Bay Col ! by Blake_Lead

made by Blake_Lead for LD34 (JAM)

This is my very first game ever ! Buggy and ugly but I'm so proud of it !

You play a box that can change color and grow/shrink. If you want to score, match height and color of the boxes you cross.
In other words : be cool and blend in.

Space / Left mouse : Grow/Shrink
Left Shift / Right mouse : Change color

Made with Visual Studio 2015 (dlls could be missing if you have not VC++ Redistributable for VS 2015) in C++ with GLFW/GLEW, SOIL2 for textures loading, OpenAL for sounds, and Freetype for fonts. Paint.net for visual assets.

EDIT 01/02/2016 : I posted an edited version of my entry and here are the changes:
- fixed a bug where sound does not play
- fixed a bug where blocks overlapped
- Adjusted difficulty

Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dduh7b5q9f1aax3/AAD-DKA764ymwNgqQbQ17Zj2a?dl=0
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=60780

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall(Jam)	3.00	788

Fun(Jam)	2.77	809
Graphics(Jam)	2.52	903
Innovation(Jam)	2.91	674
Mood(Jam)	2.62	877
Theme(Jam)	3.40	743

Feedback

Akhera

14. Dec 2015 · 08:50 UTC

Doesn't work. MSVCP140.dll is missing

manabreak

14. Dec 2015 · 08:56 UTC

Grats on your first game! Nice work. It's really hard, though. :p

🎤 Blake_Lead

14. Dec 2015 · 09:15 UTC

Thank you @manabreak ! The difficulty depends on the machine, I found out : sometimes the game runs really fast and sometimes it runs slooow. My bad I did not fix the framerate. I'm gonna say it's a feature :D.

@Akhera : I compiled the game with VS2015 dynamically. I will fix this as soon as I'm home. I did not realize it would be an issue, I'm really sorry.

SirJavaGaming

14. Dec 2015 · 09:44 UTC

MSVCP140.dll missing

Cyranh

14. Dec 2015 · 10:40 UTC

Looks great! But I couldn't seem to find a replay button and had to restart the game everytime I died... Which was a lot, I have to admit. Overall well done!

🎤 Blake_Lead

14. Dec 2015 · 12:23 UTC

@SirJavaGaming : I will try and solve this issue when I'll go back home. I am sorry.
@Cyranh : Thank you for playing :). A retry option would have been useful indeed ! I will definitely think of that for the next ludum dare !

alyphen

14. Dec 2015 · 15:52 UTC

A really nice entry. Nice idea and very pretty. Audio could improve it to no end, and varying the speed and/or spacing could help with the difficulty level.
I can imagine something like this being quite a hit in the mobile space - it's a lot of fun and can easily be played in short bursts.

FloatingGhost

14. Dec 2015 · 15:53 UTC

api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing

daleth90

14. Dec 2015 · 15:54 UTC

I think there should have a replay button or something like that after "YOU DIE!"

Zenol

14. Dec 2015 · 15:55 UTC

I installed MSVC 2015 redistribuable, but I now have a blue window with nothing inside :( Can't rate it.

Obvious Industries

14. Dec 2015 · 15:55 UTC

Nice little game, just a bit hard I guess. There is no chance of changing fast enough to get all points

🎤 Blake_Lead

14. Dec 2015 · 19:18 UTC

Thank you @alyphen, @daleth90 and @Obvious Industries for playing my game and for your kind comments. It's really encouraging. I am working on a retry state and on ajusting difficulty.

@FloatingGhost, @Zenol, thanks for trying ! I'm looking for a fix to that issue.

gene-z

14. Dec 2015 · 22:24 UTC

simple and good

sugarbyte

14. Dec 2015 · 23:56 UTC

I can't play windows games, sorry!

BoltKey

15. Dec 2015 · 00:08 UTC

Conceptually very nice idea, but somehow id doesn't feel good. It should get harder / more complex with time. For example, you start off with just heights, then introduce colors etc.

I like the idea that you don't have to match all aspects of the squares, but the more you do, the better.

