You Only Get One Skate! by angela

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made by angela for LD28 (JAM)
Angela -- We are a two person team, and our son did the music. You only get one Roller Skate, and one Ice Skate. The trick is to use the roller skate on the pavement, and the ice skate on the ice. You use the mouse keys to switch back and forth between the two skates. You only get one minute and you want to collect as many coins as you can.
Apologies for the bugs, we felt pretty rushed at the last minute. There were a lot of features we wanted to work in, and a few big bugs we wanted to fix, but 72 hours goes by SO FAST.

Mike -- We were really excited to a part of LD28 this year as we weren't sure at first how it was going to work into our schedule. It turns out, it worked perfectly! Our game is a bit rough, as a proof of concept, it's a fun jaunt, so give it a whirl. Keep in mind when reviewing we created EVERYTHING, from scratch, ourselves. ALL of it was produced during the 72 hour period and some of that we had to learn as we went *cougharmaturescough*! So, please be gentle. :D

This is a zipped java game, so you should be able to just download, unzip, and run MyGame.jar.
Thanks for reviewing!

Also, even though we don't have a website, check out http://modulus360.com/ as we continue to make changes as suggested by our users. We'd like to polish this off a little bit and would love it if our LD family got a chance to see it!

Hint: Don't try to get all the coins.
Another Hint: Change skate a little before he hits the ice.
It takes him a minute to put his foot down.

Ratings

Coolness 33% 1399
Overall(Jam) 2.47 474
Audio(Jam) 2.88 264
Fun(Jam) 2.59 374
Graphics(Jam) 2.18 495
Innovation(Jam) 3.35 103
Theme(Jam) 3.29 113

Feedback

j_stirk
17. Dec 2013 路 01:10 UTC
Once you've racked up some coins it gets to be a really fun challenge to swap them at just the right time. Feels a bit slow to start off or if you make a mistake though.
Toby Simone
17. Dec 2013 路 03:41 UTC
Fun idea, but the controls really weren't that great :( It was difficult switching, and I would frequently get stuck on the borders because I switched too early!

Also, huge download 0.0
thegoofromspace
17. Dec 2013 路 03:57 UTC
Extremely slow to start off, and I think something was wrong with the timer in my game. It definitely took it a lot longer than a second to count out a second.

I love the concept though. In the long run, someone could do a lot with a racing game that works like this.
IHavePockets
17. Dec 2013 路 03:58 UTC
I think the time counter is a little slow, it seemed like it took about 5 minutes to reach the one minute mark.
Other than that, the game was fun! It's just really slow to start off.
馃帳 angela
17. Dec 2013 路 04:02 UTC
We apologize about the timer synchronization. Because we couldn't figure out how to get the actual engine timer to work right, the timer is "tick" based and can occasionally be glitchy. Usually, restarting the VM fixes it, but not always. We're currently working on separating the timer out and implementing it like it should have been. This hurts our scoring, but we think the overall concept is fun and want to extend it. Look out for updates to this if you care to see our progress. We really do appreciate all of your inputs! :D
MrBlade
17. Dec 2013 路 19:26 UTC
I can't run it. "A Java Exception has occured." is the error when I try and run it.
馃帳 angela
18. Dec 2013 路 06:13 UTC
Can you be more specific about the error message you received, or is that all it says?
Lolshouse Dev Team
18. Dec 2013 路 09:35 UTC
Starts off slow, but a pretty fun game.
MrBlade
18. Dec 2013 路 19:01 UTC
That is all that the error message says.
MrBlade
18. Dec 2013 路 19:02 UTC
Oh yeah, OS: Windows 7 64 bit, haha. Sorry.
302_Dave
20. Dec 2013 路 03:07 UTC
Interesting idea. I just wish the guy went a little faster.
VAMflax
21. Dec 2013 路 18:07 UTC
Fun once you get going. I'd say it's a bit narrow and the controls are a touch sensitive. Really easy to skate straight off the level.
Linus Lindberg
30. Dec 2013 路 21:50 UTC
Love the concept! The character animation is hilarious! XD