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T in Y World by Tom 7

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made by Tom 7 for LD23 (COMPO)
Tried something experimental this time. This is a ZZT homage with some twists that I don't want to spoil. It's more clever than it looks, I hope.

Features:
- Very expensive simulated color-ASCII graphics
- Content & technology double-whammy
- False dichotomy
- Four new music tracks, including shamelessly self-referential theme song
- You can turn off the annoying music
- Spoiler 1
- Thrilling Computer Science based gameplay
- Integrated level editor
- Spoiler 2
- Boss battle!!

The only difference between the jam and compo versions is performance; I found out after uploading that the game is quite slow on non-awesome computers. But judge fairly:

Compo:
http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/compo.shtml
Faster:
http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/

My old games:
http://radar.spacebar.org/f/a/weblog/category/1/video_games
Soundtrack:
http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/tinyworld.zip

I made a timelapse with webcam which I will upload soon.

Love you forever,
Tom 7

Web - Faster Jam Version http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/
Web - Compo Version http://tinyworld.spacebar.org/compo.shtml
Source http://tom7misc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tom7misc/trunk/tinyworld/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=1984

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.93 34
Audio 3.85 27
Fun 3.51 97
Graphics 3.23 276
Humor 3.68 28
Innovation 4.31 12
Mood 3.45 79
Theme 3.43 221

Feedback

Andrew
23. Apr 2012 路 09:11 UTC
Nice literal take on the name. I was a bit lagging on some of the levels, I'll try to see if I can play it on another machine.
馃帳 Tom 7
23. Apr 2012 路 14:47 UTC
There seems to be some problem with the screen not updating on Chrome on linux, maybe other platforms too. I'll see if I can fix this tonight.
Erifdex
24. Apr 2012 路 16:19 UTC
Pretty fun game! You got a whole lot done in the 48 hours, it shows because of the amount of levels included! Great work!

I did get quite a bit of lag on the larger levels, too. My machine isn't the greatest spec beast though ;)
馃帳 Tom 7
25. Apr 2012 路 02:24 UTC
A few people have complained about performance so I made it about twice as fast with performance tweaking today. I didn't change anything else about the game. I couldn't figure out what was going on with the screen updating thing; I think it is actually a bug with that implementation of Flash.

Thanks for playing and enjoy! :)
Drabiter
25. Apr 2012 路 04:03 UTC
It's fun. And yes I suffer lag too :D The concept of letter is interesting.
johnfn
25. Apr 2012 路 04:08 UTC
6 stars for the music. That intro music. oh my GOD. Fantastic take on the theme too. This is a really impressive game for all sorts of bizarre reasons that I happen to love. Amazing!
omaha
25. Apr 2012 路 04:12 UTC
I love it, unlike anything I've ever seen. Very very cool.
robcozzens
25. Apr 2012 路 04:16 UTC
That was crazy! You had this cool funny song being sung by an obvious human, but the explanation of how the rules work is obviously the work of a robot.
Very innovative.
mildmojo
25. Apr 2012 路 04:25 UTC
The applet window is too tall for my screen, even with the browser running in fullscreen mode (my screen's only 800 pixels high). 10" netbooks may only have as little as 600 pixels in height, so you might be better off limiting your height to 500px or so.

The title screen song is hilarious. I let it play all the way through before I started the game. Ctrl+M (OSX) didn't work to mute the in-game music which, while pretty good, got repetitive pretty quickly.

I got a little confused and skipped the tutorial levels thinking I'd already been through the tutorial after the introduction. Even going back through the tutorial levels, I never completely figured out the rules notation. I got stuck in the tutorial.

The in-game music got a little overbearing after a while, and ctrl+m didn't seem to work (OSX).
hamburger
25. Apr 2012 路 04:57 UTC
I love this! It is a very good feeling to try to wrap my head around the text based rules while enjoying the awesome music. It is amazing to see all the variety of behavior that comes out of these simple rules, and then the rules are right there and you can edit them and share them and this game is perfect!
馃帳 Tom 7
25. Apr 2012 路 13:49 UTC
Note: In flash on mac, "control" means "apple key". This was confusing to me too. :)
HeuGamer
26. Apr 2012 路 03:08 UTC
I love the theme song at the start! :D
leafo
26. Apr 2012 路 05:22 UTC
This is really cool. I also love the music. I like the addition of level editor.
dukope
26. Apr 2012 路 05:37 UTC
Fantastic music and really fun puzzle gameplay. Loved it.
nornagon
26. Apr 2012 路 05:40 UTC
Incredible. This is awesome :D
Kassoon
26. Apr 2012 路 05:41 UTC
Interesting! Some of the puzzles were a bit obtuse due to the way the rules have to function in ascii, but it's a neat idea
Sestren
27. Apr 2012 路 01:04 UTC
This is an amazing concept for a game. I love that you can build your own levels, complete with your own rules. A basic concept like "search and replace" has been expanded into a fun and unique game. 5 stars overall!
Shadow
27. Apr 2012 路 02:38 UTC
AMAZING entry. Way too creative. Loved the intro theme and the in-game music. I'm guessing it may be a little bit too hardcore for more traditional game dudes (casual gamers will probably fail to enjoy something like this) but for me it was fun as hell (figurative). Kudos!
Bread
28. Apr 2012 路 09:56 UTC
I really like all of this. The theme music is probably my favourite bit, though.
Puzzlem00n
28. Apr 2012 路 21:11 UTC
This just made me want to burst with awesomeness overload. I'll have to come back and make a level some time.
summaky
29. Apr 2012 路 13:06 UTC
VERY clever entry. I like the way that these simple rules produce such variety of outcomes.
CappaGames
29. Apr 2012 路 14:56 UTC
High marks for innovation, but it was a bit confusing.
Pacifist Games
29. Apr 2012 路 17:17 UTC
Incredibly innovative, but I had a very hard time grasping the gameplay mechanic. Loved the title song!
JaJ
29. Apr 2012 路 18:46 UTC
This is hard to rate because I love it so much and I don't really know why.
FunkyDelPueblo
30. Apr 2012 路 00:25 UTC
Incredibly innovative. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the way rules work, but a very very clever idea.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:40 UTC
ARE YOU A QUANTUM PHYSICS
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:41 UTC
T in Y World changed my life.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:41 UTC
But not necessarily for the better.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:41 UTC
T in Y World made me invest in teleportation technology.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:43 UTC
T in Y World isn't a game, it's actually a thesis on life, the universe and everything written collaboratively by all Nobel physicians that have ever lived, that are presently alive and that have yet to be born.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:45 UTC
All my life has been a waiting room for this event: http://i.imgur.com/9Mqjp.png
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:46 UTC
T in Y World made half of the atoms in my body disappear.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:47 UTC
T in Y World had sex with my mother a couple of decades back.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:48 UTC
Man, I can't wait for T in Y World.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:52 UTC
Mom, I can't sleep without T in Y World.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:52 UTC
Aww, I'm sorry darling, here's your very own T in Y World.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:53 UTC
Thanks mom, now I can finally dream the eternal dream, after 23,000,000 years of waiting.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:56 UTC
Without T in Y World, the Earth would start spinning the other way.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:57 UTC
T in Y World is a filthy, lying whore.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 09:59 UTC
Thanks to T in Y World, the world is running out of alphabet.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:00 UTC
Now we will have to develop telekinesis to communicate.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:02 UTC
On the other hand, who needs communication when we have T in Y World? You can go tell that to Martha Bailey in Texas. Without communication.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:03 UTC
I fed T in Y World to my dog.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:04 UTC
T in Y World trapped me in the comments section.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:05 UTC
I hope the sun explodes.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:09 UTC
Not our sun though, that would be silly. I mean the one on the opposite end of Milky Way.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:09 UTC
Wait. I -am- on the opposite end of Milky Way.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:10 UTC
This is the right time to pray to T in Y World, which is, any time at all.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:11 UTC
Sometimes there is no time because T in Y World hoards it all to itself.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:13 UTC
Then we will simply have to make our own time using duct tape and searingly hot lava.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:13 UTC
And fail miserably. Mom, my time is going backwards.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:14 UTC
Shut the fuck up daughter, I'm trying to sleep.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:14 UTC
And by sleep, I mean bringing your dad's T to my Y, if you know what I mean.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:15 UTC
Thanks to T in Y World, I'm located 30 feet above myself.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:16 UTC
When I grow up, I want to be T in Y World.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:17 UTC
wait shit is this even the right comments section
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:18 UTC
"Every comments section can be the right one if you just learn to free your mind." -T in Y World
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:19 UTC
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" -T in Y World
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:20 UTC
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - T in Y World
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:21 UTC
"Yeah, uhh, I think I'll have a double cheeseburger. Hold the onion though, it always makes me fart." -T in Y World
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:22 UTC
"""Everything for everyone" -Ron Paul" -T in Y World"
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:23 UTC
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Always remember to escape your quotes properly"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" -Quote Man, a superhero alias for T in Y World
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:25 UTC
As Quote Man, T in Y World once saved the universe from certain doom. They forgot to escape a quote when writing the laws of physics.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:26 UTC
The result would've been a reality with infinite gravity where everything is flat and constantly kind of hungry even though it just ate.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:27 UTC
My god is an edible one.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:28 UTC
Mom, mom is bullying me.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:29 UTC
Don't worry daughter, I'll summon Quote Man to make her stop.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:31 UTC
""G'day madame, Quote Man in your service"-- OH SHI--
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:31 UTC
And that was the end of Quote Man.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:31 UTC
The fate of chemistry classes still remains unknown, though.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:32 UTC
But presumed TASTY AHHHAHHHAHAHAHAH
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:36 UTC
T in Y World cured my cancer.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:36 UTC
Then it gave me AIDS.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:41 UTC
Then it turned me into a 5-dimensional hypersphere.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:42 UTC
With cancer, AIDS and Asperger's.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:43 UTC
And lasers coming out of my orifices.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:43 UTC
Some of which I'd never known I've had before.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:45 UTC
My avatar is a 2-dimensional photo of the 5-dimensional hypersphere.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:54 UTC
NO T IN Y WORLD. ONLY KHLAV KALASH.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 10:55 UTC
Thank you Mario! But our T is in another Y!
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 11:01 UTC
<Jiggawatt> I should've known that, I'm a T IN Y WORLD connoisseur.
<Jiggawatt> Every weekend I retreat to a closet and stare at different types of T IN Y WORLD.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 11:06 UTC
Whenever I sneeze, some T IN Y WORLD comes out. Is this bad?
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 12:34 UTC
I sold everything I own because of T in Y World.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 12:34 UTC
As well as everything my neighbours owned.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 12:40 UTC
And by everything, I don't just mean expendable property. I'm now just a brain chilling in a vat.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 12:41 UTC
As are my neighbours, so they can't hurt me.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 12:43 UTC
Not until they've had such a hazardous exposure to T in Y World that they mutate the ability to send electro-magnetic pulses with the power of thought alone.
Jiggawatt
30. Apr 2012 路 12:43 UTC
I once thought I launched an EMP, but it was just a blood vessel popping while trying to comprehend T in Y World.
馃帳 Tom 7
30. Apr 2012 路 13:42 UTC
I guess I should add brain spasm to the list of side effects. :)
zeh
30. Apr 2012 路 17:15 UTC
What a great game. Great idea, art, execution, concept, story, dialogue. It's one of those rare gems of a game where gameplay is king and the production time was spent not on an a vein attempt to imitate life through an unbearable amount of polished polygons but rather on a new, abstract, transcendent metaphor. It screams its love for the medium, and it's a scream of unconditional, complete love.