AM_Games

15. Dec 2015 · 00:25 UTC

Nice game, had issues with the colour of my block. I was grey throughout. The joys of OpenGL!

thirteenthspiral

15. Dec 2015 · 00:34 UTC

This is really buggy and it's pretty unbearable :/ I make my block green and I still die or it switches to red randomly. This looks like a fun game otherwise.

KBF123

15. Dec 2015 · 02:12 UTC

Interesting concept

🎤 Blake_Lead

15. Dec 2015 · 08:18 UTC

@thiteenthspiral : sorry for that. I could not reproduce your bugs and have no idea where these come from.

Thank you all for your feedback, I'll make good use of all you said for the next ld.

Los_Stormtroopers

15. Dec 2015 · 09:04 UTC

Well done :D A game for being fun doesn't need to have great graphics :P

DieBackStudios

15. Dec 2015 · 18:00 UTC

Good Concept here :D Keep improving Thats what we are here for :)

arseneauol

15. Dec 2015 · 20:26 UTC

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ThreeLivesGames

15. Dec 2015 · 20:43 UTC

Very fun game. Audio would be nice, but still a great first game.

kirbytails7

16. Dec 2015 · 07:06 UTC

I could hear some audio from the game when I clicked around, but nothing rendered beyond a blue square. =\

🎤 Blake_Lead

16. Dec 2015 · 07:52 UTC

Thank you @Los_Stormtroopers, @DieBackStudios, @arseneauol, @ThreeLivesGames and @kirbytails7 for playing my game :)

@kirbytails7 : I'm sorry you could not test it. You are not the first person who had this issue. I really don't know how to solve it and yet I tried everything I could, I am sorry.

EthanWebster

16. Dec 2015 · 15:26 UTC

Nice idea, and also good to see a fellow C++ developer! Congrats on this game, you should be proud of it :)

AAGH Games

19. Dec 2015 · 18:38 UTC

Had trouble understanding when a hit counted as a success or a fail, and failing seemed to be almost random. Nice concept, but it could use more clarification.

little-burrito

19. Dec 2015 · 18:43 UTC

Well done on your first game! Especially impressive that you got it working when you hade build your own game engine as well :) I recorded while I played, and the video is being uploaded here:

https://youtu.be/Ed7fjG3Ed5o

Thanks!

little-burrito

19. Dec 2015 · 18:52 UTC

And the sound effect for getting hit is nice and intuitive :)

🎤 Blake_Lead

19. Dec 2015 · 21:24 UTC

@EthanWebster : Thank you for playing my game ! I really appreciate it.

@AAGH Games : I had trouble finding a good, fine tuned score system and it is indeed flawed. I'm working on this prototype in my spare time and score system is one of my priorities ! Thanks for playing the game and I appreciate your feedback.

🎤 Blake_Lead

19. Dec 2015 · 21:36 UTC

@little-burrito : Watching you play my game was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time! I can not be prouder than I am right now.
And your feedbacks are invaluable ! Thank you for that, they are carefully noted and I hope to bring something better next LD !

piper82

19. Dec 2015 · 23:49 UTC

love the art!

Tapehead

20. Dec 2015 · 12:27 UTC

cool idea but hard as hell!!! well done!

Xanjos

22. Dec 2015 · 01:43 UTC

There seems to be a bug where once you go past the first obstacle you're practically invincible but anyway, I actually liked both gameplay mechanics of growing/shrinking and colour changing. Not bad for your first game I'd say.

Mantlair

22. Dec 2015 · 14:24 UTC

Didnt work for me. Blue screen then closes itself.

dregamr

02. Jan 2016 · 11:15 UTC

I can't execute it. :_(

🎤 Blake_Lead

03. Jan 2016 · 14:21 UTC

Thank you all for trying my game and rate/comment it.
I'm sorry some of you could not play it. Could you tell me which graphics card you have (nvidia, ati) ?

IAmSpencer

05. Jan 2016 · 01:53 UTC

wow, this is really difficult, but I like the idea.

solid gameplay, but like I said, I think it can be a little too hard, of course, that's just my opinion, some people like the 'impossible' type games. Nice work for your first game! :)

🎤 Blake_Lead

14. Jan 2016 · 13:35 UTC

Thank you all for testing/rating my game and hope to play your games next LD !