Comatose by Jawdropgames
A small text adventure game by Ket and Jack for the Ludum Dare Jam. We don't aim for it to be too serious, and have made the game mostly for fun. So we both hope you enjoy the game, and enjoy making your own simple text adventure using the in game guides if you wish! :)
If you find any errors (Spelling, grammar or just bugs), please report them to alex.t@jawdropgames.co.uk!
We also plan to include download links for both Mac and Windows once we've had a rest!
If you find any errors (Spelling, grammar or just bugs), please report them to alex.t@jawdropgames.co.uk!
We also plan to include download links for both Mac and Windows once we've had a rest!
Ratings
| Coolness | 14% | 605 |
| Overall(Jam) | 1.91 | 152 |
| Audio(Jam) | 1.00 | 141 |
| Community | 1.33 | 731 |
| Fun(Jam) | 1.55 | 155 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 1.50 | 165 |
| Humor(Jam) | 1.67 | 94 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 1.75 | 132 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.64 | 43 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.64 | 61 |
And all ' are missing
That said, there were quite a few bugs, and the game was almost unplayable to me due to them :-( It seems that most of these bugs comes from you treating every action as a room. I can tell that by typing "look" after a common action, and getting the text of that action again. For example, when I was in a place with two doors locked doors north and south from me, if I typed north, I would get "that door is locked". Then typing look would get that same message - I would have to use "back" to return to my previous room.
A more sensible approach would be to have "rooms" as locations with a number of possible actions in them, so you separate walking around from performing those actions.
Not everyone will have Java installed and Java doesn't put its binaries in the PATH by default, so RUN_ME.bat won't work for most people.
Also, if, like me, you have a 64-bit Java in the PATH, it still doesn't work because 64-bit Java can't load the 32-bit DLLs that are required to run this game.
I had to edit RUN_ME.bat to point to a 32-bit Java as follows:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_16\bin\java" -jar -Djava.library.path=lib/ comatose.jar
(The exact path will be slightly different for those who have a different build of Java installed).
Also, half of what the game says in response to commands is completely nonsensical. "You took all the items in the room. Your're carring; Nothing!"
It's really buggy and it seems to be possible to get stuck with no possible exit while the game just throws, catches and ignores exceptions in response to every command. After a couple of plays through the introduction and getting stuck repeatedly in different locations, I just gave up in frustration.