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All I Want Is Cake by commanderstitch

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made by commanderstitch for Ludum Dare 49 (COMPO)

You are a bipolarPolarBear. yes. Watch that timer, it will trip you up, because you might have fits of instability from time to time.

You are on a rooftop and you just want the cake. It's tiny, but huge in my heart. But there are lots of other things that want the cake. Defend it till the large elephant arrives and you win!

Fall off and you lose or if for some strange reason you leave your cake to the thieves you can lose that way too.

CONTROLS are:
WASD or ARROW KEYS.
MOUSE TO FIRE, if it's even working. The firing mechanism is unstable. This is unknown. It could be frustrating. As any unstable game should be. (this is a joke, haha)
Even the ground you walk on is failing, but at least it doesn't fall!
1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png easiestGame.png

This is my first game with using the libgdx system. There are things I like, a lot, and things that could be better. There are many bugs and problems i didn't know how to solve and many that i was able to overcome. Lets see what we have here, eh?

controls up top if you need them.
if the jar file doesn't work and you can try the exe, it has a built in java-env to run the program.

Jar http://commanderstitch.com/files/games/AllIWantIsCakeLD49.jar
Source http://commanderstitch.com/files/games/iwantcakesourceLD49.zip
TIMELAPSE https://youtu.be/9S-swaylRLc
exe http://commanderstitch.com/files/games/AllIWantIsCakeLD49.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/all-i-want-is-cake

Ratings

Overall 468th 3⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 375th 3.08⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 471th 2.76⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 422th 3.08⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 451th 2.865⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 327th 2.94⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 125th 3.28⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 329th 3.08⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

gdman
05. Oct 2021 · 12:06 UTC
Wow, this game have some cake value
Zapturk
06. Oct 2021 · 01:25 UTC
This has potential!
Zachary Granger
06. Oct 2021 · 03:39 UTC
a "bipolarPolarBear" is the best thing to come out of this jam.
Clever interpretation of the theme, and the gameplay was simple enough to give a few tries until I got my

cake cake !!!
Gucio Miszcz
06. Oct 2021 · 05:43 UTC
Fatal error, I was not able to run the game :(
Elazulus
06. Oct 2021 · 06:21 UTC
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x0000000000000000, pid=23836, tid=24816
#
# JRE version: (15.0.2+7) (build )
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (15.0.2+7-27, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, windows-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C 0x0000000000000000
#
# No core dump will be written. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
#

I was also unable to run the game
Zvyaga
06. Oct 2021 · 06:30 UTC
Good old retro in Java, plus zombies. Like
LDJam user 142503
06. Oct 2021 · 06:50 UTC
I want to play it ,but:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x0000000000000000, pid=704, tid=12872
#
# JRE version: (15.0.2+7) (build )
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (15.0.2+7-27, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, windows-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C 0x0000000000000000
Srynetix
06. Oct 2021 · 06:52 UTC
The .exe for Windows does not work (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION), but the JAR works so I could play :wink:!

Well, nice sound effects! 😄 And the gameplay is simple but enjoyable, with a little frustration due to the speed change (yeah I should have read your warning before playing about the timer), I didn't even knew you could growl at the enemies, I was just running at them :grin:.
Good job!
JPatchZ
06. Oct 2021 · 09:16 UTC
I was only able to play with the .jar file. The game is very fun to play. Good work!
VyacheslavIgn
06. Oct 2021 · 11:22 UTC
i dont play the game but grafics cool
Sceef
06. Oct 2021 · 11:59 UTC
retro style
Préda
06. Oct 2021 · 17:20 UTC
I'm not sure what's going on, but I didn't manage to get a download going
freeworld
06. Oct 2021 · 18:06 UTC
The sound effects made me laugh :D what is with that bear and the enemies. The art style fit the overall humor very well.
This reminded me of 'Only One' the mobile game, which I played a lot back in the day!

I had fun playing with this, great job!

I also want to eat cake now.
SpaceMonkey
06. Oct 2021 · 21:05 UTC
My LD rating period is starting to feel like catching up with some friends. I'm glad I stopped by your game page to play another one of your crazy experiments :D It was really fun to figure out the game rules, and each time I died I just wanted to try something different. I started surviving much longer once I understood the game is easier when you just hit the control keys instead of keeping them pressed.

Great game ;-) It reminded me how I enjoyed your safari-themed game as well.

FYI I had to play with the jar file as well.
🎤 commanderstitch
06. Oct 2021 · 21:53 UTC
Wow, so much going on here. For people having problems with the download, i had a couple browsers eat the download when i was at other places. Fixed it by right clicking the download and opening the file in a private browser or incognito mode. The jar should work with the latest install of java. I have gotten mixed results with the exe launcher. Sorry about the deployment mess, it's the first time i've done it! Thanks for playing, those that could!
Yngvarr
08. Oct 2021 · 08:43 UTC
Aaah, pure chaos, so much fun - that's the true commanderstitch's game! :D Luring zombies off the building were so much fun, I've even forgot I could shoot them. X_X Nice take on a theme. SFX are simply hilarious!

Here you can see me struggling to understand what I'm doing:
https://youtu.be/7nVaGztd32Q
epb9000
09. Oct 2021 · 04:17 UTC
Yesssssss I gots the cake. (Once I figured out my growls could deplete and stopped randomly growling the empty void.) This was hilarious. I also had trouble with the executable, thanks @srynetix for the jar tip.
🎤 commanderstitch
09. Oct 2021 · 06:03 UTC
@yngvarr amazing!! that's so cool. Very interesting seeing how things trigger and let you know what is going on and what to do. @epb9000 glad you could get it working! :-)
Epiphaner
10. Oct 2021 · 13:42 UTC
This was very different from what I played so far and was very fun to play. (Using the jar, because like others I couldn't get the exe to work.)
I like how there are multiple ways to get rid of the enemies but it still feels frantic :smile:
lesinvisible
11. Oct 2021 · 16:18 UTC
This game feels very fresh and unusual, definitely has some retro feel to it. And it's quite additictive.
LDJam user 0
13. Oct 2021 · 21:09 UTC
No web no play.
JPGFG
14. Oct 2021 · 21:06 UTC
I like the retro level design
SplitPainter
20. Oct 2021 · 16:49 UTC
I really wanted to play it, since games that deal with mental disorders are my favorite (my previous 2 LDJam games are about mental disorders too), but unfortunately neither the jar nor the exe worked for me (I have Java installed).

The exe returns: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION