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Apocalyptia by manabreak

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made by manabreak for LD32 (COMPO)
A nuclear bomb (or "an unconventional weapon", seriously, Google it!) was detonated a day ago. Our hero survived. The question is, for how long will he live?

Controls:
- Arrow keys / IJKL : Movement
- Space: Jump
- C: Use selected item
- 1, 2, 3, ..., 0: Select an item

This game was created using the following tools:
- IDE: Eclipse
- Language: Java
- Library: libgdx
- Music and sounds: Psycle / Audacity
- Graphics: GIMP

Additionally, the font used in the GUI is "Press Start 2P" which can be found on Google Fonts.

Hope you enjoy the game, and please, feel free to leave feedback. :)

Changelog:
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when launched
- Initial release
Java (JAR) https://www.dropbox.com/s/6d4vzc3j3gkbow9/Apocalyptia.jar?dl=0
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4ihw1eycbxihot/apocalyptia.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=11177

Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall 3.61 191
Audio 3.94 41
Fun 3.34 325
Graphics 4.20 52
Humor 2.10 850
Innovation 2.41 978
Mood 3.83 54
Theme 2.00 1096

Feedback

Justin Mullin
20. Apr 2015 路 02:29 UTC
I'm getting an exception upon trying to run the game, stack trace is here: http://pastebin.com/vYQQPnJ7. I'm assuming you left a flag on that triggers texture packing at runtime?
masterboth
20. Apr 2015 路 02:50 UTC
I'm getting that error too.
馃帳 manabreak
20. Apr 2015 路 03:35 UTC
The bug should be fixed now!
kaype
20. Apr 2015 路 03:36 UTC
Same error.
kaype
20. Apr 2015 路 03:37 UTC
Nevermind, it's working now!
kaype
20. Apr 2015 路 03:47 UTC
I got a really good vibe from playing this :)

The graphics are pretty good, I didn't like the first song though (the second one is pretty good). The physics are good and do what they're supposed to do, but my biggest criticism is that this doesn't have anything to do with the theme from what I'm seeing. Still a good game though!

Nice entry.
Jordan
20. Apr 2015 路 04:43 UTC
Music is pretty cool and fits in well with the theme.
Lighting is great, and art is really smooth/consistent.
Death screen is nice, but shouldn't the game go back to a menu or simply restart rather than closing itself? It can be annoying restarting the jar each time you lose.
Jan Peter (jpdev)
20. Apr 2015 路 04:49 UTC
The interaction with the zombies was kind of weird for me, the first one fell into my shelter and we touched multiple times without me losing hp. But the later zombie touches did indeed hurt ;)

Cool mood.

The boss fight was intese (the "eye" that lasers you). I beat it.. and then was disapointed, that nothing happend and I was stuck in its room. - or did I miss something?)

Also, up until this point there was absolutly nothing relating to the theme.
ShIxtan
20. Apr 2015 路 04:49 UTC
It's not much to do with the theme, but the graphics and audio are great, and I had fun.
OmnipotentPotatoDEV
20. Apr 2015 路 04:51 UTC
My only problem is the theme.

It seems like you just slapped this game into LD not even doing anything with the theme.

The only trace of it that I see is in the description. How is a nuclear bomb unconventional? xD
shyupuff
20. Apr 2015 路 04:51 UTC
Wow really awesome! I love the lighting and the graphics and the hair movement. This is really fun. Keep up the awesome work (:
winmac32
20. Apr 2015 路 04:52 UTC
I'm loving the atmosphere and lighting. Some normal maps would have made it spectacular.

Art is well done, as well.

Doesn't really fit the theme, unfortunately.
FuzzyWuzzie
20. Apr 2015 路 04:54 UTC
The eyeball boss was pretty cool, though the fact that he was able to shoot me through the platforms led to my swift demise :(

Great game though, nice visuals and solid platforming. Impressive amount of content!
n9Mtq4
20. Apr 2015 路 04:56 UTC
Looks great, very fun, but a gun is conventional.
馃帳 manabreak
20. Apr 2015 路 04:58 UTC
Thanks everyone for the comments. For the complaints of the theme: an "unconventional weapon" can also mean a weapon of mass destruction as noted in the description. As my interpretation, this game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Who said the theme has to be a quirky weapon the player uses? :p
Sri Harsha Chilakapati
20. Apr 2015 路 05:00 UTC
A nice cute little game. I like the graphics, specially the blood effect after shooting.
Recursiveanomaly
20. Apr 2015 路 06:38 UTC
Sweet Game! I really like the graphics and music. The death particles for the mutants are a nice touch. The game crashed while I was fighting the floating mechanical eye monster.
noxuma
20. Apr 2015 路 07:03 UTC
Really awesome, the eye monster seems to shoot through walls =( Made it really hard to win, matter of factly, I didn't win. Good job though.
Almost
20. Apr 2015 路 07:42 UTC
I couldn't walk off the left at the start so I assumed that I couldn't walk off the right either and was confused for a little while.

Later I died to the eye and decided it was too much walking to get back to him.
DragonXVI
20. Apr 2015 路 09:52 UTC
Nifty little atmospheric platformer. Reminds me a little of Lone Survivor. Game closed itself when I was fighting the Boss though, wasn't sure if I'd won or it crashed. Nice job overall though!
SiENcE
20. Apr 2015 路 09:57 UTC
Nice animations and music! Impressiv amount of scenes.

I really like the red and green blood :).
Zeriver
20. Apr 2015 路 12:06 UTC
I like art-style, music sets right tone to the game. Overall it's really fun game, maybe could you some variety (killing zombies gets old) but boss fight was fun (i had to jump in right intervals to avoid projectiles, like in a rythm game :D ).
rnlf
20. Apr 2015 路 12:51 UTC
Pretty cool game. The collisions seem to be off a bit on my machine, where bullets (including the first bosses lasers) would just go through solid tiles.

The game itself is really cool, nice music, perfect for the setting of the game and your pixel style is very inspiring to me, might totally try to copy that for my own games :-p
frokes
20. Apr 2015 路 13:11 UTC
Nice graphics and the lighting creates a nice feeling. Enemy damage underscaled? Boss damage too high?
Nice work!
frokes
20. Apr 2015 路 13:18 UTC
Nice graphics and the lighting creates a nice feeling but i think the enemy damage is underscaled except for the boss, that damage is insane!
Nice work!
Wevel
20. Apr 2015 路 17:39 UTC
Nice Game
A Flat Miner Studios
21. Apr 2015 路 15:34 UTC
Your graphics are fantastic! I really like the slight spotlight. I was waiting for a weird weapon though...but only got a gun. Would love to see some crazy things in my room to use as weapons. :)
stevenlr
21. Apr 2015 路 22:20 UTC
The graphics and lighting look nice, so does the character animation. The physics works well except for the zombie's hitbox that is a bit too tall so you can get hit by jumping from a ledge where there is a zombie beneath.
Hambone
22. Apr 2015 路 04:14 UTC
Really fun, great job! Take all my stars!
Jaloko
24. Apr 2015 路 00:49 UTC
Very cool game. Love the graphics.
lucentbeam
25. Apr 2015 路 04:24 UTC
Great art and music. Cute, and definitely atmospheric. Gamepad support would have gone a long way, but still really impressive given the time limit!
BMacIntosh
25. Apr 2015 路 04:33 UTC
Beat it on my second try - I assume I beat it, there didn't seem to be a way out of the boss room. Neat game, nice aesthetics!