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Rainbow Cube Guy by Pavel M. Dlouhý

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made by Pavel M. Dlouhý for LD27 (JAM)
Update3 (15/9/2013): Playthrough video added!
Update2 (5/9/2013): Mac OS X version is available!
Update1: Mac OS X version will be available within few days!

Note for Windows: OpenAL is required. Use oalinst.exe to install OpenAL32.dll (you will find it in the same folder like RainbowCubeGuy.exe).

Controls in game: just left, right, up and down
Element selection navigation: up, down and enter

What to do in a game? You have 10 seconds to wait to Game Over! But Game Over is not a good end of the story. Collect hourglasses to have 10 seconds again for each! Collect all 10 hourglasses to enter next world with new music and new graphics!

We made this game as a team:
Brigita Linerova (24 years old) - art and design
Jirka Kantor (26 years old) - programming
Pavel Dlouhy (35 years old) - programming
Vaclav Spiral (16 years old) - music

Thanks for playing!

Feel free to contact us.

NOTE: Our game is based on NEU Engine (Google for "90Edges Universe Development Kit")
Windows https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43382869/LudumDare/LD27Jam/RainbowCubeGuy.zip
OS/X https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43382869/LudumDare/LD27Jam/RainbowCubeGuy.dmg
Playthrough (YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLhnsTndPg
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=8583

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1156
Overall(Jam) 2.93 374
Audio(Jam) 3.48 97
Fun(Jam) 2.52 446
Graphics(Jam) 3.56 217
Humor(Jam) 2.13 365
Innovation(Jam) 2.30 531
Mood(Jam) 3.17 196
Theme(Jam) 2.70 461

Feedback

stewthepoo
27. Aug 2013 · 13:12 UTC
the visuals and sound is lush, but the camera scrolls far too slowly, i had trouble completing the levels cause of it
Pavel Dlouhy
27. Aug 2013 · 14:44 UTC
stewthepoo: Thank you for the comment. Me too. :) Without this slow camera it would be too easy. It is intentional. I hope majority of players will like it. But I may be wrong... :) Now I will check out your game. Screenshots looks interesting!
lazyeels
27. Aug 2013 · 17:22 UTC
Love the 8-bit style graphics, you have a good palette worked out. Nice little game.
Almax27
27. Aug 2013 · 17:48 UTC
My character got lost off screen a fair bit but all in all, really nice. Really cute art too. :)
brigitalinerova
27. Aug 2013 · 20:10 UTC
Thanx guys, it was hell of a weekend and so much work on art. I am so glad to see, it was worth it :)
brigitalinerova
27. Aug 2013 · 20:10 UTC
Feel free to join us on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/RCGgame
Crazi456
28. Aug 2013 · 07:50 UTC
Great looking visuals, wasn't a big fan of the camera scrolling either.
Zekyon
29. Aug 2013 · 12:58 UTC
As the other people, I've to say the camera moves too slow, and that makes it difficult have a good game experience.
However, I love the way that the song changes according to the level and the graphic style, so I forgive you the camera issue, good game!
LemmingSurvivor
29. Aug 2013 · 13:19 UTC
Level design is a bit sloppy - it's basically the same "loop around the square taking everything in your path" four times with a palette swap. But this might just be a time issue.
GarethIW
29. Aug 2013 · 16:08 UTC
A bit of level variety in terms of layout would have been lovely, but otherwise it's nicely put together. I must follow suit with others and tip my hat to the music choices.
Pavel Dlouhy
29. Aug 2013 · 19:11 UTC
Thank you very much for your comments.

With regard to slow camera: It is my mistake. At the moment of implementation I saw only one other (worst in point of view of some gameplay challenge) way how to quickly implement camera movement. Now I see third (better) option and I will realise it in a new version some day later after rating. It will be better game experience and still the same challenge! :)

LemmingSurvivor: Yes, we run out of time and made actual gameplay in last two hours.

GarethIW: Thank you! Vaclav Spiral (member of our LD27 team) is excellent music composer. He managed to compose all this music during those 72 hours. It's unbelievable (not only for me)!
blackotus
30. Aug 2013 · 17:49 UTC
I like how colorful the visuals are.

The camera needs to be faster though, so the player doesn't have to wait for it to catch up.
kristof
09. Sep 2013 · 20:47 UTC
The music is very cool. Also the graphics are quite nice, although the parallax effect was a bit too strong and the camera was too slow.
GFM
13. Sep 2013 · 15:42 UTC
The graphics are great, specially because of that parallax!
But I, too, didn't quite like the camera...
01rafael
15. Sep 2013 · 22:45 UTC
Wow! amazing atmosphere! impressive!