~~Well... I give up trying to publish the game, but here it is! :)~~

~~After 3 hours trying to publish it I think there's either massive load on the servers or there's some bug I haven't been able to figure out. Anyway, here's my game :)~~

It worked! It's published!

Thank you @zwrawr and @pov for helping sort the bug out :)

You can find the published game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/$61146

About

I've been following LD for a long time, always wanted to participate. This year I took a chance at it!

This was the first jam I participated in, and also my first game developed from scratch (not using a tutorial). Also, please ignore the horrible code... I program as a hobby (mostly)!

I came up with the idea of the game about 2h into the challenge. And this is what I was able to code so far.

The concept

The gist of it: 1. You play as a douchebag that just wants to keep moving forward 2. Sometimes people are in the way 3. Items may help you handle those situations.... 4. ...but the more you use them, the more negative Karma you have

Installing the game

Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how to build an execution file from my Python code (I guess this is why nobody is using Python), so the source code will have to do. Instruction on how to install are available below.

1. Make sure you have Python 3 on your machine
2. Clone the repository at https://github.com/gcmartinelli/karma - git clone https://github.com/gcmartinelli/karma.git
3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run the game python main.py
5. Enjoy! :)

Playing

Use the arrow keys and numbers to play.

Your goal is to get as far as possible before your karma holds you back and you get crushed by time.

Credits

The great soundtrack was made by @draysound (Hihellohiya) who kindly offered to make some tracks after seeing my initial posts on the LD devblog :)