Project Bowtie by SplittyDev

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made by SplittyDev for LD34 (JAM)
This is a little game I made using my own game engine.

You're a nerd, and nerds don't have fancy swords in real life. That's why you fight by dashing through hordes of enemies. It's still a little unrealistic (I, for example, can't even run for longer than a few mins), but who cares, it's a game :P

It's written in C# 5 and will run on Windows and Linux if mono is installed. On Linux you'll also need freetype, but that should be already installed on 99% of all popular linux operating systems.

Please DO NOT run it using wine. That won't work. Run it using mono.
On Windows, it should just work (tm).

IMPORTANT:
If the game doesn't run for you, download the FIX, unzip it and run the oalinst.exe from the zip. There's something wrong with the OpenAL library on some platforms. Please also delete the OpenAL32.dll from the game folder if you install the oalinst.exe

Textures by: Zer0li
Code by: Me (SplittyDev)
Engine Code by: CallumDev, Chronium and Me

All assets were made exclusively for this game during the official dev time.

Feedback

MorganLeFay
14. Dec 2015 路 15:13 UTC
I can't open the game on my Windows x86 =(
EthanWebster
14. Dec 2015 路 15:14 UTC
Fun little game, good job. :)
tiffi
14. Dec 2015 路 15:15 UTC
Same here (windows 10 64 bit)
Tensoplast01
14. Dec 2015 路 15:15 UTC
Like the concept, simple but working well
馃帳 SplittyDev
14. Dec 2015 路 15:16 UTC
@MorganLeFay that's really weird. Did you get an error message or did it just not open?
Pending Chaos
14. Dec 2015 路 15:24 UTC
It's failing to compile a vertex shader - http://pastebin.com/s8rzAgP8
and it just hangs.
馃帳 SplittyDev
14. Dec 2015 路 15:30 UTC
@PendingChaos: Just run it using mono.
$ mono ProjectBowtie.exe

The libraries for linux are included. Wine is not the best way of running it :P
ranseur
14. Dec 2015 路 16:04 UTC
Laughed a bit at the game over screen! While I can hear some incredibly faint music (I had to turn up the volume quite a bit), some sound effects would make a game this a lot better. Check out http://www.bfxr.net/
馃帳 SplittyDev
14. Dec 2015 路 16:24 UTC
@ranseur: We actually made sounds but the engine code is a bit buggy and we had issues with sound effects
HongerTrollie
16. Dec 2015 路 06:29 UTC
Well done on your first entry :) I eventually died in wave 3. Orange things sometimes damages me when i dash through them. Not sure if there's a way to prevent this. Would be more fun if I felt a little more over powered(even though I'm a nerd) :)
qwetro
17. Dec 2015 路 03:35 UTC
Is there difference between moving and dashing? Hold the button, it moves or dashes. Be hurt when touch the monsters, and die, maybe this is only moving, not dashing. How to cause damage to monsters? I just don't know how to dash.
Btw, is there a way to exit the game? I have to kill the process to exit..
AzureAspect
17. Dec 2015 路 20:59 UTC
Smash the right button for the win!
Nice little game, wonder how I could dodge the damage from the sword spiders. Sometimes they hit me and sometimes they didnt o.o
馃帳 SplittyDev
17. Dec 2015 路 23:46 UTC
@qwetro you click the right button to dash. For exiting you press escape and exit :D
Hot Box Games
19. Dec 2015 路 01:28 UTC
Had to install OpenAL but worked well after that.
The game is quite fun but I think it would have been better if the right click was a short range attack, I found myself not using the left button at all because I could move and attack all with the right button. Good game nonetheless!