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Human Fatality by MrHalfman

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made by MrHalfman for LD24 (JAM)
Gameplay video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPMn7_sA6rI

From the prehistory to the modern era : We are trying to make a game which is a "double travel" : A travel inside the human history and, in parallel, inside the video game history.

We didn't had enough time to make a home screen and the end of the game. We are gonna post an enhanced version tomorrow but at this time we can't do more :(.

Keys : Arrow keys / Enter : Interact

UPDATE 29/08/12 : We've made a post-compo version for fun which is Easier and with a decent end ;). Feel free to try it but don't forget : if you want to notate the game, use the first (and unfinished) version !

UPDATE 30/08/12 : The enhanced version is now with the hard difficulty :). (Same difficulty as the original but with less bugs and the end levels).
We also added a link to download the OST ! Feel free to use it, just leave a comment ;).

Web http://ld24.quantum-softwares.fr/
Source Files (Zip) http://ld24.quantum-softwares.fr/ld24.zip
Enhanced (Easy) http://ld24pm-easy.quantum-softwares.fr/
Enhanced (Hard) http://ld24pm.quantum-softwares.fr/
Download the OST ! http://ld24.quantum-softwares.fr/ld24_ost.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15080

Ratings

Coolness 69% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.03 136
Audio(Jam) 3.35 66
Fun(Jam) 2.46 198
Graphics(Jam) 3.46 102
Humor(Jam) 2.42 115
Innovation(Jam) 2.39 197
Mood(Jam) 2.63 149
Theme(Jam) 2.89 118

Feedback

N0W33t0rs
28. Aug 2012 路 02:09 UTC
Hard one .. The jumps have to be perfect in times. With 40 deaths I didn't get beyond the "now you have to decide". These damn spikes are everywhere. Sorry, this one isn't for me (although it caught me fast and I really liked the graphics and the idea with localStorage and the achievements. I even got "you killed 50 dinos").
Demurgos
28. Aug 2012 路 07:54 UTC
Thank you, yes the game is rather difficult but we'll do a Post-Mortem, and I was thinking about an easy or hard mode.
馃帳 MrHalfman
28. Aug 2012 路 11:17 UTC
We wanted to do the same difficulty as the good old games :D. But as I said upper, an enhanced version is gonna be posted today !
Demurgos
29. Aug 2012 路 09:11 UTC
Here is the post-mortem easy mode :
http://ld24pm-easy.quantum-softwares.fr/
DevWouter
29. Aug 2012 路 17:31 UTC
Argh! I didn't notice the spikes until I was already death. I thought it was some collision detection issues with the dino further down the road.

In the end I went beyond "now you have to decide" (decide what?) but then I got hit by another spike and death again. Some quick save or lifes (optionaly if needed) would have made it a lot more playable and enjoyable. And I'm talking about the "easy" one here. (in what way exactly or am I really that bad ;) )
90sml
29. Aug 2012 路 17:33 UTC
Really difficult but I loved the graphics and all the music !
Really nice idea to do an Achievements system. Great job :)
RARoadkill
29. Aug 2012 路 17:57 UTC
I really liked this one, I plan on playing it until I beat it. Or until I throw my keyboard in rage. well done
Demurgos
29. Aug 2012 路 18:21 UTC
The post-mortem mode offer a good ending and redrawn levels, the pits are smaller, there is less enemies or spikes.

There is a save system : each level is saved.
cadin
29. Aug 2012 路 20:50 UTC
Nice work. The graphics look really good. Really impressive that you made this in JS. I find the game feel to be a bit off (jumping speed is weird). And the collision detection is really really sensitive.

You should be proud of this.
Jamin
29. Aug 2012 路 21:03 UTC
I really like the warp flowers that send you back to the beginning. Oh, those are spikes? Okay, that makes sense.

Serious-like, the stuff that kills you doesn't always stand out and after zooming in (Chromium's page zoom), I can honestly say that I'd prefer playing this game at about half the resolution with those beautiful graphics in their full glory.

