Ninox the Nightbringer by Dining Philosopher
You are Ninox, the bringer of Darkness!
In this puzzle game, your job is to black out the world, one level at a time. You have to use the switches for this, but beware of the spikes - the darkness can be treacherous!
Use the arrow keys for movement, F for fullscreen and Escape to exit fullscreen.
28-12-12: We added a Windows executable! Please comment if you have problems with it.
08-02-14: Ported to javascript some time ago, available under the web link now.
Alternatively, you can run the source. You'll need python 2.x (works on 2.7, not on 3.x) and pygame to play, README is included.
There are 15 levels, and it includes a goat. ;) Please leave a comment!
In this puzzle game, your job is to black out the world, one level at a time. You have to use the switches for this, but beware of the spikes - the darkness can be treacherous!
Use the arrow keys for movement, F for fullscreen and Escape to exit fullscreen.
28-12-12: We added a Windows executable! Please comment if you have problems with it.
08-02-14: Ported to javascript some time ago, available under the web link now.
Alternatively, you can run the source. You'll need python 2.x (works on 2.7, not on 3.x) and pygame to play, README is included.
There are 15 levels, and it includes a goat. ;) Please leave a comment!
| Windows | http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t6efbbdfthkla3j |
| Source (Linux, Windows, OSX, requires python 2.x & pygame) | http://www.mediafire.com/?1zwc6ml791yay9f |
| Web | http://www.jnauta.home.fmf.nl/LudumDarePostCompo/LD25 |
| Source | http://www.jnauta.home.fmf.nl/LudumDarePostCompo/LD25/src |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=18490 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 96% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.46 | 69 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.94 | 144 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.36 | 62 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.77 | 227 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.74 | 132 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.48 | 50 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.18 | 99 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.69 | 255 |
Looking forward to playing this when you do. :)
I'll see what I can do!
I'll be back later to see if the files have been updated - sorry.
Saying the game runs under OSX, Windows, Linux is all well and good, but not saying that it requires pygame is misleading. I hope you get that compiled version working! :D
@Cake&Code, I did mention pygame in the description, where do you suggest I put it?
A couple of things you might like to consider for next time:
- an executable version. I see in the comments you tried pyinstaller; I gave it a quick run to see, and yes, the generated executable crashed... odd, because I've used it for a pygame entry before!
- An exit key :) (escape only seemed to exit full screen mode)
the line of code:
import pygame
fails to find pygame.
The audio and graphics could use some polish, but the music set the right mood, and the bringer of night was quite cute. (I'm especially fond of the victory animation.)
@Grungi, thanks for trying to create an executable, that part took us more time than the game itself. In the end it worked by using PyInstaller under Windows, changing font.Font to font.SysFont and copying separate .dll files to go with the executable (to make .ogg sound work). What do you usually use for creating executables?
@schnerble, we considered more complex objects, but that seemed to take away from the simplicity of the game, and time was short (first time participants). Thanks for trying to create an executable too, we succeeded in the end (hopefully ;) ). I wanted to add an exit-possibility, but was surprised how bad pygame handles keypresses in general. I used pygame.time.wait() a lot, which suspends processing of any key-events. I'll try to make things more thread-like next time.
@JoeCool17, you lost me at "horrors of 2.5" :P Fortunately PyInstaller worked for us in the end.
Needed 1841 steps in total to complete all levels.
The exe worked fine on my Win7 system.
Neat concept though, its sort of an advanced form of the card game memory :)
To me, the game concept was fresh, and I appreciated it very much. Almost gave up on some levels but eventually kept going up to the level shown in the big screenshot in the description. Then, it started getting too hairy for me, and I bailed out!
Nice one, looking forward to the next one!
Would love to see a "full" (and somewhat more forgiving) game based on this. :)