The audio is great but it gets irritating after a while.
zeh
30. Apr 2012 路 17:15 UTC
Oh, and the title wins.
MadGnomeGamer
30. Apr 2012 路 23:29 UTC
Whattheheck? It wants me to install something in French?
馃帳 Tom 7
30. Apr 2012 路 23:52 UTC
Wha? It's a flash game embedded in the web page. There are no downloads or installs.
Fireblend
01. May 2012 路 01:25 UTC
Woah, this is insane. Incredible that you could come up with such complexity in such a short amount of time. Congrats!
kylerhoades
01. May 2012 路 12:13 UTC
This is SUPER FANTASTIC AMAZING! Love it. I love the rules concept and the fact that it is one big world that gets created by everyone as we go along. I think this is one the few entries I've seen that I'll actually come back to again and again. Brovo, sir, on an excellent game!
Datamosh
01. May 2012 路 16:41 UTC
The screen had too much height for me, so I had to scroll up and down a little bit. The idea is good, although it did confused me! So much to read :P Music was retro but relaxing AND the main theme it's the greatest thing I've ever heard so far.
uberneen
02. May 2012 路 15:52 UTC
Nice, I was having fun before I began to even play.
madflame991
03. May 2012 路 12:13 UTC
I'm very happy to see ASCII-art based games - pretty bold.
Danik
03. May 2012 路 13:05 UTC
Really nice. It's amazing how complex things can be made from such a simple concept. I think it's very educational as well.
Alexandre
03. May 2012 路 16:41 UTC
Loved this! It's also great to be able to share levels with everybody!
AD-Edge
04. May 2012 路 05:54 UTC
Very unique concept, I like how individual letters have their own traits, youve very quickly established a whole other world!
chambers
04. May 2012 路 08:02 UTC
Wow, I... I don't even have words to describe:
-how awesome this game is
-how awesome my experience was
-how the soundtrack overall is awesome
-how difficult it is to play this game and understand it.
-how amazed I am that, so far, no one complained about how difficult it is to understand how the rules work, considering not all of us are programmers.

