Alone in Translation by Gareth Jenkins
An experiment in text entry and story telling... in an action game.
We proved a whole bunch with this -- primarily that it's impossible to use typing input as the primary mechanism to a game that involves reading text as the primary output/reward mechanism.
Going to write up a post mortem on the finer points of that later in the week at http://www.36peas.com -- but suffice to say that while this didn't turn out as we thought it might, we figured out all kinds of interesting things along the way.
We used the the 2.0 beta of Cocos2d Mac, and the Component Architecture we've published previously here: http://www.36peas.com/blog/2011/9/15/lightweight-component-architectures-and-object-composition-i.html
We proved a whole bunch with this -- primarily that it's impossible to use typing input as the primary mechanism to a game that involves reading text as the primary output/reward mechanism.
Going to write up a post mortem on the finer points of that later in the week at http://www.36peas.com -- but suffice to say that while this didn't turn out as we thought it might, we figured out all kinds of interesting things along the way.
We used the the 2.0 beta of Cocos2d Mac, and the Component Architecture we've published previously here: http://www.36peas.com/blog/2011/9/15/lightweight-component-architectures-and-object-composition-i.html
| OS/X | http://bit.ly/rPDPCn |
| Source | http://bit.ly/tsqKYr |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7693 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 0% | 685 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.00 | 74 |
Feedback
Cell
20. Dec 2011 · 15:00 UTC
Cool, but a bit hard to know what to do.
iforce2d
22. Dec 2011 · 17:20 UTC
Interesting. I was surprised at how long I played it for :) I think the audio was a major component.
Shigor
23. Dec 2011 · 19:51 UTC
So.... cocos2d means no win version, right? (not sure where I put my mac mini after packing)
kumber
23. Dec 2011 · 20:06 UTC
Couldn't play... I got only Windows and Linux as OS :(
Aaron
25. Dec 2011 · 01:08 UTC
Perhaps a video for those of us on Windows? :)
angrygeometry
26. Dec 2011 · 19:19 UTC
a gameplay vid would be cool if possible!
brus46
29. Dec 2011 · 08:44 UTC
Can't vote since I don't have a mac.. a video should do the work.
bentosmile
31. Dec 2011 · 13:59 UTC
Aw :( shame there's no Windows option. :(
jeffz
02. Jan 2012 · 13:11 UTC
no windows and no gameplay video...
Dietrich Epp
07. Jan 2012 · 08:47 UTC
:-( No Universal binary, doesn't run on PowerPC.
lorancou
07. Jan 2012 · 10:44 UTC
No Mac at hand to play and rate this.