DualityLD30 by evilentity

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made by evilentity for LD30 (COMPO)
Duality is born! You are an unholy abomination, angel/demon hybrid. Use the portals to switch planes of existence and overcome the enemies and obstacles! Duality is a 2d platformer written in Go and intended to be played in the terminal.

Check the source link for installation instructions or download Windows version! This is my first anything in Go, so the source is horrible. Sorry!

Im well aware about difficulty with the controls and im sorry about that! Best idea seams to be tapping repeatedly and not holding the button. Its all due to limitations of terminal input. One button at a time and delay while holding button down. Its fixable, but not in the given time frame, sorry again!

Again, im terribly sorry about the issues with the controls, but it is a system setting and beyond my control. There is a way to improve this. On windows you can decrease the delay:
Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Speed -> Repeat delay -> Short (About 200ms delay). There is no 'No delay' option. Im sure there is something similar on unix systems!

Ratings

Coolness 35% 1694
Overall 2.60 1060
Fun 2.44 1032
Graphics 2.95 657
Innovation 2.78 844
Mood 2.33 1009
Theme 3.22 581

Feedback

SupSuper
25. Aug 2014 路 02:57 UTC
Like the concept, the controls are really unresponsive though.
馃帳 evilentity
25. Aug 2014 路 12:57 UTC
Yes, Im aware of that. Sadly there was nothing I could do about that. There is short delay in terminal before the keypress is repeated. You can easily check it by pressing a button for few seconds. Its like w wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Sadly changing it involves messing around with raw events that the termbox-go doesnt expose in any way. Maybe if I had more time I could fix that somehow. Thanks for comment!
diamondgfx
25. Aug 2014 路 14:18 UTC
The controls sadly make this a little frustrating to play :( I dig the terminal-style graphics; reminds me of ZZX and MegaZeux sort of games (or VVVVVVVVVVVVVVhowevermanyvsaresupposedtobethere)
tulevik.EU
25. Aug 2014 路 14:20 UTC
Love the ascii art!
Dasginger
25. Aug 2014 路 14:27 UTC
I like the designs of the sprites and levels a lot, and I love the way you approached the two different worlds. It's unfortunate about the controls, as has been said already.
pighead10
25. Aug 2014 路 14:27 UTC
Interesting concept, but like you said, the controls make the game quite difficult to play. Also, very short.
SaintHeiser
25. Aug 2014 路 14:47 UTC
Very glitchy game!
Or these lags are must be as game idea?
maike
25. Aug 2014 路 14:59 UTC
I love the fact that you implemented it in Go, but I agree with the rest that it feels quite unresponsive
Miziziziz
26. Aug 2014 路 01:36 UTC
Too bad the controls aren't responsive, it looks nice, and the gameplay seems interesting (probably enjoyable with responsive controls)
hazzahazzam
27. Aug 2014 路 11:03 UTC
Spend some time looking at the hard control repeat things, would have made this game 3x better.
43iscoding
27. Aug 2014 路 11:25 UTC
Really neat oldschool graphics. I wish you've made text the same style as everything else. Very interesting game.
klianc09
28. Aug 2014 路 20:59 UTC
I can't really add much to the discussion, as it looks nicely retro and would probably play good, if it weren't for the console controls. Maybe consoles simply aren't the right platform for these types of games?
DarkCart
05. Sep 2014 路 21:42 UTC
I love the early-DOS style graphics.