WTF LEMME OUT!!! by aquasheep

made by aquasheep for LD23 (JAM)

A Simple Text Adventure Game in a very tiny world.

So, this is my second game overall and first that is mostly original. I've been sick and doing naught but sleeping and programming (learning Python :D) for about 72 hours now, and suddenly realized that LD was up again. :O

This game features achievements, multiple endings, tragedy, comedy, and chaoticrazyawesomepicness!!!

Enjoy!!! (Works with any OS with Python 2.* installed)

Note: Source code download should now work! It was freaking out when I put the .py file up, so I just zipped it, and it seems to download just fine now. Sorry for any inconvenience!

All OS	http://arthur.sewanee.edu/kennepm0/Games/wtflemmeout.pyc
Source	http://arthur.sewanee.edu/kennepm0/Games/wtflemmeout.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=13033

Ratings

Coolness	50%	3
Overall(Jam)	2.41	214

Audio(Jam)	1.33	203
Fun(Jam)	2.62	159
Graphics(Jam)	1.38	260
Humor(Jam)	3.59	27
Innovation(Jam)	2.04	229
Mood(Jam)	2.52	170
Theme(Jam)	2.35	211

Feedback

thatshelby

23. Apr 2012 · 20:17 UTC

uhhh... did you upload it?

🎤 aquasheep

24. Apr 2012 · 13:34 UTC

Thanks. Firefox would let me log in, but I couldn't edit this page. I've been trying to fix this since it happened. Today I tried Chrome, and it worked. *shrug*

tequibo

24. Apr 2012 · 15:50 UTC

Not sure if that was intended - but if you choose to interact with door after you find key - game just closes, same with "gremlins" option.

🎤 aquasheep

25. Apr 2012 · 00:10 UTC

Thank you for pointing that out! I was always running it in terminal, so I never considered what it would look like if it started up its own window and then suddenly exited. Problem solved!

Milo

25. Apr 2012 · 00:44 UTC

I love the humor in this game. It's not very long, and doesn't give me much meaningful choice, but it brought a smile to my face.

Cosmologicon

25. Apr 2012 · 00:48 UTC

Why don't you upload the source code? Your link labeled "source" is, bizarrely, some sort of Traceback.

🎤 aquasheep

25. Apr 2012 · 00:57 UTC

If you right click and save link as on the source, you get the .py source file. I'm not sure why browsers freak out at it, but as I stated in the description browsers don't seem to like my python file. *shrug*

🎤 aquasheep

25. Apr 2012 · 00:59 UTC

Actually, I see your point. Even if you download it, it's screwed. I'm looking into this. Probably will just make it a zip file and see if it fixes it.

Darkfrost

25. Apr 2012 · 02:03 UTC

Download link worked fine here

Tom 7

25. Apr 2012 · 03:57 UTC

I couldn't figure out how to run the pyc file, so maybe you should have instructions for that. But the .py worked for me. It's a very simple text adventure game with some oddities I don't understand (why does it ask me if I want to continue after each turn?) but a few cute twists, too. :)

azurenimbus

25. Apr 2012 · 03:59 UTC

I had quite a laugh. I can't believe how short it is, you should definitely make it longer. Full points on humor, though.

🎤 aquasheep

25. Apr 2012 · 09:22 UTC

@azurenimbus Thanks! :D

@Tom7
Yeah, I decided to have it ask you to continue mainly as a way to pause so people could have enough time to read the text. I'll come up with a better way of doing this when I update it and make it longer.

Oye Beto

26. Apr 2012 · 05:41 UTC

I can't play it because I don't have python installed.

🎤 aquasheep

26. Apr 2012 · 12:16 UTC

@Oye Beto - No problem! You can download it here: http://python.org/download/ for various OS.

Then, simply open a cmd prompt or terminal (depending on OS) and type "python 'directory/to/gamefile/wtflemmeout.pyc'" replacing the directory/to/gamefile with the actual path. Should work like a charm!

johannhat

27. Apr 2012 · 04:46 UTC

First off, thanks for helping to remind me I need to install Python 2 on this laptop. ;P

It was incredibly short, but it put a smile on my fac.! You mentioned you were learning Python as you were making this and this is definitely a fantastic way to learn it. Keep it up and see you next LD!

scgrn

27. Apr 2012 · 04:59 UTC

This was a lot of fun!

🎤 aquasheep

28. Apr 2012 · 04:39 UTC

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! :D

I very much look forward to the next LD, and I'll also be developing a game this summer using Pygame. Four player co-op space-age platformer, but that's about all I can say for now.

Jezzamon

28. Apr 2012 · 05:43 UTC

Hm.. I got an error trying to run it on my mac. The error literally was "RuntimeError: Bad magic number in .pyc file"

Fenyx

28. Apr 2012 · 05:48 UTC

Definitely innovative. The only other game I've seen made for LD that was entirely based on dialogue choices was this one visual novel in LD20. Though, there weren't many choices and the story was very short, with only 2 possible endings to begin with. It was somewhat funny, though.

realgenius

29. Apr 2012 · 01:32 UTC

I for one was quite happy to see there was at least one text based adventure game. It fits in with the tiny theme. I'm glad you taught yourself some python too! GG.

tfendall

02. May 2012 · 02:41 UTC

Nerd cred for using python. First text-based game I've played this compo - a nice throwback to zork. I wish there was more than one room, but it was funny.

cantorfew

02. May 2012 · 19:24 UTC

No bad. Needs more branches though. And I can't door :( At least I'm king.

I am both glad and disappointed that fewer people have trouble launching your game than mine.

CappaGames

05. May 2012 · 01:02 UTC

I enjoyed this, just wish it were longer.

Hume

06. May 2012 · 16:25 UTC

YAY text adventure!

Good sense of humor! I quite liked it. I'd like to see what you could do with a text adventure framework ready to go for next time!

asfdfdfd

09. May 2012 · 20:54 UTC

Have you tried py2exe?

JesterBLUE

11. May 2012 · 14:31 UTC

Extremely short. Congrats on trying a new language!

maxman43

14. May 2012 · 00:56 UTC

I love text adventures like this. Great job.

🎤 aquasheep

14. May 2012 · 20:05 UTC

Thanks everyone for playing! I look forward to doing a longer game for the next LD! Also, things I learned:

1) Python is awesome!
2) Excess prompting is annoying.
3) Gremlins like hats.
4) LD community R0X!

@asfdfdfd - No, I haven't tried py2exe, but I want to play with it some because it sounds really helpful. I'll see if I can get this game to work with it as a test.