And Thus She Spake by pbdiode
This game was made with LOVE 0.8.0, so you'll either need to download and install the appropriate runtime from love2d.org to run the LOVE File, or use one of the bundles I've created.
-- INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------
Open up the game, make sure to read the text. It'll tell you what you need to do.
SOUND
If you do not want sound, use the command line argument "nosound". Not sure if this will work with the bundles, but it very well may.
Example:
love ./path/to/And\ Thus\ She\ Spake.love nosound
INPUT
This game works best with a mouse. Trackpads tend to be jerky because you have to keep picking up your fingers.
-- INSTALLATION ------------------------
All of the bundles have been compressed into an archive container of some sort, so all you need to do with them is unzip to where you want them, and play!
NOTE: For Ubuntu (and other distro) users, I apologize, I do not know enough about packaging apps in linux to really give bundling a shot. Perhaps for next LD, if I don't go back to the web!
NOTE: For the windows x64 bundle, I cannot test it out since I do not have a 64 bit install. If anyone reports a problem, I'll just take the bundle down. If you don't see a bundle, I'd just recommend getting LOVE from their website (love2d.org).
Some quick instructions for installing love (refer to love2d.org for full instructions):
UBUNTU (PPA)
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bartbes/love-stable
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install love
OS X:
- get https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/love-0.8.0-macosx-ub.zip
- unzip and install into your applications directory
- right click on And Thus She Spake.love, Open With -> Other...
- check Always Open With and browse and select the love.app you just copied to your applications directory
WINDOWS (32-BIT):
- download and run installer: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/love-0.8.0-win-x86.exe
WINDOWS (64-BIT)
- download and run installer: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/love-0.8.0-win-x64.exe
OTHER
- You can get the source code, zipped versions for Windows (instead of an installer), and specific Ubuntu versions for various releases and for 32/64-bit versions, just take a look at love2d.org
-- INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------
Open up the game, make sure to read the text. It'll tell you what you need to do.
SOUND
If you do not want sound, use the command line argument "nosound". Not sure if this will work with the bundles, but it very well may.
Example:
love ./path/to/And\ Thus\ She\ Spake.love nosound
INPUT
This game works best with a mouse. Trackpads tend to be jerky because you have to keep picking up your fingers.
-- INSTALLATION ------------------------
All of the bundles have been compressed into an archive container of some sort, so all you need to do with them is unzip to where you want them, and play!
NOTE: For Ubuntu (and other distro) users, I apologize, I do not know enough about packaging apps in linux to really give bundling a shot. Perhaps for next LD, if I don't go back to the web!
NOTE: For the windows x64 bundle, I cannot test it out since I do not have a 64 bit install. If anyone reports a problem, I'll just take the bundle down. If you don't see a bundle, I'd just recommend getting LOVE from their website (love2d.org).
Some quick instructions for installing love (refer to love2d.org for full instructions):
UBUNTU (PPA)
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bartbes/love-stable
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install love
OS X:
- get https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/love-0.8.0-macosx-ub.zip
- unzip and install into your applications directory
- right click on And Thus She Spake.love, Open With -> Other...
- check Always Open With and browse and select the love.app you just copied to your applications directory
WINDOWS (32-BIT):
- download and run installer: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/love-0.8.0-win-x86.exe
WINDOWS (64-BIT)
- download and run installer: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloads/love-0.8.0-win-x64.exe
OTHER
- You can get the source code, zipped versions for Windows (instead of an installer), and specific Ubuntu versions for various releases and for 32/64-bit versions, just take a look at love2d.org
Ratings
| Coolness | 49% | 570 |
| Overall | 3.13 | 287 |
| Audio | 2.76 | 250 |
| Fun | 3.25 | 154 |
| Graphics | 2.18 | 641 |
| Humor | 2.27 | 298 |
| Innovation | 2.78 | 399 |
| Mood | 2.82 | 274 |
| Theme | 2.54 | 510 |
This is a hard but cool game. Overall very nice job. Way to go!
Balancing between eating to get big, and being eaten to avoid being too big is nice.
Once I discovered that you can zip around almost unharmed when jerking the mouse fast enough, it even became a bit too easy ;)
It looks like you made the font yourself as well!
You asked me on my game about static and stream sources in audio. To lower the memory footprint of the game, you want to keep most of the big files as stream (e.g. sounds you only use once and music) whereas sound effects you want stored in memory as static. The actual OS X lag problem is a threading issue native to the SDL interface in OS X, not a question of using static or stream :)