Germaniac by Jiddo

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made by Jiddo for LD29 (JAM)
A game about the fear of things below the surface of normal human eye vision

Play as the germ-fearing mr. Fancypants and help him survive his phobia induced panic attack. Avoid the oncoming masses of people who just want to get in contact with him and shake his hand... cuz he's famous, ya know...

Use the arrow keys to guide mr. Fancypants through the town in search of the ultimate sanctuary - the golden porta-potty!

In case someone does catch mr. Fancypants in the corner and starts shaking his hand, tap the space bar to shake the person off.

Use regular porta-potties to wash the germs off mr.Fancypants' hands and give him a bit of a moral and psychological boost, before he completely flips out. While in the porta-potty, use [w],[a],[s] and [d] to control the left hand and the arrow keys to control the right hand.

Look for the hidden hazmat suit to get some serious protection against those pesky germ spreading peeps, but be careful - walking around town in a hazmat suit is like wearing a clown outfit at a funeral.

Pay attention to the bar on the top of the screen - it will show you just how deep down the spiral mr. Fancypants currently is. Get him completely covered with germs and it's lights out.

Credits:
Jiddo, Cnap, Cem - cewd
tofuman - picturz, sewnds and mewsic

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1718
Overall(Jam) 3.55 154
Audio(Jam) 3.84 74
Fun(Jam) 3.29 195
Graphics(Jam) 3.95 160
Humor(Jam) 4.20 11
Innovation(Jam) 3.62 117
Mood(Jam) 3.56 158
Theme(Jam) 3.05 430

Feedback

GameGrape Corporation
29. Apr 2014 路 00:23 UTC
Very cool game , and idea! Awesome comic and followed the theme well. Great Job! GameGrape Corporation: http://www.codingrevolution.blogspot.com
mrhill
29. Apr 2014 路 21:24 UTC
haha, his worldview didnt kill him, the germs did. Or did I
:-O
GreatBigJerk
01. May 2014 路 20:34 UTC
Couldn't run on OSX
馃帳 Jiddo
01. May 2014 路 20:36 UTC
Thanks for the comments guys!

Did you get any error message on OSX?
King_Mew
03. May 2014 路 20:22 UTC
Fun game! I liked the comic art style.
ahmeni
05. May 2014 路 10:29 UTC
One of the few games i bothered to download because it looked so nice but it doesn't run on OSX 10.9 :(
0 $ java -jar ludumdare29.jar
Failed to find resource natives/maxosx_natives.jar.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Resource not found: natives/maxosx_natives.jar
at org.newdawn.slick.util.ResourceLoader.getResourceAsStream(ResourceLoader.java:69)
at game.engine.util.LWJGLInstaller.install(LWJGLInstaller.java:42)
at game.LudumDareGame.setupNativeLibraries(LudumDareGame.java:157)
at game.LudumDareGame.main(LudumDareGame.java:73)
馃帳 Jiddo
06. May 2014 路 07:40 UTC
@OSX users:
Sorry about that! So embarassing. Had accidentally made a typo in a file name for the OSX natives. I've uploaded a fixed version now. I hope you'll have more success with that one! :)
lukepilgrim
08. May 2014 路 10:34 UTC
haha, funny game! liked the introduction. there should be a highscore or something...
Maxom
18. May 2014 路 15:35 UTC
Nice game. Very funny idea and good execution!
frogcheese
18. May 2014 路 15:37 UTC
I played it on OSX, and it worked beautifully. A really weird game, made even more awesome by the supremely weird music. I'm afraid that poor mr. Fancypants didn't quite make it with me at the controls, but I believe he is in a better place now. u_u
607
18. May 2014 路 15:43 UTC
Haha, very nice. I really like the graphics, and the title screen is so good :o
Nice music too, although the sound effects like "well well" got a bit irritating at times :P
I do really like the hand washing mechanic too.
Moosefly
18. May 2014 路 16:24 UTC
Crashed once, but other than that a solid game. Nice amount of variation, the graphics and audio were great and the humor very fitting.

Anssi@MooseflyGames
goerp
18. May 2014 路 18:51 UTC
Great comic graphics especially in the intro. Great take on the theme, very original. 5 star humor.
Never knew washing hands was so hard.

Out of curiosity: the spiral in the background on the opening scene, is that a tribute to Day of the tentacle?
JonathanG
19. May 2014 路 20:55 UTC
Very funny!