Slippy - The hungry penguin by SpecialTrooper

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made by SpecialTrooper for LD31 (COMPO)
"Slippy - The hungry penguin" is my first attempt in an Ludum Dare event.

The game is written purely in Java and comes with an jar-File

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Let's eat!
The small penguin named Slippy is hungry!

Luckily there are plenty of fish on the ice, but watch out, it might be a bit slippery out there. Of course this is not a problem at all for such a great penguin as Slippy.

Help him to get some delicous fish and make him happy!
If you can fetch some of those fishes you get rewarded with some delicous points. How many points can you get in 60 seconds?!?

But behold! Not everything on the ice looks as tasty ...
Better do not eat those ... gross, dirty, untasty things someone lost on the ice ... You will make Slippy sad and lose some points ...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI-oNzPt9Tw

Feel free to tell me your best score !!! ;-)

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I was totally unprepared for this event and did not use any specific gaming libraries or frameworks at all - simply because I am not really used to any of them.

So I just used tools that I am fairly used to.
Most of the implementation is based of the javax.swing and java.awt packages.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/ChristianSchroedel/Slippy

Tools used:
- Vim
- Inkscape
- Gimp
- Online sound effect creator bfxr http://www.bfxr.net/
- Fraps for YouTube video (looks like 'meh' ...)

My first Ludum Dare was a really fun challenge.
I can't wait for the next event - hopefully with more preparation on my side :-)

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1550
Overall 2.63 1055
Audio 2.13 833
Fun 2.56 979
Graphics 2.48 944
Humor 2.83 341
Innovation 2.30 1056
Mood 2.36 993
Theme 3.59 571

Feedback

markusfisch
08. Dec 2014 · 11:41 UTC
I made 123000 points! Funny little game! I especially like that little penguin! Well done!
BtheDestroyer
08. Dec 2014 · 16:52 UTC
Would have been better if it was faster. I mean, a LOT faster. The penguin barely moved in the beginning so it took a while to get one fish and by then I had lost interest...
kierygeek
08. Dec 2014 · 17:26 UTC
Love the penguin animation!
raincole
08. Dec 2014 · 17:39 UTC
The control is... slippy. I guess it's intentional though.
AlSweigart
08. Dec 2014 · 20:24 UTC
Fun game, but kind of slow.
SpartanIceCream
09. Dec 2014 · 23:38 UTC
Cool! Graphics could use a lick of paint though.
TriSquare
09. Dec 2014 · 23:43 UTC
I Like the fact that you added the slipping math. But this game needs to be faster. And props to you not using any external library. Yes i looked into your sauce code because i saw dot jar :)
BoxedMeatRevolution
11. Dec 2014 · 02:19 UTC
210000!!! Cute graphics, reminded me of Pingu. Good job on your first LD, especially going for it without any external libraries.
ZNCatlaw
12. Dec 2014 · 05:13 UTC
I had a strange problem, which was that the left and right keys didn't move me much. The up and down keys were crazy and slippy, but I couldn't go left/right very much... otherwise, cute game!
rantt
16. Dec 2014 · 03:21 UTC
The movement was super slow when I was playing. I watched your youtube video and it looked like a decent speed so maybe it's an issue running the game on a mac. Grats on your first LD, good job on your first game and look forward to seeing your next :)
XTremEive
22. Dec 2014 · 21:13 UTC
Ok pretty everyone said "slow", So I'm just going to add "nice".
maxmetallica
29. Dec 2014 · 22:05 UTC
nice work