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Alone - Save your family from an Icy imprisonment by brenthamel

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made by brenthamel for LD22 (COMPO)
Ok, so here's the deal. I used Construct 2 as my game making software, think of it as GameMaker HTML 5, only better IMO. I didn't get to any of the sound unfortunately as I had some neat ideas planned. The premise was supposed to be that an alchoholic verbally abuses his family, and goes to storm out of the house, when he knocks himself out by tripping. He then wakes up in this prison to find his family frozen in ice. All he has is his bottle to try and save them.
My ideas were bigger than my 24 hours (stupid work!!) allowed me to implement. There was gonna be demon family, a good and bad ending, and you'd have to face yourself! Ooo and there were going to be a couple brief cutscenes.
All things considered, given the fact that this is my first attempt at any kind of game making contest, let alone a timed one, I'm very proud of my entry here. I hope people find it fun to play, there was no time for bug testing or playthroughs of any kind. So if it winds up being incompletable then I sincerely apologize. Enjoy.
You need Construct 2 to view the source. This can be found at www.scirra.com, they offer a free version of the software.

Control

Arrows - Move
Shift - Jump
Z - Attack

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http://ganzfeld.ca/fireskies
...and our youtube channel at... http://www.youtube.com/user/FireSkiesStudios

Windows http://bit.ly/rVk0cA
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Linux http://bit.ly/rVk0cA
Web http://bit.ly/rVk0cA
Source http://bit.ly/usOPDb
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=6312

Ratings

Coolness 14% 605
Overall 2.31 511
Fun 1.92 527
Graphics 3.31 149
Humor 1.00 659
Innovation 1.25 691
Mood 2.00 438
Theme 2.38 443

Feedback

caranha
19. Dec 2011 路 10:14 UTC
Very nice sprites and graphics!

There were quite a few bugs left (that I could see immediately: problems with collision of shots with enemies, of the player with spikes, commands screen taking to the game).

But for a game done in half the LD time (!!) I think it was quite well done.
roguewombat
19. Dec 2011 路 17:53 UTC
Agreed, a little too buggy to get into (monsters spawning non-stop being the biggest thing obstructing me). Thanks for the heads up about Construct 2, though - will check it out!
馃帳 brenthamel
19. Dec 2011 路 19:35 UTC
I have to admit, I'd love to retweak it and probably will once judging has finished for LD, The enemies were added at the very end for me, so unfortunately they had the least amount of balancing. I also didn't have much time left to work on the falling block platforms. It feels very rushed (which it was) so I may go in and make it into what I had in mind from the beginning. Next LD I know to take more time building the engine first and worry about the sprites and sounds (I want some!) closer to the end of the time limit...
馃帳 brenthamel
19. Dec 2011 路 19:40 UTC
by the way, I have managed to beat the game (get all 3 keys for a sad win screen lol) but only ONCE!
ladron
19. Dec 2011 路 20:54 UTC
The core mechanics work well. With the addition of audio and some tweaking, you'll have a nice little game on your hands.
馃帳 brenthamel
21. Dec 2011 路 23:37 UTC
Why thank you! I'm considering expanding it to the full concept I'd originally plotted out.
tcstyle
22. Dec 2011 路 15:08 UTC
Key layout is quite bad. Pressing shift multiple times causes windows to suggest key-locking.
The graphics are nice. It ran quite laggy on my machine. Without the bugs this qould make a good game as the jumping works quite fine.
馃帳 brenthamel
23. Dec 2011 路 07:12 UTC
ah, I did forget about key-locking, as I have had it disabled from day 1, that's a good point for me to remember. As for being laggy, what browser did you use and does it have webGL enabled?