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On Borrowed Time by shohs

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made by shohs for LD27 (COMPO)
*** Requires OpenGL 3.0 compatibility ***

Note: This game uses JDK 7.
Note 2: Thank you to djdduty for providing the cross-platform version.
Note 3: Try the cross-platform version first, as people were having issues with the other versions.
Note 4: Please unzip the files before attempting to run

Well, this could have turned out a lot better. I tried to do a stealth game based on the idea that you're a guy that needs to kill other people to steal their "life" (pleasant, huh?). But because of poor time management / lack of inspiration / bug-squashing, the game turned out to be a lot less finished then I'd have liked it to be. I was making levels and the story within the last hour and a half, which is definitely not a good thing. So sorry about the shortness and unfinished-ness. If you want, you can consider it a prototype of a demo of an idea for a game.

Libraries used:
LWJGL
PNGDecoder
JOrbis - OggDecoder

If there are any problems you have with running the game (esp. in non-Windows environments), post a comment and I'll see if it can be fixed.
Cross-Platform https://www.dropbox.com/s/1pllz3vlu3gelzh/On%20Borrowed%20Time%20%28Cross-Platform%29.zip
Source https://www.dropbox.com/s/lq3gchnvqk531ef/On%20Borrowed%20Time%20%28Source%29.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=20774

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall 3.00 610
Audio 2.72 459
Fun 2.86 609
Graphics 3.29 326
Humor 2.50 419
Innovation 2.70 763
Mood 3.43 130
Theme 3.07 656

Feedback

Waave
26. Aug 2013 路 03:08 UTC
When I double clicked the jar, nothing happened.
djdduty
26. Aug 2013 路 03:16 UTC
I cannot run this on Win64, which sucks because it looks cool. I have full GL support to 4.2, the problem seems to be the natives. So I dropped in the 64 bit and 32 bit lib files that I used in my lwjgl project and I get a new error, it's unfortunate. http://i.imgur.com/2dYtSDM.png second time is after dropping in new natives.
djdduty
26. Aug 2013 路 03:17 UTC
Waave, that is the same thing that happened here, run it from command line like I did and you'll probably get the same error. I recommend using jarsplice and including ALL of the natives from lwjgl, including other platforms, in the same jar, then you have just one jar and it should work fine.
馃帳 shohs
26. Aug 2013 路 03:19 UTC
Okay, I'll try that.
馃帳 shohs
26. Aug 2013 路 03:33 UTC
I put up a cross-platform version, which is a fat jar with all of the lwjgl natives in it. It works on my computer fine, could anyone else try it to make sure it works on other setups?
Dark Acre Jack
26. Aug 2013 路 03:44 UTC
The "cross-platform" doesn't open on my machine: Win7/64
namrog84
26. Aug 2013 路 03:46 UTC
on crossplatform
"could not compile shader version 130 core"
Same on windows version.
Last thing it prints is AL lib alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed.
but I think its the shader causing unable to play :(

One of the few games I was hoping to play
doctorscientist
26. Aug 2013 路 03:51 UTC
This is awesome. The control is really precise and responsive. This is impressively far along and really fun to play. I had no trouble playing the cross platform build on windows 7 ultimate.
djdduty
26. Aug 2013 路 03:53 UTC
Oh... you already made a cross platform version, I have spent all this time tracking down all the lib files, you actually used jorbis-oggdecoder along with jorbis, I am in the process of rebuilding the entire project right now, was going to make a working jar for you. ^_^
馃帳 shohs
26. Aug 2013 路 04:10 UTC
@namrog84: I'm not sure why the shader wouldn't compile, although I do know that they can sometimes be tricky to get to work on all hardware. As long as you have OpenGL 3.0 or higher, I don't know what the problem is.
@djdduty: Sorry about that, thanks for going through the trouble, though.
Recursiveanomaly
26. Aug 2013 路 04:19 UTC
trying to run from command line gives me java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError for the cross platform and windows
SpiralCodeStudio
26. Aug 2013 路 04:21 UTC
Doesn't work on my Mac with Intel HD3000. Ping me if will be fixed.
djdduty
26. Aug 2013 路 04:40 UTC
Well, even your cross-platform jar didn't work, so I took the liberty of finishing what I was doing, now a working jar, and I fixed the shader errors. It seems that the way you handle loading resources causes difficulty in packaging as well, I recommend you but all resources in src/res/ and load them using class loader instead of file input streams and such, this way you just have a single res/ folder in your jar, no external folders and no loose assets in jar. This build seems to work fine for me, and I hope it will for others since I seem to have run into and fixed a lot of errors that other people here got, but test it first anyway, good luck! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42760489/OBT.zip
馃帳 shohs
26. Aug 2013 路 05:00 UTC
Thank you for that. It seems to work on my computer, so hopefully it works for everyone else!
djdduty
26. Aug 2013 路 05:07 UTC
No problem, took ages to fix but it was worth it, awesome game! 2D gui elements don't display on my desktop for some reason, no matter what I try, but everything is great on all my other machines, so you should be good now.
REIN1
26. Aug 2013 路 08:25 UTC
Nice 3D arts,happy to see a game with story~
Friday
26. Aug 2013 路 17:37 UTC
CTD on start
porglezomp
26. Aug 2013 路 19:37 UTC
I can't get the game to launch. I downloaded the cross platform, is there only supposed to be OnBorrowedTimeWin.jar?
mtrc
26. Aug 2013 路 19:54 UTC
Just downloaded it, no joy yet. Here's what I see when I launch (plus cmd output):
http://imgur.com/pDUiKfh
voltorben
26. Aug 2013 路 19:59 UTC
Can't launch it either.. just crashes when i open.. Running mac OS 10.8.2
The screenshot looks great, tho :) will be checking back to see if the problem has been solved later.
馃帳 shohs
26. Aug 2013 路 20:21 UTC
@porglezomp: It's got all of the natives in it, I just forgot to rename it
@mtrc: That's just the console output that I used for personal reference to show everything was loading correctly; in fact, that should mean that it's successfully setup the LWJGL window and has started loading the assets...

I swear, distribution is a pain in the butt
Bmanrules
26. Aug 2013 路 21:38 UTC
Very nice! Loved the music and the sound effects! Art style is awesome and mechanics are really clever! Well done!
djdduty
27. Aug 2013 路 09:20 UTC
If you run it and you get just a black screen, with music, hit ENTER/SPACE a few times until you see the game, this happens on ALL of my systems that have an ATI card, none of the 2D elements show up. This also means that you don't see the purple timer bar on the top or get to see the tutorial... but it is self-explanatory and still a fun game.
ocmu
28. Aug 2013 路 01:02 UTC
I really liked the simple 3d style. Cool story elements and basic gameplay. Good work!
dook
28. Aug 2013 路 19:27 UTC
Not bad. Very moody and the timing element of fighting showed some promise.
berkano
29. Aug 2013 路 17:48 UTC
Really nice aesthetic and love the crisp graphics. Would be great to see you develop this further :-)
MinionStudios
30. Aug 2013 路 20:55 UTC
fun and tough
XaiZil
30. Aug 2013 路 22:05 UTC
Very dark, attacks seem a bit arbitrary
JokerDen
01. Sep 2013 路 10:00 UTC
I like game mechanic and story. I think it have some reference to Assissin's Creed series :)
MrBlade
15. Sep 2013 路 05:25 UTC
Won't launch on Windows 7 64 bit. I can extract it fine, but when I try and launch it, it is just a black LWJGL screen for a few seconds, then it closes. Sorry. Let me know if you find a fix! Looks really cool.