Dreamworld by JoeCool17

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made by JoeCool17 for LD23 (JAM)
You, the player, begin as little boy waking up at night... people are unwell, with broken nightmares in their sleep. You must help them by jumping into their dream and fixing it!

Green blobs are the cause... You must attack them by holding the 'E' key, or they will attack you!

Use the 'A' and 'D' keys to move, and space bar to jump.

Sadly, this concept wasn't fully realized in time (Almost! I swear! Almost!), so you just hit the 'W' key to enter the one-and-only dream level. Also, I made some very nice piano music for it, but sound wouldn't work... *sigh* If you want to hear it and *imagine* it was part of the program, it's in the sound folder, happy.wav or happy.ogg.

Source is included with the download, you need Python 2.7 and Pygame 1.9.1 to run it.

The executable is in the /dist folder, main.exe. If it doesn't work, try launching it from the command line.

Credits:
pytmx for tilemap
pygame for game engine
eeymontt and JoeCool17 for programming
JoeCool17 and GraphiX for art

Ratings

Coolness 24% 955
Overall(Jam) 1.90 252
Fun(Jam) 1.70 250
Graphics(Jam) 2.50 205
Innovation(Jam) 1.89 242
Theme(Jam) 2.30 219

Feedback

Transmit
24. Apr 2012 路 12:03 UTC
Maybe I'm being daft here, but I don't see the download link!
Zamando
24. Apr 2012 路 13:32 UTC
That is true, no download link :<
馃帳 JoeCool17
24. Apr 2012 路 19:36 UTC
Whoops... lol, that might be helpful...
I hope you guys don't mind, I fixed a show-stopping bug after the compo ended- the collision wasn't updating when the level changed.
馃帳 JoeCool17
24. Apr 2012 路 19:50 UTC
There we go, DL link added.
Cosmologicon
25. Apr 2012 路 03:14 UTC
Neat idea, you could really do something with switching between worlds to reach different areas. It's too bad it's not very complete. I have to admit, I'm not crazy about the controls....
PabloAM
28. Apr 2012 路 12:48 UTC
Nice idea, and mechanics.

Well done.
Mach60KAS
28. Apr 2012 路 16:35 UTC
Couldn't get the game to work, launching from command line failed as well. Failed with "IOError: [Errno2] No such file or directory: 'levels\\home.tmx'"
mneubrand
28. Apr 2012 路 16:57 UTC
I like the concept and some of the artwork. It's a pity that it's in a bit of an unfinished state.
jwolf
28. Apr 2012 路 17:28 UTC
Same issue as Mach60KAS. Windows 7. Stack traces is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 188, in <module>
File "main.py", line 61, in main
File "tilemap.pyc", line 8, in __init__
File "pytmx\tmxloader.pyc", line 944, in load_pygame
File "pytmx\tmxloader.pyc", line 792, in load_tmx
File "xml\dom\minidom.pyc", line 1920, in parse
File "xml\dom\expatbuilder.pyc", line 922, in parse
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'levels\\home.tmx'
R3ason
28. Apr 2012 路 17:58 UTC
For those who can't run it, try simply running the main.py from the root dir. Seems to be working that way for me...
R3ason
28. Apr 2012 路 18:05 UTC
Well, intrigued enough to install Python in order to play it! Interesting concept, and I really like the idea of going into dreams to "fix" the world. I'd say develop it further! Of note, if you don't hit "W" from where you initially spawn, it appears that you just fall into nothingness in the next level. Thanks!
tcstyle
28. Apr 2012 路 18:27 UTC
The game looks nice graphically, but it seems not to work properly.
If pressing w, the level switches to some cloud area where I just fall to nothingness. Otherwise I got stuck in the first level.
馃帳 JoeCool17
29. Apr 2012 路 16:27 UTC
jwolf: Thanks for reporting the error, I'll look into it.

tcstyle: Do you mean you're falling *though* the clouds? Or just falling?

R3ason: That's the plan. :D
kibertoad
30. Apr 2012 路 18:39 UTC
Running pure python file didn't work at first (have python installed), was too lazy to investigate. Can I ask for an exe?..
Zyll
30. Apr 2012 路 23:22 UTC
Had problems getting it to work. Once I did, it seems like whenever you press up, you fall off the screen. Couldn't figure it out.
M氓rten Jonsson
02. May 2012 路 10:16 UTC
Couldn't get the game to play.
Jiddo
04. May 2012 路 21:46 UTC
I like the idea of switching between two worlds like that. The graphics also look nice and the game runs fine on Linux. Kind of an odd (but interesting) resolution/screen size tho. It's a shame that it isn't more complete.
Rex Peppers
07. May 2012 路 13:40 UTC
No windows, can't play. :-(
robcozzens
10. May 2012 路 07:22 UTC
I would try it if you had a Web or OSX version.
davidwparker
10. May 2012 路 19:36 UTC
Sorry, I don't have Windows.
ericdpitts
10. May 2012 路 22:51 UTC
The exe file you provided didn't work from the directory it was in. Moving the contents of the dist folder into the root folder (/Dreamworld) allowed me to run the exe.

I liked your graphics and the music (I played it in the background while running your game :P ), but everything else was just incomplete. The controls were strange, collision detection with the walls was definitely off (you could cling to them by holding A/D) and I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. Once I had gotten into the dream world (and was standing in a place that didn't immediately make me fall), holding 'E' did nothing against the slimes, it just ended the game. It's an interesting idea though!
demonpants
10. May 2012 路 23:22 UTC
Looks interesting. Any chance for a Mac version?
tomhunt
11. May 2012 路 03:46 UTC
i got the same error as jwolf when i tried running dist\main.exe from the dist folder, which is how i assume the game is supposed to be run..
Drabiter
11. May 2012 路 05:07 UTC
Sorry I don't have python installed :(
JellyFame
12. May 2012 路 23:08 UTC
Cannot play, don't have access to windows.