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NES ROM - Arlington Apple in an Interplanetary Pickle by team-disposable

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made by team-disposable for LD 38 (JAM)

Welcome to Team Disposables' third Ludum Dare release!

Our second release for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Arlington Apple in an Interplanetary Pickle*, a short gravity defying platformer. Stuck on a small asteroid, prepare to frantically scramble over every available surface searching for the three crystals to power up your car and get off this rock. Install instructions

Download the rom from our itch.io page (https://team-disposable.itch.io/a-small-world) and use it on a NES or in an NES emulator of your choice

UPDATE: you can also now play this online at my website: http://www.crunchpress.co.uk/nesbox/

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ONLINE

NEW INSTRUCTIONS: Play online here, no downloads necessary (uses flash): http://www.crunchpress.co.uk/nesbox/

OLD INSTRUCTIONS:

Download the rom file, and run it on this webpage: http://peteward44.github.io/WebNES/index_app.html

I have no connection to the online emulator webpage, however this magnificent gentleman wrote an awesome javascript NES emulator and was kind enough to allow others to use it. You'll need to download the rom below and drag it in to your browser to make it work. Should you end up playing Mario, rate the emotions you feel. Should you play something by LJN, rate the opposite. We're working on a trust system here, people.

WINDOWS

You're awesome, thanks for trying our game. Here's the best NES emulator around for Windows:

http://www.fceux.com/web/download.html

Download the ROM file below and run it in this.

LINUX

You're the best. Hope you're using TOR too, champ. For NES emulators, you've either already got one, or: http://www.zophar.net/linux/nes/fce-ultra.html

*this was originally posted as "A Small World"

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/a-small-world-nes-rom

Ratings

Overall 194th 3.696⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 107th 3.773⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 73th 3.87⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 489th 3.217⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 315th 3.708⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 279th 2.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 434th 3.143⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 45🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

DusteD
25. Apr 2017 · 19:52 UTC
Your game is listed here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/bounceball/call-for-technological-oddities
I'm impressed with this in more than one way. I've played far worse commercial titles on the NES.. The gravity stuff is novel on that platform I think, and it's a nice use of the theme.
cppchriscpp
01. May 2017 · 23:43 UTC
Gave better feedback on the NESDev forums but this is great fun. Always great to see more retro console entries!
lavwa
02. May 2017 · 02:29 UTC
Great work with the graphics !
Pagefile
02. May 2017 · 03:04 UTC
Really cool mechanic. It was neat having to explore the world literally from every angle. It made me think of what Mario Galaxy might have been like on the NES
Tuteupaituamae
02. May 2017 · 23:31 UTC
Nice game bro :thumbsup:

Please hate us on https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/deep-bottom
CheesyMoo
03. May 2017 · 04:05 UTC
Woah the gravity thing is pretty mind boggling.

Wonderful look and feel, glad to see you making ROMs.

(and thanks for sharing the link to that online emulator!!)

Good job!
Scornz
03. May 2017 · 10:39 UTC
An NES ROM? That's awesome! Might have to actually load this on to a cartridge to play it again :) Awesome work!
fueelin
04. May 2017 · 07:06 UTC
Awesome game! Even ignoring the NES part, a really great job! The mechanic was easy to understand and felt like it was used to its full potential. Great job with the "level" design! The player is able to explore and learn how things work without feeling overly punished, and the color-coding of the "levels" within the world helped a lot. I assume that was intentional, but it was really the only way I was able to find the "entry point" for the section I did last. A really fantastic job!

PS: My only really complaint was that I didn't feel like it used the theme as well as it could have. But that's just because absolutely everything else about it was so outstanding that a little blemish stands out more :)
rujo
05. May 2017 · 10:18 UTC
a NES game! I'm impressed (and a bit jealous..) the game is also very complex and original in the gameplay, graphics are good, maybe needed more time to polish but it's fine.
amazing work!
zener
08. May 2017 · 17:51 UTC
NES game, insta kudos!!! I like how it gives you the feeling you are a bug.
Jimbly
10. May 2017 · 17:22 UTC
Fantastic! This game was quite fun, and I would have given it high marks even if it wasn't a NES ROM, but that is extra cool =). I managed to get to the end (without save-scumming ;), which was quite satisfying.
makiki99
10. May 2017 · 17:59 UTC
Well done game! I was lost on how to get any other orb than the red one, though.
Eli Delventhal
10. May 2017 · 21:24 UTC
Wow, I'm amazed you made a ROM. No idea what the tools are like these days, but doesn't this mean that you bad to make everything in assembly? Nuts. The game itself I thought was very good for an NES game, but for a modern game it wasn't as impressive. Still solid, for sure. There were a couple times where I got completely stuck in an area and didn't feel like I could get out, and the screen transitions felt jarring and made it difficult to platform. I would have also rather had the controls be relative to my character's facing rather than absolute on the screen - that really made it difficult to do tricky stuff. The level design is really smart and cool.
JanGamesDev
11. May 2017 · 03:58 UTC
Really cool game, and amazing work making a game for the NES in a jam.
Jerm
11. May 2017 · 05:09 UTC
Neat little platformer and the level of challenge was just right (not too hard, not too easy). One downside was it seemed that once you entered the central part of the level, there was no way to get back out to get the blue crystal? I managed to complete the game on my second try though :)
🎤 team-disposable
11. May 2017 · 07:59 UTC
Wow, thanks for all this detailed feedback from everyone!

@jerm - Sounds like the level could have done with some more signposting, as you can definitely get out from everywhere - to get out of the central part, you can go back out of the entrance. you can either flip gravity to the left (there's a wall on the left next to the exit/entrance to the central part) or flip gravity upside down (which you can do on the platforms below). Thanks again for playing and all the detailed feedback!

@eli-delventhal it would be great to hear which areas you got stuck in. I actually didn't even consider making the controls relative as I've always wanted to make a game with the jarringness of flipping the controls - I think there was a bad potion that you could eat in zombies ate my neighbours that reversed your controls, and i always remember being interested in how my brain would get used to left being right and up being down just as it would wear off. Thanks for playing and thanks for the feedback!
OccultOne
12. May 2017 · 02:10 UTC
I tried to play this on Stream today, but I could not get the emulator to run the NES Rom.
🎤 team-disposable
12. May 2017 · 06:51 UTC
@occultone ah, disaster! Thanks for trying! What emulator where you using? It definitely runs in FCEUX, in Nestopia, and on a NES.
cenullum
12. May 2017 · 20:07 UTC
I’d really like to play more, but is too short I love the art style… well done!
OccultOne
13. May 2017 · 06:22 UTC
I Played this in Stream Today at Request of the Developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekGMbpHGKUE

Ah! I got it to work this time! I feel like so much less of an idiot! This was good! I had some issues with the character controller, it felt stiff and unresponsive. I did however enjoy what I saw, I'm always a big fan of NES Style games.
ohsqueezy
13. May 2017 · 23:54 UTC
To me this is like a mix of Ufouria, VVVVVV and Seiklus. The tension between being able to roam the map vs. the constraint of the gravity arrows is what I enjoyed most. The way the paths to the crystals are intertwined through one area is impressive. I would be into playing an extended version!
sgadrat
16. May 2017 · 13:10 UTC
Pretty awesome tech here, I always loved open world NES games! And that gravity trick is awesome!