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Escape Earth by The Lag Pack

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made by The Lag Pack for LD30 (JAM)
This is our first game. It's really more of a short interactive sequence than a game, but hopefully you enjoy it. It's running on our own custom engine that our programmer has been sweating over to complete on the fly. It's buggy, very short, the graphics got stretched and the code is a mess, but were very proud of our first creation :D

Controls:
Movement - Arrow keys
Continue - Spacebar
Quit - Escape

If you get the missing MSVCR120.dll error install vcredist_x86.exe from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679# and install
Windows https://dl.dropbox.com/s/xtqrytw89o0a74n/Escape%20Earth.zip?dl=0
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=41583

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.59 716
Audio(Jam) 2.17 590
Fun(Jam) 2.23 716
Graphics(Jam) 2.96 540
Humor(Jam) 2.32 430
Innovation(Jam) 2.37 668
Mood(Jam) 3.00 423
Theme(Jam) 2.93 486

Feedback

Andrew Adams
26. Aug 2014 路 00:39 UTC
Why you no Mac?
馃帳 The Lag Pack
26. Aug 2014 路 01:14 UTC
I cant write for Mac, yet :D
Kinta
26. Aug 2014 路 09:55 UTC
The graphics are a little blurry, but I liked the style. Nice short game. :)
Vytheros
26. Aug 2014 路 10:00 UTC
Bit blurry, not sure if it froze or the game ended when I was looking at Earth being shot.
Mekuri
26. Aug 2014 路 10:01 UTC
Nice first creation :-) Very short, and more of a interactive short story, but you still managed to get some mood in there. :-)
swabbur
26. Aug 2014 路 10:12 UTC
Can't open it, says a .dll file is missing :(
馃帳 The Lag Pack
26. Aug 2014 路 10:13 UTC
Thank you for the comments :) The game does in fact end at the shot of the earth. I had the idea of that being a final look back and leaving the fate of earth for the player to decide, however it seemed better in my head and perhaps we should have put in an actual end screen.

Also were not entirely sure why the graphics went blurry, we assume its because they were stretched across the screen. Hopefully in the future we will learn how to properly apply the graphics without ruining them. We'll also be adding sound and music into our next game and may come back to this one to sort of remake it.
馃帳 The Lag Pack
26. Aug 2014 路 10:17 UTC
If you get the missing MSVCR110.dll you may have to install http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679#
Sorry about that.
Reverend Speed
26. Aug 2014 路 12:57 UTC
The graphics are nice and the story is atmospheric. It's more like a cutscene than a game, but it's nice work for the Jam!
Toubib
26. Aug 2014 路 21:34 UTC
dll missing
馃帳 The Lag Pack
27. Aug 2014 路 14:21 UTC
What dll does it say you are missing?
Follett
27. Aug 2014 路 15:23 UTC
I didn't really like the blurry (stretched?) graphics but I was interested the entire time. Really good work!
mechabit
29. Aug 2014 路 10:24 UTC
cool game
GuillaumeGwi
30. Aug 2014 路 17:57 UTC
Nice mood ! The end is funny :D
Hyoga-3D
31. Aug 2014 路 23:29 UTC
Art style is nice, good entry.
thecolorhacker
08. Sep 2014 路 17:58 UTC
It asked me for msvcr120.dll. I downloaded it and put it in the game folder, then gave me another error.
馃帳 The Lag Pack
08. Sep 2014 路 20:29 UTC
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784

Installing vcredist_x86.exe from the above link should fix the msvcr120.dll error.

Let me know whether it works or not. :D
Aglavra
13. Sep 2014 路 20:37 UTC
It lacks of gameplay.. At least an opportunity to interact with other people somehow. I liked how the surroundings were drawed, but the main character seemed disharmonic (stretched vertically?)
Acuity
15. Sep 2014 路 21:54 UTC
I wasn't sure if the game ended when I reached the 2nd level of the bridge...