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Hopeless by DragonSix

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made by DragonSix for LD23 (JAM)
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05/05/12: NEW FIXED VERSION: the graphical bug is gone, it should now show correctly for everyone \o/ Sorry for the inconvenience.
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You are on a tiny world, you are alone, and nobody comes around. It's been years, everything is so far. There is no hope.

Controls are WASD+Mouse
Click to use the computer or the bed.


runs on XNA, so I included the necessary installers in the zip file if you ever need them.

Windows http://dragon.six.free.fr/Misc/hopeless_fixed.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=5454

Feedback

MortisGhost
22. Apr 2012 路 20:10 UTC
Yeah Yeah Yeah !! So strange and cool. Ghetto Dedicace 4 ever !
YSelf Tool
22. Apr 2012 路 20:41 UTC
Strange. But... Gameplay? Nice idea, but is this a game?

btw: cool graphics
馃帳 DragonSix
22. Apr 2012 路 21:14 UTC
Click to use the computer or the bed.
kutuup1989
22. Apr 2012 路 21:50 UTC
I installed both the redists but I just get a white screen and "this program has stopped working" error. Have I missed a step?
馃帳 DragonSix
22. Apr 2012 路 22:26 UTC
I'm sorry, xna 4.0 is quite picky about what hardware it can run on. Nothing I can do unfortunately.
Pierrec
24. Apr 2012 路 06:30 UTC
It's very weird, I like it, even if i didn't figure how to finish the game, if there is a way to...The computer's tab are a great idea, I recognized my own computer from one day ago ^^
馃帳 DragonSix
24. Apr 2012 路 07:36 UTC
Yeah, my bad, it isn't clear that the bed is also clickable.
Vilborg
28. Apr 2012 路 22:14 UTC
I can run it; your game is using the HiDef graphics profile instead of the Reach one, so older computers can't run it. You can change this in the project properties.
jwolf
28. Apr 2012 路 22:27 UTC
The game ran and I was able to press enter to select mouse/keyboard, but from then on all I got was a purple screen. There were some kind of sounds effects if I used wasd, however.

Tried reinstalling the frameworks--didn't help. OS: Win 7.
Tourgen
28. Apr 2012 路 22:54 UTC
couldn't play it, shows a purple full-screen and doesn't do anything
Evil Cult
29. Apr 2012 路 02:03 UTC
[Comments and ratings from this account come from various team members]
Got to the start screen and hit enter to play. Game just showed a purple screen and couldn't seem to get past that. Shame because this looked interesting.
馃帳 DragonSix
29. Apr 2012 路 09:55 UTC
Looks like the blur shader is crapping itself. I can't know what's wrong because it's working on my end (and for certain people).

First time I have a technical failure of that sort.
masterhyjinx
30. Apr 2012 路 08:38 UTC
XNA install crapped out on me.
robcozzens
30. Apr 2012 路 09:01 UTC
Looks cool, but I'm on a Mac.
Alexandre
30. Apr 2012 路 17:48 UTC
Same as Evil Cult here... (purple screen after I press enter)
M氓rten Jonsson
02. May 2012 路 10:22 UTC
A very surreal and escapist idea, interesting. I would have loved to see more story though, going more into the depth of what's happening.
馃帳 DragonSix
02. May 2012 路 12:25 UTC
You could, somehow.
This game is actually part of the same series I'm making since about 3 Ludum Dare (all the while abiding by the themes and time limits).

1) Faceless http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=5454
2) Lifeless http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=5454

Hopeless is the third.
馃帳 DragonSix
04. May 2012 路 15:24 UTC
Alright I found the cause of the purple screen. I forced anti-aliasing while using MRTs, which is officially impossible in DX9.

So I simply disabled the MSAA and everything works perfectly now.
johannhat
05. May 2012 路 00:11 UTC
Hey, check it out, the Ludum Game Workspace Simulator. :D (Or at least, how I felt while working on my own game. ;p)

Very odd, but I like the intentions and the graphics. I'm sure it fell under heavy time constraints, but additional objects for interaction and a bit of a puzzle element would make this very interesting. Oddly enough, my first though was how the person got onto the island, not how to get off.
JellyFame
12. May 2012 路 23:33 UTC
Cannot play, don't have access to windows.