The Sky Is Falling by Surrealix
THE SKY IS FALLING
Philip Buchanan
The Sky Is Falling, and you need to find refuge to escape from the chaos. Leap across the remanants of the world (using the arrow keys) and make it to saftey. This entire game was written in the final 13 hours of the competition. It took half the time of my previous entries, and works better than all of them combined.
Run the executable in the system directory.
It's only going to compile for Windows. Sorry!
Edit: Once you start falling, you'll need to quit and restart the game to try again.
Edit2: To save your sanity, I've now included a version that has a reset button ('R'). Everything else is unchanged, and the original is still there for you to play too.
Philip Buchanan
The Sky Is Falling, and you need to find refuge to escape from the chaos. Leap across the remanants of the world (using the arrow keys) and make it to saftey. This entire game was written in the final 13 hours of the competition. It took half the time of my previous entries, and works better than all of them combined.
Run the executable in the system directory.
It's only going to compile for Windows. Sorry!
Edit: Once you start falling, you'll need to quit and restart the game to try again.
Edit2: To save your sanity, I've now included a version that has a reset button ('R'). Everything else is unchanged, and the original is still there for you to play too.
| Windows | http://www.surrealix.com/ludumdare/21/the_sky_is_falling.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=215 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 2% | 246 |
| Overall | 2.90 | 239 |
| Audio | 1.33 | 333 |
| Community | 3.13 | 104 |
| Fun | 2.81 | 203 |
| Graphics | 3.57 | 77 |
| Humor | 1.57 | 318 |
| Innovation | 3.14 | 159 |
| Theme | 2.90 | 267 |
LudumDareisCool - There are two reasons there's no automatic restart. I was so busy frantically coding that I never played the game for long enough to find this a problem. And when I did sit down to play it for a decent amount of time, it was too late to add it!
If there's enough interest, I'll probably keep developing this title somehow.
icrisanto - Yes, It's very hard!
bushmango - Those are some neat ideas to expand the gameplay. I've been thinking about how to flesh it out into a full game, and a storyline would definitely help. Obviously a difficulty curve/tutorial/scores/etc would come with more time. The run-and-jump gameplay doesn't seem to lend itself to much expansion though.
wboberirne, LudumdareIsCool, RichMakeGame and bunshmango - I've now added a version to the zip that has a reset button. I felt a little guilty changing anything, but I understand everyone has 500 games to rate, and nobody wants to spend a lot of time waiting for the game to restart over and over.