fun :)
Norgg
13. May 2013 路 21:44 UTC
Haha, I think *technically* using a painting by your niece is against the rules, but it's adorable enough to get away with it.

This was really cool, really minimalist interpretation of the trade-off between being fast and requiring accuracy.