The Day I Died by Cooshinator

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made by Cooshinator for LD19 (COMPO)
"There isn't always something to discover"

My first Actionscript game, inspired by an old crash-and-burn GM game of mine.

I sort of ran out of time, so there are some glitches (game freezes when you die before a checkpoint), and the last room is supposed to include the quote above.

Ratings

Coolness 5% 105
Overall 2.55 163
Audio 2.70 82
Community 2.07 176
Fun 2.75 113
Graphics 2.50 157
Humor 1.88 153
Innovation 2.10 194
Theme 1.79 232

Feedback

dsv101
20. Dec 2010 路 01:45 UTC
Sweet, check my piece of crap out, im hopin for top 50, lol.
dsv101
20. Dec 2010 路 01:46 UTC
yours is glicth heaven!!!!!!!!
馃帳 Cooshinator
20. Dec 2010 路 02:19 UTC
Except for the fact that you have 10x more glitches than me.
dsv101
20. Dec 2010 路 02:24 UTC
how so? i cant even get through stage 2 of your game, but who cares, they are both are fist flash games!!!
dsv101
20. Dec 2010 路 02:25 UTC
nvmd, you added a cpoint!
dsv101
20. Dec 2010 路 03:58 UTC
Good Job, its addicting!
LegacyCrono
20. Dec 2010 路 04:05 UTC
This game is difficult. It's not bad, but... man, it's waaay too difficult. And the controls doesn't help either. The all-red graphics are terrifying, looks like I'm playing a Virtual Boy game, minus the 3D effect. A decent game, nonetheless.
cce
20. Dec 2010 路 15:29 UTC
Yeah difficult indeed, the controls aren't that responsive and it's the level is difficult to read, since all the dangerous things are red too!
馃帳 Cooshinator
20. Dec 2010 路 17:16 UTC
Is it really that hard? Wow, I must have been playing too much meat boy. Next time I problably shouldn't learn a new language the same time as making the game. I'd probably have more time to fine tune it then, lol.
devinmoore
20. Dec 2010 路 21:30 UTC
The controls are way hard, but the game concept is awesome. Fix the controls to be a little easier at least at first and it will be a web classic.
Danik
20. Dec 2010 路 22:38 UTC
Game froze when I got here: http://i54.tinypic.com/qoj9jq.png
Challenging game. It got hard right away and I had no time to get used to the controls. When I did it was fun.
Dark Acre Jack
21. Dec 2010 路 03:32 UTC
Dun dun dun dun dun dun du na na na na.

That's all I remember. And red. So red...
arielsan
21. Dec 2010 路 12:17 UTC
Spikes are not clear enough, so no information telling you are going to die is clear either. Music is a bit repetitive.
It is really hard to control, too sensitive, besides I don't see the theme relation.
'The day I died' is like a fusion of super meat boy with vvvvv :P
badlydrawnrod
21. Dec 2010 路 16:06 UTC
Has the difficulty of an early ZX Spectrum / Commodore 64 game. Tough controls, but it feels good when you reach the next checkpoint.
馃帳 Cooshinator
21. Dec 2010 路 17:23 UTC
@Danik: Whoops, looks like someone forgot to put a wall there!
@arielsan: The idea is that, at the end, you're supposed to keep falling, so you went all that way just to find there's nothing to discover (and VVVVVV/SMB are some of my favorite games ever, that probably inspired me).
@badlydrawnrod: Yeah thats kind of what I was going for. I just don't think it would be as fun if it wasn't this hard.
Sos
21. Dec 2010 路 20:04 UTC
Pretty weird, because it works for other people, but I got this:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at net.flashpunk::Sfx/play()[C:\Documents and Settings\Wendy L. Calhoun\My Documents\My Projects\Ludum Dare 19\src\net\flashpunk\Sfx.as:43]
at net.flashpunk::Sfx/loop()[C:\Documents and Settings\Wendy L. Calhoun\My Documents\My Projects\Ludum Dare 19\src\net\flashpunk\Sfx.as:55]
at Bip()[C:\Documents and Settings\Wendy L. Calhoun\My Documents\My Projects\Ludum Dare 19\src\Bip.as:64]
at GameWorld()[C:\Documents and Settings\Wendy L. Calhoun\My Documents\My Projects\Ludum Dare 19\src\GameWorld.as:25]
at Main()[C:\Documents and Settings\Wendy L. Calhoun\My Documents\My Projects\Ludum Dare 19\src\Main.as:19]

I'm running windows 7 x64, it happens in every browser.
Fififox
21. Dec 2010 路 20:48 UTC
Quite hard, old concept but still, good game. Well done ! Not sure it really fits the theme, though.
馃帳 Cooshinator
21. Dec 2010 路 22:02 UTC
Thanks all for the feedback guys. I'll definitely try to improve this game and even expand it soon. I've had fun in this LD and I think I now have a good base for what could be a great game. Thanks for taking time to tell me your thoughts about this.
Endurion
22. Dec 2010 路 15:34 UTC
Nice, but really hard. And not too rewarding at the end, it's just a glitch screen like the one on the right side.
Quite hard, and some check points could be closer.
The music is ok, but gets annoying really fast.
KoryWazHere
23. Dec 2010 路 11:01 UTC
Kicked my butt! =)
asfdfdfd
03. Jan 2011 路 22:14 UTC
It's fucking hard! O_O