{"author_link":"\/author\/tesnos\/","author_name":"tesnos","author_uid":"40402","comments":[{"author_name":"Red_Fan games","author_uid":"47563","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:55am","epoch":1450227000,"text":"How do I run? I am on linux."},{"author_name":"behzad_robot","author_uid":"60429","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:55pm","epoch":1450273800,"text":"hi how can we run it really? :\/ it's some python files and some images only ..."},{"author_name":"Monochrome Bears","author_uid":"29825","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 2:08pm","epoch":1450274580,"text":"How to run? MacOS X ElCapitan"},{"author_name":"iapc","author_uid":"53115","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 2:28pm","epoch":1450275780,"text":"Please actually build your game. It's not feasable to play it this way."},{"author_name":"Ace","author_uid":"10247","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 2:45pm","epoch":1450276800,"text":"First off, boss.png is missing so the game is impossible to complete. Secondly, title.png should be Title.png otherwise the game won't run on OS X or Linux.\r\rApart from those issues;\r\rWhy have an options menu if you're just going to berate the user for wanting to check it? Feels strange.\rUsing the close-window button for interacting with the application feels wrong as well.\r\rYou also need to define a better range for the spacebar timings, had many of them appear for only a single frame making them quite literally impossible to press in time unless you're just sitting and constantly spamming the key - in which case the game becomes very boring."},{"author_name":"danbolt","author_uid":"6930","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:06pm","epoch":1450278060,"text":"I had PyGame installed, and I was able to run your source code. The game has some bugs, but I think they can be fixed quickly! I'll explain in the next comment to help.\r\rI liked the concept, the concise design of the game is good for jams like Ludum Dare. I think the scope of your ideas for this game was a good size. The look of the overworld map and the battles, along with the patterns reminded me of Earthbound, which is always a good thing. :P\r\rI think the quicktime events were cool, but maybe needed a bit of explanation ingame. I got a bit frustrated when the quick ones came and gone. To be honest, in order to get to the final boss, I just pressed the spacebar very quickly over and over during the battles. Apart from the timing issue, the design made sense.\r\rOverall, cool ideas, especially if this was your first submission to Ludum Dare! I hope to see you in the jam or compo next time! :)"},{"author_name":"danbolt","author_uid":"6930","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:13pm","epoch":1450278480,"text":"Okay, let me see if I can help with a few small things:\r\r1) The "playerdead.png" and "boss.png" assets are missing from the zip file. I ended up substituting them with test pictures to finish the game. Maybe update your upload with those?\r\r2) My default installation of PyGame on didn't support Mp3 decoding with the "mixer" class. This might be because PyGame relies on SDL, and SDL doesn't support MP3 without an extra module. Maybe use .WAV just to be safe?\r\r3) Maybe you might want to package your game up as an executable for Windows users to play. That way they won't need to install PyGame to run it that way. PyGame has a tool called "pyg.exe", but I don't know much about it. There's a few other tools you can Google up that can make installers for your game. Maybe look those up?\r\rHope those help! If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me at "dansvg@gmail.com"."},{"author_name":"tribrain","author_uid":"62559","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 4:49pm","epoch":1450370640,"text":"Make it easier to run"},{"author_name":"blubberquark","author_uid":"7968","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:22am","epoch":1450433820,"text":"I did not get why sometimes it was bad when I press space. How does it work?\r\r-bob"},{"author_name":"acotis","author_uid":"61639","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:54pm","epoch":1450637340,"text":"A couple things:\r\r- There are some files missing from the assets folder, notable Title.png (it is called title.png instead), boss.png, and playerdead.png. The game crashes when any of these pictures is needed.\r\r- The text at the beginning of the game seems like it's supposed to go at the end. Then again, it wasn't very informative anyway. It might work better to explain to the player what's going on, unless you are going for a 'just throw them in' feel, in which case you might want to take it out completely.\r\r- It's only because of my history as a Linux user that I knew how to install pygame and get this to work. As another user suggested, you should legitimately build you game before shipping it. I'd trade in-game quality for out-of-game quality any day.\r\r- The false options menu was clever, but the red block text killed the mood (I took a mood star away for that).\r\r- As another user said, the spacebar mechanic was frustrating. You should give the user a fighting chance, and maybe punish them for button-mashing to make sure they don't cheat.\r\r- The controls for starting a new game and continuing through the levels were inconsistent. And please, ditch the "X out to continue" thing.\r\rThings I did like:\r\r- The art, although simple, was neat. It gave the game a kind of mystic, story-telling feel that detailed minutia just can't deliver. \r\r- The audio was awesome; the fact that it just played continuously through the hallway and the encounters made it feel like there were actual smooth graphical transitions (which I would have appreciated).\r\r- On that note, the font on the title was pretty great too.\r\rTL;DR: Cool game, love the mood. Needs a better play mechanic and some polishing, though."},{"author_name":"Hot Box Games","author_uid":"39707","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1450819980,"text":"I found it to be rather lacking. But I liked the idea."}],"images":["ld34\/40402-ce6f2016374fffaf8887636a26b0efc8.jpg","ld34\/40402-c7ff59fcf1f50ebafe9e9141ddd45734.jpg","ld34\/40402-008b7f24e92ad9fe93e9169b2fa6ce65.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/31u1l50iihd18op\/Ludum-Dare-34-Jam.zip?dl=1","text":"Windows\/Mac\/Linux\/Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5624","g_author":"40402","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"5634","g_title":"Dying Light","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1054","g_commentcount":"11","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/40402-shot0-1450144564.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/40402-shot1-1450144564.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/40402-shot2-1450144564.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"ATTENTION!!!!\r\nYOU MUST FIRST INSTALL PYTHON 2.7 AND PYGAME BEFORE RUNNING THIS GAME!!!!\r\n\r\nStory\r\n=============================================================================\r\nIn a world where ogres have taken over and wish to plunge the world into an eternal darkness by blowing out all of the 11 candles of light, which are the only thing letting all the rest of the world's candles burn, the only thing left that can stop them and bring light to the world again and relight the candles of light is the last candle that is still burning..\r\n\r\nInstructions\r\n=============================================================================\r\nYou (the candle) go down the infinite path until you meet an enemy. You then try and defeat him so you can relight the candle he holds hostage and relight it. Press space whenever it shows up, and the game will tell you how much damage you did. The sooner you press it, the more damage you do. But be careful, as doing this slowly lets the ogre blow you out. You must defeat him before he extinguishes your light. If you win, more light is added to the world. If you lose, light is removed. After you have defeated the 10 henchmen, you must defeat the boss. After that, light is returned to the world!\r\n\r\nTools Used\r\n=============================================================================\r\n - Google Images (just for ideas, nothing actually taken)\r\n - paint.net\r\n - Python's built-in IDE (sue me, I can't find a one I like)\r\n - bfxr\r\n - abundant-music\r\n - Chiller Font\r\n - Megaman 1\/2 Font, found here: https:\/\/www.splintered.co.uk\/experiments\/140\r\n - Pygame","title":"Dying Light"}