Extreme Curling by Enneract

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made by Enneract for LD28 (JAM)
Can you beat my high score of 905.6 meters? If you can you should totally post a screen shot.

This game *should* run on any android devices with 4.0 and above and that have OpenGL ES 2.0 support.

The game is available both on the Google play store (although it won't be available until a few hours after submission since it takes some time on Google's part). To install from the .apk file you need to make sure you that you have the unknown sources option enabled in Settings -> Security.

So my game got a little detracted from the theme, I was originally going for the idea of having only one bullet and you controlled it to hit the target. But I decided I needed more lulz, so somehow I ended with Extreme Curling where you only get one curling stone and have to control it.

WARNING: This is nothing remotely like curling.

Use you finger to control the curling stone to dodge the on coming blocks, and try to travel as far as you can to get a high score.
Speed boosters can be found in three variations:
-Green: weak
-Yellow: medium
-Red: strong
They will temporarily increase your speed while also giving you additional bonus distance.

Power ups are also found through out the course. You can only have one power up active at a time (so I guess that's some what relevant to the theme).
Power up types are:
-Double Distance: every meter traveled is worth two
-Black Out: every meter traveled is worth four, but you must do so in near darkness.
-Time Slow: slow time
-Shield: a bubble shield to protected you
-Broom of Death: a broom to sweep some blocks out of the way.

Ratings

Coolness 64% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.13 249
Audio(Jam) 3.32 136
Fun(Jam) 3.07 196
Graphics(Jam) 2.87 361
Humor(Jam) 2.79 170
Innovation(Jam) 2.70 323
Mood(Jam) 2.44 420
Theme(Jam) 2.20 456

Feedback

mtinkerhess
17. Dec 2013 路 03:22 UTC
The Play Store link doesn't work for me.
馃帳 Enneract
17. Dec 2013 路 03:38 UTC
@mtinkerhess
It's still be processed by Google, just give it another hour or two and it should work.
mtinkerhess
17. Dec 2013 路 03:48 UTC
Awesome I'll check back later!
code-11
17. Dec 2013 路 04:31 UTC
Ha ha. Hilarious description in the play store. I approve of your humor. Unfortunately, the game crashes as soon as I open it on my Galaxy Nexus. Let me know if there's some trick to getting it to work, or if an updated version is pending in the play store, and I'll come back to play it. : )
馃帳 Enneract
17. Dec 2013 路 04:40 UTC
@code-11 it should run fine :( compatibility for android is such a pain. Does it give you the option to submit a bug report? That will send me a stack trace so I can see where it's crashing.
NickZangus
17. Dec 2013 路 09:46 UTC
Good job! It would have been nice to control the stone with the accelerometer, and maybe pick up power ups and use them whenever you want (keeping in memory only the last).
KumoKairo
17. Dec 2013 路 09:58 UTC
Won't run on my Nexus 7 with android 4.4..:C
romandtom
17. Dec 2013 路 10:04 UTC
Nice work!
The gameplay concept is quite cool and fun!
馃帳 Enneract
17. Dec 2013 路 10:05 UTC
@KumoKairo OpenGL seems to report a syntax error while compiling the shaders on some devices. I working on trying to fix this.
goerp
17. Dec 2013 路 11:49 UTC
That was great!
I really liked the broom of death. Curling should be that way!
And the music was great as well, did you make that too?
馃帳 Enneract
17. Dec 2013 路 12:03 UTC
@goerp Thanks :) Yup music is original, although unlike past Ludum Dares I didn't write it within the competition. I would have liked to but didn't have enough time so I just chose an older song of mine.
Venks
17. Dec 2013 路 18:26 UTC
really good engine, great looking graphics, dulls out a bit but otherwise great game
LandoSystems
17. Dec 2013 路 18:48 UTC
Ran smoothly on a Nexus 4. Yep, this could be addictive. Great plot screen, espcially when paired with screeching guitars. Hit detection is hard but fair, powerups are interesting (make sure you play until you get a broom), and controls feed responsive. Solid game!
kirbytails7
18. Dec 2013 路 06:45 UTC
Pretty solid. Ran well on a Galaxy S3 except for the graphics; I had a lot of flickering triangles. Quite fun regardless!
biscuitdough
18. Dec 2013 路 07:04 UTC
Crashes on my htc 1x :(
GagaPete
18. Dec 2013 路 07:17 UTC
Great job. A fun game, it would be nice if there would be leaderboards or other ways to challenge a friend. I'll keep it on my device until I run out of storage space again. ^^
馃帳 Enneract
18. Dec 2013 路 07:33 UTC
@kirbytails7 hmm triangles is a new one, especially strange since when I wrote this I was testing on a S3 :S

@biscuitdough I'm guessing it's the same bug other people have been getting. I've just found a friend that has a phone that it crashes on which means I can test it and fix the bug now :) so hopefully it will be working in a couple of days.

@GagaPete yeah I would have loved to put leaderboards in it. I plan on polishing the game up and adding a view features like leader boards and in-game money/store. But wont be able to update the store link until after the judging is over, so keep an eye on it :)
Fenixin
18. Dec 2013 路 07:51 UTC
Nice game. Didn't really like the controls, though.
Zambini
18. Dec 2013 路 08:30 UTC
Probably the sickest soundtrack of any LD game! Really kicks the curling up to the next level broomaneuver.
glovecat
18. Dec 2013 路 10:33 UTC
It doesn't work on my smartphone :(
Hyoga-3D
18. Dec 2013 路 10:48 UTC
Nice game, but maybe the controls needed some improvement.
DavidErosa
18. Dec 2013 路 11:48 UTC
It run flawlessly on my Nexus 4 (just for the record). I liked the new concept of "infinite curling" :)
Tex Killer
18. Dec 2013 路 13:04 UTC
Doesn't work on xperia play.
AtomicVikings
18. Dec 2013 路 13:38 UTC
can not play it because I have no Touch Handy (only a ugly Nokia :D) But I can rate the sound. What will ich give? (Big Metal-Fan and Electro) Hmm ^^ <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
MrBlade
18. Dec 2013 路 17:53 UTC
This looks great! Too bad I don't have an Android. I would play it other wise.
PlayHabit
19. Dec 2013 路 00:39 UTC
We saw a texture or shading issue when playing it on an HTC ONE X.

http://i.imgur.com/x60amfh.png

Other than that, everything seemed to run smoothly.
sknoslo
19. Dec 2013 路 00:53 UTC
I also saw the flickering triangle bug on my Galaxy S II. Fun game otherwise!
馃帳 Enneract
19. Dec 2013 路 00:55 UTC
@PlayHabit Oh wow, that's quite something. Thanks for posting the screenshot though. A bit hard for me to fix though since I don't have a device that it does that on it.
馃帳 Enneract
19. Dec 2013 路 03:56 UTC
For those people who were experiencing the bug that caused it to crash at start up, it should now be fixed :D if it's still crashing just submit a bug report.
archaeometrician
21. Dec 2013 路 16:15 UTC
Nice an android game ! Thank you :D