Web Spinner by APC
In this game you play as a spider and you need to spin your web in such a way that it will catch enough flies so that you won't starve
I recorded a timelapse of the development of this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdvwudHij68
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I'm aware this doesn't run on all machines. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium and I tried putting all windows 7 version I could on the link. If you're having problems please let me know and I'll try to figure it out.
If you own Game Maker Studio, I would greatly appreciate it if you would download the source, create a executable and send me the file ( apc1993@gmail.com ) so I can post it here.
Current Versions:
Windows 7 Compressed Zip
Windows 7 Single Runtime Exe
Windwos 7 Installer
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Hotfix #1 8/28/2015
Fixed the 'Unable to find instance' and 'divide by zero' errors
I recorded a timelapse of the development of this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdvwudHij68
-----------
I'm aware this doesn't run on all machines. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium and I tried putting all windows 7 version I could on the link. If you're having problems please let me know and I'll try to figure it out.
If you own Game Maker Studio, I would greatly appreciate it if you would download the source, create a executable and send me the file ( apc1993@gmail.com ) so I can post it here.
Current Versions:
Windows 7 Compressed Zip
Windows 7 Single Runtime Exe
Windwos 7 Installer
---------------------------------
Hotfix #1 8/28/2015
Fixed the 'Unable to find instance' and 'divide by zero' errors
| Windows | http://www.arendpeter.com/Games/WebSpinner/Windows |
| Source (Game Maker Studio Project) | http://www.arendpeter.com/Games/WebSpinner/Source.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=24706 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 32% | 1897 |
| Overall | 3.00 | 572 |
| Fun | 3.16 | 367 |
| Graphics | 3.11 | 461 |
| Humor | 2.40 | 599 |
| Innovation | 3.72 | 89 |
| Mood | 3.11 | 380 |
| Theme | 2.83 | 763 |
Very cool idea, I thought it was really unique. It's a little hard to tell what will catch a fly and what wont, so I didn't do so well, but I thought it was very well implemented nonetheless.
I liked the idea very much. You also got 5* in innovation from me. Couldn't get to the fly most of the times though. Graphics were adequate, but not much catchy either.
The game is fun, original and challenging! The first time I did not reinforce some outer areas and ended up with a smaller web too fast.
Sometimes when there are too many paths the spider remains stuck, unable to choose any of the paths except going backwards.
On my last try I got a score of 287, then the game crashed ^^'
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FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object oSpider: DoDiv :: Divide by zero
at gml_Script_findProgressOnLine
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object oSpider:
Unable to find any instance for object index '100107' name '<undefined>'
at gml_Script_splitLineByPoint
############################################################################################
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stack frame is
gml_Script_splitLineByPoint (line 0)
gml_Script_spiderConnectString
gml_Object_oSpider_Step_0
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############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object oSpider:
Unable to find any instance for object index '100186' name '<undefined>'
at gml_Script_splitLineByPoint
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_splitLineByPoint (line 0)
gml_Script_spiderConnectString
gml_Object_oSpider_Step_0
Before then I didn't really know what I was doing. I placed several web strands but only caught one fly. Other flies went straight through. Not sure exactly what you do to catch them.
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############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object oSpider:
Unable to find any instance for object index '100502' name '<undefined>'
at gml_Script_splitLineByPoint
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_splitLineByPoint (line 0)
gml_Script_spiderConnectString
gml_Object_oSpider_Step_0
But before that, this was excellent! I've never seen a game like this before. Great idea! Very satisfying to play.
Great job!