PhotoWorlds by bobrocks

made by bobrocks for LD30 (COMPO)

***POST CONTEST UPDATE*** I appear to have fixed the bug that broke the gameplay mechanic. You should now be able to take a photo and display it on the polaroid in slot 1. Let me know if you have any problems. I will be continuing development on this project because I'm having fun with it!

PhotoWorlds is a puzzle game in which the player will solve puzzles using a camera. The player will photograph and area to find clues hidden in the Photo World (White blocks become green, hidden passages are revealed, etc). I had some time constraints so I do not feel I will be quite where I want the game to be, but I am happy with what I have so far and will be continuing development after the competition!

I had a blast with my first ludum dare competition! I didn't get ANYWHERE near where I wanted to be but my time was limited. I want to thank my wife who let me work most of the day today (our 12th anniversary!). She was very understanding, but is not about to let me slide on taking her to dinner! Good luck to everyone, I hope you all had fun!

Windows	http://landofbob.com/ld30/photoWorlds.zip
Source	http://landofbob.com/ld30/bobrocks_ld48_photoWorlds.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=41796

Ratings

Coolness	82%	2
Overall	2.26	1189

Audio	1.62	963
Fun	2.06	1148
Graphics	1.91	1170
Humor	1.82	866
Innovation	3.31	436
Mood	2.21	1053
Theme	2.69	901

Feedback

🎤 bobrocks

25. Aug 2014 · 03:18 UTC

I found out that part of the main mechanic for this concept (displaying the screen shot on the "poloroid" picture) is not working anywhere but on my dev PC. Sigh... oh well. I'll flesh it out and have some fun with it in my own time. Thanks for stopping by. Let me know if you have a different experience!

FinnMacd

25. Aug 2014 · 03:43 UTC

for me the game crashed every time I took a picture

C_Walden

25. Aug 2014 · 03:45 UTC

Interesting concept, but as stated in the public comment, the "view photo" feature doesn't work, so this isn't playable in its current state. I wonder what this could turn into with some polish.

ViliX

25. Aug 2014 · 03:47 UTC

Unfortunately it didn't work :/ Needs a bit more polishing.

Jaloko

25. Aug 2014 · 04:03 UTC

The photo feature did not work for me.

RaycoSantana

25. Aug 2014 · 06:19 UTC

Hey your concept is similar to mine, but mine is with the video camera of a cell phone, nice hehe :D

Tomker

25. Aug 2014 · 17:07 UTC

Needs some bug fixing, but looks promising.

Fonserbc

25. Aug 2014 · 18:42 UTC

Oh, interesting concept. See the world through other eyes. Good luck with it!

Vallar

25. Aug 2014 · 19:59 UTC

Same as others, the concept looks like an interesting and cool take on the theme. That said... it crashed once I hit "R".
Sorry :(

🎤 bobrocks

25. Aug 2014 · 20:54 UTC

Thank you all for stopping by! I wish I had something better for you to play! I enjoyed myself and learned a few things. Hopefully that will result in a better game next time!

Aru Nyan

25. Aug 2014 · 22:04 UTC

Thank you for your comment.
I'm sorry I couldn't really play your game, it doesn't work under wine either :(

alvarop

26. Aug 2014 · 00:29 UTC

Sadly, the main mechanic of the game doesn't work... I wish it did, it seemed to be a cool idea.

harko12

26. Aug 2014 · 03:37 UTC

I like the idea, that the pictures reveal things, but having found out that the brick were green, what then? plus I coudln't really get all the picture in view.. just part of it

🎤 bobrocks

26. Aug 2014 · 12:18 UTC

Thanks for commenting alvarop and harko12. Alvarop, I've updated the .exe changing where the game is saving the screenshot. That seems to have fixed the issue that caused displaying the image to not work.

Harko12, That is all there is to it, unfortunately. I had limited time to put toward this and spent most of it just figuring out how to make this feature work. I will be continuing on the project, though. I like the idea and want to see what I can do with it. Thanks again to everyone who tried it out!

Chaoseiro

26. Aug 2014 · 16:47 UTC

The concept is really interesting. I hope you find the time to continue developing this :)

MechanicMoon

26. Aug 2014 · 16:58 UTC

WTF

FinnMacd

26. Aug 2014 · 19:59 UTC

for me it still crashes when I take a photo :( :(

🎤 bobrocks

26. Aug 2014 · 20:03 UTC

That's no good, FinnMacd! Thanks for letting me know. I'm not sure what is causing that. My cousin is having the same problem (He's the only one I know locally that is). I'm looking into a different way to store the "photos" in general. I really appreciate you giving it another shot!

lkr

26. Aug 2014 · 20:07 UTC

It worked fine on my machine, but I guess that's because you recently fixed it?

I'd love to see where you're taking this intriguing concept :)

FinnMacd

26. Aug 2014 · 20:09 UTC

now on my other laptop it suddenly worked... not sure why but its a very interesting game

MechanicMoon

26. Aug 2014 · 20:13 UTC

bobrocks, sorry for the past comment, It was writen by a rockie of the team. It think that it has a lot ot merit trying to do different kinds of games and working in a LD is always very difficult and stressing. Keep improving and doing original games! ;-)
.javifugitivo.

🎤 bobrocks

26. Aug 2014 · 20:40 UTC

Ikr: Thanks for trying. I did recently fix it, glad you like the concept. I will be working on it more as it seems it wasn't a 48 hour concept (for me, anyway!).

FinnMacd: Thanks for trying again. I'm not sure why it is working on some systems, but not others. I'm glad you got to try it out and I will post about updates here!

MechanicMoon (javifugitivo): Thanks for clearing that up. I understand how it is and thank you for the compliments!

Jaloko

26. Aug 2014 · 22:54 UTC

Okay so I played the game after the fix and the take a photo feature worked! Nice job.

🎤 bobrocks

27. Aug 2014 · 00:25 UTC

Thanks for giving it another try! I know it isn't much, but that is the main mechanic. The rest of the game is *mostly* familiar waters!

AndyBrown

27. Aug 2014 · 02:09 UTC

Interesting concept. It could make for some tricky puzzles if the player had limited amounts of film. It was fun taking a bunch of pictures and seeing them stack on top of each other.

nerd burglars

27. Aug 2014 · 13:24 UTC

It worked fine for me :) Solid entry! Good luck!

cstudios

27. Aug 2014 · 22:04 UTC

the photo feature worked for me! :D Its an unfinished game. But I can understand that. Happy anniversary! :)

danbo

27. Aug 2014 · 22:06 UTC

Good concept, let's see something done with it!

bentog

30. Aug 2014 · 18:53 UTC

The concept seems interesting, too bad it's unfinished. Also, some Unity-specific things to change:

- The sky color should be something other that the default blue.
- The standard MouseLook that comes with Unity is terrible, you should use something else (I like this one http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/a-free-simple-smooth-mouselook.73117/)
- function Update() { Screen.lockCursor = true; }

If you manage to complete the game, it could be very interesting.

thecolorhacker

08. Sep 2014 · 19:24 UTC

Well I took some photos of objects which had different properties in real and photo worlds. Is that all? I want more, it can be a great game!!! Don't stop now ;P

Tosic

15. Sep 2014 · 18:25 UTC

Look really good, innovative and good take on the theme, but it is kinds confusing and has no sounds, but I beleive it can go better if you continue developing it! :D