Literally; Earth Shaping by adventureloop

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made by adventureloop for LD24 (COMPO)
Hello there,

Here is my entry for LD24,"Literally, Earth Shaping". The purpose of the
game is to help the development of life on a planet. The only control you
can excert is over the temperature of the planet.

I kind of ran out of time of the game is pretty much unwindable, but it is
kind of fun to watch a planet slowly develop.

The game needs to be started on a command line, this is the only way I
could figure out to get LWJGL working. LWJGL needs to be added to the java
library path to run, examples of this are in the Play*.sh files.

Enjoy and rate lots of games, also kittens.

@adventureloop

adventurist.me


Postmortem
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/31/ludum-dare-24-postmortem/

Ratings

Coolness 49% 570
Overall 2.16 713
Audio 1.94 513
Fun 1.33 758
Graphics 2.68 447
Innovation 2.67 447
Mood 1.86 658
Theme 3.22 248

Feedback

ollie
27. Aug 2012 · 10:25 UTC
Couldn't run this on Win 7 64-bit. PlayWindows.sh flashed up the command prompt but didn't seem to have any result, running the jar file resulted in a Jave Exception
Gallefray
27. Aug 2012 · 10:28 UTC
^^ that's because it's a linux .sh file
Andrei Barsan
27. Aug 2012 · 10:29 UTC
You can't expect a .sh to be double-clickable on Windows, now do you? :P Try making playWindows.sh -> playWindows.bat, and have it have this code iniside:

java -Djava.library.path=lib/windows -jar LD24Game.jar

(The old version couldn't run on win, and wrongly pointed to the osx libraries anyway)

Now, time for the actual game - I couldn't really figure out what to do. I messed around for a while, but couldn't really figure out what all the buttons did, even in the tutorial. I finally figured out that they toggle between views after viewing the debug log. :P
Punga
27. Aug 2012 · 12:10 UTC
Game is interesting. Graphics are good. Gameplay is kinda boring.
sgehlich
27. Aug 2012 · 13:20 UTC
Can't run this on Windows 7
Tyranus
27. Aug 2012 · 14:02 UTC
Hi there,
I am on Win7, and to play it I've copied all *.dll from /lib/windows and then I paste this files where is the LD24Game.jar file.
Mach60KAS
27. Aug 2012 · 14:08 UTC
I had a little trouble working out how to play the game at first, but it seems like quite an interesting concept!
dalbinblue
27. Aug 2012 · 14:12 UTC
Really couldn't figure out what to do in this game. Not sure if the ice meteors so anything.
shinD
27. Aug 2012 · 14:18 UTC
The idea and premise is good, but yeah, the gameplay needs a bit more work!

Kittens!
juaxix
27. Aug 2012 · 16:39 UTC
Got an exception in W7 64bits
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no lwjgl in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:73)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:66)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:95)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:112)
at adventurist.Game.<clinit>(Game.java:39)
-------------
Markavian
27. Aug 2012 · 18:00 UTC
I got it working on Windows 7 by running:

javaw -Djava.library.path=lib/windows/ -jar LD24Game.jar

from my command prompt.

Got it to load, but couldn't figure out what to do. Was sorta fun firing solar flares at my planets repeatedly, but didn't understand what to do past that.
pekuja
27. Aug 2012 · 18:29 UTC
I couldn't figure out how to actually play the game. I was sending out solar flares, but that seemed to be the only action I could tell was actually doing something.
Spotline
27. Aug 2012 · 18:47 UTC
Couldn't play =(
Will Xyen
27. Aug 2012 · 18:48 UTC
Note: in the windows.sh you point to the osx libraries.
irl
28. Aug 2012 · 03:24 UTC
Good graphics, except for the "life stages" which could have been cleaner. Couldn't work out really how to influence things, maybe the tutorial could have been more friendly. Random solar system generation was a nice idea over static levels.
pentaphobe
29. Aug 2012 · 14:44 UTC
Very interesting concept - Wasn't sure what the tutorial was trying to tell me, but I think I got the gist eventually.

Any chance you'll be adding to this?
🎤 adventureloop
31. Aug 2012 · 14:28 UTC
pentaphobe, I am pretty sure I will.
aeveis
03. Sep 2012 · 01:10 UTC
not sure how to get it working, get a java exception, and changed windows.bat.sh to just .bat but just opens cmd and closes. On windows 7 64bit.
Rabbits...
09. Sep 2012 · 19:07 UTC
The first system I got was empty, but past that it was fun to watch the planets explode with fish...
jovoc
16. Sep 2012 · 06:07 UTC
It ran for me, and I like the general idea but I was at a loss understanding how my actions affected the simulation, or what the goal was. The mechanics seemed cool -- i like the idea of using volcanos and solar flares but it wasn't clear what they did. Needs to give the player much more feedback.