Run, Bun, Run! by jsspiegel

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made by jsspiegel for LD27 (JAM)
Well, we've survived our first game jam ever! Between being ready to quit and waking up late and scrambling to get our soundtrack creator (Erik) to stop playing FFX to send us some files to OH MY GOD WHERE DID I PUT THE SPRITES FOLDERS, I'd have to say it was overall a pretty successful jam. Arielle and Jacob (I can't say "I"; we wrote this description collaboratively) are both sixteen years old and we met about two months ago at a camp, run by a tech-centered art gallery in New York City, dedicated to game development. This is our second game developed together, but this one was much more stressful to create, as the time constraint was much tighter. But nevertheless, we pulled through and we ended up getting everything done with enough time to cross our "i"s and dot our "t"s. Wait...

Special thanks to my (Arielle's) good and lovely friend Erik Ebsen for producing, mixing and single handedly making the soundtrack to our game. Erik is a 20 year old guitarist who lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is the lead guitarist in a band called Auric, a sludge-metal band from Arkansas. He's a really cool dude, definitely check out his bandcamp for his solo band, Spiralmountain. He's always down to write music for anyone or anything! http://spiralmountain.bandcamp.com/

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.00 341
Audio(Jam) 3.45 103
Fun(Jam) 3.04 244
Graphics(Jam) 2.81 420
Humor(Jam) 2.96 146
Innovation(Jam) 2.51 463
Mood(Jam) 2.63 392
Theme(Jam) 3.15 263

Feedback

AIalumni
27. Aug 2013 路 04:41 UTC
cool game man, awesome music, great 4 levels.
Steve Cochrane
27. Aug 2013 路 04:44 UTC
Great audio and really charming overall. :) I love how the metal kicks in and the bunny's eyes turn red when in frenzy, nice touch.

BTW, I got stuck on the second screen of instructions (starting with "Fight bosses with POWER UPS...") and I had to reload my browser and start over, but it was no big deal and I was able to figure it out from there.
Anachron
27. Aug 2013 路 04:53 UTC
nom nom nom
馃帳 jsspiegel
27. Aug 2013 路 05:12 UTC
To Steve Cochrane (and anyone else facing the same issue), press escape to return to the previous menu screen.
cschwartz
27. Aug 2013 路 05:33 UTC
Nice graphics and music. I had some problems with the menus, a later version could print the keys to escape a level higher on screen.
AdamHarte
27. Aug 2013 路 06:39 UTC
So I was a running around on the lush green grass, eat carrots, when... ARHHH I'm being eaten by a wolf :( Nice game though. Graphics a super cute.
sittaman
27. Aug 2013 路 06:41 UTC
good one, but as a colorblind It was hard to spot the carrots in the grass background lol
馃帳 jsspiegel
27. Aug 2013 路 06:45 UTC
AdamHarte: Yeah, I know, the wolves just seem to pop up out of nowhere sometimes. It plays a growl sound when you're getting close to a wolf, but sometimes it's already too late.

sittaman: Sorry about that. For future reference, how could I help eliminate colorblindness-related issues?
manabreak
27. Aug 2013 路 06:48 UTC
Great idea you've got there! I just got a bit motion sick there, though, maybe it's the bit too fast movement..?
dlowe
27. Aug 2013 路 06:57 UTC
That was entertaining. Nice work :)
john_conder9
27. Aug 2013 路 18:54 UTC
Well I would say the eating sound drove me nuts but the music was awesome, and the music switch when you were powered up and ready to go was perfect and hilarious. It was humorous to see the rabbit in the ocean levels, but the timer felt kind of out of place, and since the levels were just a big square there was never really any panic created by it (just head in a direction you haven't been yet, and ta-da carrots!) It was a fun little game though.
bufbot
27. Aug 2013 路 18:55 UTC
A CAT IS CHASING ME I REPEAT A CAT IS CHASING ME
Starspell
27. Aug 2013 路 19:06 UTC
This game made me smile and laugh. The game itself is very basic, but it doesn't need to be complicated. The graphics are very nice and the music is fantastic. You should be proud of managing to get a game out in a pretty nice condition like this. Also, pure genius having the random water level. :D
馃帳 jsspiegel
27. Aug 2013 路 21:24 UTC
Thank you for all the kind words, everyone :) I really appreciate it. Thank you for the feedback too, next Ludum Dare I will be sure to re-read these comments to ensure I don't make the same mistakes twice!
zlowrance
27. Aug 2013 路 23:11 UTC
Fun game :D
Thermite
27. Aug 2013 路 23:11 UTC
Lovely game, really fun and so cute!
Psifour
27. Aug 2013 路 23:13 UTC
The bunny is the cutest sprite I have seen so far while looking at other Jam entries.
Jellycakes
27. Aug 2013 路 23:14 UTC
Was a nice play, bit hard sometimes with locating the carrots/shells. But it was nice and simple and easy to grasp. Nice one.
onzephyr
27. Aug 2013 路 23:16 UTC
nice game, really like the style of the bunny. and those scary wolves. Fun to play.
tokw
27. Aug 2013 路 23:30 UTC
Nice basic design it works though i would like a greater sense of impending doom though
apart from that great game
MrRoboman
28. Aug 2013 路 03:38 UTC
Nice work! Keep it up!
Reaperguy
28. Aug 2013 路 13:41 UTC
good game, altough you should zoom it out a bit, it's impossible to avoid a wolf when you're walking straight into it, and sometimes i got spawned right next to a wolf diyng instantly.
ratalaika
28. Aug 2013 路 16:19 UTC
good job
馃帳 jsspiegel
28. Aug 2013 路 17:34 UTC
Reaperguy: I wanted to work on the wolf spawning script so it wouldn't spawn too close to you, but I didn't have enough time.
flamecow
28. Aug 2013 路 21:23 UTC
Ridiculous and charming game, I like it!
namrog84
29. Aug 2013 路 06:14 UTC
It was personally hard for me, dang those wolves come out of no where fast!

I enjoyed it, cute graphics though! Beat the game though!

tiling of grass could use a little work.
wintermute
29. Aug 2013 路 20:14 UTC
Game is simple, I would have liked some feedback on where I am with respect to the objects, or at least the wolves!
But the music is great!!
Nerlin
30. Aug 2013 路 02:09 UTC
Awesome music. Great game!
mollymus
30. Aug 2013 路 15:46 UTC
For the first level though, it said I needed to kill a wolf but there were no wolfs to be found - and I completed the level without killing one! Anyway the other levels I played worked as expected, so I'm just assuming the requirement was just you guys forgetting to fix the text! Anyway, good job for your first entry!:)
馃帳 jsspiegel
30. Aug 2013 路 16:34 UTC
mollymus: Yeah, we didn't have time to actually add in that requirement, nor fix the text! Sorry about that :P And thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
BenWhi
30. Aug 2013 路 20:07 UTC
Really simple "collect 'em all
game, but I really liked this one. Had a cool feel to it! Th heavy metal when the wolves/squid came out was great.
savethejets1
31. Aug 2013 路 04:54 UTC
Cool audio dude!