Spacehack by Gallefray

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made by Gallefray for LD29 (JAM)
SPACEHACK - by Gallefray
Made in 72 hours for the Ludum Dare
All bug reports to gallefray@inventati.org

Genre: Roguelike

Goals: Kill the enemies, collect loot, get as far down into the caverns as
possible.

Story:
There was a story but... :S

Controls:
h,j,k,l to move (left, down, up, right)
e to eat.
w to wield.
d to drop.
p to pickup.
g to use your mining laser on walls/monsters.

Symbols:
> - Stairs
# - Wall
. - Floor
~ - Powerup - *grab*!
$ - Money - grab!
% - Corpse - grab & eat!
& - Corpse - grab & eat!
- - Corpse - grab & eat!
: - Corpse - grab & eat!

Enemies/Monsters:
S - A Snail
G - A Grue
T - A Troll
A - An Alien


Notes:
This would have been a compo entry, I went over the time limit.
Some small bugs here and there, nothing game breaking though.
Had I had more time I would have made the game more balanced
(harder! >:3 >:D)

Tools:
I used Love2D with lua to make the game.
I used lurker.lua by rxi, you can find the github repo of that here:
https://github.com/rxi/lurker

- Galle

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1718
Overall(Jam) 3.46 202
Fun(Jam) 3.35 171
Graphics(Jam) 3.05 494
Humor(Jam) 2.50 393
Innovation(Jam) 3.27 261
Mood(Jam) 3.05 379
Theme(Jam) 3.36 271

Feedback

josefnpat
29. Apr 2014 路 04:17 UTC
I really liked this game, and I was able to complete the entire first level! I was unable to figure out how to climb the stairs, but then the game blew up as I was trying to figure out how to use them. http://i.imgur.com/vs6iwzV.png

Nevertheless, very cool!
馃帳 Gallefray
29. Apr 2014 路 11:48 UTC
Ahh `>` moves you down the stairs
馃帳 Gallefray
29. Apr 2014 路 11:48 UTC
And I can fix that bug as it's a crash, right?
pancakecity
29. Apr 2014 路 16:46 UTC
I'm so glad to see a rogue-like entry!! This is really good.
VividReality
30. Apr 2014 路 17:47 UTC
Fantastic to see a roguelike here :) It's hard to make one of those in the time given. Impressive work!
馃帳 Gallefray
30. Apr 2014 路 22:26 UTC
Thanks everyone! :D
shasharala
30. Apr 2014 路 23:24 UTC
The latest build appears to be a .love file and a readme. I am uncertain what to do with the .love file.
Almost
30. Apr 2014 路 23:28 UTC
HJKL for movement is probably standard for some existing games, but it feels weird to me. I also keep pressing escape if I am in the wrong menu state (trying to eat and nothing to eat) and it instant quits without a prompt. I guess it tells me to press i or spacebar.

The starting monsters seem sometimes really strong and sometimes really weak, but I don't seem to lose when my health is negative, so I guess that is ok.

I also eventually experienced the same crash as josefnpat. It should be fine to fix a crash as long as you don't add new game content.
MunkeeBacon
30. Apr 2014 路 23:41 UTC
Fun little game, well thought out!
metkis
30. Apr 2014 路 23:47 UTC
I love the return to form here, awesome. GREAT WORK.
ReactorScram
01. May 2014 路 00:28 UTC
@shasharala: If you download LOVE and drag the .love file on top of love.exe, it will play.

I couldn't figure out the stairs either, roguelikes aren't really my thing but at least I cleared out the first level.

I like that the monsters flee when they're low on health, but in my game they just ran into a wall and stopped without returning my attacks. If they were cornered, I expected they would fight to the death.
CrackedP0t
01. May 2014 路 00:39 UTC
I hit -1200 health... I think it's a bug? :D
Still fun!
shasharala
01. May 2014 路 02:30 UTC
@ReactorScram Thank you!

That was fun for a short while. I would like to see it fleshed out more.
I would like to note that I did receive the same error as josefnpat when I went to mine near the top of the level at some point.
Regardless, it was interesting to be able to modify the environment like that in a rogue-like. In that aspect, it reminded me a bit of Dwarf Fortress.
jellymann
01. May 2014 路 09:50 UTC
Nice game, I really enjoyed it. It seemed I could not really die, as I could continue even with negative health.
Neonlare
01. May 2014 路 18:04 UTC
Pretty damn fun game, was also able to go into negative health but the feel and vibe of it was surprisingly good!
XrXr
01. May 2014 路 19:34 UTC
Nice, I like that old school vi direction controls. Pretty easy to crash the game though, just press w then d. Fun concept!
馃帳 Gallefray
01. May 2014 路 20:36 UTC
Thanks everyone :D
Yeah I'll investigate into the crashes in a post-compo version.
I meant to get death into the game with the menu system but that was scrapped due to a lack of time and I forgot about it D:
xdegtyarev
05. May 2014 路 13:35 UTC
Congrats!
friken
08. May 2014 路 13:32 UTC
I'm a sucker for oooolschool :) I love text rendered games
voxel
08. May 2014 路 14:52 UTC
my guy is so terrible at aiming his mining laser. stupid aliens. fun times