Island Catcher by Poller

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made by Poller for LD 38 (COMPO)

A Small World, floating in space, surrounded by mysterious islands...

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Now its up to your finger-force to collect all islands around your small world.

If you start the game hit the flower(or check the highscores first), at first just type your name, set the lifetime(8/12/18 seconds) and the ammount of islands(2/3/4).

Hit the flower again and the adventure beginns. Type the words as fast as your fingers allow. If one of the islands floats to long its going to void. This will cause half of your island break away(with the corresponding points and 1 of your initial 3 lifes).

If all of your lifes are gone, you lost, and (if no problems in my system occour) your final score is submitted to the global Highscore list.

EDIT: cause sometimes there are no highscores set ill add a 2nd version on itch.io(same link just below) with a logger attatched. if you have this problem may consider use this version to localize the bug(helps me learning). but please just rate the original version WITH BUG. (fair for all).

Here at https://poller2810.itch.io/island you find the package with the game and the full eclipse project in 2 downloads for your playtesting! if any errors or questions occur feel free to email me(see screenshot for message) ill respond as fast as possible.

as Preview here some moving Gameplay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdjj0vhTTZ8

I really hope you enjoy your time with my little game!

Ratings

Overall 222th 3.429⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 166th 3.45⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 295th 3.05⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 343th 3.2⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 324th 3.048⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 171th 3.211⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 175th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 12🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

King Kujito
28. Apr 2017 · 16:50 UTC
Is this completely done in Java?
🎤 Poller
28. Apr 2017 · 17:51 UTC
@king-kujito it is. i used a gfx framework called libgdx with box2d(physics extention) to do all the stuff. for more infos just message me(email in screenshot above).
teekeks
10. May 2017 · 18:29 UTC
Fun game, the harder modes are quite challenging.
ragnta
14. May 2017 · 20:38 UTC
When I pressed esc, my score didn't upload to the scoreboard. :(
hiki911
15. May 2017 · 18:01 UTC
Nice and simple game!
Thanks for startup script and leaderboards.
MrGussio
16. May 2017 · 09:15 UTC
Great game, awesome you've put a leaderboard in there :wink:
🎤 Poller
17. May 2017 · 14:21 UTC
@ragnta if you hit esc you basicly give up and loose all progress you opnly get uploades scores if you loose on the 3 life rule.

@hiki911 glad you had fun. you used the linux startup script?(i didnt test it so if you could confirm it worked would be great)

@mrgussio thank you for your feedback.

i am glad the online highscore is comming to such a good feedback. enjoy it my friends :)
Anubhav Kashyap
17. May 2017 · 16:52 UTC
Nice game you made. Good job! :thumbsup:
Asteroid2K
18. May 2017 · 14:04 UTC
good game
pascalman
18. May 2017 · 14:33 UTC
Funny art, good game. Great job!
KureKureciCZ
18. May 2017 · 14:51 UTC
online leaderboards and its perfect!!

Shameless self-promotion: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/lil-hunt
hunttis
18. May 2017 · 19:03 UTC
Nice work, the startup script didn't seem to work on my mac (even after I chmodded it) but I could run the game nevertheless. 1040 final score (though I thought it was higher at some point :-o ).

Nice work, didn't take many seconds to understand the point :D
Belga54
19. May 2017 · 13:37 UTC
:heart: Nice :heart: !! Pls check mine and give me your opinions by voting : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/ghost-cat !!!
DaisyChubb
19. May 2017 · 14:42 UTC
Wow, I'm impressed with what you accomplished in Java in such a short time!

It is easy to jump in and play, which I appeciate, and the graphics and colour scheme are bright and fun.
I'm also impressed you got a leaderboard up there, talk about creating replay value ;) Great job!
sararyCow
19. May 2017 · 15:33 UTC
Honestly when I jumped into the game I didn't expect how much fun I would get of it. I'm a typer obssesed and I love this concept.

The bad part is when a new word appears the camera is not always showing it and this makes me miss a lot of words. This should be improved easly.

I liked the voice acting sound effects, a nice touch xD.
CabbageCrow
19. May 2017 · 16:17 UTC
Nice interpretation of a typing game. Even with physics! ;-)
gimbalock
19. May 2017 · 18:12 UTC
Really nice game. Impressive you did this in 48 hours. I like the gameplay, and the sound effects are really funny. Though I didn't enter the leaderboard after playing. Don't know if something went wrong. Really cool entry!
🎤 Poller
20. May 2017 · 03:45 UTC
thank you all for your amazing support.
you boosted me to 20 rates in under 1 day. thats so nice! <3

for all whos scores arent in the leaderboard:

due to the fact i nearly never did webdev before(1 sql connection in my life, doesnt count right?) i have no clue why sometimes no leaderboard score is uploadet but for next time i hope i got the solution.