I was guilty of not reading throught the instructions first and wondering where the theme fit in - then I went back and read it. Very interesting mechanic :) I suspect you might catch a bit of crap for theme interpretation, but personally I think it's a pretty imaginative direction to go in, so high marks for doing something different!

Like the graphics :) Great. Good luck.

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: libglass.so

What am I missing?

Not sure there, it appears to be an issue relating to JavaFX (used for sound). It appears as though Linux is not recognising the included library, I'll take a look into it and look for a fix...

In the mean time, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14009066/javafx-error-on-ubuntu-while-using-netbeans

I had a bit fun exploring the world. But then I somehow got stuck. I then could move only marginal amounts. Without hammering wasd nothing worked anymore.

The screen freezes loads for me, the window doesnt fit comfortably on my computer and I cant change it... :/

good effort on features - the noise screen on gps, cave visibilty, everything - i take it at least some of that was prepared in advance of the competition? it seems like a lot. There was no sound for me (Windows 7) double-clicking on the jar, but running with java -jar it did work. I have no idea why that should be. The '10 second' thing seemed tenuous. Also I didn't read the controls properly first time, and was eaten by a bear while reading a journal entry.

Hmm, seems to be a few bugs there... As for screen size, sorry about that... I will fix that in a future release after the competition.

Acro, No actually, EVERYTHING was done during the competition, and we had a day less than everyone else :) some of those feature seem complex but really aren't, eg. the cave lighting is just a simple PNG with transparency drawn over the top, and the noise is just done with random numbers.

Thanks for all the feedback!

I was contemplating a similar interpretation of the theme, but decided against it because the actual meaning might get lost. Kudos to you for going along with it!

Quite nice, but a variable reolution would be nice.

gah, I get this error on a lot of java games running Linux. java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/ion/ld27/Window : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

I really liked the idea and execution. Could use some more work on the graphics, but the gameplay was quite interesting. Good job! :)

Getting the same error as timothyolt an MacOS.

I couldn't run the JAR:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/ion/ld27/Window : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: com.ion.ld27.Window. Program will exit.

Nice game, it's fun to play! I was always motivated to go further. But I had no use for the GPS light, is it just a gimmick? To be honest I didn't use the GPS at all. The game window is too big for my 1366x768 screen and the game stuttered to the end sometimes. And until the end there were no sound effects, is this intentionally?

interesting play on theme mechanics and also lots of little details in this game. I enjoyed it