You've created a solid platformer here that I will have to come back to beat. Awesome stuff.
馃帳 MrHalfman
29. Aug 2012 路 21:06 UTC
@Cadin : Thanks for this comment :D !

@Jamin : It's because we are nostalgic (and a bit sadistic). Thanks you :)
kibertoad
29. Aug 2012 路 21:36 UTC
Art was nice, however, this game had some of the most frustrating platforming I've met among all the LD entries so far, and not in a good, Super Meat Boy way, alas. Also: adding checkpoints wouldn't kill ya, ya'know?
DevoreUK
29. Aug 2012 路 21:37 UTC
Love the graphics and the music and the over all feel. The spikes were really hard to see and caught me out a few designs. And the level design was a bit too hard for me (but I don't normally play platformers). Achievements were great and I really like the text at the underneath the game as well.
SecondDimension
29. Aug 2012 路 21:56 UTC
Really nice graphics and overall design, just so incredibly frustrating, would loved to have seen past the dinosaur age but the jumps were too unforgiving for me
Demurgos
30. Aug 2012 路 09:54 UTC
Here is a video-wakthrough with all the achievements (PostMortem Version) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPMn7_sA6rI
zx81
30. Aug 2012 路 11:22 UTC
Wow! i really enjoyed plying that!! very good graphics, but the game is a bit to hard (at least for my liking) ;)
The audio is really neat as well.
Really good piece of work!
Miltage
30. Aug 2012 路 12:59 UTC
Hard as hell. The cause of death should be more apparent. Often, I wouldn't even know why I had died. Great graphics though. I feel the spikes should have stood out more.
darkshadow
30. Aug 2012 路 13:03 UTC
The game is approaching the "I wanna to be the guy" difficultly especially with the (buggy?) flowers that act like spikes. Graphics and music are great,I like the achievement and local storage system. The page is a bit too large to quite fit the normal screen, I have to press F11 to get both the score and messages to both appear in the page.
馃帳 MrHalfman
30. Aug 2012 路 13:29 UTC
@Darkshadow : The flower is not buggy, there is just a spike behind it ;). (You can barely see it !)
wlad
30. Aug 2012 路 15:22 UTC
Needo! Though its really really really hard. Didn't recognize the first spike for a while. The music is well composed, but doesn't fit the mood of the game. I think I'll play some more till I beat the first level at least;)
clavicarius
30. Aug 2012 路 16:25 UTC
Music seriously clashes with the play. Your character is so mouse-cursor like. There's no joyous inertia.
馃帳 MrHalfman
30. Aug 2012 路 16:37 UTC
@wlad & @Cavicarius : Thanks for your comment we will consider this for the next ld :).
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
31. Aug 2012 路 01:42 UTC
Sweet game. I liked the old-school difficulty actually. Graphics great, music beautiful (could use looping, but no matter). Great job!
Doft
31. Aug 2012 路 05:28 UTC
It was too hard, and for the wrong reasons :( controls made it a bit frustrating. Other than that it was interesting, music was nice too.
ncannasse
31. Aug 2012 路 12:00 UTC
Controls are hard ! you need to make your jumps more smooth/controlable, and give more feedback when dying (took ma a while to realize there was a hidden spike at the beginning).

Would have love to see more, but I'm definitely not good at unforgiving platformers :)
gamblore
08. Sep 2012 路 21:31 UTC
Decent. I had many deaths before I made it to the unfinished end. The castle level was kind of annoying because you couldn't tell, on your first time through, which blocks were going to drop.. You had to just see (after many deaths) that they were always the blocks that had spikes below them. Fun game, I liked the sprite animations.
Evil Cult
18. Sep 2012 路 00:24 UTC
I found the movement a bit frustrating and had to put the game down because of that and the lack of checkpoints that made me do everything all over again when I died. Also I felt the spikes should have been a bit more noticeable. Other than that the tone of the game was nice and the graphics and music were pretty good :)