Al Own is Alone with A Loan by MaverickProgrammer

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made by MaverickProgrammer for LD22 (COMPO)
TO PLAY:
Arrow keys to move
Escape to go back to title (Or in Intro- to skip)
Collect Good Credit (green arrows) to increase credit
Avoid IRS (If hit, credit will go down!)
Find the exit!


NOTES:
Actually did this under 24 hours. Woke up today at 7:30 am and started from only 3 hour of work on Saturday. Wish I had started earlier though. Wanted to make it longer and make a better tile set.

TOOLS:
Gimp (Graphics)
Audacity (Music conversion)
GarageBand (Music)
Gosu (Ruby)
Unitron (Text-editor)
TextEdit (make map file)
Ocra (Compiling for windows)

Ratings

Coolness 0% 685
Overall 2.85 273
Audio 2.58 231
Community 2.00 519
Fun 2.85 159
Graphics 3.08 191
Humor 3.25 48
Innovation 2.46 334
Mood 1.91 479
Theme 3.00 225

Feedback

馃帳 MaverickProgrammer
19. Dec 2011 路 02:58 UTC
Real quick, I'd like to state that the map's tiles are a little quirky and I wish I had more time to fix that and include some other form of enemy, but I had a GREAT time participating in my first Ludum Dare comp and I hope to participate in many more to come!

TIP: You can press Escape during the intro to skip it. It's a timed intro for instructions and what-not.
Cleggy
20. Dec 2011 路 15:24 UTC
Fairly good, except I found the game a little too easy.
If you had more time, I would recommend adding more levels.
Other than that - a pretty good game.
Shigor
20. Dec 2011 路 16:36 UTC
Good (ab)use of theme, otherwise too simple and short without any real challenge.
And it doesn't terminate itself correctly, but stays as process.
馃帳 MaverickProgrammer
21. Dec 2011 路 02:49 UTC
@Cleggy:
Originally it was too hard and so last minutes I changed the rates of the enemy infliction towards the credit. Bad call on my part. I would have rather had it stress-fully challenging than too easy, in my opinion. And yes, I ran out of time before submitting. If I had known there was an extra submission hour, I probably would have abused that and made more levels, but it was my first time. I definitely know what to work on the most next time.

@Shigor:
Thanks for the compliment on my theme abuse! Yes, I'm aware of the easiness factor. I'm bummed myself about it.

All-in-all it was a fun experience and I definitely learned my strengths and weaknesses so I can do much better in the next comp. Thanks for the feedback, both of you!
summaky
25. Dec 2011 路 13:27 UTC
I concur: it is too easy. And that's the only fault I can find :-)
Odra
04. Jan 2012 路 07:37 UTC
There is money on the ground! But I cant get it! Very interesting "plot" for the entry. Also GRADE: AWESOME
pythong
07. Jan 2012 路 12:05 UTC
also had the same problem as shigor, the game didn't want to close. other than that: really nice music, funny graphics, and too simple
馃帳 MaverickProgrammer
07. Jan 2012 路 22:46 UTC
@pythong:

Turns out the library I was using had a bug on windows to lock up and not exit. I'm sorry about that.

Thanks for the compliments! I wish I never changed the difficulty factor last-minute.

I'm more than prepared for next ludum dare though. Looking forward to it.