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The Last Acorn by geoisgame

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made by geoisgame for LD28 (JAM)
What does a squirrel do with his last acorn?
(It's not you, the player, who only gets one.
Rather, it's the poor little squirrel who
only gets one shot at attaining anymore acorns
throughout its life.)



Like a lot of other games, time only permitted this much content, quality of artwork, lack of audio, etc. etc.
Pretty much a basic concept behind my game.
Complete or not, hope you enjoy your time rating!


NEWS: Everything is now in a nice executable jar!!! I'm so happy! ^^ Jarsplice is amazing!

NEWS: Untested Mac and Linux copies. For some reason the final jar sizes were smaller than the one for Windows, which makes me a bit worried.
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/w9g5cbj39meqnpo/TheLastAcorn.jar
OS/X https://www.dropbox.com/s/sf4x7xo9z1b7r33/TheLastAcornMac.jar
Linux https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqo62uu8vy5gyqm/TheLastAcornLinux.jar
Source https://www.dropbox.com/sh/son2myw1syivw0a/Swy_id1Xj7
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=31822

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.58 456
Audio(Jam) 1.63 461
Fun(Jam) 2.64 355
Graphics(Jam) 2.52 446
Humor(Jam) 2.29 283
Innovation(Jam) 2.50 394
Mood(Jam) 2.35 440
Theme(Jam) 2.84 237

Feedback

archaeometrician
17. Dec 2013 · 12:59 UTC
Hi ! It seem there is an bug on the execution of your game, the jar start then close immediately. If it can help, I have windows 7 64bits Java(latest version) please let me know I would like to try your game :)
Venks
18. Dec 2013 · 03:19 UTC
I have windows 8 and can't seem to get the game to load up either. I really like the art style though. Very unique.
Robinerd
18. Dec 2013 · 03:41 UTC
It works for me. Running Windows 7 and Java version 7 update 40. Interesting concept :)
chiguireitor
18. Dec 2013 · 03:43 UTC
It is very hard to make that acorn go through that maze :) could evolve into a great game
Berzee
18. Dec 2013 · 03:45 UTC
I beat the sun! I mean I beat the acorn! I think? Anyhow. =P It was basic, as you say, but also fun enough to replay until I was victorious, and with probably the best story I've ever read about sun-worshiping squirrels.
Jejeboy
18. Dec 2013 · 05:16 UTC
Pretty fun but hard to control.
john_conder9
18. Dec 2013 · 05:17 UTC
This was cool! My big complaint is probably that I didn't know where the sun was, so I was just bouncing about for a while before I stumbled onto it by luck. It might have been cool if you started with a super-zoomed out version that zoomed into your slingshot? I guess it depends on what you were going for.

The first few tries I thought I had to get it right with the original sling, so it was really hard. After that I realized how useful the arrow keys were and I made it by just bouncing a bunch, which was pretty enjoyable. Good job!
Pitoum
18. Dec 2013 · 06:31 UTC
Simple game as you said. It was pretty nice to play it, but I'd rather like a twist in the gameplay, something new and challenging or unexpected :) that's what I'm looking for in LD games. Anyway, good job!
louis.denizet
18. Dec 2013 · 07:34 UTC
Haha ^^ At the beginning i understood NOTHING but after a few tries I understood, honestly I liked it ;) reminds me of a game with golf potato :p
Fenixin
18. Dec 2013 · 07:43 UTC
A fun game! I enjoyed playing it.
dremelofdeath
18. Dec 2013 · 07:49 UTC
It seems pretty easy once you get to the first trampoline. You don't really need to restart. Had fun playing this one, thanks!
scoopsy
19. Dec 2013 · 01:15 UTC
On OSX - a shame, as I'd love to play!
JaymeeMak
19. Dec 2013 · 04:15 UTC
Interesting concept and pretty good physics, but the gameplay seemes overly difficult, especially since the player can't see most of the map and has such limited control over the acorn.
Diptoman
19. Dec 2013 · 08:11 UTC
It was a while before I figured out that I needed to mash the arrows continuously instead of holding them down. Interesting take, one acorn to reach the sun. The gameplay need to be more precise and solid, though.
_zulli
22. Dec 2013 · 21:09 UTC
Cool idea and execution! But mechanics are very hard to get used to! Sometimes the acorn would just go right for no reason :P Nice job :)

If you have time please consider rating my game! I would really appreciate it :D
ViliX
28. Dec 2013 · 17:50 UTC
I love you made it easy to play (only one *.jar file) and I also apreciate programming in Jave :)
mcapraro
29. Dec 2013 · 06:08 UTC
still not working in the mac: Sat Dec 28 22:12:34 PST 2013 ERROR:Could not get the JAWT interface
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not get the JAWT interface