Ludem Dare #28!

[StolenBattenberg]

Dunno if anyone else entered this, but I think you'd be able to use SoM!

If anyone isn't aware of what it is, it's a 48 hour challenge, where you have to create a game to the theme they supply!

You can find out more here: https://www.ludumdare.com/compo/

The theme this year was 'You only get one'. I entered, but I didn't use SoM, since it would be difficult to make a game in that theme with SoM... I dunno, you only get one earth herb? :P

You can check out what I did here: https://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-da...&uid=31753

[scott]

Looks like a neat little game. I'm gonna try it out later tonight. Good luck on the challenge! ‎ 

[dmpdesign]

What an interesting idea for a challenge...downloaded your game, gonna go through it tomorrow.

[HwitVlf]

Downloading it now. Your description reminds me of those "choose your path" books where you jump to a different section depending on your choices. I remember reading one where I was stranded at sea in a life boat. I chose to drink the salt water and my tongue swelled up and I died. . .the end. Guess that was the wrong choice ‎ 

[HwitVlf]

I got burned alive by a raider, my vitals were splattered, shot with a rifle, exploded to bits twice (I really wanted that bomb!), but the real mystery remains... what would have happened if I ate the weird beans!!!! ‎ 

I like the simple yet expressive music. It's similar to what I plan to do in my game; it's so hard to come up with great long music so I was going to try a few simple themes like that played at key moments. Incidentally, there's a typo in "man couldn't contain it's self" intro should be "its" or maybe "itself"- I think "man" (short for mankind) is one of those collective nouns that's treated as singular.

I can picture this in SoM as each day being a room with 2 exit paths. One to another day of life and the other to a sure death event. ‎ 

[StolenBattenberg]

Thanks for playing it, and spotting that typo -- I'm allowed to fix stuff like that! Must not of noticed because of doing the game over a full 24 hours, then sleeping and uploading the next day, rather than being smart and doing 12 hours each day...

To be honest, I wasn't very happy with the music myself, I spent about 10 minutes on each piece, and I think it could of been a lot better... Coming up with good stuff is one of the hardest parts... The weird beans were probably one of the more disturbing things I wrote as an ending... Hint: Radiation... Since I had to sit through a lecture on radiation, and remember a small amount of what they say happens to you...

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As replying to the first post, it was intended to be just like one of those books, since I recently started reading/playing a set of them called 'Lone Wolf', great stuff.

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As for the game, I'll probably fix any bugs, complete the art and maybe add a small graphic to each choice, add some more choices and release it for free once the competition is over.

[Verdite]

Let me know next time, ill do your bgm for you. Yup I do modeling texturing animating bgm events story writing sounds ‎  anyone versatile with SOM is a jack of all trades. I have a library full of songs that I dont use.

[StolenBattenberg]

I'd love to, but one of the rules of the competition is that you're not allowed to use resources that:
1) You didn't create in the 48 hours
2) You didn't create yourself.

Thus, I'd be breaking the rules. ‎ 

Thanks anyways though, and hehe -- SoM really does require so much... I'm gonna get a book on OpenGL, and once I've chewed that I'm gonna start learning the WinAPI for C++, maybe I'll be able to one day put together a 'Sword of Moonlight: Rebirth' or something of the sorts, something that'll export to Linux, Mac and Windows... There's only hoping for now though, since I'm working on so many projects at the moment...

[HwitVlf]

I was thinking that a single-shot dueling pistol game could be a decent theme for this "you only get one" challenge: a race between speed and accuracy to hit a target before he hits you, with a tally of wins vs losses at the end.

You could maybe even set up such a game in SoM by using limited MP with the Light Arrow spell to make a "single shot", and using invisible barriers to lock the player in place so he can't dodge bullets. Would be interesting to try anyways ‎