Arnold Bros (est. 1905) by fanatiko

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made by fanatiko for LD23 (COMPO)
LD48: Original version of the game, 320x240 window size.
v_01: Update with a scale zoom and some fixes in initialization code. I mantained the gameplay and graphics at it's original state.

You are a little gnome living in a big mall. Elders have chosen you to cross the haberdashery section and find a mysterious cube which has fallen from Space.

There are very few files in the source code, but most of the game is data driven.

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 3.29 244
Audio 2.86 275
Fun 3.24 193
Graphics 2.95 394
Humor 2.20 437
Innovation 2.05 797
Mood 2.80 350
Theme 2.52 670

Feedback

dastry
23. Apr 2012 路 12:36 UTC
Surely this is a Jam????? Music is outsourced????
馃帳 fanatiko
23. Apr 2012 路 18:50 UTC
@dastry the other people at the credits are the ones who wrote the software I used to create music (Otomata) and effects (sfxr).
unicornpooping
23. Apr 2012 路 19:30 UTC
won't run for me. just quits :-(
Kvisle
23. Apr 2012 路 19:43 UTC
This was quite good. Only complaint I have, is that the window was a bit small.

You should make more levels for this :)
kj654321
23. Apr 2012 路 19:43 UTC
Very cool, I love the wall jumping and double jumping.
blob
23. Apr 2012 路 19:55 UTC
Cant get it to work. ( black screen then crash )
馃帳 fanatiko
23. Apr 2012 路 20:15 UTC
@kj654321 a coworker suggested me a "hardcore mode" without the additions, like on the old times of ZX.

I'm sorry the game crashes on some computers. I tested the game on all PCs I have at home and it worked. I found a bug with the SDL initialization in the oldest PC so I added a failback software initialization. Maybe I should have kept some logging in the deliverable.
Jeffalisk
25. Apr 2012 路 19:09 UTC
Wouldn't run for me, I launch it and get "Arnoldbros.exe has stopped working. Windows is searching for a solution to this problem" (Win7 64bit)

Shame, liked the look of this :(
Jiddo
25. Apr 2012 路 19:10 UTC
Quite enjoyable game! The clean graphics and titles in each room reminded me of VVVVVV. Music was pretty eery which set a good atmosphere.
badlydrawnrod
25. Apr 2012 路 19:10 UTC
I know the theme is Tiny World, but when you chose such a small screen size you took away from the game itself.
Arkazon
25. Apr 2012 路 19:20 UTC
A fairly good little platformer, not sure how the double jump is mean't to work though, sometimes it let me and sometimes it didn't - I assume this was a bug?

Agree with Kvisle in that having a larger window would be a lot better!
Benjamin
25. Apr 2012 路 19:44 UTC
It's not working here too - win7 64b
naufr4g0
25. Apr 2012 路 19:55 UTC
Graphic is simple, nice and colorful! I only didn't like player animation. :/
I like double jump & wall jump features. I think it needs more levels and more enemies.
Kayamon
25. Apr 2012 路 21:47 UTC
Wasn't able to play it unfortunately (Win7 x64), it crashes inside TinyOAL.dll

I'm glad to see someone else has read Truckers though :-)
Jack
26. Apr 2012 路 18:18 UTC
surreal music, well-implemented and retro gameplay, and what looks like a decently-built engine. Shame it was so short and easy, because this is genuinely promising
schattenkind.net
26. Apr 2012 路 18:52 UTC
5min of gameplay but 5 good one! The color choise is interesting!
Tourgen
27. Apr 2012 路 22:26 UTC
Pretty good. Music was good - more would have been even better. I liked the gameplay. I didn't like the key controls.
refreshcreations
29. Apr 2012 路 13:35 UTC
Fun platformer! It's got that lovely speccy vibe about it which I like. Good use of otomata and sfxr. The graphics are all very in-keeping. Would like to see further levels in the future :)
Endurion
03. May 2012 路 07:17 UTC
Crashes on startup for me, looks like a null pointer.
pythong
03. May 2012 路 10:36 UTC
got the same error as jeffalisk, windows 7 64-bit here
Jeffalisk
03. May 2012 路 10:57 UTC
Sorry for the doublepost but I need to clear unplayable games from my list.
Catman
04. May 2012 路 12:31 UTC
This really is a tiny game :)
Nice job!!!
Julian Spillane
08. May 2012 路 18:31 UTC
Cute little platformer. Good job!
robcozzens
11. May 2012 路 04:49 UTC
I would try it if you had a Web or OSX version.
JellyFame
13. May 2012 路 18:36 UTC
don't have windows