Carol and The Haunted Castle by jfroco

made by jfroco for LD21 (-)

Made using:

Coding:
Game Maker 8.1

Music and sounds:
Guitar Pro
ChordPulse
Mixcraft

Graphics:
Charas Project
Paint (Win7)
Paint.net

Plot: "Help Carol to escape from the Haunted Castle"

I didn't have enough time to create more rooms, puzzles or songs, but I'm almost satisfied with the 2.5D coding and the look and feel of the game.

The main "song" (actually a couple of chords) was made using Guitar Pro, hope you like it.

Hope you like the game too... use arrows to move and space to jump :) ... F4: fullscreen

2011-08-23 FIX: Please don't consider this for the compo, but I just realized that the characters are not centered when playing the game in a notebook with integrated GPU. The issue was that textures dimensions are not power of 2. I change it in a new version. So if you experiment the graphic issue please try the new version. (I didn't add anything just change the texture dimensions). More info in my journal

Windows	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4281970/ld21/carol09.exe
Windows fix for int'd GPU	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4281970/ld21/carol10.exe
Source	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4281970/ld21/carol09.gm81
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=2085

Ratings

Coolness	3%	183
Overall	3.20	143

Audio	3.36	64
Community	2.67	207
Fun	2.47	292
Graphics	3.73	58
Humor	1.71	290
Innovation	2.80	238
Theme	3.13	205

Feedback

LumdumDareisCool

23. Aug 2011 · 07:20 UTC

Nice graphics

Shigor

28. Aug 2011 · 18:25 UTC

2.5D view is excellent, overall art and music feel is very very good. Problem is that I'm completely lost, I somehow managed to open door in the first level, but in the second... I just don't know what to do :) Some hint would be nice, I'd like to see what more is there. (Won't rate for now, will get back later)

🎤 jfroco

31. Aug 2011 · 04:34 UTC

Hello Shigor... thank you for your words. It seems that I alwasy make my game harder than it should be :( I'm glad you like the 2.5D view and the music. Best regards

Pierrec

03. Sep 2011 · 12:57 UTC

I love it too! But I'm stuck too. I managed to go to the thirs "room" but I can't jump across the guards...:(

summaky

10. Sep 2011 · 13:24 UTC

I reached the end(?), but the second level was very frustrating. Although I love the music and the 2.5D view, the collision detection is very, very off. Every time I though the ghost wouldn't touch me at all, I just died. I even died midair when I was way over the ghost and it couldn't possibly touch me in any way. I guess the collision is grid based. So much blood everywhere... and the scream. That scream... oh, boy!

I rated this high, though, because I liked the atmosphere.

Felipe Budinich

10. Sep 2011 · 23:32 UTC

The gameplay itself i did not like, but the ART man the ART was AWESOME

tcstyle

11. Sep 2011 · 10:03 UTC

Short but very good. Took me some time to figure out that I can jump and walk on walls. The jumping was quite tricky eith the tile-based movement. I like the lo-fi black, white and red look of the game.

🎤 jfroco

12. Sep 2011 · 15:25 UTC

Thank you all for testing the game
@Pierrec: you need to be stading on a block to jump over the guards :(

@summaky: yes the collision is not grid-based but I didn't have the time to polish the hitmask. Did you try the fixed version?

@Felipe Budinich Thank you, I actually consider myself a coder and not an artist , altought I love to make music for video games. Are you from Chile (I think I read about you in the Internetz)?

@tcstyle: yes I need to work on the jumping