The Harsh Life of Terry the Homeless Dude by lautregars
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No, seriously, it's my first Ludum Dare Game ever. It has been harsh and everything, and at the end of the 48 hours I had the result you'll see if you dare to download the game. But I learned a thing or two, and I am a little proud of myself, even if the feedback of the game is unexisting, even if I putted the sound effects in total panic 20 minutes before the end of the 48 hours, etc etc.
LEAVE ME A COMMENT IF YOU PLAY THE GAME, FEEDBACKS ARE MY PASSION
ABOUT THE GAME : You'll have to run through a city in despair, filled with trashbins, drug addicts, and terrible families doing barbecues. The cops are behind you and want you cuffed, so you have to run... But you know that you're a video game character, and you'll have to die sometimes. So you say Carpe Diem, Yolo, fast life and all that kind of stuff and you go nuts on your city.
You can move, jump on rooftops or street lamps, make childrens cry, get stuck by rain gutters, steal rasta dude's botanic herbs, and see a game finished much too quickly and being glitchy, with a terrible pixel art and sound design by a kid who master nothings for the moment (but with love, and a homeless protagonist) ! The goal is to make score... yes, innovative, I know, so I suggest to you to play that with pals so you can rant about the quality of the game in group.
But the fact is, even if you're homeless, you don't have superpowers : you'll ahve to eat to survive. But you only have rubbish to eat, stealing barbecue's are rare... The more you'll eat, and consume drugs to stay alive, the more you'll lose life and you'll be hungry later ! So, you know what to do... Eat rubish and consume fancy green liquid & funny plant to cover the side effect of those same products ! * It's not hell, it's Terry's paradise ! *
Have fun ! ♪
WORLD CHAMPION : @piscythe, with the INCREDIBABLE score of 904,383,500 freakin points. That's some high-level garbage-eating right there. You can check out his game too, there's lava lamps in it, and it's well-deserved !
(yes, that gif looks terrible)
TOOLS :
Pixel-art : Piskel.com & Photoshop
Sound : FL Studio, Beepbox, audacity, GXSCC
Engine : Unity (yep, another one) , I used Monodevelop
Me : because I used Monodevelop
Font : 8-bit wonder , downloadable on dafont.com
I'll retry to make a web version so everyone can play it !
Current version : 0.3 Differences with the last version : Corrected controls panel text and added a pun.
Ratings
| Overall | 342th | 3.377⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 264th | 3.442⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 499th | 2.811⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 554th | 2.883⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 279th | 3.451⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 155th | 3.459⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 51th | 3.797⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 143th | 3.483⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 75🗳️ | 90🗨️ |
Nice job soldiering through on your first LD and getting a playable submission in! It sounds like it wasn't easy, but you made it and got something I can play.
There's some cool stuff here, nice pixel art, music, voice work, various screen transitions including a story and credits, a high score, several kinds of enemies and powerups, etc etc! It's kind of a wild ride the way it all comes together, probably meaning a smaller tighter game was the right target, but you definitely should feel good about hitting a lot of content.
I ran into two small problems: first it took me a while to figure out that Z was jump (I think the instructions said it was A?) and I kept getting stuck on rain gutters. I'm talking about the thing that looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/Ix6GN
I would get stuck on those and be unable to pass, and my life would keep ticking down.. eventually I'd either die or randomly become unstuck.
Other than that I was able to zoom around the city high on drugs and eating garbage, crash some rooftop parties with my sick jumping skills, and try not to embarrass myself by puking.
You can be proud of finishing your first LD!
PS: I made a [pixel art game, too](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/level-onslaught)
Check out my game if you would like!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected
GG!!
You go on about the pixel art and the audio, but really I think the pixel art is very good. It's got this lo-fi style about it, with a trashy street slant. I gotta be honest and say I didn't get too deep into the gameplay, but from what I did experience, there's a lot of life to it. Good job.
And thanks for the feedback on my game (Goonisher). :D
@aaforcebox Yeah, absically to respect the theme I made that all bonus brings you something good at the moment, but get you in a worse situation later on. I think i'll added that to controls, and i'm a little reticent about too much modifying the ui now (the jam's finished, that's why i don't correct major bugs like the fellout of map thing and the road-traversing jump if you jump high enough then staypressed on S to fall super fast) , but maybe i could do a full description of the different drawbacks and stuff in the jam's game page ?
And no need to thanks, I like giving feedbacks ;)
The Hunger give you more life when it's over 75, but drains life if it's under 75, the more it's low the more it drains life.
eating rubbish will give you hunger points, permitting you to survive a little longer, but make your character sick, and drain your hunger faster, and irremediably affects the speed at which your life is going down.
the dark blub causes you 50 life points damage, but gives you a lotta score and will slow down the cops a little.
The weed will make you jump higher, gives you 50 life, but you'll be a little slower, more easily hungry, and the cops gains a little bid speed.
The green shot make you go faster, jump higher, but make the cops go a little faster and can favorize your sickness, and life drawing.
The barbecue gives you great effects : It heals yourself immediatly some HP, fills your hunger to 100, and cures a little the sickness, making the life go down a little bit slower. But because you're ruining the only good citizens's afternoon, the cops gains much speed.
All these things cumulates, making terry puking on himself while full drugged, and even only gameplay-styled it will bring your death closer, but you need them to go forward : it plays on a balance between the do and the don't, but at the end Terry dies or get cuffed. His life's harsh after all ! :D
Thanks for the feedback anyway mate !
I quite like the character art, it has a lot of character. I would have liked to have seen some more contrast on screen though, visually it feels kinda flat. (And the text explaining things in the background was harder to read because of it.) Drainpipes being obstacles was weird, those would've made more sense as a climb to the roof rather than blocking you off.
The music was solid and suits the game well. Excellent for a first-time LD! :smile:
While it goes with the theme correctly, the game was way too fast for me to matter. I couldn't run, keep track of my life and hunger _and_ take decisions of what to take or not, or even if I could take anything at all out of will. I was running too fast that in my last run I just decided to keep running and crashing into anything and everything. That made it even more hilarious though.
Excellent work. Couldn't be more proud of poor old Terry. [In behalf of my team](twitter.com/whalesandgames), we're looking forward to seeing you participate again in the future. Cheers! :whale:
Yep. That's 904,383,500 points. This was my second attempt. Eventually I walked off the world and the game told me I'd been caught by the cops. Anyway, this is pretty impressive for a first LD. Your pixel art style is promising and I laughed at some of the voiced dialogue. Gameplay-wise it seems to come down to just grabbing everything except black blobs, but I love the theory behind it. Good work!
But really, congrats ! You're like the master of the hobos, and World Champion of The Harsh Life of Terry. You can add that to your CV :D (if it weren't forbidden, i would add your name with a terry and a golden cup to the main menu screen. Is that conseidered as a bug-fixing ?)