I love the concept overall. And even more than the concept, how much content you actually included in the game and how the rules were presented. I think you could have made it easier for everyone to understand the rules through more extensive and friendly tutorials, but I guess it's part of the planned experience to make it all absurdly confusing.

Congratulations and thanks for this inspiring game.
Pierrec
04. May 2012 路 11:49 UTC
That was weird...Cool
blob
04. May 2012 路 18:26 UTC
Very clever Idea. Took me a while to get the rules.
Datw
06. May 2012 路 16:29 UTC
Good game, really innovative and fun. And I loved the music, haha.
dray
06. May 2012 路 17:34 UTC
i think you broke my mind, nice game :)
danlthemanl
06. May 2012 路 21:45 UTC
Loved it, very unique.
Chaoseed
07. May 2012 路 07:44 UTC
This is AWESOME! A cool take on cellular automata and player-created levels. Also, the title theme gets into my head and makes me want to wave a lighter. Check out my level, "spark"!
Gareth Jenkins
07. May 2012 路 10:30 UTC
A truly excellent game -- had me smiling throughout. What a joy :)
Ishisoft
07. May 2012 路 11:16 UTC
Fantastic stuff. I got a bit lost once it all opened up, I probably should have done the tutorials. The way the rules are all explicitly shown is ace though. Lovely music too.
Dr.Pingu
07. May 2012 路 14:55 UTC
Seriously, your introduction is awsome.
The rest of the game is not at the same level but still great.

You did a nice work : bravo !
jimmypaulin
07. May 2012 路 15:55 UTC
Really superb entry. Love the production rules based gameplay, I remember zit from years ago and this is a great homage. The presentation is great in terms of the retro ascii art and sound/music. To have this much content in 48hrs is a real achievement. My favourite is the "slime mold". It was a bit confusing which screens are "hub" screens, since they are made in engine, though this maintains the feel nicely. Great work
Jedi
07. May 2012 路 19:39 UTC
Mindfuckingly-good! :) +5's left and right.

Music is awesooome! I just wish there was more to the audio, like having the songs change on their own after a while because the songs are great but they do get old.

I think it needs a cheat-sheet for the rules. I will never remember the difference between ) and (, for instance. Having a way to play levels the community makes is sooooo great. I'd give you +5 community, if that was still a thing :). My only complaint here is that it's very hard to navigate the user-made levels; I kept wandering into the same few rooms and "hallways" and got lots of 404 errors.
Jezzamon
08. May 2012 路 05:45 UTC
Wow... I sunk about 6 hours into this game.

5/5 in many of the categories. :D
Nora Shishi
09. May 2012 路 03:36 UTC
OMG, Such a nice music!!!
CherryNukaCola
09. May 2012 路 13:20 UTC
Love this! Fun concept, great puzzles! Well done.
Canard Sauvage
09. May 2012 路 21:17 UTC
Pure awesomeness! I would love to see the timelapse and the growing of the game, but nevertheless: 5/5 in everything, absoulte number one right now (the best rating I have given in 60+ ratings ;) ).
KevinWorkman
10. May 2012 路 01:37 UTC
I don't like to repeat comments, but I don't know what else I could say that hasn't already been said. This is awesome. It's really impressive that you came up with a fun set of rules and simple gameplay that can be fun and addicting in such a short amount of time. Great job.
Thief
10. May 2012 路 11:13 UTC
It's not loading for me, I only get a black screen. Any ideas?
I have google chrome and the latest flash player...
Thief
10. May 2012 路 12:01 UTC
Oh it just took ages and ages to load. Played it now, it's interesting ...
RobProductions
11. May 2012 路 22:39 UTC
Wow a lot more in-depth than I thought! I like the music and the mechanics but that bomb level is a little too hard. Maybe there should be a difficulty option? Anyways great job!
Ranoka
13. May 2012 路 17:34 UTC
No princess? :( Really nice game! Impressed that you managed to make the game and get so much content in it for the time limit.
Make A Game
14. May 2012 路 00:24 UTC
Great puzzle game. I had a bit of trouble trying to grasp some of the final rules, but after some headbutting, I finally got them.
iczubak
18. May 2012 路 15:06 UTC
Absolutely amazing and full of possibilities. Excellent job!